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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-26
Sustaining Health.

"When Jack Villares. son of Bra
lillian artist. collapsed in Washington
Park he told hospital attendants he
had practically lived on hot dogs only
for a year." so read news item.
1t Is remarkable how long the body
can sustain life on the most meager
food.
Good meat Is a source of protein.
But meat must be beaten in modera-
ton. II Is acid forming. Even though
eaten but once a day, a meal in
which meat Is served should also con-
tain vegetables or fruit TO furnish
alkali elements and balance the acids.
Sausage meat which the housewife
knows is made Of good meat can be
used in the diet of adults. But some
sausage meat is made Of trimmings,
fat and cereal as a filler. 1t is an
indigestible connection. And where
cheap products are sold 1t Is an non
orable dealer. indeed. who does not
skin on the quality of his hot dogs. 1t
is most remarkable that anybody
could live for q year on such diet.
The aim Of the business Of eating
is not only to All the stomach but to
provide food which the body can
change into blood, bone and sinew.
Many people think because they eat
three times day they are well fed.
They are in reality starving their
bodies for necessary elements essen
tial to health.
A diet which contained pork, bacon.
lard. butter, salad oil, sugars, starchy
foods and confectionery would be
sadly lacking in iron. Excessive use
Of these foods would furnish fuel to
the body without furnishing the desir
able amount of IRON Without iron
there can be no healthy blood. With
out calcium, teeth and bones suffer
A man could eat pork and beans,
bread and butter, sugar in his coffee
and cocoanut custard pie. He would
have much protein for tissue building
and much carbohydrate for energy.
But he would be shy on mineral salts.
Without mineral salts he could not
have health. Another day he could
eat bacon and hashed Drowned pota-
toes, bread and butter, sugar in his
coffee, and cake. and still be providing
his body with the same elements he
did on the pork and beans dinner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-26
Tads in Baby Food.

Recently somebody inquired about
feeding a baby Tactic acid milk. and
] branded that fad.
A medical man now asks what Is
nv objection to Tactic acid milk Oh
other aci6ified milk for baby.
When milk sours IL develops Tactic
acid. The Tactic acid is produced by
fermentation of the milk sugar, OF
lactose. which Is the form In which
carbohydrate occurs in milk. The
fermentation is carried on by bacteria
which are universally or normally
present in milk. Some of these bac.
terra are killed off by the process OF
pasteurization. PasteuriZation means
heating the milk Tor other food up to
145 degrees Fahrenheit and no higher,
and holding at that temperature FOR
about 20 minutes, then cooling again.
That degree and duration OF heat is
sufficient to kill any disease germs
which may be in the milk. say, tu'
hercle bacilli, either from tubercular
cows or possibly from contamination
of the milk after milking If some one
with tuberculosis handles the milk.
This is the rea son why pasteurization
ia insisted on for all milk to be mar
keted in the cities. OF course. raw
milk would be preferable If there were
some assurance that the milk is pure
and that no contamination has oc.
Cured from diseased or uncleanly
handlers.
Pasteurization is a necessary COM
promise with disease, filth and care
less handling of the milk. Milk con-
Germs betray low principle when
they attempt to propagate the notion
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-26
The Home Pedicure.

You can treat your feet at home
with very little trouble if you have
the following simple treatment. First,
a nail clipper, the kind that comes
especially for toenails and which
cuts them off straight across; then
nail scissors with short, heavy
blades, which are like manicure scis-
sors but stouter, and then, finally,
either a piece of pumice, or what is
known as a corn file, which is a
shaped stick covered with pumice
paper.
Begin every treatment by soaking
your feet in hot water to which a
little borax has been added, or. If
there is a good deal of callous skin
on your feet, soak them in basin
of water to which you have added
an ounce of magnesium sulphate.
After the soaking a good deal of CAL
lous skin can be rubbed off with a
rough towel. Corns will have swoll-
en- and softened and can be filed off,
rubbed off with pumice stone, or. II
you have a steady hand. shaved
down with a corn knife. But~I am
afraid of the knife in the hands of
an amateur; it is SO easy to cut
into the live skin. Should you do
this, cover the spot at once with cot
ton soaked in peroxide and keep COW
cred until 1t is healed.
Paint all sore places and corns with
collodion, rub the corns with petrola-
tum and bind up for a day or two
to keep the shoe from pressing
against them.
The toenails should be cleaned un-
der with a pointed orangewood stick
or a pointed nan file. the loose skin
around the edges should be clipped
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-26
PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE


