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POLK rniTVTY XEWS-CAZETTE. KKNTUX i,.tt,t
On lie d,ck .- seen a knight represent!. Godfrey de lUwlllou "'"
hr . o- of meu at arm. No sooner bad the anchor bn drvpped than
the S re? .t "bout one hundred ,ard W - city cf J;.
mZ 5 f wall nd turret, manned b, Saruceas. The tnight.. 1-d t .od
rrly i-fl tbJ vessel. Pitched a camp tb,-n attach theory T -e ra-n-
defended it. w.lU .porously, and ao realistic ... lh , C.U t-t a
arS uumkr of the oeaieged and besieger. ro d W hen the -a..
l! over Charles V and hi German gueat ...I L ,fT
Th styrW of the Arabian Nigtata' feasts are glittering. It is an wv
n a-tlr to iick out three or four whkh wocld surpass the French aCuir.
but thVtroub!e U the stories are Actio- pure and simple. There U how
ever, on absolutely authentic account of an oriental feast, be.ideb oh .11
M other banquet! of hblorr are but as candles to the tun rLe la,
Kl ma -Moon was to be married to the daughter of a rich dignitary. The
Edward B. Clerk-
ECENTLY there wa- given in Paris a Beat fea.t to the
mayors of France. Some oi me rrem... ,h
declared unthinkingly perhaps that in the po ut of the
numbers fl and in the pumptuousneas of the banquet U
ua the greatest affair of the kind ever given in the
Wrlff the Paris correBpoudent3 are Frenchmen they ar
te he forgiven, perhaps, for leaving out or their calcula
ml anSier Parisian feast given nearly five hundred
yews ago. At that banquet 100,000 people re H
Wine was not s-rved from bottles, but the revelers filled
the.ir flagons and cups from fountains which ran the
prod of champagne and Burgundy throughout the
r . . . tiih Ktnz Henry . who
live one oav. ii - . .
1 b . .... ,; nnnest of France and of
on a raft made or guaea i contributed of its birds, mam-,
into tEe Jft of tariJnlflcance compared with the amount of money which a
rlol!odr?edS to go no farther than to England to find a feast at which
mow SeoiS were fed than partook of the French government's no.pltality.
When Henry S?s daughter Margaret married Alexander III of Scotland.
ZoZ 3 partook of the royal hospitality at one sitting. A curious
Sure of this banquet was the serving to the assembled multitude of
lhl?e8 and porpoises, sea mammals which the English of that day regarded
i tie chief of delicacies. That their taste may not have been of the most
"fined may be guessed perhaps from the fact that on the same day they ate
Huttonously cranes, herons and hawks, birds that would turn the stomach
3 the 21 Tivant of today. The Scotch and English on that occasion in
addUion to other edibles, disposed of .100 oxen specially fattened for the
,fe0SThe French people may find an instance in their.cwn history of a dinner
given by the government in the person of the king, which for novelty and
Sit far surpassed the gathering at the board of the mayors. Near the end
of the fourteenth century Charles V of France wanted to do something nice
for the emperor of Germany, so he invited him to dinner, promising him as
an inducement to come something whieh he had never seen before. The
mperor came, and guests - to the number of many hundreds were seated
about the board in a great open pavilion. When the banquet had reached
the point between fish and fowl a shadow fell athwart the table, and looking
p the astounded banqueters beheld a full-rigged ship with sails all set
bearlne down upon them, it was mipeiiwi oliubo luc , -
nolselesa machinery. At the edge of the pavilion the vessel cast ancnor.
