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THE fads of the famous for keeping
young and vigorous are many and
varied.
Mr. Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese Min
uter, says he experts to reach 200 by
living up to the tenets of vegetarianism
and teetotallsm, to which he has just
been converted. ,
"Champagne is poisonous; it makes
ona dizzy in the head," said Mr. Wu the
other day. "It is good to the palate,
but detrimental to one's system. When
I gave up meat, for awhile I began to
doubt the theories of the vegetarians. I
bad always had a close feeling for
chicken, especially fried chicken; but
that luxury, too, has had to go. I now
aee the value of vegetarianism and in
tend to be a missionary to my people on
my return home, and will scatter its
principles broadcast. People must in the
near future see its benefits. Life and
youth have come back to me, and I be
lieve that I will live to be 300 years
old because of the practice."
Mr. Wu is a convert to the cult of Mrs.
Mary Foote Henderson, wife of the form
er Senator from Missouri and chatelaine
of Henderson Castle, most imposing of
the capital's palatial residences, which
overlooks the city from the crest of
Meridian Hill, highest point in the Dis
trict of Columbia. Some time ago, when
residents at the foot of the, hill were
startled by a descending tidal wave of
pungent liquid, they flocked out to dis
cover that the millionaire Hendersons
. just converted to teetotalism were,
amid ceremony, emptying their wine cel
lar of its ancient and costly stock. Mrs.
Henderson, aside from her work as
woman's suffragist and social reformer,
has devoted considerable time to dietet
ics, having written a work on dinner
giving. Her vegetarian and total absti
nence dinners have been among the so
cial curiosities of the past season, and
she has made many converts to her cult.
which eschews even tea. Recently, when
it was announced that Mr. u u, while at
a banquet in Philadelphia, had "fallen
off the water wagon," Mrs. Henderson
had the Celestial envoy promptly called
before a meeting entertained by Miss
Janet Richards, the lecturer who period
ically explains to the wives of the offi
cial set what their husbands are doing
in the mysterious realms of politics and
statecraft. Miss Richards called upon
Mr. Wu for an emphatic denial of the
horrifying rumor from the Quaker City
and this he made forthwith.
lepew Becomes Vegetarian.
Senator Chauncey Depew is another
convert to vegetarianism, but not through
the charms of Mrs. Henderson.
"I notice that when the newspapers
speak of giving up beef because of the
rising price there is universal ridicule.
he said a few days ago. "I date my free
dom from almost chronic rheumatism to
the day when I stopped eating beef; and
sleep, digestion and clarified vision such
r I have never known before have
kept increasing as I have dismissed flesh
and fowl for vegetables. With, nine
tenths of the world the greatest happi
n in life is the table piled with the
things one loves to eat and drink and
the pleasure of a gorge. But for that.
WARM WEATHER GARMENTS FOR BABY
SEWING for the baby demands the
very best efforts of the practiced
needlewoman. It calls for her tiniest
stitches In scam and hem and tuck, her
most exclusive taste in the selection
of dainty trimmings and her best of
good sense in designing clothis with a
view to comfort and convenience to the
small wearer.
To be overdressed is an acknowl
edged breach of good taste, and an in
nocent baby, burdened with long iind
heavy clothes, which In their turn are
ladened with elaborate and weighty
trimmings, Is an object worthy of the
pitying consideration of those kind
hearted people whose vocation it is to
protect helpless infants from inhumai
treatment.
I once knew a young and ardent
mother who cut up her wedding gown
of "stand alone" satin to make a cloak
for her first-born. The cloak was
trimmed and the cap was made of the
real lace which trimmed the wedding
robe, and to the side of the cap was
attached a white ostrich plume, a relic
of the 'trousseau. The baby from its
simple surroundings (for the new
household was a modest one in com
parison to the parental home so re
cently left) looked forth with appeal
ing gaze and sometimes with envy
(pathetio in. one so young) at the
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Tark Twain Has Fasting Fad. I fJTJll
Mark Twain confesses to the fasting
fad.
