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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 21, 1915 it;;::::!!! himih i ilia mmmmBm wmmm wmmm Must AMERICANS RECLINE at Meals AND THUS ESCAPE Nervous DISORDERS Which THREATEN Vitality of THE RACE? Famous Authority Points to Habits of Men of Rome as Proof That a Nation Must Avoid the "Quick Lunch" as It Would the Plague SHOULD we rest or exercise after meals? Rome was strong in Its early days; Home wan strong because Its digestion was good and lta digestion was good because it rested and took things easy during and after meals. Ergo Rome was strong becauseof its mealtime couches. Such la the opinion of Dr. Anna Dwyer. an eminent physician of Chicago. She Kays "Rome was temperate, virile, sensible in its youth. The things that made It pow erful were the same things that weakened It when abused. For instance, in the days of the republic, Romans exercised excel lent Judgment In their eating; they had the best of digestion, consequently they w ere . a happy, optimistic, energetic race. They gave their digestive "organs a chance to perform their functions. After a meal they rested on long couches .beside the tables, thereby gratifying the demands of nature and performing the acts which gave those delicate parts of the anatomy the full ability of their functioning powers. What Man Require. "The digestive system in man la so ar ranged that a 6hort period of relaxation, of complete restfulness Is required after a full meal baa been taken into it. Modern "quick-lunch" habits are sent directly agnlnst this law and are responsible for much of the . indigestion and, therefore, much of fnc worry and Irritability of the present-day races. "The Romans reclined during and after their meals. They stopped all their activities of body at this time; they spent the period In Joviality, in hearty enjoy ment of their food and of the companion ship of their guests. They ate slowly; they were In repose; they were contented. After dinner music played for them, sim ple food rested pleasantly within them. Some Modern Fallacies. "Their success in things governmental nnd executive should be a lesson to us to day, used as we are to believing fallacies, Delivers Live Stock by Motorcycle QUITK an unusual employment Is made of a motorcycle and side car by a Missouri farmer, who has converted the vehicle Into a quick delivery machine for carrying certain products to market. By securely fastening a crate over the rear wheel and placing another on the chassis of the side car, he Is able to trans port a considerable load w"ith dispatch and without particular difficulty. His country place Is more than thirty miles from 8t. Joseph, but with this delivery vnn be recently carried a calf and a dozen chickens to market and returned within a few hours' time. The Egg That Dances on Water AN EGO dancing on the water la an in teresting sight that will always attract the atfentlod of those who see It. But it is not every egg that will dance, though with care and patience any boy may glva an egg the necessary liveliness. Having selected a good sized hen's egg, we prick the shell at two points and blow or draw out the contents. Then, placing the shell aside to get perfectly dry Inside, we obtain a small quantltj of quicksilver half a teaspoonful. or even less, will be 'lufficleot N With care, so that none may be lost, we pour the quicksilver into the egg. having previously stopped up roe of the holes with sealing wax. Then, when the quicksilver Is al! Inside, we seal up the lecond bole, and whiten over the two small patches of sealing wax so that they appear part of the shell. All Is now ready for the performance- We place the egg on the surface of a large pool or pond, give it a push, and Immediately 1. begins to dance about Just a&jthough 4t were alive, and this action It keeps up. The explanation Is that the push, the wind, and the ripples give the eggshell a alight movement, which Is greatly In creased by the heavy quicksilver Inside continually trying to find lta own level. ' The result la that the motion continues. As a trick to be performed before others, everything depends upon - the aatural appearance of the egg. m m SL. M m & "" -V .".1 vv4 w.i- . 01 X r T 1. M'A .v.r'. iu .lfcb.'.'. .axa 5 1 V 4. w fi Mtl " i,iwirfrnt,nrnwr Alma Tadema's famous painting of a acene from a Roman repast. about haste and lightness In noonday meals, about vigorous walking after eat ing, about "settling our food" with exer cise. For fallacies these beliefs are. Brisk walks subsequent to the filling of the stomach delay digestion. They take the blood away from the digestive centers and hold up the processes that should pro ceed without hindrance. "The twenty minutes directly after the completion of a meal should be spent In rest. From thirty to forty minutes should be given to eating. Altogether an hour should be devoted to each meal. Why Rome Fell. "If twentieth century people would real lze the delicate adjustment necessary for health they would emulate much of the manner of Romans. "The decay of Rome in later years bears out this theory of its dietary wisdom, for when the mealtime rest hours were