CALIFORNIA FARMER SECTION
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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.
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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.
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