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R. G. COOKING "HITS"
FRANCE JUST RIGHT
Expert Dietitians Devise Palata
ble Menus for Soldiers in
Hospitals and Canteens.
France Is much interested la Ameri
can cooking, which Is truly gratify
ing compliment to a nation which
prints Its fashionable menus mostly In
French. The two hundred and more
American Red (Jross canteens batting
both the French and Americas lines of
communication hare been a success
with the Pollu as well as the Tank,
and that well known French organiza
tion for the wounded, known as the
Blea-Etre da Blesse, has opened a
Bomber of model kitchens In French
hospitals, usually In charge of ama
teur dietitians, who consult a profes
sional dietitian provided by the Amer
ican Bed Cross, who goes about
among these hospitals and offers sug
gestions and advice.
Three hundred trained dietitians are
' bow in serrlce in hospitals, canteens
or kitchens on Bed Cross hospital
trains In France. The American Ex
peditionary Force took with it a tralii
. ed dietitian for each base hospital.
These women are civilian employees
of the Army, recruited through the
Bureau of Dietitian Service of the
American Red Cross.
Red Croes Model Farms.
For the double purpose of providing
enough fresh milk and vegetables for j
sick soldiers in hospitals and well sol- j
dlers in canteens and providing health-;
Xul outdoor exercise for the patients '
well along in their convalescence tbe I Washington, D. C. (Special.) Ac
Bed Cross has established a number of cording to a report made to the United
farms and dairies In connection with ; States Public Health Service, the epl
hospltals. Besides their great practi-; demlc of lnfluen.a In Spain has al
cal value they have given an enormous ready caused an increase in the preva
amount of entertainment to the men. j lence and deaths from pulmonary tu
The French government, more than in- i berculosis. A similar association be
terested, has loaned some thousands i tween Influenza and tuberculosis was
f cows, and altogether it Is a scheme
which appeals to everybody.
But it is not alone for the soldiers
that the Red Cross does some of Its
thinking in terms of cooking and food
stuffs. The Bureau of Dietitian Serr
lce has helped to solve the food prob
lem of civilian refugees.
The American Red Cross in France
thinks In terms of huge figures, mar-
Telous systems of transportation, tons warning emphasising the need of spo
of shipping pace, and It also thinks in cial precautions at the present time,
terms of the white of egg or orange . "Experience seems to Indicate," says
Juice for one single boy. That is why the Surgeon( General, "that persons
22,000,000 people I.ave affiliated them- whose resistance has been weakened
selves with the American Red Cross by an attack of Influenza are pecullar
and why Christmas this year In the ly susceptible to tuberculosis. With
United States is marked by the Red j millions of its people recently affected
Cross Christmas Roll Call.
SHORT BUT EVENTFUL LIFE
Maria Pauline Bonaparte Crowded
Many Adventures Into Her Few
Years of Fortune's Smiles.
Mnrle Pauline Ronaparte was one
Of the numerous family of brothers
and sisters ct the great Napoleon, j
She was quite the most beautiful of j
the girls and the gayest in nature
two qualities that endeared her to her j
Illustrious brother, but that also
brought her more or less Into trouble.
Like the rest of them, she was born
la AJacdo and shared the rise of the
family fortunes. When she was sev
enteen she married one of Napoleon's
staff officers, General Le Clerc, and
went to live at St Donyngo. He died
In 1802 and, as a young widow, a mere
girl of twenty-two, she came to enjoy
the society of Paris. She was exceed
ingly popular, had her portrait done
as Venus reclining on a couch after
the artistic fashion of tbe times), and
married the Prince Borghese. She
- went to Rome with him, but tired of it
ther and went back to her beloved
Paris. Various escapades started gos
elp about her especially her rather
offhand treatment of Marie Louise,
which caused her removal from court.
This sobered her a bit, and she ac
companied her brother In hla first
' exile to Elba and begged, after his
Overthrow, to live with him at Bt.