'A little starvation can really do more
for the average sick man than can the
best of medicines and the best of doc
tors." says he. "I do not mean a re
stricted diet; I mean total abstention
from food for one or two days. I speak
from experience. Starvation haa been my
cold and fever doctor for 15 years and
has accomplished a cure in all instances. "
Another who cures his ills by fasting is
Professor James H. Hyslop, head of the
American Society for Psychical Research,
and his principal colaborator. Mr. Here-
ward Carrington, has just finished a book
undertaking to prove that the body does
not derive its energy from food but from
an external, all-pervading cosmid energy.
Edison a Disciple of Cornaro.
Edison says that for 40 years he has
carried out the ideas of Cornaro and that
his forefathers who did the same lived
beyond the century mark. Cornaro, of
whom Senator Depew is also a disciple,
was a Venetian who lived to be over 10$.
He was a eport and roue until middle life,
when finding his system wrecked and the
grave yawning for him. he commenced to
restrict himself to a dally allowance of
12 ounces of solid food and 14 ounces of
wine. As he grew older he gradually re
duced this fare until he accustomed him
self to subsist on no more solid meat than
an egg a day. At the same time he
avoided extremes of temperature, weari
ness, hatred and melancholy. Edison be
lieves that we can live and work as long
as we want to.
"Medicine is played out." says he.
"Every new discovery of bacteria shows
ub all the more convincingly that we
have been wrong, and that the millions
of tons of stuff we have taken were all
useless. The doctor of the future will give
no medicine, but will Instruct his patient
in the care of the human frame; in diet
and the cause of prevention of disease.
Surgery, quiet and antiseptics these three
are the vital things of tne future, in the
preservation of the health of humanity.
There were never so many able, active
minds at work on the problem of disease
as now, and all their discoveries are end
ing in the simple truth that you can't
improve on nature."
Sleeps Outdoors Year Around.
Charles D. Walcott, , secretary of the
Smithsonian, sleeps out of doors nightly.
Winter and Summer, not for the cure of
any constitutional ailment, but because
his early life as an active geologist camp
ing In the West proved to him that this
method, intended by nature, was the
healthiest. He has had especially erected
in his Washington mansion a large up
stalrs porch for this purpose. He is also
neighbor's babies in cambric slips and
outing wrapper.
Some babies and this In the very
best families wear slips, to the ex
clusion of dresses, the latter being re
served for "ceremonious" occasions,
such ae a christening.
If slips are to be worn in Its waking
as well as in , its sleeping hours, it
must be seen to that the wardrobe
holds a-plenty. Ten Is a jjool num
ber, and from two to four dresses will
be sufficient, th,3 number to be deter
mined by the socln proclivities of the
w ee one.
There should be white petticoats to
wear with these dresses; tlio number
should equal the number of dres3s.
A good all-rour.d material for babies'
slips Is English nainsook. It is '(ft
and pliable, launders prettily and
wears well. A very good quality can
be bought for 25 cents the yard (a
trifle cheaper by the piece).
There comes a finer quality, as well
as a less-expensive one, but the grade
quoted above is good for general wear.
The petticoats may be made of Eng
lish nainsook, and this material is
quite suitable, too, for dre3ses.
Fine longcloth is sometimes used for
slips and petticoats.
Ideal material for the christening
robe is handkerchief linen. Bat'ste Is
charming and so is French nainsook.
The most appropriate trimming for
baby clothes is hand embroidery in the
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a mountain-climber, a pedestrian and by
far the healthiest and most vigorous-looking
official of the capital's scientific co
terie. John V. Rockefeller has tried more
health fads than perhaps any other man
now in the public eye. At first It was the
bread and milk diet and then strenuous
golf, but more recently the Knclpp cure
walking through grass of early morn
ings In his bare feet. Another who golfs
regularly Is Mr. Justice Harlan, who Is
six years older than t he oil magnate, and
daintiest of designs and a little lace,
fine in quality and pattern.
Hemstitching or feather-stitching is
sufficient adornment for the simple
clothes. Join the seams with entre
deux when practical.
Flannel or outing flannel makes nice
little "nighties" for cold nights. Silk
and wool flannel is more satisfactory
than all wool, as It does not shrink
with the many necessary washings.
French flannel or cashmere makes
the useful little wrapper; . while
eacques may be made of the above
named materials or of challls or outinir
flannel.
