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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1909-09-16, Page 6CURRENT TOPICS. Not many years have passed since it was taken for granted that if science could be credited with any unchallenged achievement it was with the formulation of a standard diet for mankind. The correctness of the researches, however, of Voit and others, on which that diet was based, has for some time been dis- puted by Chittenden from a scien- tific viewpoint, and on popular grounds by Mr. Horace Fletcher, who has maintained that most of the ills of life may bo averted by the prolonged mastication of food. PRAYER AND THE INFINITE Communion With God Cannot Wait for Seasons for It Must be Continuous "But thou when thou prayest, pray to thy Fattier which is in see- rot."—Matt. vi. 0. No matter what a man's theories may be about prayer it is almost certain to be the case that at some time ho will pray and quite likely that he will pray almost habitually. It also often heppons that those Ii: other words, do not eat much, who protest most vigorously as to their faith in prayer though often assuming the postures and phrases of prayer, nevtrtheless actually pray least truly and effectually. To many prayer is a habit sur- viving superstitious practises. They themselves really fear to go to sleep without praying lost they should thus offend the Deity and thus some terrible calamity befall them. Per- haps from childhood they have been taught with foolish forms of prayer to beseech the protection of hea- ven against a world of demons. So long as children are led to think of their world ae peopled with powers of evil, spooks, goblins, and bogies, they readily and steadily pray to some good power to ward off ,such evil beings, especially dur- ing their sleeping hours. When y'u stop to think about it, a groat wrong is being clone to childhood by sending the little ones to dream- land with their last words a petition Li regard to DYING BEFORE THEY WAKE. Half of the petitions of the world grow out of fear. Men are afraid either of the one they address or of seine other superhuman power or of impending imaginary disaster. Still other prayers grow out of sloth, men ask for a blessing on the crop they are too lazy to cultivate or for the bread they will not Darn, or the virtues they will not fight t4 win. It is a good thing that many pray- ers remain unanswered. Doubtless most petitions fail to secure the specific thing requested. This would bo an utterly immoral world if a few hasty or oven tearful words could put some of us at so great an advantage over the rest, if prayer might give us benefits unearned and undeserved. There are higher levels of pray - but cat slowly 1 Now comes the London Lancet, on the other hand, and tells us that the data brought forward are found, when carefully inspected, to bo far from upholding the Chittenden-Fletcher theory that tho vital machine needs only • small quantity of fuel provided it Is stoked in a peculiar way, but as a matter of fact to be very hard to reconcile therewith. It is an address delivered by Sir lames Crichton-Browne at the Royal 'Institute of Public Health— an address now issued in book form .-on which the Lancet relies for a large amount of information with regard to the minimum quantity of food required by the human ani- mal for the proper maintenance of its :strength and activity. Exact Measurements of dietetic require - "Dents are mostly easily made in the field of protein metabolism, and it is to this field therefore that Sir James Crichton-Browne's inquiry is directed mainly. The standard of nutrition, we are reminded, laid down by Veit, demanded 118 grammes of protein food for the av- erage pian doing ordinary work; and subsequtntly Atwater raised this amount silghtly, calculating the proper protein ration at 125 grammes. Chittenden, on the other hand. the scientific backer of Flet- cher, held that 60 grammes is an adequate quantity of protein food for a roan of average weight. The normal diet of the Japanese may be cited on Oshima's authority in support of Chittenden's estimate, but Sir James Chrichton-Browne denies the pertinence of this argu- ment, since the Japanese are a email race and consequently need proportionately less food than do Europeans. It is noteworthy, how- ever, that (luring the recent cam- paign in Manchuria, where the Japanese displayed so much vigor and endurance, the protein ration supplied to their army was more abundant than had fallen to the lot el an) soldiers in previous times. Turning from Mongolian to ing. They grow out of the concep- tion of the friendship of the vast- er world of the spirit, out of the feeling that life lies beyond this clay-onvironed life of ours, that spirit to spirit may speak. The infinite ono loses awesome majesty in winning affection and, where no voice is hoard uor words are fram- ed, the heart goes out in true pray- er, in communion and aspiration. Prayer is friendship with the In- finite, the reaching out of the spir- it of man after the life of the spirit