Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1910 — The Hunchback. [ARTICLE]

The Hunchback.

Halt the kissing done In ths world to a pleasureless duty. , f . Down wRh the food trust, and let appetites be unconflned! The ratio of one divorce to every twelve marriages is the 16 to 1 Issue of American morals. King Edward has knighted Lieut Bhackeltoi for getting farthest south — without a controversy, we presume. The Ohio desperado who murdered half a dosen before killing himself was out of prison under a “suspended sentence.” A 8t Louis woman Is very angry because by mistake she married a cook Instead of a count Some women never know when they are In luck. It looks as If the public might have to fall back on the theory that the north pole was not discovered until the spring of the year 1909. Mr. Rockefeller thinks It is fine to struggle, and the United States courts appear to be determined to furnish him as much struggling as they can. John Mitchell says he doesn't care for the liberty to do things that nobody wants to do. John talks as though he wanted to climb somebody’s apple tree.

The latest In millinery Is the toque. And vre suppose tUey**! soque the toque, and poque It and joque it, and the old man will go broque paying for it Speaker, Cannon doesn't know of any law In this country against snoring. Even the Oklahoma constitution Inadvertently neglected to give the matter any attention. Prof. Shatter Mathews Says the modern minister "inserts religion surreptitiously into his sermons.” Well, did not the Apostle Paul himself craftily catch the Corinthians "with guile?” According to Sir Thomas Llpton, it Is an excellent thing to be born poor, while Andrew Carnegie proclaims the felicity of dying poor. And people continue to do both, wittnsonrealizatlon of the blessedness of their lot Education in agricultural methods seems to be in demand. Within eleven years the number of students in the agricultural colleges has Increased from 4,000 to more than 14,000‘. The days when the farmer held “book-learn-ing" in contempt have evidently passed. The president of the Phenix Insurance Company believed in Insurance so thoroughly that he thought his organisation would run along all right even if he .took $1,000,000 of its funds for his own use. He does not claim that he was giving the company a business administration. The race of Amazons has never wholly died out In Engjand to-flay, where young men and boyti are training in troops of "scouts” to act as a defensive militia in case of war, their elsters have, In some places, formed brigades of girls. These modern Anaxons ride bicycles on hospital service Blgd cook their own meals. How much the annual increase of national wealth is due to saving and how much to other causes it Is impossible to calculate. Equally uncertain Is the evidence of the amounts expended in new houses in and abont cities and towns, new buildings for business purposes, new mills and factories and the construction of railroads and other works of one kind or another. The statistics of these expenditures are very imperfect, and such as we have are largely estimates.

The weather man is the standing Joke of the pdragraphers who fill space by holding him responsible for the different brands of weather that are turned loose on an unoffending community, but the par&graphers know, and everyone else knows, that the weather man is the greatest life saver and property saver In the whole world. He cannot control the elements, bnt he can give warning, and men can seek safety. We cannot speak with certainty, but we believe there are hundreds of men alive to-day who owe their lives to the weather bureau; and the warnings the bureau sends out save more lives at sea than on land.

The adult man who ventures Into matrimony always does so with his •yes open. He has heard the heart* breaking stories of his married friends, be has been favored with the solemn warnings of widowers, sod and grass, and his bachelor well-wishers have exhorted him eloquently. When, despite all these efforts to save him, he yields to hypnotic advances of some scheming widow or match-making mamma and permits himself to be lnred np the Aisle of Sighs, to the cacophonous music »of "Lohengrin" and with a high collar around his neck and tight shoes upon his feet —in such fvent all sympathy for the fellow becomeS a hissing and a mocking. Jut well pity the wine bibber who complains of the morrow's malaise, m the soldier who complains of

wounds, or the yokel who raises • cry of treachery when the adroit thlm* ble-rlgger rakes in his hoard. One of the most cheerful of modern niedical Iconoclasts is Dr. 'Woods Hutchinson, who combines In his own person wide experience, scientific learning. refreshing common sense and a gift for writing entertainingly on health topics. The doctor-author’s latest exploit Is an article defending the human appetite. In all ages the favorite way of “mortifying the flesh” has been to thwart the appetite. Sometimes it has been a matter of religion, sometimes a purely health measure. The apostles of a slender regimen like to assert that "man digs his grave with his teeth,” and that most of the ills that flesh Is heir to come from over-eating. The doctor Jays on right lustily in behalf o! the normal human appetite. It is, he says, “to be treated with the’ greatest respect, Is to be thwarted only for the best of reasons and in special emergencies, and Is, all things considered, the most reliable, indeed, almost the only guide that we have in matters of diet.” This, he declares, is the overwhelming consensus of the laboratory, the hospital, the family physician, the sanatorium and the diet kitchen.- Comparing the deaths due to diseases following over-eating with deaths under-feeding, he pushes his point farther. Of the forty-two principal causes of death in the United States, but three are related in any direct way to over-eating—diseases of the stomach, diseases of the liver and diabetes. The list of those due to under-feeding, or In which the mortality Is highest among those who are poorly fed and lowest among those abundantly fed, accounts for 250,00(1 victims, or nearly thirty per cent of the whole annual number. In this list are consumption, pneumonia, typhoid, inanition (the polite, scientific term for starvation) and diarrheal diseases. Other facts, he marshals, such as that “the blameless and frugal poor have the highest death rate, the highest disease rate and the lowest longevity rate of any class in the community,” and that practically every prolonged famine is followed by the outbreak of some epidemic.” Dr, Hutchinson makes out a good case for the appetite. He does not mean, of course, that It Is to be Indulged without discretion. But when a man is hungry, it is fairly conclusive evidence that the human engine he Is operating needs fuel. Some men brave and, therefore, need “three squares” a day. Others get along better on one hearty meal and two lighter ones. Modern medical science is disposed to approve the principle that every man intuitively knows his own needs better than anyone can tell him.

The Duke de Richelieu married when 17 years of de Rochechouart, a little girl of 12. As was the custom in the eighteenth century, the young bridegroom set out on his travels after the ceremony, and the child wife remained with his relations in Paris. Three years passed, and the duke (then Count tie Chinon), who had received many charming letters and a lng miniature from his wife during his absence, determined to return home. On his arrival he was met on the grand staircase of the Hotel de Richelieu by his family, and, to his horror, instead of the pretty girl of 15 that he expected to see, (he count saw a little hunchback who was none other than his wife. The unhappy young man, who was horror stricken, left Paris that night and for fifteen years remained away. The poor little wife possessed a beautiful and generous disposition, and, so far from being embittered byher husband’s behavior, she did her best to prevent any family dissensions arisingthrough it and went to live on her estate of Courteilles, near Paris. It is said that she was deeply in love with the duke, and in time the accounts of her unselfishness and devotion to his family so touched her husband that he went to visit her. The first visit led to many, and this strange~-oouple became firm friends, and Just befote he died the duke contemplated residing permanently at Courteilles with his wife, from whom he bad fled in disgust many years before. —Chicago Daily News.