Cashmere Is good for the cloak, and
silk may be used. For Summer .here
are lingerie cloaks with a lining of In
dia silk to add warmth. These have
the double advantage of being daintily
attractive and at the same time wash
able. Caps may be of muslin or silk.
Great care should be taken that the
wee baby is neither inconvenienced nor
hurt by buttons or pins. One young
mother kept her sewing basket beside
the baby basket. Each morning she
sewed Mr. Baby up in his clothes and
each night she ripped him out.
Pursuit of the White Ball.
New York Sun.
It pleased many persons last Summer
to prophesy that the ancient and royal
game of golf was in a state of decline.
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therefore 75. Andrew Carnegie, in spite
of his 71 years Is another enthusiastic
golfist.
James Bryce, the British Ambassador,
now at the age of 70 owes his present
wonderful vigor to the fact that he walks
anywhere from five to ten miles a day.
He is also a mountain climber. Another
enthusiastic pedestrian of the capital is
Ambassador Jusserand, of France, while
Alvey Augustus Adee, Assistant Secretary
of State, despite his 66 years, will this
Summer continue his fad for cycling
through Europe, by way of exercise and
recreation.
Edward Everett Hale, who still pre
and that in the course of a few short and
pathetic years it would follow Into innoc
uous desuetude ping pong and whist un
abridged. But the pursuit of the white
ball continues with unabated interest, and
indeed with some evidences of increased
ardor. For a time it looked as if the
open championship of . the Metropolitan
Golf Association might go begging, but it
has been placed and the contest will be
played once more. This in itself is an ev
idence of keen Interest in the game, be
cause the association has no funds avail
able for the expenses of the tournament,
which must therefore be voluntarily
financed by some one of the constituent
clubs. Furthermore, the social side of the
game has been greatly developed. Golf
clubhouses are gradually increasing their
accommodations so that they closely re
semble country clubs, and visiting be
tween members of different organizations
was never more common than it is now.
Marriage Vp To Half.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Her name wa Mrs. Fanshaw when she
moved into the flat.
She was Mrs. William Bertram some six
months after that;
It appears that he and William could not
ffet alonp at all.
6o she married Mr. Fergus, and moved
across the hall.
In a little while they parted, and. becom
ing Mrs. Know,
She had her goods and chattels taken to
the floor below.
But be and she discovered that It wasn't
lasting love.
So, becoming Mrs. Triscott, she eecured
a flat above.
When she moved out of the building to
live on the boulevard
After being Mrs. Perkins she was Mrs.
"Mspenard :
And this happened two years after she had
moved Into the fiat.
But In these days such a record's not a
thing to marvel at.
serves his faculties at the age of SS. has
no health fad beyond striving to live up
to his precept that one should spend at
least ten minutes each day in the pres
ence of one who is his superior. Dr. Rob
ert Fletcher, the noted anthropologist, and
editor of the "Index Medicus." who, ar
though lie Is 83. I yesterday found at his
desk as hale and hearty and active of
mind as when I first began visiting him
14 years ngo, said that he had never
practiced any longevity fad beyond grad
ually eliminating what he found, in the
course of his years, to disagree with him.
When I asked him for some other in
formation, he disdained troubling his as-
THE ORIGINAL ELEVEN JOKES
?ISS AGNES REPPLIEIl, lecturing
I I on "The Mission of Humor," at the
Colony Club, New York, said she had
been informed that there were 11 orig
inal jokes in the world. . After she had.
said her allotted say, Joseph H. Choate
arose and, gallant as ever, remarked
that he was now sure there were 22
original jokes. Any man or woman
who produces 11 original Jokes in a
lecture is a world wonder. With all
due respect to Miss Reppller, we are
Inclined to think that Mr. Choate was
too- amiable and too receptive.
