Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 275, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1917 — Page 2

IMPORTANCE OF PROTEIN IN THE DIET

(From the United States Department of Agriculture.) Every fanner knows that nitrogen is one of the chemical elements which neither his crops nor his stock can do without. He knows also that it costs more than almost any other element. The same is true of nitrogen in human food. It is absolutely necessary for the building and repairing of body tissues and can be obtained by the body only from the food substance or. nutrient known as A larger proportion of protein is found in eggs, meats, fish, milk, cheese •and the 'dried seeds of the legumes (peas, beans, cowpeas, soy beans, peanuts, etc.) than in most other materials, and these usually are spoken of as foods rich in protein, or the protein group of foods. Except for the dried legumes, these protein-rich foods are all of animal origin and are mostly among the more expensive food materials. Some of the cereals, especially wheat and oats, and some of the nuts are also fairly rich in protein, while smaller amounts are found in the other cereals aud minute quantities in vegetables and fruits. > Milk is the best source of protein for little children and should be the chief item in their diet. Besides furnishing* protein, it provides them with some of the mineral mutter necessary ■to build tissue and with certain other substances which, in tiny quantities at ieast, are indispensable for healthy .growth and development. Like any kind of protein, it can also be used by the body as fuel to provide energy for the work of the muscles. It does not make much difference from which materials Older persons get their supply of protein, though a variety of kinds is usually considered desirable. Not all of it ordinarily comes frqm the protein-rich foods, for wheat and other cereals contribute much protein to the diet. In fact, it is possible to plan perfectly wholesome and appetizing diets in which about half of the necessary protein is furnished by bread and other cereal foods.

The following lists may help to show about how much protein there is in some of the common food materials and how they compare with one another in this respect: There is about one-fourth ounce of protein in—one glass milk; one egg; one and one-half to two ounces medium fat meat; whole-milk cheese (one ounce or one and one-fifth cubic Inches) ; one and three-quarter ounces dried navy beans; three medium-sized slices bread, either white or wholewheat (three ounces). There is about one ounce of protein in—one 1 quart milk; four eggs; six to eight ounces medium fat meat; four ounces whole-milk cheese; six ounces dried navy beans; one small loaf bread, either white or whole-wheat (12 ounces). It is not necessary for a healthy per- , son to measure his food as carefully as a doctor measures the medicines or even the food which he prescribes for an invalid. If the body is in good condition it adapts itself to the ordinary variations in its food supply; when there is a little too much it can store or dispose of what it does not‘need at once, and when there is not enough, it can draw for a time on its own substance to make good the lack. The danger comes when, day in and day out, the body gets too much or too little food, or when the kinds provided are not the most suitable. While there is no need to measure exactly how much protein is obtained with every meal, if the diet as a whole is to be healthful and economical, the person who plans It ought to know in a general way how much protein and other nutrients are needed and how much is contained in the different food materials, and then choose accordingly. According to the standard commonly used in. this country as a practical guide in planning megls about 3% ounces of protein a day is a reasonable quantity for-a young or middle-aged man of average size, weighing about 150 pounds and doing a moderate amount of muscular work —like that of a carpenter. It is believed”that it is wise to obtain this protein from a variety of food materials. Half of this protein (about 1% minces) he might get from a pound loaf of bread and four ounces of oatmeal porridge or other cooked cereal used as a breakfast food. The other 1% ounces probably would be supplied chiefly by one or more of the following: Meats, fish, eggs, milk, cheese, and dried legumes. It might be obtained from an egg at breakfast, onehalf pound of pork chops or mutton chops (weighed with bones and trimmings) at dinner, and three-quarters cupful (six ounces) of baked beans Or cowpeas at lunch or supper. A larger person would have more body tissue to keep in repair, so would require more protein, while a smaller person would require less. Women, in general, are smaller and weigh less than men, and a wo&an of average size, weighing from 120 to 130 pounds. Is commonly said to need about fourfifths as much protein as a 150-pound man. Growing children need more pro- - teinvlu proportion to their size than adults, because they must Increase the amount ofilbelr body tissue as well as keep It in repair. • The more active a person is, the more force or energy he will expend and the more food must be provided ■for this purpose. ' When a person does more muscular work and therefore needs more food, tt is usually wise to increase the use

of materials rich in fat, starch, or sugar rather than of those rich in protein, not only because the former are often cheaper, but because such a diet usually pleases the taste quite as well. It has been found that when a .-diet consisting of the common food materials combined in the usual way provides enough energy, it is almost certain to provide enough protein, too. If the food provides more protein than the body needs for tissue building, the excess may be used by the body as fuel. Unless this excess is unusually great it will not prove harmful ordinarily.