| that pasteurization improves milk In
any way. The truth is that this par.
boiling merely kills off any dangerous
disease germs which may have gotten
| into the milk. 1t also kills of some
of the Tactic bacilli. the germs which
| carry on the fermentation process.
| For this reason pasteurized milk does
not sour as promptly as pure raw milk
| does. Let no consumer be misled by
that fact. 1t sours tardily because the
Tactic bacilli in it are enfeebled by the
parboiling. These Tactic bacilli, how.
ever. are rather friendly germs. A
special strain of them, called Bulga.
| rian bacilli. became popular a few
years ago as a remedy favoring nor
NAL Preventative conditions in the
intestine and indirectly rendering the
field less suitable for abnormal putre.
faction
Soured milk scarcely seems natural
for infants, even though 1t may be a
wholesome article Of diet for adults
Infants naturally get their food fresh
and pure. That is the objection I
have to Tactic acid milk.
I am glad to quote here five con-
illusions drawn from very large ex.
perience in the feeding of infants by
DR.. Clifford G.. Grulee. a recognized
authority on Sthe subject:
1. seven out OF elGIlt DdDl6S unOcr
months Of age can be fed in whole
or in part on the breast.
"2. Cereals and vegetables can be
used to advantage in feeding infants
in the second six months Of life.
80. Acid milks are necessary in
only one in 800 cases Of infant feed
ing.
"a. 1t may be necessary to substi.
tute for cane sugar some other form
of sugar in less than 10 per cent Of
artificially fed babies.
80 There is probably no advantage
whatever in the use of proprietary in.
FAINT foods, and practically no indica-
ton for their USE"
hope readers who are attempting
to feed defenseless infants from pretty
packages and costly cans will read
conclusion No. 5 over and over again
and then see whether they cannot
somehow contrive to give the bimbo a
fair deal for the rest Of the sentence.
II YOU want some help and guidance
for following out rule No. S. send me
stamped. addressed envelope and
ask for instructions for feeding the
baby.
(Copyrisht. 1890
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-26
Women Who Have Important Tasks
in the Government Service
nv ALICE ROGERS HAGER

be the buffer. She is Miss Marjorie j.
LorentZ of Hartford, Conn.,. gradu-
ate of Smith College in physics and
chemistry in 1919, and who also took
graduate courses in the bureau In cleo
tro- thermics and laboratory work on
etching reagents for four years before
she undertook to become 1.-The voice or
the division"
Miss Lorentz liked her laboratory
work. and in collaboration with II. s.
RaWdon she published two papers as
the result of their joint research.
These We're "Metallographic Etching
Reagents: 1, for Copper, and II. for
Copper Alloys, Nickel and the Alpha
Alloys of Nickel" They also have
published technical papers in the
Chemical and Metallurgical Engineer.
ing Magazine.
1t was in 1924 that Miss Lorentz
was selected to take charge of the in
formation service. In this capacity
she answers phone calls, replies to
letters and receives personal visits.
Some of the Information asked for she
already has at hand in her files, as
part Of her work is to keep complete
photography of everything that is pub
lished along metallurgical lines out.
side. To keep up with such publica.
lions requires frequent visits to the
library, and where these do not cover
Investigations being conducted by the
bureau she keeps also in close touch
with these.
In what spare time she has left
and there isn't much of it-Miss
Lorentz is maintaining her own re-
search capacity by preparing a new
circular on aluminium to replace the
one published by the bureau in 1919.
which is now out of date. 1t would
be fulltime task for one person, so
she has been on it now for the past
two years, collecting all the discoveries
the bureau has made and bringing
them together with all outside knOwl-
edge on the subject. The compilation
will embrace every research develop
ment concerning this particular metal.
and will contain charts. text and
photography. The photography, as so
far complied. already contains more
than 1000 references over and above
those in the old edition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-26
BY FLORENCE DAVIES.