What are these 11 original, funda
mental, baste jokes, not made for a
parish, or an occasion, necessarily hu
man and universal? Look over the
comic weeklies from the beginning of
Punch and you will find the same lines
of humorous thought, endless repeti
tions of a fool-born jest, ponderous
elaboration of a trifle, changes of an
old Idea to suit time and place. The
old jest books Joe Miller's, and before
his. Poggilt and Bacon show how our
predecessors anticipated us. Plutarch's
"Morals" is full of jests and jocose an
ecdotes that are now fondly thought
contemporaneous. Turn to his "Apo
thegms or Remarkable Sayings of
Kings and Great Commanders," and
you will find this quip: A prating bar
ber asked Archelaus how" he would be
trimmed. Archelaus answered: "In
silence." Read "The Banquet of the
at a desk close by his own and.
with the elasticity of a man of 50. rose
quickly from his chair, walked briskly
and ae straight as a ram rod into the
adjoining room to get what I asked for.
Professor Otis Mason, the well-known
ethnologist, who is the happiest man In
scientific circles, confessed to a strict
reglman of life to v.'hich he attributes
his remarkable recovery from a stroke of
paralysis brought on by overwork ten
years ago, since when he has accom
plished his most noted scientific work.
This regimen includes deep and rhythmic
breathing, one breath to so many pulsa
tions of the heart; the drinking of water
five times a day, six Bwallows at a time,
and never at meals; eating but twice a
day, always "with attention, apprecia
tion and pleasure," and never swallow
ing a particle of solid food without sa
liva; bathing regularly In tepid water at
the body's own temperature and never
stimulating the skin with extreme tem
peratures: purifying himself with not
only fresh air but. quite as regularly
with the blue ray of the sun, "the vivify
ing element of health"; resting daily with
seven hours of sleep and one hour with
out sleep; exercising dally those muscles
not used In the routine of work; working
with the avoidance of all strain or fa
tigue; regarding all contentions among
his associates with a sense of humor and
exercising the patience to create as cor
rect a thought in the mind of a child
asking a foolish question as in that of a
scholar seeking the solution of a pro
found problem; dressing by the thermom
eter absolutely and not by the senses and
therefore not wearing a zero weather
shirt in a 90-degree room in Winter. Pro
fessor Mason added that ho varies his
outside garments rather than his under
clothing to differences in temperature and
thus keeps always at hand what he calls
his "70 coat," "80 coat" and "90 coat."
AViley Kats Meat Once a Day.
Dr. H. W. Wiley, father of the pure
food law, eats meat but once a day In
warm weather and eschews tobacco. He
has no other hobby beyond keeping eter
nally happy. "We will yet see profes
sorships of amusement In our colleges
and universities," he told me. "The rec
reations of men are of quite as much im
portance as their vocations. It is quite
as Important to know how to amuse
one's self as to have the leisure and op
portunity to do so.
The President is another nonsmoker.
He is also said to observe a diet for the
reduction of hU weight and to have con
sulted the Government dietary specialists
concerning it, but they are nonoommital
as to this. Among big men who, like
Mr. Wu, are teetotalers, are W. J. Bry
an. Vice-President Fairbanks. Senator
Bailey. General O. O. Howard and David
B. Hill. And on the list of those who,
like Edison, have given up drups for the
cure of diseawe, are Senator Clapp, Dr.
j. w. Fewkes. the noted archaeologist;
Charles Klein, the. playwright, author
Seven Wise Men," Englished by Roger
Davis, A. M., and there a sage is thus
reported: "In this mistake, however,
I'm much of the youth's mind who,
throwing a stone at a dog, hit his step
mother, adding: 'My throw is not lost,
however.' " But what do you not find
In Plutarch? The Rev. B. S. Lombard,
of London, who stated recently that
garrulity Is the cause of many nervous
diseases and the increasing amount of
insanity, might well consult Plutarch
on talkativeness. "The tautologizing
babbler," says Plutarch, "Is everywhere
drunk In the market place, at the
theater, in the public porticos, or deam
bulatories, as well by night as by
day."
The favorite jokes in this country
have been for years based on the mother-in-law,
the farmer and the Summer
boarder, the city boarding-house.
Spring cleaning (and the stovepipe
played an Important part), the greedy
goat. The mother-in-law was natural
ly the victim of the first jocose son-in-law,
while there could be no Joke about
the stovepipe before the existence of
the pipe. There is the cannibal mis
sionary joke that has done yeoman's
service, but it cannot be older than
the appearance of the first missionary.
