Orland Zenith, Volume 15, Number 27, Orland, Steuben County, 14 October 1914 — Page 6

WHALE dance OF ESKIMOS Peculiar F est ' v 'rty That Gives the Young f* !en E Chance to Choose Their Wives. A very primitive custom of the natives of the Bering and Arctic coasts of Siberia, a custom that has come down from generations ot savage ancestors, is the annual celebration of fie whale dance, when the Eskimos select their wives. When the sun moves southward at the end of the short summer season, and the ice closes upon the northern seas, the whales come down to open water. Then tn celebration of the season's catch he ice dwellers assemble tor the vhale dance, which lasts 21 days. The great dance circle Is prepared, and in the center the dancers, both male and female, perform the most i savage of evolutions and motions to the accompaniment of rhytemless beating of the tom-toms and weird chanting. The dance songs tell ot the prowess of the hunters and of the history ot the tribe. The move meats of the women are surprisingly graceful, and they mean to show in their dance that, as daughters of a great people, they are possessed of all the qualities such women should have. The men execute pantomimic scenes of the i hunt, and go through all the motions of the kill; they spear the ice hear, slay the walrus and seal, and finally, with extraordinary contortions, vanquish the mighty whale. During the last days of the feast, •when the' time arrives for the selection of husbands and wives, the man performs his mate dance before the woman he has picked out. In pantomime he promises to provide her generously with the fruit of the hunt, both food and fur. If she is pleased with him, she walks out and dances her acceptance and shows how she will look after the urloo. When they have danced before each other they are married after the custom of the tribe and he leads her off to his walrus hide lodge.

Fundamental Principles of HeaUll'^J^s *~~ - - ■ - — - — - ii i i By ALBERT S. GRAY. M. D.

ng, was dizzy ind exhausted at he least exeriott! Hands and ■eet were cold ind he had such 1 dragging sensa,ion across the olns that It was iifflcult to move. Vfter using 5 Kev. uesiop. boxe6 of Dodd , Kidney Pills the swelling' disappeared and he felt himsolt again. He says he has been benefited and blessed by the use of Dodds Kidney Pills. Several months later he I have not changed my faith in your remedy since the above statement was authorized. CorresponB with Rev. B. Heslop about this wonderful remedy. Dodds Kidney Pills, 50c, per box ?.t your dealer or Dodds Medicine Co.. Buffalo, N. Y. Write for Household j Hints, also music of National Anthem (English and German words) and recipes for dainty dishes. All S sent,free. Adv.

Annual Crop of Oats. The world’s annual crop of oats, including the total of the 17 countries which are the chief producers, is 3,428,000,000 bushel a year. The United States raised 1,123,000,000 bushels, which places her in a position to export large quantities without feeling the loss. A very large part of the corn crop is raised in the United States. Of the total annual crop of 2,776,000,000 bushels raised by nine countries the United States raises 2,373,000,000 bushels. It is surprising to find that Hungary produced upward of 200,000,000 bushels and Italy 100.000,000 bushels. The world’s crop of barley grown in 17 countries was last year 1,225,000,000 bushels, of which only 173,000,000 was raised in America.

Not So Very Strange. “Jones borrowed a dollar from ms yesterday and pyid me back today.” w. -V.IV - bill.” “That’s strange.” “Not very. He couldn’t change It either.”—Strange Stories.

Civilization’s Advance. “They don't burn yule logs any more at Christmas, do they?” "No, only money.”

Exceptional Eye Formation. Horses giraffes and ostriches have the largest eyes of land animals and cuttlefish of sea creatures.

LIGHT BOOZE. Do You Drink It? A minister's wife had quite a tussle with coffee and her experience is interesting. She says: "During the two years of my train-

Ab a tacks collector the pneumatic tire is a howling success. he' misled■ Ask for Red Cross Ball I due. Makes beautiful white clothes. At ail good grocers. Adv. Electricity produced by waterfalls furnishes light to 72 Swedish cities aud towns.

— A CLERGYMAN’S TESTIMONY. The Rev. Edmund Heslop of Wigton, Pa., suffered from Dropsy for a year. His limbs and feet were swollen. and puffed. He had heart flutter-

