Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 197, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1917 — Page 3

Too many of us live little Negative lives, doing the things that,, merely “fall” to us or pass our way. We do too little reaching out and digging down. We think of “I Must,” for instance.

Daily every one of us faces tasks that we didn't expect and that we would rather not do. It is the order of Circumstance. But just the minute that “I Must” comes along, our Program clears up and our Work proceeds plainly and according to plan. That man is most satisfied with life who Is most satisfied with doing what he feels is his BEST. “I Must!” Ad right—proceed.

Brain Workers Need Food High in Energy Material, Says Expert on Dietetics

A man engagetLTir mental work is generally supposed to need a diet having about the kame energy vplue as that of a man doing very light mechanical work, because the consumption of energy in mental "work is not great. But the Medical Rewrd calls attention to the opinion expressed by Dr. W. M. Bellas, professor of general physiology. University college, London, In a book on the physiology of food. Doctor Bayliss points out that while the oxygen actually consumed by the nerve centers in their work may not be great it has to be supplied at high pressure. This is proved by the fact that even a momentary stoppage of the blood supply causes immediate unconsciousness, although the oxygen in the brain has not been exhausted. From this It seems possible that although the actual quantity of food needed may not be great “yet this food may require to be presented at high pressure, and that to attain the high pressure if may be necessary to fake a” diet of an energy equivalent to that of a moderate muscular work.” Doctor Bayliss holds that from the food standpoint no benefit is derived from alcohol. Also that there Is no special virtue in butcher’s meat and that vegetable foods, if properly chosen, can supply all that is necessary for a complete diet, but at thp same time he considers a diet of.pure-

SOME SMILES

Lots of Fun. Rose—What a pity, dear, you are engaged so young. You will never have the fun of refusing a man. Bud—No, but I’ve had the fun of accepting one. A Lesson in Economy.

The Difference. • “How was it when”tllose two young fellows started out together to get work, one was employed so much sooner than the other?” “I guess it was because the latter waited to accept a position, while the former went : out and looked for a job.” Some Fixer. “I say, Arnold, I want to apologize for the nasty temper I displayed last night. Your wife and sister must Have thought I was crazy.” “Oh, no, they didn’t. I fixed that all right.” “Mighty good of you, old man. Thanks.” “Yes, I told them you were drunk." —lllustrated Sunday Magazine. Very Particular.

Butcher—l can recommend the ham. ma’am. It’s wells cured. Mrs. Oh, don’t give me one that had anything the matter with it even if it is cured now. Let me have a perfectly healthy one.

/ The Sequel. Troublesome Gentleman (to solicit-, or, after long rigmarole)—That, Mr Jones, is the Genesis of the whole matter. Solicitor (opening the door) —And this, my dear sir, is the Exodus. —The Tatler. Appropriate Need. “I want a 5 backer for my new Airship invention.” 'i “Naturally, a flying scheme would be all the better for an angel.”

I MUST

By GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS.

as a Positive that only Heroes and Gods ought to associate with. But — Unless your life is permeated by Positives —by some personal Responsibility of Effort, your Character, at the end, will stand weak indeed.“I Must,” said Lord Nelson, at Trafalgar; “I Must,” said Washington at Valley Forge; “I Must,” said Lincoln, jit Gettysburg; “I Must,” said Mark Twain, with Bankruptcy clutching at his heart; “I Must,” says every great man and woman, sehslng Duty, Opportunity, Crisis, and the Larger Success. “I Must,” is God’s Vest Pocket Formula to you who breathe His free Air, and work in His .Workshops. __

Judd —I’ve just paid $250 for this diamond ring for my wife. Bud d —ll’s a beauty, but isn’t it rather —er —extravagant? Judd—Not a bit. Think what it will save in gloves.

ly vegetable origin unsafe, because not enough Ig known yet about the properties of the several vegetables stuffs, The proteins of vegetables are not so easily digested as are those of meats, but in compensation more of the food can be taken, and The digestive organs need bulk.

90,000,000 Rabbits Needed For Felt Hats Made in the United States Every Year.