Helena. But this request was denied
her and she died in her favorite city,
Paris, of cancer. She was about
forty-five and still young looking and
I exceedingly beautiful.
: A Drawback.
i ' "An automobile lias a big advantage
. ver a horse, as it never gets fatigued."
'. "Perhaps not, but Its wheels are
always tired."
Universal Membership Means More Than Money
ADVICE TO "FLU" i
CONVALESCENTS
SPAIN AND ENGLAND REPORT
INCREASE IN TUBERCULOSIS
AFTER INFLUENZA
EPIDEMIC.
U. S. Public Health Service Warns
Public Against Tuberculosis.
One Million Cases Tubercu
losis in United States Each a
Source of.Dger.
Influenza Convalescents Should Have
Lungs Examined Colds Which Hang
On Often Beginning of Tuberculosis.
No Cause for Alarm If Tuberculosis
Is Recognized Early Patent Medi
cines Not to Be Trusted.
Beware tuberculosis after In
fluenza. No need to worry if
you take precautions in time.
Don't diaguose your own con
dition. Have your doctor exam
ine your lungs several times at
monthly Intervals. Build up your
strength with right living, good
food and plenty of fresh air. I
Don't waste money on patent
medicines advertised to cure tu
berculosis. u, "
enJy ufe
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recently made by Sir Arthur News
holme, the chief medical officer of the
English public health service. In his
analysts of the tuberculosis death rate
In England.
Ia order that tbe people of the Unit
ed States may profit by the experience
of other countries Surgeon General
Rupert Blue of the United States Pub
lic Health Service has Just issued a
with Influenza this country now of
fers conditions favoring the spread of
tuberculosis."
One Million Consumptives In the
United States.
"Then you consider this a serious
mennceT" was asked. "In my opinion
It is, though I hasten to add It is dis
tinctly one against which the people
can guard. So far as one can estimate
there are at present about one million
cases of tuberculosis In the United
States. There is unfortunately no
complete census available to show ex
actly the number of tuberculosis per
sons In each state despite the fact that
most of the states have made the dis
ease reportable. In New York city,
where reporting has been In force for
many years, over 35,000 cases of tu
berculosis are registered with the De
partment of Health. Those familiar
with the situation believe that the ad
dition of unrecognized and unreported
cases would make the number nearer
S0,000. The very careful health sur
vey conducted durlog tbe past two
years In Framinghom, Maes., revealed
200 cases of tuberculosis in a popula
tion of approximately 15,000. If these
proportions hold true for the United
States as a whole they would Indicate
that about one in every hundred per
sons is tuberculous. Each of theso
constitutes a source of danger to be
guarded against"
What to Do.
In his statement to tbe public Sur
geon Qaoeral Blue points out hov
those who have had Influenza should
protect themselves against tuberculo
sis. "All who have recovered from In
fluenza," says the Surgeon General,
"should have their lungs carefully ex
amined by a competent physician. In
fact It Is desirable to have several ex
aminations made a month apart Snch
examinations cannot be made through
the clothing nor can they be carried
out in two or three minutes. If the
lungs are found to be free from tuber
THE
HE HAS ANSWERED HIS ROLL CALL-WILL YOU?
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By courtesy 'of Fltzpatrlck.
culosis every effort should be made to "
keep them so. This can be done by ;
right living, good food and plenty of j
fresh air." j
Danger Signs. j
The Surgeon General warned etfri- '
dally against certain danger signs, j
each as "decline" and "colds which
hang on." !
These, he explained, were often tsa1 ;
beginning of tubeTtjuIosls. "If you do
not get well promptly. If your cold I
seems to hang on or your health and
strength decline, remember that these i
are often the early signs of tuberculo
sis. Place yourself at once under the
care of a competent physician. Tuber
culosis Is curable In the early stages.