given over to sensualism and Racchanalian rev elries the benefits of the rest period were first neutralized, then ruined. Mare repose could not atone for the injuries of Intem perance. The Romans, t so long aa they were hardy, enterprising workers toward Motorcycle used as delivery cart for live atock. Why French Flag Has Unequal Stripes IT IS not generally known that the three strips of color thjit make up the French national flag are not equal In width. When the tri-color was first authorized, 1792, the positions and proportions of the three colors were not stated, and such a variety of flags was seen that two years later the National Assembly declared that the na tional standard should be formed of "the three national colors In equal bands placed vertically, the hoist being bluer the middle white, and the fly red." For years the flag was made Id this way, but though the bands were equal, they never looked equal owing to an op tical illusion, the blue, appearing wider than the white, and the white wider than the red. A.t tast, after many experiments. It was officially decided that In every hundred parts the blue nhould be thirty, white thirty-three, and .red thirty -seven. ti at. f ' - .-.-". The rush of the modern American the ideal of citizenship, were restrained and most careful. They preserved them selves from bestiality. Sensual images are not driven from the mind except by Ideals that lie beyond the intellect. The Roman had for his highest ideal citizen ship and as quick as he had this realized he began to. neglect the rigorous care of his Device Prevents A NOT unusual catastrophe occurs when freshly boiled eggs are taken from the hot water, and a device that overcomes this danger, according to Technical World, may be made of a wire bent to give a spring, and looped at each end. Angular, bends between the looped ends and the spring serve as "finger holds." by which the device Is easily operated. An egg may -be readily grasped In the loops and safely lifted from the boiling water, or may be dropped in for cooking. Fourteen Words Save German' Fleet w: E HAVE a saying tha,t speech Is sdlvern. but silence is golden. There Is now an exception to the rtile. Some years ago it was proposed to establish a chain of British wireless stations round the world, but It was not done. The Ger mans did. and the result Is Interesting. Great Britian declared war on Germany at midnight on August 4, 1814. Seven hours earlier, at five o'clock in the after noon. Germany sent out a message to all its wireless stations. Each station had a radius of 2,000 miles, and each In turn flung this message forh to German ships out at sea, "War declared on England. Make aa quickly aa you fan for a neutral port." Only fourteen words, and fewer still in code, but It was enough to save Germany the bulk of her merchant fleet The ships saved were an enormous number. St 7 fi " 4-- 57- ya. who gives scant time to his meals. body and health. Rome decayed because the leisure hours after dinner were devoted to orgies and drunkenness. "Their physical fitness lost the excel lence which generations of strong self-control In all things had bestowed upon them. Licentiousness guided their minds away from their rules of eating, anti they be- Egg Breaking The little wire tongs save danger of letting eggs drop because of heat. Egg Flip as Snake Bite Antidote INDIA'S annual loss of oyer 20,000 lives from snake bite has forced the produc tion of an antidote serum. The Parel Laboratory. Bombay, keeps a supply of icobras from which venom is extracted every ten days. The snakes are forcibly fed with egg flip through a tube. The venom is dried over lima and then die solved In a salt solution. Increaslug dosea are injected in a borse until at the end of two years the animal can stand a dose 200 times tb original one and is quite Immune from the cobra .poison. 6 V Vs. . 1 M."'tlN Dfl came gormandizers, Indulging themselves in every imaginable manner. "Our lunches should be more substan tial meals.. People who eat a well-rounded midday meal do not break down so quickly as those who eat lightly. Going without lunch Is a bad habit, leading to physical deterioration. The old-fashioned custom of a light supper at night was much bet ter than the modern system of a heavy meal at that time. Why Barber Gives Better Shave 'HETHER you seeure a close shave without enduring a feeling of raw ness and soreness to the skin of the face depends upon the angle at which yon hold your razor, according to a well-known ex pert. Often It Is said that no man can secure as satisfactory a shave at his own banda as he will be given by a barber. That this is not the case but that the reverae would be mora properly true is the claim of man ufacturers of razors of various designs. It is pointed out that all cutting uten sils must of necessity hav a sawlike edga and that any object la more readily cut by drawing the blade across It in a diagonal stroke than by a straight attack. Barbers understand this secret well and sometimes illustrate it by tapping their tongues with a razor blade. That the tongue ia not cut is due to the fact that the blade meets it at right angles. Were the blade to