Did you know that the felt hat you are wearing represents the fur of three or four rabbits? It’s a fact, declares the San Francisco Examiner. And it's also true that there are about 30.000,000 felt hats made in the United States every year. Figure it out for yourself. At the minimum of three rabbits per hat. that number of hats means 90,000,000 rabbits a year. Of that number less than two per cent are killed In the United States, according to a paper read before the Society of Chemical Industry In New York by C. D. Parks. Most of the other 98. per cent come from Australia, where the rabbit, introduced long ago as a pet, has become a national pest.

Among Colleagues.

“Do you regard our friend as a statesman?” “No,” replied Senator Sorghum. “He’s the sort of a man that gets credit for being a statesman when he’s only a public expert.”

A Hospitable “Cracker.”

A young lawyer down in Florida wa's running for a certain office and. with the idea of getting their vote, undertook to cultivate the acquaintance of all the “crackers” (country people) for miles around. . Stopping his horse one evening in front of a little shanty, he inquired of the*old man lounging against the door if he might spend the night at his home. “Sure, partner,” said the old man, “stop and light.” The lawyer “lighted” and followed him into his abode, which consisted of one room, with a bearskin stretched out in one corner, the trophy of a hunt and also the only bed of the hunter. A pumpkin served him for a pillow, tn answer to- the lawyer’s wondering look as to where he was going to sleep, the “cracker" pointed to the bbarsWn,saying with great magnanimity: “Stranger, I tell ye what we’ll do—ye take the punkin and the b’arskin, and I’ll rough it I” —Everybody's.

Frenchman Will Not Retire.

When he Jias laid by a “pile,” which the Englishman or American would consider ample to justify him in taking a house in the suburbs, “climbing” In societv imd retiring from business, the Frenchman still clings to business. Althcjhgh his everyday expenses are very probably less, he has as a rule far heavier drains on his purse.. Each of his daughters will claim a handsome dowry if she is to be married well, and these dowries must be paid without impoverishing the business. This system of interwoven family and business arrangements naturally is associated with the closeness of the ties of French families. A man and wife would as soon think of deserting, each, other as of deserting their “inlaws.”

Statistical Notes.

Formosa contains 140,000 goats. jVnlted States has 450 auto torles. Japan last year paid $54,835,000 for fertilizers. Chile has 6,014 miles of gov-ernment-owned railways. Youngstown, O„ is to have a $250,600 art museum; — Philadelphia is to have a new $50,000 hospital for children. Denmark in 1916 sent Germany 28,500 tons of pork and lard.

Risks Compared.

“So you think an automobile is safer than a horse?” “In some respects,” replied Broncho Bob; “it isn’t customary as yet to hang a man for stealing an automobile.” " ■

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Rice Thrown Away at One Wedding Equal to Soldier’s Food Ration for Whole Day.

The custom of throwing rice at weddings is a wasteful one, in the opinion of C. E. Vail of the Colorado Agricultural college. _ . “it is unnecessary, to say the least,” he declares, “and if one stops to consider the probable amount thus wasted in the entire United States each year, one is the more impressed with the absurdity of the custom. At the present time, when the whole country is aroused to the need of food production and food conservation, the throwing of rice at weddings is a matter for the attention of those who are trying to solve the food problem. Rice has a fuel value of 1,630 large calories per pound, as compared with 1,306 calories from white bread, 1,655 frofii cornmeal and 325 from potatoes. The United States soldier’s food ration is abou| 4,200 calories per day. In throwing away three pounds of rice there are wasted 4,890 food calories. The lesson should be quite obvious.”

Dramatic Surprises.

Strange meetings occur often enough In war hospitals. Several medical officers have found their brothers among their patients. A certain territorial battalion had two medical officers in peace tftne, of whom the senior went abroad with the unit. In course of time the colonel fell sick, and was brought down to a base hospital, where he passed directly into the charge of his junior medical officer without any prearrangement whatever. A patient who had served for several months in France was lying in a double-bedded room. Suddenly, and rather to his annoyance, a stable companion was given to him in the middle of the night, who proved in the morning to be his brother, recently arrived from Gallipoli.