SOME SMILES

Its Moral Influence.

“Aviation must be conducive to amiability.” “Why so?” “Because when they are actively engaged aviators cannot afford to fall out.”

Juvenile Brightness. The Kid —Pop, if you go to the umbrella store they will get you back your lost umbrella. Pop—They will? The Kid —Yes. They have a sign in the window which reads: “We recover your umbrella.” Advice. “It’s always safest and best.” “What is?” “To think that your rival knows a little more than he seems to and that you know a little less than you think you do.” Brass. Maude—Don’t tell anybody for the world. George slipped this ring on my finger-last night. ; Alice —Yes; it’s nice looking, but it will make a black circle round- your linger before you’ve worn it.a week. It did on mine. “The Magic of a Face.”

Raising of Rabbits Urged As a Means of Overcoming Shortage in Food Supply

New York city’s women’s committee on national defense has entered upon a campaign to encourage the raising of rabbits. x The committee wants a little rabbit in every home.

FEAST OR FAST?

Commissioner of Health of Pennsylvania. «t 6 ’ -

In civilized life men find it impossible to pay proper attention to their

ing to follow the laws of health over a period of time, they begin to feel inert mentally and physically; their work becomes a burden ; eyesight loses Its acuteness, while the natural white of the eye is lost and it becomes congested, showing sometimes a yellow tinge; the appetite begins to fail; natural sleep is broken up and interrupted, and when awakening comes, the mind is puzzled by confused ideas. 15

When these symptoms are recognized, men of experience know it Isbecause the food taken has been in excess of the demands of the body. j Such a man was a laboratory associate of mine years ago. Occasionally he would salute mein the morning and say: "What do you prescribe, doctor, a feast or a fast?” He mean’t that he felt he had been neglecting all outdoor .£xercise for a long time and had not at all neglected taking heavy and frequent meals, until nbw his system was out of balance and something had to be done to restore balance. Query, should he fast himself back to health, or should he emulate the old

Miss Gushe —A woman has a wonderful influence for good over a man. Miss Mugge— Indeed, yes. At the fancy dress ball Mr. Huggins started to flirt with me and he told me, hjinself, that ’as soon as he unmasked and gazed on my face he resolved never to do so again.

By DR. SAMUEL G. DIXON.

meals. They cann o t eat regularly and havb no time to eat stow-., ly, and they apparently will not eat what they have learped by precept and experience is fitting for those who do work indoors that requires intense application. Fail-

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Sayings of a Cynic.

; A-duck rises and quacks; a • quack quacks and then ducks. J It isn’t the first love that mat- »• ters, it’s the last. I A looking-glass is a woman’s • worst enemy and best friend. ! The way of the transgressor ’ may be hard, but It certainly i isn’t lonely. | 1 If women were only as perfect ' as they expect their husband’s to ’ be, heaven would be at our very > doors. a [ A man’s heart is the world, • but a woman’s world is her [ heart. > Man was created from dust, woman from trouble.

“It is a humble animal,” says the advocates of the idea, “and can be kept in a small wooden box with a screen door for the admission of air. It thrives on food we throw away and on grasses from the roadside.” All of this, of course, is true, and if, as some one has suggested, every one of the 3,000,000 war gardeners of the past season went seriously about the business of rabbit raising there would shortly be a plentiful supply of meat, cheaply produced and, on the whole, very palatable, says the Indianapolis News. “The rabbit,” says the committee, “is as tender and nourishing as chicken. It makes a ravishing stew;.it is delicious in potpie, and stuffed rabbit, as the French prepare it, is a tiling to dream of. Further, the fur of the rabbit can be used for coats and hats, and thus our two great needs —something to eat and something to wear—will be satisfied if American families will begin to keep the rabbit in their homes.” The prospect Is alluring; the idea is pleasing. And possibly there are few practical reasons why the suggestion should not be carried into effect.

The Pope’s Triple Crown.