move a degree to the right or left at the time it struck the tongue the latter would be lacerated. It is because the barber moves his razor blade In a diagonal stroke, namely, downward and to the aide at the same Artificial Rays T (HE intense beat, equal to that of the sun, which has been recently ob tained by Dr. Lommer, a well-known European scientist, has opened up new possibilities In the world of lighting, nota bly in producing by artificial means a light exactly like Ibat -of the sun. If yon were to look at the sun through a spectroscope yon would see the white light split up into all the colors of the rain bow violet, blue, green, yellow, orange and red. By means of a new instrument the relative brightness of these colors can be measured, and when, for instance, elec tric light is meaaured in this way it is al ways found that there is much more red and green, compared with violet and blue, than in sunlight. The new arc lamp Invented by Dr. Lum mer, however, gives a light very nearly Identical with sunlight, because it is so much hotter than anything produced be fore If you hold a poker In the fire it grad ually becomes redhot; later it may glow almost with a yellow beat. If you burn .up a piece of Iron wire by passing an in tense electric current through it, it burns with a brilliant ' white heat. In other words, the hotter a piece of metal Is made the whiter it becomes. The carbon pencils of an electric lamp were found by Dr. Lummer to become so intensely hot that the carbon in the neighborhood of the arc actually melted into vapor In fact, . It boiled. Now, if water were boiled in a kettle with no lid or spout, it would only boll at a much higher temperature than usual. So, In order to get more beat. Dr. .Lom mer placed his arc lamp in a sealed cham ber, and, further, compressed the air ia France Imports Snails to War on Vineyard Pests HEALTHY, free-living creature la i common or unclean in a naturalists eyes, and to apply the word to a snail gliding along with ita horns out and Its bouse on its. back Is mere prejudice. At the same time It has to be admitted that snaila do a great deal of damage in fields and gardens, and would do much more If it were not for their enemlea, such as birds and hedgehogs. In this connection some Interesting ob servations have been made on the ex traordinary appetite for snails and slugs exhibited by a Mexican snail with a shell about two Inches long, which a naturalist has been trying for four years to accli matize in France. The point is that it seems to have aa extraordinary keen liking for verytbing In the snail line of life. It was tried with salad and fruit on the one band, and with minced meat of various kinds on the other, but It would have none of them. Snails and slugs, however, It devoured with avidity. A watersnall occupied ita attention for about ten minutes; the com mon garden snail, with its strong, muscu lar, creeping sole, took longer. In seven teen days five of these snail-eating snails scientifically known as Glandlnas ac counted for 109 snails, and one hungry Individual was seen to eat a dozen vine yard snails in twenty-four hours. It must be noted, however, that there were usually long Intervals between meals, and that one garden snail every two or three days was generally enough. In mos cases the Glandlna grips its victim before the victim has time to draw its body into the shelter of the shell, but it Is also abla to deal with a snail that has drawn Itself in, for it cpntrlvea to break down the doorway of the shell. Razor, when held at an angle and moved downward, performs ita work most effectively. time, that be does not "pull" at the hair and cause Irritation which is felt for some hoars. to Rival Sunlight this chamber until it became difficult for the carbon pencils to boll at the points of the flame. They did ao, however, but at an exceedingly high temperature, and the result waa that the arc light waa as white as sunlight, aa well aa being more power ful than any are lamp In existence. May Use Ice As Gun Foundation A PROPOSITION was advanced some years ago that a temporary repair should be made J a vessel holed below water line by forming around and thickly over the hole a block of frozen sea water by means of refrigerating engines and a cum bar of email copper pipes traversing the collision mat. "Mty I further suggest, says an au thority, "the use of a similar method of extemporizing gun emplacements In this war? Take the case of the amphibious fighting at the Dardanelles. Monitors of light draft have to be run close inshore, and they might be fixed in position by dumping large quantities of cement and rubble. But this method of stabilizing the monitor permanently on the rocks' would sacrifice the vital advantage of changing position. If the monitor were simply fiozen Into sand or other loose bottom then by introducing steam to the Copper tubing it could be released when desired. Taking the net cost of lcemaklng by electric trans mission of power from a refrigerating ship that is, a converted collier at 50 cents per ton, 500 would pay the price for 1,000 tons of Ice ballast anchorage. The system might even find application on land.
