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nOME AND FAR!! MAGAZINE SECTION
Notes on Health
TBE QUESTION OF PIET.
0'E of the hardest things for any
of ns to understand is that what
is good for our neighbor may be very
bad for us. One man violates every
tenet of dietetics and is perfectly
healthy; his neighbor follows every
dietetic rule religiously and Is a
chronic sufferer from dyspepsia. Both
these cases represent extreme ex
amples. But they illustrate how dif
ficult it is to draw correct general
conclusions from individual cases.
However, some facts about diet
are established beyond contention.
For example, every child at puberty
requires a high protein (meat) dUt
for physiological reasons. But later
in life, if sedentary -habits are ac
quired, large quantities of meat are
not essential, and may be positively
harmful in certain conditions. Men
who are doing hard physical labor
require meat, or some suitable pro
tein substitute.
For several years the efficiency of
the Japanese soldier, who was sup
posed to live on vegetables, was a
great comfort to vegetarians. But
after the Russian-Japanese war it de
veloped that the little men who bested
the big Russians were not vegetarians
at all. On the contrary It was shown
from official sources that in propor
tion to body weight the Japanese sail
ors were given a larger meat ration
than the. British tars; and the Jap
anese soldier "had a more abundant
protein diet than any other army in
the field has ever enjoyed."
Nevertheless, the dispute about rel
ative foodvalues goes merrily on,
largely because certain persons who
have something to sell keep it going.
A recent experiment from the oppos
ing camp, however, gives some idea
of what a poorly-balanced ration will
do to rats. Professor Slonaker has
completed some tests made with white
rats of the same parentage and age,
part of which were fed a mixed diet,
including meat, and the remainder
fed on an exclusively vegetable diet.
The experiments are of some value,
because the Tat eats the same kind of
food as man when he can get It.
"The rats were placed in rotary
cages to which speedometers were at
tached," runs the report. "There
was an extraordinary discrepancy In
the amount of work performed by the
meat-fed and, the vegetarian rats. The
meat eaters showed an average ration
of efficiency actually seven and a half
times as great as that of their vegeta
rian cousins.
"This discrepancy Is so great as to
seem to prove almost too much. But
the facts gain a new semblance of
validity when we are assured that
the difference in Inactivity did not
become to any considerable extent
noticeable until after the lapse of
two or three months. Taking the
figures for what they are worth, it Is
recorded that at the end of 25 months
the meat-eating female had a speed
ometer record of 5477 miles as
against 447 miles of the vegetarian
female. Meanwhile, the meat-eating
male rat had run 1447 miles, whereas
the vegetarian male had run only 200
miles."
Cheap Smoked Glasses.
First-class optical goods and first
class work in adjusting glasses can
not be purchased at cheap rates. You
may be sure that if you are getting
more than a moderate reduction from
standard prices it is because work
manship or materials, or both, are In
ferior. This applies not only to or
dinary glasses, but also and particu
larly to smoked glasses. The cheap
grades of smoked glasses are not
ground, but blown, and have the In
evitable imperfections of blown glass.
They should be carefully avoided, as
their use may cause injury to the
eyes.
Colic.
In the simple colic, the patient usu
ally moves about restlessly and tries
first one position and then another In
order to gain relief. If, on the other
hand, the pain is caused by some
grave organic trouble, or if there Is
real intestinal obstruction or periton
itis, the patient can hardly keep still
enough. The expression of the face
Is also a guide to diagnosis. The ex
pression in simple colic may be agon
ized, but It Is a very different thing
from the pinched and anxious pallor
that accompanies serious abdominal
troubles.
Fresh air in Winter is just as Im
portant as fresh air in Summer and
is harder to get. It is perfectly
proper to have a warm house, public
auditorium or school room, but they
should be frequently alrod by open
ing the windows and doors.
and Sanitation
CHEKSE AS MUSCLE BOLDER.
p HEESE is ..bargain food, so to
V speak," says a recent writer;
"for at 25 cents a pound it yields
a much greater return than beef at
15. An ounce of cheese, roughly
estimated, is equal to about two
ounces of meat in fuel value, or
yields nearly twice as many calories."
But this isn't the only reason why
cheese U a "bargain food" at least
in certain conditions Jt so happens
that, while it contains all the food
values possessed by meat, it lacks tha
so-called purin bodies (bases) which
are believed to be peculiarly harmful
in certain coaditlong, such, as chronic
rheumatism, hardening of the ar
teries (arteriosclerosis) and some
nervous diseases. Persons past mid
dle life who are afflicted with any of
these conditions, therefore, will do
well to remember the cheese bargain
counter in their health-marketing
trips.
There Is an impression which seems
to be almost universal that cheese ts
Indigestible and constipating. Ex
haustive experiments have abundantly
proven that this impression is wrong
on both counts. And It seems to
make very little difference whether
the cheese is cooked or uncooked, or
which one of the 158 kinds of cheese
Is used. Cheese seems to be cheese in
Its effects, whether it happens to be
the white, creamy kind made in the
kitchen, or the hoary old Gorgontola,
made in some very poorly-ventilated
inclosure, one would judge.
The Department of Agriculture has
just- completed some investigations
about cheese, with the following re
sults: Ninety per cent of the nitrogenous
material of the cheese (our American
factory cheese was used) is digested.