What are the primeval 11 Jokes? One
of the oldest known to us begins "Old
Noah, he had three sons. Sheni. Ham
and Japheth." but there must have
been Jokes before the flood. What
were the 11 that were preserved In the
of "The Music Maftter": Richard Carle,
the comedian; Robert C. dowry, presi
dent of the Western ITnion Telegraph
Company, and Richard F. Outcault, comio
artist the creator of "Buster Brown."
and Howard Chandler Christy, the art
ist, all of whom are Christian Scientists.
Flctclierism's Founder a Cornarolst.
Horace Fletcher, founder of "Fletch
erism" and "Mentleulture," also author
and lecturer, is. like Senator Depew and
Edison, a disciple of Cornaro. He found
himself a physical wreck at ten years
before the age when the A'enetian cen
tenarian changed his mode of living, and
at this period had three chronic diseases,
no life insurance company being willing
to accept him as a risk. By eating and
drinking less than the ordinary person
would consider a bare sufficiency of life,
Mr. Fletcher says he had tso built him
self up Inside of five years that he was
able to cycle 200 miles in a day, at the
same time astounding the head of the
Yale gymnasium by taking with ease
the severe course of exercise prescribed
for the varsity crew. "Chew your food
not only your solid food, but milk, tea.
coffee, wine, soup anything that has
taete," is one of Mr. Fletcher's maxims.
Reduced His Food One-third.
Professor R. H. Chittenden, director of
the Sheffield Scientific School at Tale,
claims to have proven upon himself, and
later upon 13 soldiers and eteht athletes,
all doing active work, that the body sus
tains its weight and increases its vitality
upon one-third the proteid food generally
considered as necessary for the healthy
man and by proteid food is meant the
principal constituent of meat, milk and
eggs that which supplies nitrogen to
the body. On this diet he says he and
his subjects showed increased strength
and Improved responsiveness of mind,
while almost every man stored nitrogen
rather than lost it.
"The so-called cravings of appetite are
purely the result of habit," he says. "A
habit once acquired and persistently fol
lowed soon has us in its grip, and then
any deviation therefrom disturbs our
physiological equilibrium. Anyone with
a little persistence can change his habits
of life, change the whole order of crav
ings, thus demonstrating that the latter
are purely artificial, and that they have
no necessary connection with the wel
fare or needs of the body."
Eats Curdled Milk for Longevity.
But the very latest food tern which we
have imported is Metchnikoffism. The.
founder. Professor Elie Metchnikoff, of
the Pasteur Institute, Paris, lives strict
ly in accordance with his discovery and
eats curdled milk every day. as a regu
lar diet, in order to fill hiss Intestinal
canal with bacteria, which he .believes to
be the deadly enemies of the microbes
causing old age. This savant declares
that the average man ."should live 120
years, and he advocates cutting out the
large intestine, as a further means of
prolonging .life. Perhaps this latter ope
ration may become as fashionable among
us as that for the removal of the vermi
form appendix: but as yet there ha
been no bulletin from Professor Metch
nikoff announcing that he has had it per
formed upon himself.
Washington, D. C, June 2".
ark? No doubt the gag about the ele
phant bringing his trunk was coine.l
by some irreverent lookcr-on. who saw
In the embarkation only food for mirth.
Death by drowning was too good for
him. But what jokes did Noah and his
sons take with them for daily recrea
tion? We can be sure of only one the
mother-in-law Jest. Will not Miss Rep
plier tell .to the world the other 10.
Boston Herald.
The Mud of It.
TjOiiden Punch.
Some tragedies there are that teach
How powerle?s is human speech
To comfort or relieve
When at some sudden stroke of fate.
Hopelessly inarticulate.
In mute despair we grieve.
Bitter is unrequited love:
Grievous the split of new-bought glove;
Cruel the broKen gut
That lets the biggest fish go free;
The careless gulp of scalding tea;
The foosled six-inch putt;
The heavy hammer on the thumb.
But. though for some brief moments dumb
In accidents like these
The sufferer in time can turn
From thoughts that breathe to words that
burn
And And in language ease.
But. ah! no adjectives avail.
Verbs in all moods and tenses fall
To soothe such grief as mine.
Splashed, by a. hansom passing by.
With mud on collar, shirt and tie.
When driving out to dine.
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