No Sanctified Constitutions.

“Some men,” wrote Jefferson in his old age, “look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant—too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it and labored with it. It deserved well of Its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present. . v . I am certainly not an advocate of frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. . . . But J know also that laws and constitutions must go hand In hand with the progress of the human mind.” —New Republic.

POULTRY POINTERS

In preparing fowls for shipment by parcel post, the chief object is to keep the skin from being torn or rubbed. Dry picking is recommended. The floor of the duckhouse must be kept dry and should be well littered with clean, dry straw. Strange as it may seem, while ducks will thrive if they have access to a stream of water or pond, they must have dry quarters at night. Growing chicks will grow best when they can roost where there is clean perches and only a roof over their heads. Sulphate of iron is a blood tonic, as well as an effectual remedy against the small round worms frequently discovered in the intestines of the birds. Any of the larger breeds of ducks will yield quite a great deal in the way of feathers in a year’s time. Feathers should not be plucked during the cold weather. Ducks are conveniently kept In flocks of about A house 15 by 10 feet is large enougffTof JETs' number. 5 , When fowls become lame first in one leg and “then in both, it is caused by some liver trouble. Sometimes the birds at the same time become very light. There is no cure. Prevent by not feeding pepper or spices, not too heavyof corn. Cleaning out the houses several times a week, will not only give a purer air, but it will greatly help in killing disease germs. Access to swimming water is not at all necessary in order to successfully raise Pekin ducks. Where there is a nervous, quick jerking of the legs, making the fowl step high while walking, it is an affection similar to stripghalt in horses. While this cannot be cured it does no particular harm. It is a nerve trouble. An excellent substitute for meat foods is cottage cheese. You may feed it to fowls of any age and will find it very nutritious. Give about three feeds each week of the cheese.

Japan’s Physique Falling.

Interpellating the Japanese government about the health of the nation, BaronKenkwiffiTaW medico-scientist, speaking in the house of peers, declared that there was a gradual enfeeblement in the physique or, the young men which was disparaging. He asked whether the goVernernment was considering any measures for the improvement of the health con ditlons of the empire? ,In rejdy, Pre-’ mler Count Terauchi said the government was not satisfied with the present national hygieue and would adopt alj, possible measures to bring about an improvement. * - ■ „

TO AID FAMILIES OF 0. S. FIGHTERS

Red Cross Undertakes to Care for the Dependents of Sol- ; diers and Sailors. PREPARE FOR A URGE TASK “Not Work of Charity, but Moat Sacred Duty to See That They Lack for No Comfort," Saya Director Lies. By CHARLES LEE BRYSON. Chßago—Many an American soldier and sailor will fight with infinitely stronger spirit in this war for lite knowledge that the. American ~Bed Cross is standing firm between those he leaves, at home, and the grim specter of want. For the announcement has gone forth from Washington that the families of fighting men are to be under the protection of the great humanitarian arm of the government. The whole world knows of the work the Red Cross has done in caring for the sick and wounded in war, relieving the distress bf the victims of fire and flood, earthquake, famine and tornado in civil disaster, and organizing base hospitals for the army and navy. But few realize that while all this was being done, preparation was under way to look after the loved ones whom the fighting men will leave at home. When the United States troops were at the Mexican border the Red Cross found it necessary to make provision for the families of many Guardsmen who had left dependents at home. This made plain what must be done in case an army of a million men should be called abroad, and with characteristic Red Cross forehandedness a plan was at once formulated. So far as possible, the war department will choose men who have no dependents; but in spite of ""everything many a married man. many a son whose mother depends on him, and many others to whom relatives look for support, will go to the front. It is these who are left behind that will be watched overly the Red Cross. Department of Family Relief. To safeguard those who may need our care, the Red Cross has established, under the director general of civilian relief, a new department called that Of family relief. It has called to the head of this department Eugene T. Lies, for many years general superintendent of the United Charities of Chicago, a man of wide experience ahd ripe judgment. Mr. Lies was one of those who attended a conference of national and division officers of the Red Cross, called at Chicago by John J. O’Connor, director of the central division, and ftt this conference Ms. Lies outlined his policy. Later, at the National Conference of Charities at Pittsburgh, Mr. Lies enlarged upon this subject. He made it very plain that it is a labor of love, and in no sense of charity, that the Red Cros§ has undertaken. “We must remember,” said Mr. Ues,