Yesterday she got home from the
West--the "stay.at-home" sister of a
busy business man.
He had made the trip possible for
her and had, because Of her very great
capacity for enjoyment, received more
than his moneys worth Of reward out
Of her trip.
"You see, it is this way" he ex-
planned. 'She has had SO few treats
in her life, and 1t takes SO very little
to please her that 1t always pays
enormously to do something nice for
her.
necessarily a little. thing, but to a
woman who is genuinely delighted
and entertained with an invitation to
dinner, the returns on a whole trip
soon run into a percentage"
Surely the gift OF being satisfied
with little things, of finding pleasure
and fine reward out of some of the
simpler Joys Of life. is a priceless
treasure.
In what sharp contrast are those
tired and tiresome people for whom
the very thought of selecting gift
arouses apprehension.
No matter how much one spends
or how carefully one chooses, one
thing.
Perhaps the woman whom you en-
Joy knowing the most is the WON.
an who can make a grand theater
party. followed by supper, out of
the price of a ticket to a movie and
an ice cream soda afterwards. The
association with friends, the Joy Of
the exploit, the gay spirit Of the
party, was all there whether It is
pink silk and guinea hen on toast
or a tailored dress and "A sandwich.
A fine thing, this. to hang on to
ones capacity for enjoyment, to be
able to be pleased with small things,
to get the most out Of each little
excursion along the way.
A critical faculty is all we'll enough
for experts. But for the everyday
grind Of living, capacity for the
enjoyment OF small things is as good
as q bank account.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-26
EAT AND BE HEALTHY
Dinah Days Daily Talks on Diet
The Right Food Is the Best Medicine

His diet would he lacking in the min
erals of lime and iron.
Sam Brown might go on depriving
his body of the necessary lime and
iron for years. In time he would be
ailing. He probably would start TAX
ing a tonic and fill himself with
cathartic pills. Sam Brown might
even grow rheumatic or grow fat and
develop high blood pressure or kidney
trouble. And all the time at the root
of his trouble would be lack of bal
anced diet. His tonic could so pal
atably he fruits and vegetables. In
stead of cathartic pills. he could so
easily use whole grain cereals. fruits
and vegetables and never suffer from
constipation. BY eating properly Sam
Brown could build up his wornout
tissues. he could furnish fuel foods
for energy, he could furnish protec-
tive foods for good blood and bones.
BY eating properly Sam Brown
could have long life and healthy
one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-26
SUB ROSA
BY MIMI.
BY MIMI.
Have TO Be Loved First.

It's rather the fashion now to dis
courage naidens who admit them
selves to be hopelessly in love with
men who don't notice their existence.
When a girl confesses to her best
friend or her mother that she's fallen
for Dick, and he hasn't noticed her
yet. the wise counselor feels 1t her
duty to tell the distracted maiden TO
snap oft Of it.
whats the use?" they say. you
probably haven't q chance in the
world. and you're only torturing your.
self BY hanging on trying to win out"
IA man doesn't like a girl who
shows her preference for him before
he has cared enough for her to more
than speak to her." is another bit OF
Information which we hear from
everybody. mo use chasing him, II
he hasn't shown any inclination to
see you again." asserts the wise ad-
wiser to young girls. you can
spend the rest Of your life trying to
make him like you-the harder you
work, the faster he'll run away"
And sometimes these gloomy proph.
Arush" a man. We've spoken of that
before. There's no particular point
In continually inviting him to go
places with youth paying for the
entertainments and arranging parties
where he may be your escort at no
cost to himself. That all leads
nowhere. He'll show you pretty
plainly from the start whether you're
making hit with him or not.
However. there are very definitely
in this world some men who have to
be loved first-that is, they have to
be made aware that girls fairly
keen about them before they get the
nerve to creep out Of their shells and
do little work themselves. Lots of
boys are so shy and self-conscious
about women--way down, deep inside
of them-that, although they may
never show 1t, they're secretly con.
WINGED they haven't a chance in the
world with any girl they meet.
Suppose one Of these youths with
an inferiority complex meets an awful.
ly cute girl. complete with smart
clothes, a snappy line, a good dis
position and an amazing ability to
listen. He thinks she's darn nice,
yes, but what chance has he? Even
IL she smiles at him with radiance, he
figures that she's Just being polite.
He's the kind OF chap that has
to be helped out. If girl falls for
him she's got to do the encourag-
ing for the first dozen meetings.
She needn't fling herself at his head
she needn't gush or rave-but she
can Just let him understand gently
but firmly that he rates No. 1 with
her.
This idea that all men in the
world are superior beings repealed
by any sign of love from a girl they
haven't fallen in love with, is the
applesauce. There are dozens of
men who need a few come-hither
signals. No man can stand too
many of them.
If a girl has played her hand care
fully and well--showing just Ihe
right amount of partially and not
too much--and still gets no results.
she may give up. But If she's shyly
waiting for some frightfully self
conscious man to wake up to the
fact that she likes him, she'd better
help matters along by letting him
know how she feels.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-26
EVERYDAY QUESTIONS
Ansucred by DIR. S. PARKES CADMAN

