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About Klamath republican. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1896-1914 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 16, 1913)
CALIFORNIA FARMER SECTION 13 EDUCATIONAL WARNING AGAINST NON 8CIENTI FIC SYSTEMS. Tie* If they prefer It. son.«' and valuable. Both are whole- Th* Humin Race Ha* Burvtv*d. Any Chang* Beneficial. ' In many . u*. si people on beginning a radically new diet, win tin r It lia* direct curative value or not, gain or think they gain a benefit. Any marked < hange in diet or cooking would produce the same effe«,l, b< cauae enunge It*« If i* often a benefit. Tin- man or aoinun un<|ertake* tin new •lil t feeling lonvlti. <■! that It will help aorne real or fancied ailment, and <x- pecta rioiilla no atrungly that tmaxli. i lion supplies them. Homo of the cam-. *” benefit« «j are «Imply transient forma of digeatlvo disturbance M<>st of th. »., feeling» of discomfort quick ly l1**»» hy thenw.clvca, If we do not dwell upon lh< m and worry about them; but if the iK-rson trie» a n< w diet, h<- la very apt to attribute all Im provement to that dl«t. whether It haa any direct bearing on the cage or not In ram a of a. rloua digestive disturb- an. ■•», stiff. rrra should consult a ph' »1. Ian of know ability and known etandlrig in their community. To ant mil am h cunea for treatment l.y mall 1» us foolish aa It would he for a man having a complicated and highly spe cialised business trouble to ask aom. ■ >iu who liad never seen his factory, and knew nothing about the bualneaa • xi.pt the .lata he could supply In »■» vv.r Io a set of qucallona, to supply him with a positive remedy at long distance. Much Of the ad Vice on diet Which haa pu*«cd from Individual to indi vidual, and much of the supposed ». lentlflc adv lea n».w b.-lng s«dd for a price by some of the fo.»l adviser*, 1« really little more than folk lore. A great many of the statement«« which ar.* u»e<| aa arguments by th*, expert* for their diet» have been triu'ed by the Government spe<*tallata, and found to come from work* on dl< t written *■> long ago aa to be no longer consider*«! of value except to the »tudent of the l. latory of dietetic*, or else they have been separated from qualifying alate- menta which would make the Interpr* - tatlon given them by the commercial u-< r* wholly unwarranted Stop Worrying About Your Body. ‘These circulars of misinformation al»>ut diet find th.lr prey prim ipally among people win. are always fancying that they have some complnltit If p.-ople remain In good physical <ondl- lion year after year, and observe no marked change In weight, seem in good health and spirits and ore rating any simple and normal mixed diet, they huve no need to worry about llielr food ■’People .an aspect to !«• lighter In weight in summer than in winter A* n person grows older hr should be gin to < ut down the amount he rats, mid depend on a I«*«« complex ami -Implrr diet. It Is often «aid that when a |a.r».qi passe* forty, he t.<glu» to need a different diet. The reason given Is that he dots, not ewer« Ise so < tierg. II. ally s» hr did, anti con*, fluently does not nerd th.- »aim amount and kind of food that was required to keep up hl* energy for more active phvrlral work If you like raw food Iwtter than any thing rise, eat It If you llkr bread and milk twice a dny, rat it. The main thing, ns one grow* older, is tu eat In moderation and then, a» always, to see that what you eat I* • lean and that the cooked food you eat I* originally In good condition and that It Is well cooked. If you cat raw v.geliible* and fruit* and ruw milk, take precautions to see that they sr< .lean before they enter your sy»t«in. If something really disagree» with you, and the fault lie»’ actually with th< nr tl.le rather than with the method by which It has be« n kept or < ook. d, «top .utIng that kind of food. If you «x- .< rlrnce serious discomfort which per- ■lata, consult the best physician you un discover. "As a general proposition, be wary of iw.iplr who offer to give you advice • r to cure you without ever se« Ing you. iTnnlly. bear In mind that each human body has Individual! characteristics, and that n diet which admirably stilb- .•no man who lives In a certain location ..ml does a certain kind of work may m. t be adapted to another Individual living In a different climate and doing a different klml of work. "No advice Is better than th. old Moderation In all things’.” "In the case of the people who decry IH.IIshed rice, most of them base their assumption that Americans ought not to eat It, on Investigations mad.