Show 1 M 11 WM XA I 1 m cz nj THE I 1 WELDS 1 F BEST BE r WRITERS DO MEN EAT TOO prof CLIt crittenden has but been deadina before the national academy of eel 1 ances the much anticipated description of a series aeries of at exper losta recent ly conducted by the sheffield scientific school oc of yale to determine if the average human being Is not eating too much ills afIr matlon Is very important in these day days of 0 food trusts for be he still till persists that he average healthy man eats cats tom t om two to throe three timea times as much as ax hu ht needs to keep hm in p per er feel feet pairl ph rl and mental health and vigor rot chittendens experiments covered vered all classes of at men from tram tae the i ardest worked toiler toller to the col leso ego professor protes eor and lasted nearly k a year it was certainly the most complete test of at the question ever under taken there was A gradual reduction of at meat and foods with little in mease 1 la in starch and other foods in nearly all the teats and yet at the an ena of the experiments the entire lot of tren who had been experimented with were in the best beat of at health in some cases the weight and strength had actually increased while the dally daily con of food had been only from a half to a third aa as much as the aver ago age man cats WHY JAPS JAFS HAVE progressed the ease with which scientists en an gin gi cors naval and military experts have been produced in la japan proves that often the most abstract training Is the beat best preparation for or practical efficiency the cherry cherrystone stone carvers have been preparing to hold the lever lover and the trigger the pundits bae baie found the plotting of a campaign upon port arthur already accomplished in their ancestors charting of the cosmos and the soul 1 of man the japa nose nese have not bt en taught to despise anything siny thing aa as too andall or too great no allusion of racial superiority has fostered a faith that they can blunder luckily through all emergencies no superstitious respect for machinery has betrayed them thein into scorning the finest of all instruments the braind itself new york evening post AGAINST WAR AND FOR IT the real argument against war Is to not the sentimental one of suffering hardship loss joss of life lie etc it Is to the moral one that war with its vicious consequences of national debt burdensome taxation disordered finances relaxed kocul morals orala in should never bo be undertaken if it can pol possibly gibly be avoided that men are killed in war that dreadful wounds are obtained that hardship Is entered and domestic bereavement wrought Is 18 nothing such are as inseparable from war as sit prickly heat beat from the f almate of at the tropics or as at deadly cold from the arctic circle but that I 1 Is not the true argument for or against war for or against peace it is not a question at all of personal hardship or domestic bereavement it Is a ques tion of public justice or injustice A canton wanton war a war of conquest cin enn quest for mere brutal con conquests questa sake a war waged in the spirit that ahab took vineyard or david obtained wife Is a great crime but a just war a war for nation al preservation for the defense or en on largemont lar gement of human liberty Is more glorious than a years vears of ignoble chinese peace there ap are vices coincident with war but they are not more deplorable nor more than the cankers of a calm world and a long peace the march of civilize civi liza tion has proceeded at a chaining chai ging step stop following every great war the battles of marathon und salamis were tl the R turning points lo 10 ape tie civilization of mankind the greatest forced marches of mankind pinco pince marathon on the path to civil liberty and law have bean been wrought by great ware wars Gl gagante gante social jad civil abuses have perished beneath the sword portland oregonian Oreg onlan PERILS OF SELF DOCTORING large numbers of people in n pros berous circumstances die as an acx agen allans from maladies mi ladies which are evi dences of ceger and of tt prema tire ture senility while allo many jho pass page this period go oo 00 to jenter upon an eighth or ninth decade of life the former claas class comprise thaia who have lived without rest restraint mint bl ot their appetites and who have soc sought to allay some of the consequences bv by sait med citation while the latte latter class com prize those who have lived reasonably and who it if annoyed by imperfect digestion have sought relief by aban boning the errora from it prang lancet FREEMEN THE BEST FIGHTE S an english writer on military wt tyra take the ground that a republican or representative form of at government ts to not mot conducive to tho the beet best results when it comes to preparation for war and that tho the busin aaa ot at to be thoroughly successful should be managed by an autocracy but it la Is to be eared feared that this gallant soldier has aa studied history and especially recent history to little effect there no more autocratic power on an earth than russia and that country has not furnished a particularly ing example of readiness for war oi 01 effective military organization at 0 late japan on the other hand which if anything was as a little too ready for war has a representative government napoleon III sought to be as auto cratic as his more famous and much abler predecessor tho the first emperor of that name yet under napoleon III U ta french army administration as so 00 weak and rotten that it fell to pieces involving the nation in defeat disaster and humiliation as soon as us germany had bad a fair chance to at it autocracy never yet from the times of xerxes alexander and tho the caeilia to the present has been capable in and of at itself of creating that spirit tot of devotion and patriotism which make makes the truest national defense on the contrary those nations which nave have the moat most liberal governments ard the largest measure of freedom of at indi action hae hane shown themselves the and read readiest lest in war it sometimes takes longer to arouse them and it undoubtedly Is true teat trat they are not always as thoroughly prepared for as they might be taut in itself shows their preference for peace ns as against war dut but when the spur of necessity or patriot asin sui Is applied where can better light tight era be found than those who come for ward from the ranks of n tree free people and offer themselves to their country troy times TOURISTS AT THE BULL FIGHT men who at homo home are members of the S P C A yea oven even of the Y M C A come to mexico and demand to know wace tickets to the bull fights lights are to be hail bail it if it Is on sunday so much the better there Is a thrill of deviltry in smashing several commandments mand ments at once women go and fascinated sit through the successive acts of a drama ol 01 alood and pain does anyone mean to say ay that he would not attend a gladiatorial combat would not revel in seeing men p pitted bitted rii ainest wild a emals or that if christian science martyrs were thrown into a mexican arena to be devoured by wild beasts there would not be a crowd of most worthy tourists on the front seats human nature remains quite unaltered the passion for the bull fight on the part of the worthy orthy people who come hero here cery caery winter and spring Is proof enough that the old romans were no fuller of original sin in than the rest of us mexican herald THE FIRST SWIM OF THE YEAR the first s swim wim of the year Is without 0 ut a peer as a serious menace to health combined with acute personal suffering says james U L ford in les lies there always cornea comes a time early in may ilen three or four sue suc cerille cec alve das of warm weather civi gly a sudden impetus to the buds leaver ana anu grass and fill the school schoolboy bop s heart v ith a longing for the cool depth of the river that flows flown through the meadows half halt a mile from school and immediately after the hearty 2 dinner which aa as every physician knows I 1 a moat most niclous pi clous moment for hinga bat aa do i boye boys with towels stuck under their tickets may be seen leaving ne no school ground grounds in a furtive manner so sa not to attract the notice of the old man who Is known knowd to harbor certain old fashioned prejudices against swimming in the early spring when the water Is aa cold an ice fee and jand malaria lurks about the arter banks the te itt lit tie band of fun seekers s are also at pains to elude the bullies who might play dh agreeable brichs with their elo clothing thing an to bd to ther saturnalia of discomfort two or three unsuspecting small boys who are surprised pleased ani flattered by the invitation which one of us u will ever forget the ghastly misery of that early spring acim the icy ley coldness of th the water the oozing turf on which w wo undressed and left our el clothes othos the gusttof chill wind that swept doar river the sarp stones over which we walked and the awful coldness of the water that was spattered on our banks by 61 n merry comrade comrades |