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nroauectlve son in law wished to do things in proper style, so he asked
evervbodv rich aud poor alike, within 100 miles of his residence Jo attend
fhe n-arriage feast. The historical accounts of the affair say that ten great
liaUcV- with all their rooms could not have given standing room to the
Utiles that cane. When the people had assembled the poor as i by
n net .herded together while the rich kept by themselves no rd r tha
tha common people might not become impatient while waiting for their
Iner he caliph and hi. bride stood upon a great platform and d rected the
a Svement. of a score of servants whose labor it was to shower the poorer
Quests with eold coin. The coin storm was succeeded by one of small bats
orambTrgrl, .valuable as the glittering gold which it followed. Then as
a further diversion, balls of musk were thrown among the people, who
scrambled and struggled mightily for their possession. Inside each bum
nail -aa a ticket which entitled the Incky holder to enough land slaves
and horses to makehim independently rich. The guests all t down to
dinner together and were served by an army of attendants. If they had
been at one long table the man who sat at the head could not have seen
the Van who faced him at the foot. One cf the futures of this dinner was
a candle of ambergris weighing 80 pounds. This candle, worth a fortune in
itself was kept alight for days by the eastern potentate, who literally had
money to burn. The candle was in a gold cahdiestw weighing many
pounds The bride sat at meat with the guests, and as she took her place
at the table her grandmother approached and emptied a bucket of pearls
over her head. '
The caliph's father-in-law "went broke" over this banquet and in oraer
that he might reimburse himself the caliph made him satrap of one of the
richest Persian provinces. Inasmuch as the holding of this office carried
with it the privilege of raising or lowering taxes at will, it may be imagined
that the feast-giver was not? long in getting even. .
The Earl of Warwick, the king-maker. It he could have teen consulted
through a proper spiritualistic medium, would have been able to give the
Parisians some sound advice on how to feed a multitude. There sat down
daily as the guests and retainers of the Earl of Warwick during the' height
of hU power not less than 30,000 persons. The Earl was a good entertainer,
and some of the banquets which he gave have lived In history, but more
because of theirsize than because of their sumptuo'sness. He was a be
liever in beef and ale rather than in phasants and flhampagne. The king
maker lived some four centuries or more ago, but jay it not be said with
some truth today that the different Ideas that theiijxisted in England and
France as to the proper food exist In a Targe m' today ana nna some
reflex in the characters of two great, peopl?Jct "k , . '; . ,
ODD CAUSES OF INTOXICATION
fruit and Vefletables Capable of Hav
ing Disastrous Effect on the
Nervous System.
Those who cannot resl6t the tempta
tion of too many strawberries should
not be surprised if they are attacked
with "fruit drunkenness," for it is
an extraordinary fact that the excess
ive eating of strawberries often re
' eults in many of the sensations con
nected with alcohol attacking the eat
er. These symptoms consist of gid
diness, headache, blurred sight and oc
casionally double vision.
For strawberries contain far more
acid than most of the other fruits in
season at the same time, and this
juice acts very quickly on the nervous
system, especially in the case of stout
and full-blooded people. Excessive
rhubarb eating can also produce symp
toms of intoxication, owing to the
txeess of oxalic acid which lurks in
this fruit.
But this is only one of the many
ways in which symptoms of drunken
ness can be developed, apart from ex
cess of alcohol. It is quite possible
to become temporarily intoxicated by
excess of emotion, whether it be sor
row, joy or music.
The explanation is that deep emo
tion deranges the nerve centers, which
are thrown out of unison with each
ether, so that such actions as walking
and talking become difficult. An in
valid who lives on diet for come con
siderable time, and then suddenly has
a huge meal, can quite easily get
symptoms of drunkenness on a chop or
teak.
Strong coffee on an empty stomach
also produces results Blmilar to alco
hol, whilst the fumes of turpentine
are very liable lo render you light
headed. Recently six men-were re
duced to a rolling condition while
unloading a cargo of this spirit from
a barre at Bristol, England.
No "Ear for Music."
Dr. rtlrman-Ucra, after making a
study of the ears of famous musicians,
bas come to the conclusion that the
construction of that orgaji has little
to do with one's musical appreciation,
and that It is not necessary to have
even normal ear-drums to become a
finished musician.