« in oriental countries where rice forms one of tin» chief staples of a vsrv limited diet, and practically the only alar h.v food. People who live mainly on ric. might bo expected to need cert tin el. - menta that are In the part of the rice that Is polished off. Anieri. ans d» not live on A diet limited to rice; there is, therefore, no logical reason why th. v should not ent polished rice If they like it; or should not uno the unpolished "If th. deductions of many food fad dist* accepted as facts were really operative. It would be difficult to ex plain liow the human race had sur- vlv« <1 Th<> rm < should have expired very soon after num hud progressed enough in Intelligence to begin to ex er. Is«' any chop <■ In Ids diet and to cook his food, The contrary holds tru", ,ui civilisation has advanced from the time when man begun to cook and otherw ise pr< pare hl* food. Th* Danger of Curst.v* Treatment by Ma.I. Many of th. people who offer dlet- • ti advice for sale undertake to rec ommend a diet thut will cure disease* without ev.-r seeing th«' patient The average man talking «bout his own Ul in »«<•» frequently lii aginea symptoms, or ili«< rib« » th. ni »■> Inaccurately that they are not absojutn guides to the physician In many cases. Incipient se rious ailments or al troubles w hl. h give no Indl.ntlon of their presence by |»>lti <>r discomfort, are discover«-«! I.y th>- physician In Ills laboratory, ami relief can be given them which could m t tx |.r»mls.'<i Inter. Very few people Imb • <1 would 1.« able to describe their symtoni* In words »o accurately that the ons.-lenti' - physl.lan would feel »ate In making .« positive diagnosis or laving down a method of treatment. Many of the-, seller* of food Informa tion. however, undritak«- to diagnose trouble and advise * complete remedy purely on the patient's own descrip tion of what h< believes is a serious condition. MUNICIPAL MARKET AND SCHOOL GARDENS. Ilv Howard C Kegley. After falling In numerous attempts to promote the idea the pe«.ple of Plesa- den* are about to «stubltsh u munlcl- l«l market The <’|ty Commissioners have dr< lured that financial reasons make it Imfx.saible for the municipal ity to p i h i-. ,. suits! I<- sit* for such a market, but they have expressed their rath.r II. in repel those participating one summer )3(»00 was thus paid for In the exert ises. student labor. The boys have r< paired 2. It contribute» to th» high moral roofs, laid cement floors, built brick willlngti«*« to co-operate with the women of the Khnkcsp«are Club to the standing by affording convenient and walls, and Installed plumbing fixtures. extent of making a publl« murk -t pos- ugl.-cable society for old and young The gymnasium to be erected by th* in which the highest standard of mo boys is from plans drawn by »eniors slble. Always in. lined to take hold of rality la maintained, thereby prevent in the high school. things ami carry them through suc ing asao. hition of its member» In so CALIFORNIA'S NEW AGRICULTUR cessfully after others have attempted ciety of th«- opposite iiatur.. 1. It contribute* to the happiness of and f»ll«-«l. th* Shukeepearc Club has AL HALL. taken a firn- bold upon th» municipal the home by the mental recreation af forded all members of the family In mark, t idea and purposes to make It By If. A. Crafts. the various grange gatherings attend a reality. Aa the matter no* stand*. If the ed. thereby broadening their mental One of th* most b«*autlful buildings women, who are all prominent socially, vision and Increasing their happiness, to he recently erected on the Pacific suc«-eed In renting or securing free of which is sure to be reflected in their Coast |s the new' agricultural hall of home life. < barge a suitable vacant lot upon which 4. It contributes to the material the College of Agriculture. University a public market can tie established, prosperity by Its discussion of all of California, at Berkeley. This build th.- City •‘ommissloners will be willing matters of lm|iortancc tending to local ing Is ICO feet long and CO feet wide, to assist in making the place sanitary, development, and often Is instrumental having a swell front, or rotunda, 40 and will provide suitable legislation to In securing the establishment of in govern It. dustries that give added population us feet wide. In recent years gardening has been It has a foundation of concrete and well as taxable property, thereby In taught in the public schools of Pasa reinforced directly aiding every taxpayer In walla of steel frame and dena, and now < harlotte M Honk, su concrete, veneered with tooled whit* town. pervisor of Burdening In the Elemen 5. It contributes to the general In granite. Its floors arc of concrete, and tary K. hool* of Pasadena, ha* a plan telligent e of the Inhabitants by Its its wood finish is of oak. The floors whereby she h..