HEADS BELGIAN RELIEF

Jonkheer Charles Ruys de Beerenbrock, a noted Dutchman, has been appointed as head of the Belgian relief commission, succeeding Herbert Hoover, America’s food chief. The Jonkheer is a Roman Catholic deputy for’a Limburg constituency and a son of the queen's commission for that province. -He is an expert social worker and has given much assistance to Belgian refugees. Hoover built a complete organization for the Belgian relief work hind it is running sd smoothly that the Jonkheer will have little trouble id continuing the great machinery for the distribution of food and clothing for the needy in Belgium.

“that there Is not the faintest shadow of ‘charity’ in Its usual meaning, attached to this work we are undertaking. If there is want among the families of our spldlers and sailors, it is not because they have been Idle or wasteful, or improvident, or that they have been in anywise to blame. Rather it is because they have done the finest and the noblest thing possible, and have given to their country those to whom they have looked for support and protection. “We go to them, not as doing them a chgrity, but as expressing our gatitude to them for what they have done—as a duty we owe to those whom they have given to fight our battles. Looking at it in this light, we can see how little we can afford to permit any one of these to suffer Because of the noble thing they have done.” Task a Big One. The officers of the Red Cross have shown a large grasp of the situation. They realize the task that will be theirs. This is shown in a part of Mr. Lies’ Pittsburgh talk, in which he said that very soon there Will be 300.000 .National Guardsmen in the field, and that “by January 1 pext it is altogether possible that there will be uhder arms about 2,500,006 men in all branches of the service; - ’ “We must prepare for a large task.' to be executed through the civilian relief committee of the various Red Cross chapters. These committees should have carefully chosen members, some, at least, of whom have experience In social work.” It is. qpt merely as a feeding and clothing agency that the Red Cross proposes to act toward these dependents, as Mr. Lies points out, but as a sort of “next friend” in all troubles such as wages. Insurance, difficulties with landlords, illness, accident and the moral welfare of children. “We would show ourselves unfit to enjoy the blessings of democracy,” says Mr. Lies, “if. while sending our soldiers to the front to fight the enemy, we permitted their families at home to fight want, disease, and moral dangers ishment for the sacrifices made by them. v “Only_ by getting close to them through friendly visitation, sympathetic inquiry, neighborliness and intelligent interpretation of home conditions, can untoward factors be discovered. The Red Cross is in the field to do just this kind of service in addition to supplementary relief work, and it wants to do it as thoroughly as possible.” It is in this spirit, then, that the Red Cross is approaching the task of protecting the dependents left behind by the fighting men. Backed by the American people, there is no room for doubt as to how it will perform this task.

CALL BRITISH TARS "LIMEYS”

American Bluejackets in European Watery Have Nickname for Everything They See. London. —American bluejackets on duty in European waters have a nickname of their own for England’s sailors and soldiers. They call them “limeys;” the individual being known as a “lime.” The American sailor men apply the designation to all English fighters jfist as the British refer to their soldiers a& “Tommies.” The sailor from the United States has his nickname for nearly everything he sees. Bluejackets who had served in the near and far East first started calling British sailors and soldiers “lime juicers,” because of their | fondness for fruit juice and charged water. Now the designation has been shortened down and everything British is British soldiers’ and sailors’ dubs are known as “limey clubs,” and British-brewed lager beer is commonly spoken of as “limey beer.”

