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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1915)
EMPTY HOUSES SCARCE IN LENTS Altlio there m con«id«*r*bk‘ complaint about »tnngvnt Umea, and work leenia rather difficult to find. it w really aur- pritutig what the real conditions are in the Mt. Scott district Portland has •everal thousand vacant houses and U m * natural inference would indicate that tins |H>rtion of the city would he as con- spicnoua in its number of vacancies as any. ye* it is a fact that relatively few deferable place are open for rent. A year ago tlw*re were oven more empty dwellings to be found than now. In Lent«« there are a very few «tore rooms cluaed. and good dwellings are in de mand The next two months may see labor conditions rather quiet, and quite a number of local workmen may look for em|Joyment outside, but it is probable that conditions will improw about March and all classes of help will lie in big demand Portland will haw a lot of new construction work the coming season. Prospects are good for big con struction work at Oregou City. Several railroad lines are planning improve ments and surplus help will tie drawn away from the city. O«e ol the singular tilings evident is that in spite of an actual deprewhon in the labor demand, there has been ac tually a lot of building and repair work going on. This can only he appreciated by getting out and seeing things. The explanation for this is that many me chanics unable to find work haw been utilising their time making improve ments on their own property. It is probable that the sum total of this de velopment will actually balance the period against a similar period in more prosperous times, in increase of valua tions. Health In The Suburbs BY LORA C. LITTLE At the close of Dr. Tilden’s talk at the Commercial Club quite recently he told of a trip to New York a few months ago. when, on arriving at Pitts burgh. lie found his friends hail got up a meeting in Carnegie Hall of over 500 people to greet and hear him. He said. "If you will do that in Portland I will come out hen* again next year. A man in the audience called out, ‘ Then you will be with us next year'" About 130 pqrson* sat down to the dinner Saturday night. The menu, specially arranged as a‘‘Tilden Dinner,** was as follows: First court»*, Baked Halibut. Cauliflower, Baked Beets, Tilden Salad. Second course, Baked Apples and Cream. That was all, save butter, oil, salt, salad dressing and water'. Dieteticaliy there wen* two mistakes. The salad dnwsing contained too little lemon, and the baked apples wen* sugared. Besides, with the fish in the meal, the cream should have been omitted from the deasert. A lady at the table sent up a request to the committee in charge requesting a small piece of bread. She was sternly refused, though it seemed like refusing the famishing child of the old poem her “three grains of corn, mother!”—in view of the common custom of eating bread with every possible and impossible food combination. Any meat could have been served in place of the fish, which had been chosen because Saturday night came between two regular feast days. Thanksgiving and Sunday. Such a meal should consist of large E. A. RICHTER Staple Groceries Complete New Line of Popular Priced Goods Feed, Flour, and Vegetables Call and see our New Stock and Store Room Gilbert Road and 96th St. Lents Vegetable ‘Depot’ Fruit, Eggs, Butter Bakery Goods. A Fine Line of Chocolates, ¿4 Ap Ik Home Made for Xmas . “W IVa McDowell and Hodge Go Home For Christmas The holidays will soon be here. The time of happi ness and cheer. Your friends will be expecting you to come home. So will mother, father, sister or brother. Low Holiday Fares Are available tor the hol idays. On sale between all Southern Pacific sta tions in Oregon, Dec. 17, 18, 22, 23, 24,¿25, 31, and Jan. 1. Return limit, Jan. 4. From Oregon to Cali fornia points on sale Dec. 23, 24, 25, 30, 31, Jan. 1. Return limit, Jan. 3rd. Ask the local agent for fares, train service a nd other infmormation, or wite Southern Pacific John M Scott, <teneral Paaaanger Agent. Portland, Oregon portions of each article served. As it happened, the salad was the liest thing in the meal, being least sjxiiled by a conventional public chef. It consisted of equal parts of lettuce, celery and cabbage, with a dash of minced onion. Tlie cabbage and lettuce were diced, the celery thinly sliivd crosswise of the stalk. The dressing should have con sisted of olive oil two parte, lemon one part, and salt enough to season the salad, all beaten together to a cn*am. Tlie salad portions should cousiat of a rounding soup-plate full. One of the features of the Itoctor's in teresting and informing talk at the close of the meal was a discussion of starvii foods and their proper use. Meat, he I explained, should never be combined with starch—that is, eaten at same meal. The reason is. that meat is digested in the stomach in an acid medium; the gastric glands pour into the stomach an acid Juice to take care of meat. Starch, on the oilier hand, requires an alkaline medium for digestion, and its digestion in the presence of an acid is retarded until the acid is finally overcome by a supply of alkaline juioea, and this again interferes with meat digesting. Ho that, i taking starches into tire stomach with! meat makes a fool of the stomach and it cannot do its work perfectly. Of the | starches that may be eaten with meat, however, potato is least harmful; this is | for two reasons, one being tliat the po- i talo is 90 per cent water, anyhow, and < the other that the potash in the potato ' aids in its digestion. Bread and meat i are utterly incompatible and their' habitual use would cause much prema ture aging aud disease generally, even, though countless other errors of life are i not commou. Starch foods, the Doctor declares, an frightfully overused. Bread, he says, is [ | the staff of life up to about 35, after that it becomes Jbe staff of death. But even children are now fed too much starch. | Starch three meals a day, even for them, is too much. Adulte past ¡6 who i are healthy may eat starch once a day. no oftener. Furthermore, the rule should lie to have but one kind of starch at a meal. If potatoes, then no bread, rice, macaroni, cakes, mush, or other starch dish. If one of the latter, no potatoes, or other starch. There an* reasons for thia as sound as that given