Originally the tiara, or triple crown, of the pope was a plain high cap, much like those in which doges of Venice are so often represented in old pictures. It was first introduced by Pope Nicholas I in 860. Just when the first coronet was, added is a matter of uncertainty, but the second was placed by Pope Boniface VIII in 1295 and the third by Pope Urban V about 1398. It has been held that the threes crowns refer to the Holy Trinity, though that evidently could not have been the original idea, for they would certainly have not been added one after the Other with an intervening period in each case of many years. Some authorities contend that they dqpote the three-fold royalty of the bishop of Rome, one being the symbol of the temporal power over the Roman states, another the spiritual power exercised over the souls of men, and the third the authority over all the kings and potentates cf Christendom. —London Tit-Bits.

Unless.

“Do you think, since I have promised to be,Will’s wife, that I ought to confess to him that I was kissed once by another —many years ago?” “Oh, no, I don’t believe it is necessary for you to tell him anything about it —unless, of course, you desire to boast.”

Easy to Dodge.

O’Brien —Mike married a woman that weighs 300 pounds. O’Toole —The sly devil I He knows that nobody can fight at that weight.”

Romans and start with a feast? Most people are familiar with the ancient Roman feast, whose features We would describe nowadays more acqiirately with the name of orgy or deGhuch. These feasts always made them s|ck and the physical reaction would be such that no food was taken into the system for some time afterward. So that the same result of a fast was arrived at by a different route. My associate, being a man of humorous viewpoint, was just accenting this condition. When I asked him why he thought of the more roundabout way of the Romans/he replied that you got some hilarity with it. “You get more out of treating yourself by debauch, than drugs,” he said, and that is the way a good many people look .at it, unfortunately. The Roman custom is recognized historically as having continued long afterward in other races, and perhaps it Is still surviving today. In principle at least, among Individuals here and there. Still, the mass of our people have a more'sensible view. It is known that a fast will relieve nature while she is coping with the task of overcoming extra burdens that have been laid upon the system. The debauch, which is generally what high liters make of thor “feast,” on the contrary is seen generally as something that overloads the system anti adds to nature's burden, even though it mentally stimulates the subject, sometimes to the -point whore he might be guilty of crime. And there is the hiiarttsr—a thing to be remembered and tempt the subject to try the seme remedy the next time.

YOST PLAYERS DELIGHT IN SOAKING BILL

COACH YOST CHANGES NAME OF TACKLING DUMMY.

The tackling dummy on the University of Michigan football practice field has been rechristened and is now a male instead of a female parsonage. Coach Yost; grinning broadly, is ready to admit that there is an ocean of effectiveness “in a name.” Until this season the dummy has been known as “Gertrude.” On numerous occasions Yost, Trainer Tuthill and other chiefs of the training squad have informed ambitious young football candidates that they never would get, to

CARPENTIER IS NOT COMING

Heavyweight Champion of Europe Denies He Is Being Sent on Trip to United States. Information has been received in London by the “News of the World” that Georges Carpentier, heavyweight

Georges Carpentier.

champion of Europe,. who has done splendid work with tiie French aviation corps, denies the report that he is being sent to America. It has been rumored many times that Carpentier was going to- the States wlth Jean Navarre, another aviator, to give the American flying men the benefit of their great experiences in the air and for Georges to engage In some exhibition 'bouts for the benefit of the French Red Ctoss society.

CRACK ATHLETES IN FRANCE

Ball Players, Football Stars, Boxers, Tennis Players and Others on < \ Firing Line. _ •* By the time January 1 rolls around and the new year is born many of the leading stars in all branches of sports will be with Uncle Samuel’s, armies somewhere in France. Ball players, boxers, tennis and golf players, foqtball stars and the leading lights of track "and field will all be represented on the firing line. And with so many stars of the sport world abroad the public will take new interest in them, for. Instead of battling on track and field, the diamond, the tennis count or the golf links, the stalwart sons of the U. S. A. will >be battling on foreign fields in the great game of the i go—-the game of war.

the front unless they showed considerably less consideration for “Gertrude’s” feelings. This season, with many gridiron stars absent from college and many green men to teach, Yost faced a problem. But he solved it. He had the tackling dummy rechristened. Its new name is “Kaiser Bill.” And that’s the reason why Yost is still grinning.