greatness OF nations than the most
brilliant success of military arms or
the most stupendous improvements of
trade and agriculture. Yet we are
persuaded that it is so.''
The first institution akin to a saw
ings bank was established in Bruins
wick, Germany, in 1853. In 1910 the
Rev. Henry Duncan of Ruthwell,
Dumfrieshire, Scotland, founded the
first real mutual savings bank. The
enterprise has spread in all civilized
lands and nowhere more widely and
effectively than in the United States.
One of these banks received it char.
ter in Boston In 1916. another in
Philadelphia in 1919. The Williams.
burg Savings Bank of Brooklyn has
recently celebrated it's seventy.f1fth
anniversary. 1t began in a rural
town. 1t now contributes to the
growth and prosperity of the second
largest city in the world. There are
in America to-day $40 of these insti-
tutions. with assets in excess of
$1,000 100000. mostly the savings of
the plain people.
CHICAGO. III.
opinion there is such a thing as pre-
any authenticated instances?
A number of friends have told me
that a few hours before the passing
of loved ones they saw some unusual
signs for which they had no natural
explanation.
Might not this have been due en-.
tirely to q condition of mind engen.
dered by anxiety or nervousness?
Answer--Every individual forms his
or her own conclusion about the
psychic matters you mention and
bases them on personal experience.
have met people who claimed to have
premonitions of the passing of a loved
one. with evidence to sustain them. I
have also met others of equal intelli-
gence who never felt the slightest de-
Walton from normal experience. Nat
urally they were skeptical about such
premonitions.
AS ! belong to the latter group,
have no definite opinion on the issue.
This I do know, however, that dis
turbed dreams and dismal visions are
closely associated with bad health and
highly susceptible nerves. Hypo.
chondriacs frequently have forewarn-
ings of death, either their own or of
one of their friends. Upon the gen
eral issue it can be safely said that
the dissolution of body and soul might
well give rise to unusual happenings.
But these require the rigid anthem
tication which rs usually lacking.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-26
"PuzzEcks
.PuzzLe.Limpricks

A rheumatic old man of +
Who will never stay in when it =,
Has q home full of )
Kept in little brown 4
That's all that he gets for his =.
/. Well-known suburb of New York
City.
.. Precipitates moisture.
8. Materials used for making medi-
cines.
i. Squat containers for liquids
5. Aches.
(Note--Complete this limerick. by
placing the right words, indicated by
the numbers. in the corresponding
spaces and you'll find that the verse
contains clever play on words
thanks to J. c. B., of Columbus. Ohio.
Look for another ''PuZzlick" and the
answer to this one tomorrow
Yesterdays "PuzzliCE."
There was an old man of VincenneS
Who counted his children by tens;
When the brood OverflOwed
His place of abode
He herded the surplus in pens.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-26
SUMMERTIME
BY d. G. PEATTTE.
Tansy.