for avoiding the meat-itarcli \ combination, but space does not permit going into them here. The sugared baked apple is «well > enough in its place, but sugar should . not be eaten at same meal as fish. After the Doctor had talked awhile he said. "Do you notice, nobody in all this ’ assemblage has been coughing and clearing his throat? This would not j have been the case had bread or po tatoes been served with this meal. Even a Christian Science congregation cough« its head off after the ordinary meals this | time of y< ar.” Who is Dr. Tilden? He is a Denver physician, graduate of a medical college and holding the usual M. D. degree. He began practice 15 years ago, and for 25 years followed in a measure the methods taught him and practiced by other medical men. He had in that time, ■ however, grown skeptical of drugs and had come to depend largely on surgery. It took him some years to learn that' surgery is not the road to health restore- j tion. He said in one of his address«!» in I Portland that not more than one in a{ thousand of appendicitis cases is really such, and still fewer need an operation. | He refuses to tie called a food doctor, : saying there is but one cure and that is i to remove the causes of diseas«' in any i given cane. “Cut out the wrong habits | that cause it!’* These may be mental: as well as physical. The Doctor has a large practice, con -1 ducting a Sch«xil of Health besides re ceiving patients in an apartment build ing which he has had constructed es- I pecially to accommodate them. Be- , sides all this, be edite and publishes the , livest and most informing health raaga-1 zine in the world, formerly known as "A ’ Stuffed Club,” but now styled "Philoso phy of Health.” When the Doctor comes to Portland again, every reader of the Herald should I make it a point to attend his lecture, j which will be free, as was that at the i public library Sunday night, as well as the one at the Chamber of Commerce, only the dinner being paid for. At another time I may pass on to readers of this paper, with the «»ditor’e permission, further matter from his two late addresses. NOTES OF THE W. C. T. U. Mrs. Lucia Faxon Additon is suffer ing from a severe cold 'which she has tieen unable, So far, to check. She was unable to come out to Lenta this week to keep her appointment made some time ( ago. Mrs. Additon has established her self at Elton Court, 11th and Yamhill street, opposite the Central library. Mrs. Bengett announces a meeting of the L. T. L. at the Friends church on Friday afternoon of this week. Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Walsh have l«en selected as captains in charge, of the memlwrohip eonteat for thia union. The watchnight meeting which had be«*n arrange«! for New Year'a eve liaa lx*rn dropped un amount of the uuion aervitxM. the miniatera of l«ente having announced, which will include that date. The paatora f«*el that they nee«l the aaaiatanro ol every cliriatian worker. There will be no meeting of Mt. tteotl I'nlon until January 10th. at which time Mra. Welch will la* the hoateaa. Mr. and Mra. Frank Baratow l«*ave thia week (or permanent Iwadquartera in San Francium Tliey have al all timer given aid and encouragement to the prohibition cmm ami will fearleaaly n|>eak out for tin* cauae in their new home. Four year« ago Mr. Baratow came into tlie employ of Ilia Federal Wlrelrw Oompany, Mug the manager of Ilia «talion located on aoulh Main street, Lento. Being an Imlefagitable •indent. Mr. Haratow entered the I’ni- vendty extension claaa In electricity ami has in tliia, and other way«, been con- stoutly increaring Ilia knowledge of the subject. He baa installed and o|w<rated tin* now instruments perfected by the wireloea |*<>ple, he built the receiving antenna on the Roani of Trade building aud in many ways made him«olt India- penaible to the company. About two week« ago lite company offrirti Mr. Baratow i ) m * ¡ hmíiíoh of manager of tlie South City elation In Ban Franciaoo Ila waa juat completing the building of a little honte— Juat aneli a coay plat*» aa had long been in his dream«. He re plied witli thank« that he preformi to remain here. The company instate«! upon tiie change and there waa nothing fur him to do but go. It ia with re gret the friends of this young couple MM them move away, but we are all glad California will gain an additioii to th«* (oarloMi prohibition ranks. STRAYED or STOLEN—light Jemey cow. Reward. Phono lienta Home phono 0731 or Tabor 5735. Of course the Men will come, but we want the Ladies, too Gift Hints House Slippers Shoes Pumps Rubbers % We do not need to appeal to the Men—they know us. Garters Cuff Buttons Gloves Collars But we want the ladies to know us just as Collar Boxes well and to feel assured that in our store they will find the kind of Xmas gifts they are seeking and the kind of service that makes Xmas buying a pleasure. Hosiery Scarfs Scarf Pins ! Shirts So for the convenience of both, the ladies and men we have provided this list of useful, appropriate and practical men’s gifts—gifts that every man will greet with the Xmas spirit of sincere appreciation that is so much desired. Suspenders Underwear Mufflers Handkerchiefs If it’s a man’s gift -get it at the Lents gift Handkerchief Boxes store- that merns Neckties Necktie Boxes W. E. Goggins Shoes and Gents’ Furnishing Goods Main Street, lx*nts, Oregon Collar Buttons Caps Belts Trousers Overalls Foster Road and Main Street, Lenta A Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year WILL ALWAYS BE YOURS IF YOU TRADE AT The Lents Pharmacy Drugs, Stationery, Toilet Articles, Rubber Goods, Confectionery, Druggist Sundries Make Our Store Your Santa Claus We Have Good and Useful Articles for Everybody OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT We Strive to Please art Foster Road and Main Street, Lenta Announcement. Most Merchants at this season maintain or raise their regular prices. We reverse the custom, to help our patrons in their need for Christmas goods we have reduced prices so they may buy our goods as reasonable as can be found anywhere at any time. We do not advertise in any paper to popularize our store, but we offer prices that will prove attractfve to every customer, new or old. Our line of Shoes, Dry Goods, Ladies and Gent’s Furnishing Goods, Suits ana Notions are especially Seasonable. THE EMPORIUM fl. S. HASHIM. Prop., 5527 92nd St. Lenta art