THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 21, 1915
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.