In the waste places, the rubbly va
cant lots. the dusty weed gardens that
fringe the roadways. along fence.
rows and by old stone walls. the tansy
blooms, bitter, dark. and somberly
beautiful. A wild flower Of Europe,
and once a favorite garden beauty,
then denoted to the rank Of flavoring
herb in the vegetable garden, and
finally cast out Of society utterly, the
tansy has taken itself back to the
fields once more, and has immigrated,
who knows how, to America, where
nobody prizes IL very dearly, and yet
nobody can fail to be struck by its
strange charm.
The little golden heads of flowers
and the fancy-cut foliage. and, above
ali, the acrid aroma Of its leaves, are
characteristic of the gardens Of long
ago, when Europe had not yet begun
to receive flowers from foreign lands,
but merely domesticated the hardy
native weeds. Any plant with a spicy
fragrance seems to have been held
in peculiar favor, and so we'll liked
was tansy that "Tansie" appears in
the list Of delicious viands at the
coronation Of King James II. Tansy
cakes were eaten at Easter, perhaps
in continuation Of the Hebraic Gus
tom of consuminb bitter herbs dur
ing the Passover, perhaps as spicy
change from the fish diet Of Lent!
The botanical name, Tanacetum
vulgare. hints at the low esteem in
which we hold tansy today. To me,
at least, the odor, after the first Whit
is disagreeable; tansy tea for colds Is
probably never drunk now unless by
very old.fashioned country people
you may often see tansy around the
gardens of North Carolina noun
taineers) and a recent manual of
poisonous plants even lists tansy
among the toxic herbs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-26
Salt-Rising Bread.

Combine two tablespoonfuls OF meal,
one teaspoonful each OF salt and sugar,
one medium.sized raw potato sliced
very thin. one pint OF boiling water
and pinch of soda. Keep in warm
place overnight. Next morning take
out the potato and stir in enough
-four to make stiff batter. When
this doubles in bulk. mix with the
-four one teaspoonful Of salt, two
tablespoonfuls of sugar. and two
tablespoonfuls of lard. Pour the
sponge into the -four mixture. Add
enough lukewarm water to make the
desired amount. Make 9rto loaves.
Let rise, and bake
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-26

I III oy Ut Farkes Madmsn: pFesl1e it H ?,
America, pr. Cadman seeks to answer in;
h e shs' Of % he tSe sny letters
which he receives.
ROME. n. Y.
am poor girl and have a great
desire to he n missionary. l am is
and still in grammar school. Where
could I go to learn missionary work
and what would 1t cost?
Answer-Far be it from me to dim
your desire, but why are you still in
the grammar school at IS? Devotion
SuStainS the missionary where nothing
else can. Yet subnormal mentality Is
grave hindrance. Missionaries and
missionary secretaries who know the
nature of the work in non-Christian
countries would he 10th to accept you
as recruit under present conditions.
These conditions demand the best
talent and conservation the churches
can supply. India. China. japan and
other nations of the world have his
toric religions of their own. strongly
intrenched in belief and custom and
expressed in great literatures. Even
where temperament. training and cir
cumstances unite to produce an ef-
ficient missionary. he or she finds the
vast range of opposing faiths an or
deal to be confronted. It was never
more severe than now, when the in
ternational behavior of professedly
Christian nations has made them
suspect in non-Christian lands.
Consult your pastor. read the biog-
raphies of David Livingstone of Africa
and David Hill of China. Write 10
the secretary of the foreign mission
airy board of your church and ask his
advice. Meanwhile plan for more
advanced education. Test your evan
gelizing strength in some God-forA
saken neighborhood in the city where
YOU reside. A rising tide of heather
ism threatens America. DO your bit
to build up the wall against it and
thus help to protect your home and
country. If you are needed in re-
gions beyond. rest assured that the
door will open.
GARDEN CITY, l.. I.
Is not the tablishment of savings
banks one of the chief factors in the
growth Of national thrift and Its con-
sequent blessings?
Answer-The Edinburgh Review an,
Swered your question in 1918, when 1t
said: 1T would be difficult to convince
either the people or their rulers that
the spread of savings banks is of far
more Importance and far more likely
to increase the happiness and the