Patent Medicine Dangerous In Tuber-;
cuIosIsl
"Above all do not trust in the mis
leading statements of unscrupulous
; patent medicine fakers. There is no
i specific medicine for the cure of tuber-j
. culosls. The money spent on such;
medicines Is thrown away; it should
, be spent Instead for good food and de
cent living. j
Monarch's Costly Whim.
King Alfonso's ruined palace of San
Bdefonso at La Granja is one of the
freaks and one of the glories of Spain.
It was a Bourbon monarch who Invent
ed it at the beginning of the eigh
teenth century. Philip V was out hunt
ing one Cay and rested at a sunny farm
I called the Grange, occupied by monks.
The monks had humored the moun-
tain upon whose slopes the farmhouse
was built and had made their beautiful
gardens conform to the ways of the
giant
But the king compelled the moun
tain to obey him. He blasted smooth
places on predpitoas slopes, carry-
j ing away thousands of tons of earth
j and stones, and from the valley be
I low he brought up miles of fertile
j earth to form new fields and gardens.
I By the time he had finished creating
a new landscape and filling the new
I Versailles with the best pictures his
: taste suggested, Philip was ready to
j die in debt to the tune of 45,000,000
! pesetas. For that ls the sum which
the monarch spent on San Bdefonso.
TIMES: HECEMBEIl 9,
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MANY LIVES SAVED
IN MINNESOTA FIRE
Heroic devotion to duty on the part
of Red Cross workers in northeastern
Minnesota saved hundreds of lives,
soothed untold pain and fed, housed
and comforted tens of thousands of
homeless refugees in the awful forest
fires which devastated a district of 160
square miles.
The Duluth Red Cross Immediately
formed a committee, opened the armo
ry, the churches and the courthouse
as a temporary refuge for the victims.
The canteen service In Duluth and also
in Superior, Wisconsin, served hot
meals. The First Aid Department of
the Nursing Service had physicians
and nurses ready to meet all the In
coming trains, and the Motor Corps
scoured all the roads leading out of
Duluth, bringing In hundreds of peo
ple who were exposed to extreme peril,
and worked for 24 hours without
pause for rest
UNIVERSAL MEMBERSHIP.
The purpose of the Red Cross Christ
mas Roll Call, expressed In the fewest
possible words, is to see that every
man and woman In every city and com
munity throughout the United States,
and wherever Americans may be, has
the opportunity to join the Red Cross
or to renew his or her membership.
Nothing short of universal membership
. is the goal. A 1919 Red Cross mem-
bershlp button ls to be given to each
person enrolling, as well as a Red
Cross Service Flag, with a cross for
each member of the family enrolled.
Every home In America and every busi
ness office should have on display a
Service Flag the week before Christ
mas, when the RdII Call will take
place.
Ofe Greatest jModisr in tle World
bin tli
-ytll Qmz Jeod is a Ufoart
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ana a juouar
Gather Wisdom From Others.
It's dangerous policy to consider
yourself abo.ve the other man's mes
sage. Tf you're so superior your fel
lows will never be con'.jnt to let you
sit in silence. Besides if you don't
want to listen to what's going on you
have no business there. Noise made
by you will interfere with the hearing
of those who do want to learn. You
owe it to yourself and others to pay
attention. or at least make It possible
for others to listen. Besides there are
few people that can't learn from oth
ers. Don't be a prig. Remember any
child can ask questions that will. con
found the wise. The ordinary speak
er may have ideas that need the polish
of a Gladstone. You are always a
gainer when you get the other man's
best It may be a help to you some
day. Pennsylvania Grit.
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The Mule.
To our mind the one breathing thing
in creation that has been the most
cruelly maligned is the mule. No more
hard-working creature walks the
earth ; none with a more faithful past
record; none now more in demand in
the world's service. What would we
do in this war without the mule? What
can we do without him after the war
Is over? Still he is despised and kick
ed around worse than though he were
a hound dog. It is a shame. In the
readjustment of things, let us right
this wrong and, if we have anything to
say to the mule, let us say it to his
face, which is wiser than saying it to
his heels. Los Angeles Times.