beyond us, the search for a sympa- thy deep and broad enough to feel with all our needs, to pity and be patient and encouraging when wo can hope for no such help from those who aro limited by living ON OUR PRESENT LEVEL. Prayer is the heart's hunger for communion, the life that is in us, that life which seers to feel back before the cradle and reach out be- yond the grave, seeking its own, calling for its companions, deep cal- ling unto deep. It is aspiration• It is as natural as breathing. Friendship would be a poor thing it it never got beyond the privilege of asking favors of the friend. Yet how many there are who talk of their affection for an infinite friend who never seek communion with the friend except to recite some tale of woe, to present some series of needs, or proffer some requests. If you measure prayer as you measure business, by what you get out of it, there is nothing strange in its emptiness. If it is merely a superstitious act, performed to pla- cate an imaginary almighty adver- sary, the sooner your life is froo from such a soul paralyzing habit the better. No man ever prays untii praying rises from co nmereial petitioning to simple intercourse of soul. The world is a barren place, bounded by emptiness behind and darkness before, unless the deepest and best in us finds touch with the life that envelopes all our living, unless the soul within defies the limitations of science, and seeks its own atmos- phere and intercourse of friend- ships. HENRY F. COPE. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, SEPT. 19. i.esson XiI. Third Quarterly Re - lieu. Golden Teat, Acts 19: 20. SIMPLE PLANS FOR REVIEW. Not very long ago Bishop Quayle, with great wisdom, advised the Sunday school teachers of Method- ism to regard each Review as a Eu- bird's-eye view of a largo land - soaps, not as a process of analysis ropean experiences, wo learn that from time to time attempts have c'i dissection. In travelling along a road we are taken up with first been made to cut down the n,•ur- this and then that; we see things lshrnent of prisoners in jail to the lowest limit compatible with exist- ence. in England, for instance, out long ,:;;o ordinary prisoners were kept un a diet containing only fifty-seven grammes of protein, a reduction which brought them to a state of semi -starvation; while for convicts on what is termed "light labor" even 130 grammes proved in- sufficient. Then again, in France a ration containing ninety-four grammes of protein was found by Gautier to be"too poor in ment."We are at the same time cautioned by the Lancet to hear in niind that in dealing with proteins we are dealing only with a portion of the whole field of diet, and that probably "a larger nlluwance of carbohydrates and fats" would for a while com- pensate for slight defects of pro- tein constituents in food. Even thus qualified. however. we seem constrained to accept Sir James Crichton-Ilrow•uc's assertion that a certain amount of protein must be r oneanother, m or Supp c f in for and that there is an irreducible nrin- Inimum of such supply below which a continuous Mss of substance must occur. In other wards, so far as the proper avernge amount of pro- tein is concerned. experience favors pot the dicta of Chittenden and Pletcher, but the ordinary dietetic psages of mankind. ICS PREFERENCE. "Jiin's wife i. just the kind of talker I like." "Talker ! Why, man. she's doiib." "I know she is. That's the kind I like." by fragments. The Review comes to show us that wo aro not study- ing things, but a thing, to give to us the vision of the whole. The bish- c•p described a learned roan who could break ur a human lifo in all itt fragments; physiology, anatomy, neurology, psychology, nerve, muscle, valve, gray matter, white matter, thought. affection, voli- tion. But what society and God need is not the fragments of a man, but the living man; and what wo need from our quarter's lessons is not eleven bits of lessons, but the one great vital truth. That truth in this case hangs on tho little word which our Golden Text bo - gins: So—"So mightily grow the word of God and prevailed." These words were first written in connec- tion with the story of Paul's ad- ventures at Ephesus, but they ap- ply equally to all the lessons. If we ask, "How did the word of God grow mightily and prevail:" we may find in our eleven succes- sive Golden Texts the gist of our replies. Christianity grows, in the first place (Lesson I.), by God's direct impulse and guidance, by the obedi- ence of his servants. and by the hospitality of honest inquirers. God sent the message, "Come over into Macedonia"; Paul went "immedi- ately"; Lydia attended to his teachings and was blessed and made a blessing. In the second place (Lesson 11.) the growth of the word of Gcxl de- pends on saving faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. which, as we have previously noted, consists of three things; belief in a doctrine, depend- cnce on a promise, and fidelity to a Person. i.esson 1ii. shows how the study of God's written Word, searching the