COBB PULLS “BONER”

One of the Sok, listening to Faber’s alibi for his famous steal of third base, recalled an instance at Boston last year when Ty Cobb swiped third base with Crawford already on said sack. Cobb made a magnificent. slide, started to brush off the dirt and suddenly noted Crawford. “Hey! Get away from here!” yelled Tyrus. “You haven’t any business here!” On another occasion Veach of the Tigers got in some such a situation. At the end of' the rundown he explained it by saying there were too many men on the bases, anyway, and there seemed no place where he could go. •

LONGBOAT KILLED IN ACTION

Famous Indian Marathon Runner Died “Somewhere in France,” According to Recent Report. Tom Longboat, the famous Indian Marathon runner, has been killed in action in France, according to a letter received by Mrs. Michael Daly of Toronto from her son, Thomas Daly, a

Tom Longboat.

former trainer of the Toronto International league baseball team. No particulars were given in the letter, which was dated September 23. . Longboat went’ overseas with the Canadian Sportsmen’s battalion.

Fans Won’t Exempt Cutshaw.

The claim of Second Baseman George Cutsihaw of the Brooklyn Dodgers for exemption from the army draft because of a wife and child Was granted, but he won’t be exempted from the usuaUpanning at the hands of Brooklyn fans if he returns to the Dodgers.next yean They have been on Cutshaw for a year In spite of good work.

SCHUPP WARMS BENCH

Until Last Season He Watched . Other Pitchers Work Was Looked Over by Cincinhatf Reds in 1912 and Let Go to Decatur of - Three-1 League— He Bats Right-Handed. Ferdinand M. .Schupp, the Giants’ star southpaw, who came back in such grand #tyle in New York after being driven from the box In Chicago In the second world’s series game, is the youth of the regular New York pitching staff. Schupp, who Is a Kentuckian, Louisville being his native heath, where he was born In 1892, joined the Giants In 1913. He wore the seat of his trousers smooth watching older , and more experienced twirlers do the bulk of the work, and did not really shine until the latter part of last season. Schupp began his professional career in 1912, and after being looked over by the Cincinnati Reds was let go to Decatur, of the Three-I league. He proved himself to be a horse for work rhat year, taking part in 51 games for 22 victories and 20 defeats, and at the close of the season was grabbed by the Giants. In 1913 and 1914 and most of 1915 Schupp was learning the big league

Ferdie Schupp.

pitching act from observation. In 1915 he pitched and won but one full game, but last season he took part in 30 contests, winning nine and losing three. Six of his nine victories were won while the Giants were piling up their famous run of -26 triumphs, and he finished the season with the lowest average of runs per game allowed in the majors, yielding only .90 tallies per nine innings. Although Schupp pitches from the portside and relays his grub in the same way, he bats right-handed.

HARNESS RACING IS QUESTION

Grand Circuit Meetings in Detroit and Kalamazoo Were Not Successful—JVlay End Sport. The future of harness racing’ in Michigan is a topic of considerable discussion among followers of the sport. This year’s Grand Circuit meetings in Detroit and Kalamazoo admittedly were not successful, and at their conclusion the opinion was freely expressed that Michigan next year might not see the trotters ahd pacers of the big line. Poor attendance characterized the races at Kalamazoo. Lack of Interest following the abolition of betting caused the abrupt termination of the Detroit meeting. Whether Detroit will again seek a place on the Grand circuit will be decided at a meeting of the Detroit Driving club in the near future.

CINCINNATI REDS GET TITLE

Unusual Distinction of Having Two Different Players Win Batting Championship. Eddie Roush, by winning the individual batting championship of the National league this season, has given the Cincinnati Reds the unusual distinction of having two different players win the swat title in consecutive years. Hal Chase was first in the parent organization in 1916, and now Roush wears the diadem.

PIRATES REJECT DON FLYNN

Outfielder Secured From Shreveport Club Has Been Turned Back—- & Caught In Draft. The Pittsburgh club has notified the Shreveport club that Outfielder Don Flynn will not be retained. His work in the few games he played late in the season failed to impress the Pittsburgh management. Shreveport probably will not be able to use him next year, either, for it is understood he was caught in the army draft.

Indian Hurlers Hard Picking.

Nap Lajole, who batted .380 in the International league last season, found the Indianapolis pitchers hard picking In the recent Inter-league season, and batted but .211 against them. Jay Kirke, who played firsLfor Indianapolis in the games against Toronto, was the leading hitter of the series, with an averageof .450. ■ - ’ j