FROM MINDS' SECRET PLACES
Come the Materials for Dreams Which
Sometimes One Finds So Hard
to Explain.
You read a book and forget every
word of It Years later a scene from
the same book will come into your
mind as a dream ; you will not recog
nize it and will marvel where it came
from. Or you will see a person casual
ly on the street and be perfectly un
conscious of It. But every experience
is registered in the mind somewhere,
and some day you may see that same
person in a dream. Perhaps some of
the great store of Impressions hidden
away in your unconscious mind will
come to the surface in a dream in such
a way that you will feel that there ls
something mysterious about it
An old lady once told the writer of
a dream she had, citing it as a com
plete justification of her belief In
spirits. While on a shopping tour she
mislaid a valuable umbrella, and for
the life of her could not remember
what she had done with It It worried
her considerably, and that night she
had a dream In which she saw herself
go Into a restaurant, hang up the im -
brella, and after eating her lunch go
away, forgetting it-New York World.
When the Red Cross Takes Your Christmas Dollar to France
Courtesy of C. Leroy Baldridge,
S, HEALTH SERVICE '
ISSUES WARNING
Increase in All Respiratory Dis
eases After the Influenza ;
Epidemic Probable,
Influenza Expected to Lurk for Months.
How to ,Guard Against Pneumonia.
Common Colds Highly Catching Im
portance of Suitable Clothing Could
Save 100,000 Lives. (
Washington, D. C With the subsid
ence of the epidemic of influenza the
attention of health officers la directed
to pneumonia, bronchitis and other
diseases of the respiratory system
which regularly cause a large number
of deaths, especially during the winter
season. According to Rupert Blue,
Surgeon General of the United States
Public Health Service, these diseases
will be especially prevalent this win
ter unless the people are particularly
careful to obey health instructions.
"The present epidemic," said Sur
geon General Blue, "has taught by bit
ter experience how readily a condition
beginning apparently as a slight cold
may go on to pneumonia and death.
Although the worst of the epidemic Is
over, there will continue to be a large 1
number of scattered cases, many of '
them mild and unrecognized, which
will be danger spots to be guarded '
against" The Surgeon General likened :
the present situation to that after a :
great fire, saying, "No fire chief who ;
understands his business stops playing
the hose on the charred debris as soon
as the flames and visible fire have dis
appeared. On the contrary, he con
tinues the water for hours and even
days, for he knows that there is dan
ger of the fire rekindling from smol
dering embers."
"Then you fear another outbreak of
influenza?" he was asked. "Not neces
sarily another large epidemic," said
the Surgeon General, "but unless the
people learn to realize the seriousness
of the danger they will be compelled to
pay a heavy death toll from pneumo
nia and other respiratory diseases.
Common Colds Highly Catching.
"It ls encouraging to observe that
people are beginning to learn that or
dinary coughs and colds are highly
catching and are spread from person
to person by means of droplets of
germ laden mucus. Such droplets are
sprayed into the air when careless or
ignorant people cough or sneeze with
out covering their mouth and nose. It
is also good to know that people have
learned something about the value of
fresh air. In summer, when people
are largely out of doors, the respira
tory diseases (coughs, colds, pneumo
nia, etc.) are infrequent; in the fall,
as people begin to remain indoors, the
respiratory diseases increase; In the
winter, when people are prone to stay
In badly ventilated, overheated rooms,
the respiratory diseases become very
prevalent
Suitable Clothing Important.
"Still another factor In the produc
tion of colds, pneumonia and other re
spiratory diseases ls carelessness or ig
norance of the people regarding suit
able clothing Curing the seasons when
the weather suddenly changes, sitting
in warm rooms too heavily dressed or,
what Is even more common, especially
among women, dressing so lightly that
windows are kept closed In order to be
comfortably warm. This ls a very in
jurious practice.
Could Save 100,000 Lives.