Dr. Blrman-Bera says that bis obser
vations have shown that composers
as a class have erect,, almost vertical
ear-drums, and that other musician
other than composers have eardrums
the position of which varies fpm the
slanting to the vertical. Including all
Intermediate forms. Whether Dr. Dir
man-Uira's discovery will result In the
discarding of that handy and much
used phrase, "an ear for music," of
ourte, remains to be seen.
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OUT
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WOODROW WILSON.
New Jer-ey "begs to offer" here a statesman, ripe, though young, who
thinks with his own thinker and who talks with his own tongue. He . used
to run a college which wore Ivy on its eaves, and each morn he d chuck hl
col egeown and roU up both his sleeves. His hand, were full of blisters
but he'd ring the old cracked bell and all the merry scholars would erupt
the football yell. And then across the campus In their sweaters "tiger
hue they'd rush to greet "Prex Woodrow." cheering Alma Mater, too. Those
humdrum days are ended, days of culture, cant and kids; day oi research
work and lectures, bulldogs, pipes and funny lids. Erasing those fond mem
ories came a blare of braien brass, thumps of gavels, throaty fireworks,
shrieks of commonwealths en masse; cruel cartoons and wlard clay models,
roorbacks crossfire from the foe, miles aud miles of unkissed babies, office
seekers all aglow, private cars with speaking porches, lozna drops for
rusty pipes, would-be friendly New York tigers who wore not the Princeton
stripes gay and sad campaign predictions, tin iorns. rattlers, megaphones
tender fondness for such terrors no true Princeton scholar own. Hut New
Jersey men are Titans, skeeter-proof and full of vim, and since caue-nisb
days of boyhood this one's kept in fighting trim.
(Copyright, 1915, by Unlvcrjal Press SynJkt.)
Simple Rules to. Be Observed If One
Has the Misfortune to Stray
t From the Camp.
If yon discover that you are lost in
the woods, nit down and think calmly
back over the road you have traveled,
trying to decide where the camp
should He. Then, if you have your
compass, and It seems to agree with
your judgment, stick faithfully to that
direction. : Even if you are wrong in
your decision. It is better to keep on
h one direction, because you may fall
in . with some stream, 'and can follow
ft to a human habitation.'
If you have no compass, the sun is
an excellent guide during the day.
Should the sky be ercast, place the
point ot your knife-blade on the nail
of your thumb; turn slowly until the
full shadow of the biade obscures the
nail, and you have mscovered where
the sun is.
You can discover the points of the
compass in other ways; by noticing
that the tops of the tall trees incline
to the north; that the leaves of trees
are generally closer on the south
side; that their branches are shorter
and more Irregular on the north side.
To prevent getting into the circle
habit break off branches of the bushes
you pass. . Start a fire, if your match
safe is with you as it snouia oe.
Remember that a fire piles up with
damp wood makes a dense smoke,
and quickly attracts attention. Two
fires going. at once, one a little re
moved from the other, constitute a
well-known signal of distress among
woodsmen. The firing of threeshots
In succession-'-two at first, then a
pause, then the third shot is another
recognized signal, if you happen to
have a gun. Woman's Home Companion.
Kleptomania.
The paragraphist opened his type
writer, adjusted a sheet of paper, lit
his pipe and sat for a morrient Im
mersed In thought. Then he clicked
of a single line of copy. He glanced
at what he had written and a look of
surprise came across his classic fea
tures. Then be gasped, shrieked and
went Into a fit of hysteria.
His colleagues rushed into the
room, but he was beyond human aid.
In ten minutes he had laughed hlniBelf
to death. Then one bethought himself
to look at the last lines those fingers,
now cold and still, had written. At
the top of the nil but unsullied sheet
appeared these words: "Another shop
lifter arrested In one of our big stores
has been dismissed with a warning,
and her name withheld from the pa
pers. What used to be called a
crime Is now yclept a mania"
That was all. Hut it had caught the
curagrapher unawares.
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