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Show THE 14 FASHIONABLE TREND TOWARD TUBERCULOSIS That dieting by the route will increase among young women, tion made by a well York fashion authority, cigarette tuberculosis is the asser- known New who protests on mere slenderness. She is supported by a state- against over-emphas- is ment from the American Medical Association, which urges: The human appetite is a delicate mechanism, and the atempt to thwart or destroy it b3r the regular use of tabacco is essen- tially vicious. Fashions present ideal for women, according to its New York spokesmen, is for an athletic, well-kn- it figure, and this can be attaained in its perfection only by a normal healthy diet and a program of outdoor exercise which will insure against superfluous fat. Good carriage in woman, according to this authority, is the supreme demand of fashion, and this is secured by a physical development in which perfect coordination has been built up through food and exercise. The American Medical Association, in analyzing the present demands of fashion for a better physique, says: American womanhood has passed during the last five years, through one of those periodic crazes that have afflicted womankind since the world began. Women cultivated svlph-lik- e figures, dieted themselves to the point of destruction, and tuberculosis rates, p a r t i c u la r 1 y for young girls, rose in many communiThis time has passed thanks ties. to various educational channels m which have been successfully used to counteract what promised to be from the health angle a dangerous situation. The claims of certain tobacco interests attempting to revive the dietfashionable craze for ing are stamped by the medical asill-advis- sociation as Hooey. ed CITIZEN CONTROL OF WATER SUPPLIES 9 The value of the crops which were raised on the irrigated lands of the United States last year was over These desert regions $72,000,000. were made to bloom because they were supplied with moisture. In the great irrigation projects of the west the rivers are not allowed to waste by flooding their banks in the spring, but the waters are held in vast reservoirs so that they may be supplied to the crops through the irrigation ditches during the season when there is no rain fall. The dams which have been built across the rivers to form these storage basins have been constructed after tons of explosives have prepared their foundations and after tons of dynamite have quarried the stone to be used in their masonry. When Boulder Dam is built dvna-mitwill be one of the first necessities on the project, but it will be required to furnish a constant supply of stone for its cement. According e to some proposed plans the volume of water to be stored will be of sufficient quantity to cover an area as large as the District of Columbia to a walled liieght nearly as great as that of the Washington Monument. In such a project the colossal dam will extend 700 feet or to a depth of 150 feet below the river and to height of over 550 feet. Well we will have some good can come everything. Our office going to quit smoking cause it is getting too to admit that out of most boy says he is cigarettes be- effeminate. In 1812 Christopher Co wen erected the first rolling-mi- ll at Pittsburgh, Pa. The first steamboat built at Cincinnati was lauched in 1816. She was named the Vesta. SCENE IN BRYCE CANYON Odds and Ends firo n Here and There To avoid losses among the spring pig crop, plan to follow the system of swine sanitation developed by the Bureau of Animal Industry of the LT. S. Department of Agriculture. Brieflv, the svstem is this: A few days before farrowing, clean the farrowing quarters thoroughly and scrub them with boiling water, adding 1 pound of lye to each 30 gallons; brush all loose litter and mud from the sowss sides, wash the udders well with warm water and soap, and put the sows in the clean farrowing pens; confine the sows and pigs to the farrowing pens for two weeks and then move them to clean pasture, hauling not driving them to the pasture, and do not let the young pigs go back to the permanent lot until at least 4 months old. Muskrat raising has the advantages over the production of most animals in that other muskrats feed and breed when left to themselves, and all the owner of a marshland has to do is to maintain an attitude of watchful waiting until the trapping season. Muskrat fur is increasing in popularity, and muskrat raising should receive consideration in any agricultural plan of land utilization, according to the Biological Survey of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Marshes provide the food; the muskrats take care of themselves and, being prolific, will produce enough young for fur-beari- ng the trapping season. If sweet clover is planted in BRYCE CANYON win- or unhullcd seed ter, unscarified may be used. The action of moisture and frost breaks the seed coat and the seed is ready to sprout with the first warm weather. When it comes to developing the industrial prosperity of the country, the spirit of 'the local newspaper is part of the efficiency of the nation from that standpoint. Promoting sucessful industries and the maintenance of payrolls in a community and making it known as a payroll center, is identifying a newspaper with the most constructive line of progress that touches the hopes and lives of more people and more families than any other one single idea of development. Readers are vitally interested in local industrial conditions and a newspaper is the central organ which keeps them informed on such subjects and builds up the spirit of enthusiasm, pride and confidence in the community, which, in turn, inspires the investment of capital, expansion of activity and employment of labor in all lines. Industrialism and prosperity make happy homes and citizens and taxpayers. law-abidi- ng The Utah Copper Company has subscribed $50,000.00 to assist financing the construction of the St. Marks Hospital in this city. It is expected that arrangements will be completed for financing the building and that construction will commence this summer. Plans for the construction of a new wing on the Hotel Utah costing more than $300,000, have been prepared and it is expected that construction will commence early this scasQn. Charles Goodyear, in 1839, was granted a patent for vulcanizing India rubber. |