Scriptures, brings about the progress of his cause. The essential spirituality of all true worship wines to our notice it Lesson IV. There can be no real worship except "in spirit and in truth.' The story- of Lesson V. is a beau- tiful exemplification of its Golden Text,—a world full of tribulation ; n Saviour frill of helpfulness and cheer. Lesson VI. gives in detail instruc- tions how to live an effective Chris- tian life by doing no evil and ever following that which is good. The conditions in Ephesus which brought about the magnifying of the name of the Lord Jesus (Lesson VII.) will bring about similar re- sults everywhere. Lesson VIII. shows how apparent defeat. is turned by God into real victory : "My strength is made per- fect in weakness." From Lesson IX. we learn (what. may be illustrated also by next Sunday's lesson) that the kernel of the Christian religion is love. Lessons X. and XI., each in its own way and by its story, teach how genuine adherence to ('brit brings real victory to the Chris- tian All these stories studied Sunday after Sunday during the quarter may be recalled by the words of our Golden Text: "So niighti!, grew the word of God and prevail- ed.„ ETIQUETTE: ON_ SHIPBOARD. Woman Can Not he Too Careful of Own Dignity. On an ocean steamship passen- gers usually talk to each other without a formal introduction, and there is no harm in this, unless you be a young girl travelling alone. In that case you must keep absolutely to yourself. unless circumstances arise when you can talk to some older woman. Should you be trav- elling with a party and should you make acquaintance while on the steamer. try to remember that they are only passing and do not make of them confidential friends. Steami- er friends may be desirable or most undesirable. They come without references and they pass without a good-bye. The chances are that you will never see them again, so let them go without hearing your family history- and all about your owe trials. it sometimes happens that lifelong friends are made up- on the sea. but this is the exception and not. the rule, and, in any case, such friendships are cemented up- on the land. To sum up. yon cannot be too careful of tour own dignity. You thirst do nothing to make fellow - travellers uncomfortable, and you noise seek to he unobtrusive and independent of help. The confid- ing and helpless woman should never travel ai' where alone. Self- teliance is on,. of the first requis- ites of a gaxl traveller. FROM BONNIE SCOTLAND VOTES OF INTEREST FROM 11E1 BANES AND BRAES. What Is Going es In the Highlands and Lowlands of Auld Scolia. The Glasgow Distress Commit- tee's relief works at Palecerigg have been resumed. Over 5,000 were present at the annual sports of Blairgowrie and Battery Ancient Shepherds. The taking and keeping of a sal- mon at Ayr mill dam nearly caused i. serious riot with the water bai- liffs. Tho erection of a complete new institution for higher grade educa- tion in Wick has just been com- menced. Scotland gained a magnificent victory over Ireland at cricket at Perth recently by an innings and 132 runs. A very rare specimen of the spineous shark has been offered by Mr. David Ross, Edinburgh, to the Glasgow Museum. In Caithnoashire on most moors birds are fairly plentiful, strong and healthy, and a good season's sport may be expected. A national flag has ben present- ed to Blair Athol school by the Marchioness of Tullibardino and Lady Helen Stewart Murray. The town council of Edinburgh have by 21 to 20 adhered to their resolution to give a preference to British manufactured goods. Last year about $38,500 was con- tributed to the Dunoon Seaside Homes. About 5,000 persons were benefited by their stay there. Since the new year about 50 boys have been heaped into regular work through the medium of the News- boys' League in Glasgow. The town council of Edinburgh have approved of tho plans of tho chapel for the Knights of the Thistle to be added to St. Giles' Cathedral. Between 7,000 and 8,000 of the Territorials in camp at Galles and Troon engaged in a sham fight re- cently in the vicinity of Dundon- ald ffills. After experiencing a dearth of salmon for nearly two years, the Haddington coast fishermen have been netting very large quantities There died in Edinburgh recent- ly, David Wado. late 78th High- landers, over 20 years hospital ser- geant, R. A. M. School, Phoenix Park, Dublin. A Glasgow graduate, M. W. C. Houston, has been appointed head of tho Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering in tho South- western Polytechnic, London Uni- versity. Tho old Tolbooth of Abercdeen. which was erected early in the 17tH century, is to receive some preser- vative treatinent, the cost to be borne equally by tho county and city. Among the buskers at Rothesay Fair was the veteran Peter Reid, of Glasgow, the oldest boot.hman on the ground, who is in his 80th year. This was his :'th visit, and he has never missed a single visit during all that time. —.I. FROM ERIN'S GREEN ISLE' NEWS BI NAIL FR011 IRE- LAND'E SHORES. Happenings in the Emerald