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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.
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