Ninety per cent of the energy it sup
plied is available. Cheese does not
cause constipation or other digestive
disturbances. Cheese protein seems
to be digested by the ferments of the
intestines rather than those of He
stomach. Cheese does not materially
differ in difficulty of digestion from
the 6ame comparative amount of
meat.
The Hookworm In California.
Most people are not aware that
California, like the South, pays toli
to the hookworm. "A single Cali
fornia mine employing over 500 men
Is estimated to have lost 20 per cent
of the wages paid, or $20,000 a year,
because it has to carry on the pay roll
a large body of men to replace those
periodically unable to work because
of hookworm anemia," says the Jour
nal of the American Medical Asso
ciation. A peculiarity of this disease Is its
gradual, insidious onset. It may take
months before symptoms become pro
nounced; but. given time enough, the
victims all succumb become pale,
puny, shiftless and languid, unable to
exert themselves, and robbed of their
mental alertness as well as their vi
tality. The disease Is caused by little
worms about one-third of an inch
long which InTest the intestine, where
the females deposit from 1200 to
1500 eggs daily. These eggs are ex
pelled unhatched from the Intestinal
tract. But when they are brought In
contact with warm, moist soli, they
hatch Into larvae'of microscopic size
which cling to blades of grass, leaves
or any convenient object.
When these larvae find their way
Into the alimentary canal, they de
velop Into full-fledged hookworms,
set up business for themselves, and
begin producing their daily quota of
eggs and taking their toll of nourish
ment from their victims. It Is this
sapping of the victim's vitality that
produces the symptoms.
To Overcome Fnlntnrss.
The feeling of faintness; or actual
fainting, Is often prevented by placing
the patient In a recumbent position.
When it is not convenient to do this,
It Is a common practice to have the
patient lean as far back as possible
in a semi-recumbent position. A much
more effectual way, however, is just
the reverse of this position have the
patient bend over and "put his head
In his lap." This position not only
relieves raininess more effectually,
but more quickly, than the seml-re-cumbent
position.
Notes on Sanitation,
It Is interesting to know that 65
degrees Fahrenheit under the proper
conditions, we can obtain a 40 per
cent relative humidity, which is the
natural standard for habitations.
' Be sure and have baby's birth re
corded. Much may depend upon it in
later years. For instance, the right
of entrance to school, the right of
voting, the right of employment and
property. rights, such as inheritances,
bequests under wills, etc., depend
upon an official registry of birth. Do
It now if you have neglected It.
Playgrounds are as - essential as
classrooms in a properly equipped
system of education. Children must
have outdoor exercise to insure bod
ily health and vigor.
Everyone knows the terrors of the
present war, but does everyone know
the terrors of preventable disease?
Alcohol does not preserve health,
although it is a preservative.
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Clean streets and clean back yards
necessarily mean clean citizens.
The Bridge af Dream.
Over the dark and cruel stream that
motherhood must cross
A Bridge of Dreams has flung its glis
tening spans,
And they who pass, with light hearts
journey on,
Whispering to eager ears a wondrout
tale.
In all the corners of the earth pale
women hear;
Their sad eyes shine; the tidings seem
too marvelous
Too great the miracle yet they believe,
And start with slow painful steps
upon their pilgrimage.
The river's roar sounds closer and
more terrible.
With faltering feet they near the
bridge's gate
When, lol upon them falls the Twilight
Sleep of rest,
A peace of foating cloud and Summer
sea,
A world where Care Is not, and Tain
unknown ..."
And thent he river lies behind! Qud's
greatest gift,
So loved, so feared, rests in their
circling arms.
Unwittingly, the dreaded crossing has
been made!
Ethel H. Wolff, In New Tork Times.
Dwarf Essex Rape.
This Is one of the best "catch
crops" for hog pasture. In dry land
districts It must be sown as early In
the Spring as oats, or in the Fall
after the hot weather is passed. When
Dwarf Essex rape is sown early it
will get a good start and Is a fair
drought resister. Sown in May or
June, midsummer droughts are likely
to kili it. It may be sown about the
middle Of September If the ground
Is moist and then will usually make
good hog pasture until January 1. It
withstands hard frosts and I have
seen it alive and fresh in Colorado
under a light Bnow.
Drill in rows two or throe feet
apart, using three to five pounds of
seed an acre, and cultivate thorough
ly until a vigorous growth Is secured.
Prof. O. M. Moms, of the agricul
tural college at Pullman, Washing
ton, sayB that the way to stop the
spread of fire blight is to stop water
ing the trees.
Walnuts Are Dollars
They are now selling for tha
highest price ever known and have
trebled In value in sixteen years.
We sold our first crop of 1200 pounds
of grafted Vrootnan Franquetten,
from oar ten -acre, sIk - year -old
orchard, at an average, of 2 So per
pound. This grade was 98 per cent
of the crop, and we sold the 2 per
cent of culls at 15c.
Do you know that these nuts sold
for more apiece than average ap
ples and weighed only orie.flf teonth
as much? We have trees for sRle
grown from the scions cut from this
orchard that have first-class roots
as well as top.
Do you know that we have a
seventeen-year-old orchard here In
tha Northwest that netted $500 per
acre last year?
Writs for prices and booklet on
walnut culture.
Ferd Groner & McClure
IMianoro, Oregon.
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