Isle of Interest to 1risb- men. A pike weighing 37 lbs. was rec- ently captured in the River Cor - rib. Mr. Brown, for thirty-six years, secretary of the Leitrim County Infirmary, recently resigned his position. Thomas Ilarrett has been appoint -1 ed postmaster of the new postoffice at Carrickcrry by the Postmaster-' General. A handsome new organ, with a eompl:te set of stops, etc., has been presented to St. Mary's Catholic ' Church, Limavady. Triplets, two sons and a daugh- ter, were born to the wife of Joseph Connors, a laborer, living at Clo-i hewer, Newtonbarry. Much satisfaction is felt in the town of Navan, on the marked pro- gress that is being made by the Na - van saw mills and furniture fac- tory. The people of Mullingar have started a movement to erect a monument to Miss Walker, who was murdered near the town on July 7.1 Justice Madden congratulated the. Grand Jury at the opening of the' Galway Assizes recently on the peaceful oondition of the county. Owing to tate recent heavy rains the potato disease has made its ap- pearance in several unsprayed po- tato plots around the village of Middletown. The magistrates at Crusheen have elected Thomas Grady Petty Ses- sions clerk, in succession to John Hehir, who has retired after thirty years' service. A Norman pottery was recently discovered on a farm in Gortna- uiinch, Listowel, the clay of which was found to contain the same min- eral composition as mineral clay from China. Roscrea Guardians have granted a pension of sixty-five dollars per year to Mrs. Mellen Guilfoyle, late. midwife of the Borris-in-Ossory Dispensary District for twenty-six years. Thomas Dwan, builder, Teuiple- more, has secured from the Ros- crea No. 1 Rural District Council the contract for tho erection of 31 houses in blocks, for the sum of £3,999, all in the town of Roscrea• 4, THE CZAR'S FOUR DAUGHTERS Healthy, Happy Girls Who Have Been Brought up Simply. Tho four daughters of the Czar niado a pleasant impression on those who saw them during the vis- it of the Russian imperial family at Cowes, Isle of Wight. In their short white dresses, blue reefer coats and blue straw hats trimmed with folds of white chiffon, all ex- actly alike, they formed a pretty picture of healthy. happy childhood. Their first trip of exploration around Cowes was made with two governesses and they accomplished great deal in two hours, buying all sorts of things at the shops — postcards, dolls, souvenir spoons, fancy work, and all the things that girls of Err in 8 to 14 like to possess, II.tNDYMEN IN RED. whether they are grand duchesses cr just ordinary youngsters. They Strange Duties Performed by chummed with their British royal French Soldiers. relatives, Princess Mary and Prin- 'es Edward and Albert. During the recent postal trou- Of the four, Olga, the oldest, who bles in Paris soldiers were called is 14, is the cleverest. Tall for her upon to do the work of the strik- age, she has a graceful figure and ers, as far as possible. This is r. bright smile. Tatiana, the see - !Artily to bo called "military" and daughter, is really a beautiful work, but Tommy now -a -days riv- girl, with the roseleaf skin, curly als Jack in his "handyman" abili- dark hair and regular features of tics. an English child. She is the only On. ono occasion the Grand Duchy delicate one of the four girls. Marie of Luxembourg was infested with is placid. well behaved and oblig- wolves. The inhabitants in rural ing districts appealed to their Govern- Anastasia, the youngest, is de- ment for aid. The Minister of scribed by her governess, Miss Ea - State at once called on the Army, ger, as "a regular little pickle." and soon the wolves were complete- Her name Anastasia, which means lv wiped out. Rats in Belgium and chain breaker, or prison opener, sparrows in Algiers are also pests was given to her because to cele - against which soldiers have been prate `ter birth the ('zar pardoned "ordered on active service." Perhaps the record of strange duties is, however, held by the French Army Corps which was ma- noeuvring some years ago near Chartres. Several animals escaped from the circus in the neighborhood and the residents were soon in a state of terror. When they appeal- ed to the \\'ar Office in Paris for aid, the inanoenv res were at once interrupted, and the soldiers set to catch the runaways. So well did they do their work that, with one exception. all f the animals were returned alive and uninjured to their owner. AS .