|a*a to create a place frequent discussion of questions of a of all of the offices are covered with at the proposed municipal market for public nature and by the educating quarter-inch battleship linoleum. Situated on the first floor of the the cr< p» of vegetables grown by the Influence of other exercise.«, resulting pupils, in mental development and a more hail is the museum, in the center; di- general auditorium, I’usadena * school garden.» arc said to intelligent citizenship, which is an up r«*clora’ rooms, horticultural and vitlcultural laborato be ahead of any of their kind In the lifting force In any community. Southwest. The children have gained 6. It «-ontributes to the general wel- ries and office of the superintendent »Ide practical experience In bringing far«' by dissipating neighborhood quar of farmers' Institutes. On the second fl.ior are situated a their individual plots of ground to a rels, by breaking up long-standing high state of productiveness, and It feuds caused by church, school, or so lecture room, 30x40 feet, entomological pathological laboratories, Is now propost'd to afford them greater ciety troubles, by promoting better and plant experience and at the same time pro roads, better schools, and better farm and professors' offices. In th«- basement are also professors’ vide them with some well-earned ing. by stimulating more Interest In laboratories, document and spending money, l>y th«1 establishment public affairs, resulting In the election offices, mailing room. of school-gardener stalls at the pro of better men to office and better en In the attic are 30 rooms, ini lading jected municipal market. The Idea la forcement of law as well as the better dark rooms for photography, offices meant to include both Grammar and transaction of the public business of for the departments of irrigation and High schools towns, counties and states. plant pathology, store room«, etc. 7. A subordinate grange contrib The Instructions at the schools last The building stands in the northwest year encouraged many pupils to the utes In these ways to the upbuilding corner of the college experimental extent that they made garden* at their of a rural community by making it a grounds, facing eastward. Amid the home* this year, nearly all of which more desirable place lu which to live dark green foliage of the surrounding and making Its citizens more intelli have been successfully maintained groves the agricultural hull presents more prosperous, and more Miss Hoak Is authority for the state gent, a very beautiful appearance. ment that her pupils will participate in happy. --------------- «♦« i he planting of trees along the ocean- I Every community should have a to-<>cean highway, and assist In beau PRACTICAL SCHOOL WORK IN A farmers' club. The grange, doubtless. MICHIGAN TOWN. tifying the school grounds. Already Is th«- best and most permanent form a large lathhouse has been erected at of farmers’ organisation yet devised. Boys In the Ishpeming. Mich., high The grange haa accomplished «!.•• school gardens and filled with great young Arizona ash. school, repair the school building» for things for rural communities all over pay, conduct n co-operative school farm the country and Is »till after other re VALUE OF A GRANGE. forms Only thus can farmers hope for profit. lUid ar«- about to erect a to exercise any weight or Influence HI’llt »III »INATE grange Is the gymnasium for their achool In the same that will enable them to hold their own most practical and most natural businesslike way they have learned to In th • face of the Intense competition that characterise« this commercial means of promoting all the in do other things for themselves and age. Individualism puts the on* the community. All this work is terests of a rural community ever con- against the many. Only by orgimf«a- under the direct supervision of the c. |ved in the history of the world for tion ran farmers hope to come Int® regular school authorities. For the their own. Little local clubs, good tn the following reason*: 1. It contributes to the social life past six years High School students themselves, are not sufhclent. Too by -trequent regular meeting* in which from the Manual Training Department often they are encouraged as a pallia« the art of sociability is *o agreeably have been employed to repair the va tive because they are harmless.—Da During kota Farmer. and Informally tuught as to fascinate rious city school buildings. A