HAS NINE GRANDSONS IN BRITISH ARMY

Denver, Colo. —The Victoria Cross might be the reward of Mrs. S. Harris, aged seventy, were her contributions to the allied cause brought to the attention of King George. Mrs. Harris has nine grandsons now fighting in the British armies, and an only son is about to enlist in Uncle Sam’s army of liberty. All nine grandsons are brothers. children of Mrs. Harris’ daughter, who is now dead. The boys were living in Saskatchewan, in western Canada, when the Dominion government first called for volunteers. Seven of them enlisted in the famous Princess Pat regiment arid, spite the heavy casualties in that crack organization, they are all alive. Two others entered the British navy. The boys are Thomas, George, William, James, J. 8., ; Justus, Larry, W. -B. and Dennis Pollard, and range in age from nineteen to thirty-three years. Mrs. Harris’ husband was a Confederate soldier.

Finds Lost Watch.

Bryan, O. —Deer Snow, nFar Stryker, lost his watch while plowing three years ago. He found that, identical watch dragging along behind his riding cultivator several days ago. It was not ticking, but It will as soon as some slight repairs are made.

RECOVERS POWER OF SPEECH

Joseph Getzelowitz, dumb from birth, suddenly recovered his power of speech in Bellevue hospital, New York, while recovering from a fall. Several boys had been tormenting Getzelowitz In Henry street, near the home of his sister, where he HvcW. Trv chasing the boys, he stumbled and fell. A policeman picked him up and had kJrii sent to Bellevue. There the physician* examined the young Russian and Jcaml that his vocal chords had all the appearances of being normal and in their opinion simply lacked the will to talk. While reading a prayer book he suddenly began speaking Yiddish with ease a<v.i ;«rfect pronunciation. . 4 He now speaks a few words of English. *

GUIDES FOR IT’S SOLDIERS

Great Britain Carefully Provides for the Men Home on Leave From the FronL * London*—Soldiers on leave from the front in the early days of the war had the greatest difficulty in finding their way about London and across It to main Une centers .leading to their provincial homes, but this-has all-beta , altered, and what was at Victoria station now works like any part of the military machine. This has been made possible by the help of the volunteers of the National Guard and by members of the Woman’s Reserve Ambulance company, who take Charge of the men on change their French money into English, grant them loans and personally conduct them to the various stations they may require to travel from. The same thing is done when leave is up. The soldier, used to discipline, likes being handed' on from one to another rather than being left in a strange place to his own devices.

IN KAISER’S ROOM, TAR SAYS, NO KICK COMING

Lorain, O. —William Kelsner. who joined the navy four months ago, has Written his par-, enta that he is well treated. He is evidently on one of the interned German ships seized by the United States. “The walls are covered with silk and inlaid with silver. The room to which I was assigned was reserved for the kaiser when the ship was German.” says his letter.

SCULPTOR TO DO HIS BIT

Will Turn Talent* From Modeling in Clay to Remaking Face* of the Wounded. Cleveland, O. —Max Kalish, Cleveland sculptor, is going to do his bit and it’s a strange bit, too. Kalish is turning his talents from creating face* in clay to remaking those of human beings. Kalish Is one of a small army of American sculptors who are going to the battle. front to help battlescarred veterans. They propose to remake the mangled features of the soldiers injured in battle. They caU these fellows plastic sculptors. They replace the missing parts of. the 'face with copper or papier mache'and then graft skin over it. Little is; known of the science in America and the sculptors are going to France shortly to learn the tine points of the art.

ACCLAIMED BRITAIN’S HERO

London Schoolteacher, Wounded in Battle in France, Attains _ High Fame. London. —A London schoolmaster named Wiman, who enlisted and lost an arm and a leg in France, returned to teaching after his recovery and became the idol of his students. _ The discipline among members of his chess was perfect, the boys enforcing it among themselves. Finally, after the authorities discovered him to be a better teacher than ever, the school arranged for an exhibition hearing of one of his history lessons. At this exldbition Wiman asked: “Now, boys, who is the greatest outstanding British military hero of all time ~ r-? ---—— — The boys Instantly stood, cheered thrice and shouted in chorus “Mr WV man!” • _ *