"I believe we could easily save one
hundred thousand lives annually in
the United States if all the people
would adopt the system of fresh air
living followed, for example, In tuber
culosis sanatoria. There is nothing
mysterious about it no specific medi
cine, no vaccine. The Important thing
is right living, good food and plenty of
fresh air.
Droplet Infection Explained In Pictures.
"A'he Bureau of Public Health,
Treasury Department has Just issued
a striking poster drawn by Berryman,
the well-known Washington cartoonist
The poster exemplifies the modern
method of health education. A few
years ago, under similar circumstances,
the health authorities would have ls
; sued an official dry but scientifically
: accurate bulletin teaching the role of
droplet infection In the spread of re
spiratory diseases. The only ones who
j" "avH uauersioou ouuean
! would have been wbo already
knetw n abont, 0,8 subject- The man
. In the street, the plain citizen and the
The Stars and Stripes, France.
many millions who toll for their living'
would have had no time and no desire!
to wade through the technical phrase-;
ology."
COLDS, INFLUENZA, PNEUMONIA, AND
TUBERCULOSIS ARE SPREAD THIS WAY
Copies of this Twster can be ob
tained free of charge by writing to the
Surgeon General, TJ. S. Public Health
Service, Washington, D. C.
SETTLED QUESTION OF VOTE
Decision of English Registrar Almost
Worthy to Rank With That Made
Famous by Solomon.
Not since the days of Solomon, per
hp.ps, has a more perplexing problem
confronted a judge than that recently
presented to an election registrar in
England. A certain voter possessed
a house which stood half in one parish '
and half in another. The question
consequently arose as to In which par-
ish, or whether not, indeed, in both.
the householder was entitled to vote.
After some discussion a ray of light
was vouchsafed to Solomon. Bi which
parish, he demanded, was the man's
bedroom? Unfortunately, in both.
Then was it that Solomon stood fully
revealed; the infant of mature years,
should be cut in twain. The parish
In which the head of the bed stood
should have the honor of the vote.
j;hich ls a11 very we- except that
there are many voters whose feet take
them to the polling booth, but whost
heads are no good when they get there.
Does not the Italian, proverb say, "If
a man has not a head he should have
feet" Christian Science Monitor.
King Victim of His Own Jest
Probably the greatest admirer of
perfumes among the old Asiatic mon
archs seems to have been Antiochus
Eplphanes the Blustrlous, king of Sy
ria, according to Don Martin, who has
gone into this perfumery question for
the Los Angeles Times. At all An
tiochus' feasts, games and processions
perfumes held the premier place.
The king was once bathing in the
public baths, when some private per
son attracted by the fragrant odor
which he shed around, accosted him,
saying: "You are a happy man, O
king, you smell in a most costly man
ner." Antiochus, being much pleased with
the remark, replied : "I will give you
as much as you desire of this per
fume." The king then ordered a large
ewer of thick unguent to be poured on
the flatterer's head and a multitude of
poor people soon collected around to
gather what was spilled. This caused
the king infinite amusement but it
made the place so greasy that he slip
ped and fell on his back In a most un
dignified manner, which, put an end to
his merriment
The Tomato In History.
Edward Albes of the Pan-American
union, in discussing the matter of the
tomato, said a number of years ago
that the word "tomato" seems to be
of Aztec origin, and given as "tomatl"
by some authorities and as "lztomate"
by others. The word still persists in
some of the older Mexican town
names, as, for examples, "Tomatlan"
and "Tomatepec." The weight of
opinion among historical botanists is
that the plant and culture for edible
purposes began In Peru, whence it
spread to other parts of tropical
America. It ls known that it was cul
tivated for its fruit in the warm .cli
mates of America centuries before
the coming of Columbus to this con
tinent Far From Angry.
She "I'm afraid papa was very an
gry when you asked him for me, Jack,
dear." He "Not at all ; he asked me
If I couldn't introduce a couple of
young men who might take your two
sisters off his hands." Boston Evening
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