CCopyiight. 1914, by A. S. Gray) MANUFACTURING HEAT. You have let the furnace fire. go out because you do not now need it to keep you warm. You have put fly screens in the windows and doors in order that they may be thrown wide open to permit a free circulation of air through the house. Thus you may avoid the heat and be comfortable without letting disease bearing insect pests in. You know that a closed room in summer is uncomfortable, and you have heard perhaps that it is dangerous as well and you are guarding against that danger. But have you reasoned out why it is so? Do you know? Do other things about your person prove and proclaim that you have acted consistently and according to known principles, or that you are just following conventional lines and habit and have done this or that because others do it? Perhaps you are also beginning to ask yourself and your acquaintances, too, the question that comes to the mind of the vast majority with the first hot days of summer: “What can I drink to cool me oft?” Curious, is it not, that the old “cure” idea jumps out at us at every turn? It would appear that we think always that we must “take something” to correct uncomfortable conditions, and it never seems to occur to us that eminently satisfactory results may be had from within. Without doubt you would think your neighbor decidedly queer if, during this hot weather, he were to keep his furnace fire going, close the windows of his house and buy ice to cool himself with. Probably no single contribution to the Science of nutrition hamween pro- j ductlve of knowledge capable eft more j nrofoupdjY inflwv<f>-ag.. -b-ftffla-v - ' if -e ! -atfurfflS tne'ealorie idea.' By means of this unit of measurement food requirements become a matter of accurate demonstration, and It is proved that the transformations of chemical energy into heat and work in the animal body take place according to the same general laws as in our artificial motors. If air Is dry it more readily takes up moisture and thereby cools us, whereas If the humidity is high —that Is, If the air be close to its limit of water vapor saturation —of course there will be but little room in it for our moisture. For example: At 90 degrees Fahrenheit and 50 per cent humidity the air will have a capacity for 7.4 grains of water per cubic foot and a comparatively moderate volume of such air will keep our skins dry and cool; but'If the humidity be 90 bfer rent then there is room in It for

I! THE ZENITH, r\'R L A N D, INDIANA

| mineral, supply. All fresh vegetables 1 contain (minerals in varying degrees, i En«r breakfast some fruit, a bowl of I i e packed wheat and milk, or ssuuie f’rfcd whole corn meal or wheat mush, bacon, toast and coffee, will carry you'until lunch time; and then for dinner a small portion of steak or a chop,V potatoes and another vegetable odTwo, bread and butter, u salad, coffee, tea or milk, and you will wake up in tBe morning ready for business. , | The quantity? That depends on your / 1 weight and the character of your | ; work. You have got to master the 1 simple fundamentals of nutrition and be able no adapt foods to your indi’Tfiual nteeds if you are going to be and efficient.

j|b0D ADJUSTMENT. The 4blic mind has been roused here an;?there to an interest in certain pha*s of the pure food question by the rjpular agitation of the subject fs presented by various enthusiastic leadi-a, but there is much underlying has entirely escaped attention j.This is due to the fact that the movement has necessarily been involved p: much that is in the nature of cora:'ji%cial warfare, and in. commercial Campaigns a well turned phrase epigram is frequently pufiferred to a straightforward statement™ fact. We ham for Instance, heard much that is true and false about benzoate of s/$a, but neither side has felt called or. jto state the whole truth, which is tsat as a general proposition the average individual is vastly better oft withois any of the dietetic whips around wSteh the battle rages. We do not need (instruction in the composition of .-avj/ces and dressings for our foods, buq we are sadly in need of in to how to select and prepare a nutlriuiiB and healthful diet. The av individual among Jaymen and iuysicians alike regards the fundamem.ii problems of food and diet as permam&tly solved. The fallacy of this belief fe quickly shown by a brief study of tlxff mortality tables published by the Uutjfd States bureau of census. These tafibs’, show a progressive decrease ioi> mortality from all diseases otlvf than those directly connected IN metabolism, whil£ the mortality tVen diseases caused by deranged nwtdpollsm show a progressive increase per 100,000 population, Obvious): thd%undamental problems of food'prul em are far from being understood (solved, and probably the | most fni' 'fjeciiy understood part of rhe That c£ w .e„q.q##tity of food Jte&% ieK\j rile msSi. gmpfv. !, painstaking investigations for many yedfrs In many parts of the world liavt reduced human food regfiiTemisEtSio a basis where the quantity has bfAine a matter of accurate estimator, rather than of intuition, and the increased demand for food fuel for the.Worker need no longer remain the mystery of guesswork. About the;latest word from the investigators In this field comes from Becker and Mamalinen in Finland. Tests conducted by them for determining the amount ot energy required tor eight lours’ labor at various occupations are as follows: ,