\ LAST RESORT. The stranger had been compelled to linger twenty-four hours within the gates. "Well," queried the landlord of the village inn. as tho stranger was settling his hill, ''what do you think of our place as a summer resort 1" "I'd hate to tell you," ansa ered the stranger. as he picked uo his grip. "Even what I think of it as a last resort would not look we: in print." BEALIH 1 SELF-MADE INVALIDS. Iu searching about for the esuseee e.t various diseases, moderu men of science have found that not a few ailments arise from poisons made by ourselves, or at least made within cur own bodies. This process is appropriately called autointoxica- tion, or self-poisoning. In other diseases, again, there is no manu- facture of poison, but there is is maladjustment of parts, or more or less deformity, the effects of which the system endeavors to correct, with the result of a strain to the nervous system that oftentimes Froils ruin to health or even to rea- e i. Intestinal autointoxication is one of the greatest producers of morbid symptoms or actual diseases, run- ning from headache. dizziness and indigestion to various mental dis- turbances, nervous breakdown or even actual insanity. Self-poisoning from the waste products that ought to be eliminat- Ed through the kidneys is also very common, although in this ease, the kidneys being actually diseased, the headache, blindness, convul- sions, coma and other symptoms are regarded as symptoms of the kidney disease. Nevertheless, thoy are in reality due to autoiutoxica- tion. The disease due to defective eli- mination through the skin aro nob se definite or so easily recognized. The function of the perspiration is probably more to cool than to eli- minate, although some waste is doubtless castoff through the skin. There is a tradition concerning a boy taking part in some celebration whose entire body was gilded, and who speedily died from the effects c•i closing all the pores of the skin. The story is probably made up, bub the lesson it teaches of the need of free elimination through the skin is valuable, and ought to be hoed - ed. Another source of poisoning or of reflex nervous disturbance is the teeth. Decayed teeth, especially decayed roots, have occasionally caused deafness or blindness, and the reflex irritation from teeth set too close together or growing in abnormal directions has been known to produce serious mental disturbance. Tho chief lesson of the discover el autointoxication as a factor It the causation of disease is that one should bo examined regularly, once a year at least, by a good physici- an, and every six months by a com- petent dentist. Thus it is possible to detect the first signs of defective elimination or poison production before any great damage is done.— Youth's Companion. ALUM PURIFIES WATER. If water has a slight taste or smell it is impure. Filtering is then not quite enough. A small piece of alum to each bucketful dtawn will purify. water wonder- fully and conduce to health. Water should be all negative—without taste smell, color, or deposit after standing. FROG WITH ('OAT OF (.OLD. Beautiful Little Creatures 'that Haunt Australian Trees, In the lobby of the reptile house at the Zoological Gardens, Lon- don, are now exhibited some speci- mens of the golden tree frog (Hy- la aures,) from Australia. This beautiful little creature has n shin- ing green skin, marked with spots of a golden color. Of tree frogs there are numerous species, widely distributed, and all remarkable for their brilliant coloration. In most frogs the skin of the under sur - five of the body is smooth : but in these creatures it is granular, be- ing pierced by pores through which moisture is absorbed into the sy- tem. In the breeding season these fogs and reinstated tho students taking make for the water. In the winter part in the riots in Moscow and St. end in bine of drought the hide in mud or under stone or the bark Petersburg in the preceding win- of trees Like chamelons. the frogs ter. are subject to rapid changes of a All the grand duchesses speak et, so that the tants of their skins English, French and some German Harmonize with those of their lin- besides Russian. From an early mediate surmur.dings The resem- blance titer have all had les ons '•n between these frogs and the piano playing, drawing and paint- ing All four are excellent riders. .After their lessons and games they always spend an hour or so.work- ing at knitting and embroidery. For Christmas they work all sorts co gifts for relatives and friends. Last year the Czar received a ket- tle holler from one of his daugh- ters with an inscription worked In cross stitch, "Polly. I'ut tbo Kettle On," oil() two of the other girl, went into partnership and knitted him a pair of slippers. foliage of the trees in which they live is striking. Being distinguish- ed only with difficulty not only pre- serves the tree frog from attacks its presence is not easily detecte� by the small creatures which form it, natural food. Not drily flies, spider s and beetles. but moths, but- terflies and caterpillars are in- c'luded in its hill of fare It le mighty hard to he patient The Russian grand 4uchesses with the sins we promo a in others. have been brought up with just the same simplicity which has marked the childhood of the little Wales children. Indeed it wag only late - 1y that they began to retlise their rank. The magnate of the Russian nursery is the young Czsrositeh. Some folks are never sure of tae All his sisters bow before him and love of God unless they are sitting bis will is law. on plenty of thorn& The hapyy,mess of a hpasa depends net nn what ie in it, but „n what Ifs in 111. t 4'