Women. Calories. One sean>*fl^ 6i5 'virv* needle 1.800 One se*r»~ wlth rnc seam>u*cs9 -with sewing machine. .2,100 ne book- n.1*r 1.900 ne bookfilrlflHr- 2 f lW wo S69V,- jts polishing silver, wash- | log %ir\'JWV8, etc 2,800, 2.900 TW o‘Hrvants washing clothes, 2,600, 3.SOO Men. wo tanofi 2.400. 2,500 | ne booklfder ....2,700 ; Z *how|*«r •••• 2.800 ; meU.iworkers, filling and ham- *° JLg, ,1 3,100, 8.200 1 carp- making tables—3,200, 3,300 palin'® painting furniture.3,200, 3.300 * 5ton<ifc>sons, chiseling tomb.nnes .S.l 4.800, 4,700 ’vo pii'WW wood 5,000, 5,400 It muaj e very clear to any person adlng I above table that there is a rect n ’em between the number , d cha ter of the movements iu o gev< occupations to make so iliac!, Terence in the amount of ad ret d to f u rnisl1 this energy, d als< lt there Is some material ffereni metabolic efficiency beeen t i engaged in the same lines work : perhaps, the difference ov , B . e due to differences In inviduaS However, that is a matr for I consideration, the point be cc* ed at tbis time being the j ijustnf* 1 food t0 occupation, earipg l! id the fact that the ca- [ rie is t0 tha energy expended ■ raisi * tons one foot - st is very j , nt an individual on the diet , he j ress or the tailors would , lickly Physical collapse at the j ork o ag wood - side of the question Is, aat I s to the sedentary work-j th 1 a par w 'tb the sea mid I ress 6 tailor - who are on tuel iet of ’ od sawyers? There arf louga them in all our great tles uals who eat with their , es \ ites. They are wastiul ■el ai ng of themselves “dem’d oist aQ t bodies.

During the dance they ■ feast on whale. The skin of the baleen whale is about an inch thick and looks like rubber. The solid blubber between it and the true flesh is usually about 14 inches thick. The black skin and the blubber, the latter cut to the thickness ot the former, is called mot tuk and is considered a great delicacy ft is eaten raw, and althouv-iTlt sounds repulsive to the civilized -ar, is most palatable. . It has a flavor something AV-wt. at chestnuts.- -Tbith's Companion.

Singing in the Country. Far down in the country where grand opera methods have not been applied to church singing ~ blessed old minister arose and announced the number of the hymn he desired the congregation to sing. He followed the old custom of “lining out’’ the hymn; that is, he would read a line in a loud voice and then the congregation would sing it. The first was as iollog's: “We praise thee, O God, foi thy power ten thousand strong.” The congregation tried the line and was or such a high key that when “ten thousand” was reached everybody was ur in a icreech. “I’m afraid that’s toe high,' said'the benevolent old man '“too high on the ‘ten thousand ’ " His difficulty was solved by an old fellow who stood up far back it the church and exclaimed in a nasal voice; “Ail right, then; bring it down to 1,000.”—Philadelphia Public Hedger.

Putting It Up to Him. Lawyer—“Madame, I’m sorry to say that I don't see the ghost ot a ebawce i for you to break your uncle’s Will.” \ Client—“Well, to be frank with you, I j don’t see the ghost of a chance to pay you for what you’ve already done if the will isn’t broken.” Lawyer—“Hm! On second thought, madame, I think' the will can be broken.” — Boston Transcript.

Ocean Is Holland’* Defense. Holland's safety in time of war lies in her ability to flood great tracts of land. William of Orange flooded the country in 1574, and by so doing drove oaf the Spanish invaders. The same policy was adopted on the occasion of the French invasion of 1675. The movement of a lever at Amsterdam Is sufficient to open every dyke and dam if Holland simultaneously, it is said, jo put under water within the space of a few hours the whole country from Naarden. on the Zuyder Zee, by Utrecht, to Geertruidenberg, at the mouth of the Meuse.

Trinidad’s Oil Industry. The oil Industry of Trinidad has reached such a degree of importance, that the admiralty has decided to investigate the possibilities of obtaining supplies there. It is reported that Professor Cadman has arrived at Port of Spain with Instructions from the admiralty to make a full report on the condition of the industry.

And Makes Enemies. An argument usually shows not who la right, but who is the smartest

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Not Comp::mentafy. Sir George Reid, the former premiei of New Zealand, is a very big man On one occasion he delivered a long In .addition to being very Ions wm Te.j CP— " " —OT-> -y i - dining years, and said?, patheticallyf “In a short time I shall have passed away, and will be no more.” “Then the fat will be in the Ore,’ yelled a voice from the gallery, an* the big orator himself laughed he artilj at the humorous sally.

Dr. Pierce’s Pellets, small, sugar-coated easy to take as candy, regulate and invig orate stomach, liver and bowels. Do no gripe. Adv.

He Needed More Time. “Say, have you forgotten that yoi owe me a thousand francs?” “No, not yet; give me time.”

Makes the laundress happy—that’s Ret Cross Ball Blue. Makes beautiful, eleai white clothes. All good grocers. Adv.

Women as a rule are more generoui than wise in financial matters.

PATIMA, TurA kish-blendciga-rettes are the purest form in which tobacco can be smoked, and their ftavor is “Distinctively Individual’*

Imorovr* Farm f« n „K ll 5 a r towI >. rich as bestUUnoh sale at quarter the price M&tt Bussell Co., Bedell Bldg., Ban Antonio, Texat For Said SS22* * enera l purpose farm. lv* Indiana, 12 mllei north of Louisville, Ky. J. at noble, 8eii»r»burg, lod. W. N. U., FORT WAYNE, NO. 41-1914