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SUGAR: A BLUNDER
AND A CORNER
(Philadelphia Ledger.)
All reports agree that strong ef
forts will be made in the next eon
grt ss to undo some of the follies oi
tin- lust congress. Among other fol
lies that cry aloud for attention Is the
igur tariff. The only things which
congress succeeded in accomplishing
by its free sugar program were to
uisturb the sugar growers of the Uni
ti cl Slates and cut millions off the fed
eral revenue in the shape of sugar
duties. It did not, as everybody who
buys sugar knows, reduce the average
price of that necessity. Now there are
rumors of a speculative campaign aim
ing to control the supply of raw su
gars. The consummation of such a
scheme can only profit the originators
il the price of refined sugar is ad
vance. Thus we behold dear sugar
upon the table, coup’ed with a loss in
future of tens of millions in revenues,
and all for what .' Nothing except the
gratification of legislators who had a
political campaign mapped out and put
it into effect. Congressional incompe
tence rarely goes so far as this. No
benefit to anybody in the United States
on tile one side, no bars against a cor
ner and a rise in sugar on the other,
and on top of all a big deficit in the
United States treasury, if free sugar
meant cheap sugar, something might
be gained. Unfortunately, there is no
guarantee that It will ever result in
an> such thing.
ARE WE GROWING WEAKER.
tNew York Tunes, l
\ ital statistics indicate that as a
body Americans are physically dete
riorating. If the present indicated
trend of physical decline in the power
cf the American people to resist the
wear and tear of modern life continues
tin- time will come when we will have
to depend upon a weak, soft muscled,
l'lliisy tibered people for the defense
of l lie republic and the perpetuity of
tiie race.
There are plenty of people who will
say that they have noted no such
tendency, but we cannot depend upon
observation In our own environment
f jr such Information. Nor must we at
tempt to Judge the trend in the nation
by cur observations in any one class
of people. We must take the Ameri
can people as a body. And when we
do this we tind the resisting power of
the heart, arteries and kidneys, which
work incessantly from birth to the
grave, has steadily declined.
These organs are breaking down and
giving way too soon. The increase in
mortality in three decades from these
causes has been about 100 per cent,
and it is confined to no particular
class or element of the population. It
Is increasing everywhere.
Therefore, while we are teaching our
men the manual of arms and how to
drill, is it not lmportan that they also
be taught how to live the hygienic life
and to avoid the deferable and pre
ventable diseases which are now
weakening and destroying so many
lived.
The American people are especially
In need of being taught how to eat
correctly and to get the habit of tak
ing natural exercise.
AthletlCB are popular. The people,
and especially the young, love to ap
plaud those who engage in athletic
sports. But the number of school
children and of adults in sedentary
occupations who actually take exer
cise or who practice settin up or
physique building exercises Is small In
our vast population.
In a sense we are a strenuous peo
jle. and yet the most of us are con
stantly In search of physical ease. We
have almost forgotten how to walk.
The extraordinary increase In labor
saving and time-saving devices and
the Increase in wealth have placed
an enormous number of American
people in the physically inactive or
1 sedentary class. This number is con
stantly increasing not only among the
well to do, but In our factories and In
dustrial plants, where muscular effort
1 less and less required.
I '1 he march of progress has become
a stampede. A physically weak na
tion has a good chance to be tram
pled under foot. The fact that the
productive working period of life is
apparently shortening is really the
most Important phase of the decline
in the defensive power of the nation,
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HOUSEWIFE’S
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tPictorial Review.;
* rencli markets you can buy
any portion of food you may wish.
.Nothing is loo small. No tradesman
s at you If you say, “M'sieu, 1
want one egg,” or "1 will tako a mi
quart, (which is an eighth of a poundj
of butter.” And It you ask for a half
'pound of meat, lie doesn't cut it to
weigh three-quarters of a pound, tuu
iion'i let him, and he knows it. Th
French housewife has been for gen
erations educating the French shop
keeper to sell in the way that she
would have him.
It is popularly supposed by some
people that there Is economy In buy
ing in bulk. But the French woman
says otherwise. She says that of a
large quantity some ul it is annus*,
sure to spoil, and in the end you lose
more than you have gained even by
your wholesale price. So she buys
ocr butter, as everything else, just
enough for the day. And sue has a
marvelous intuition lor guessing whui
that amount will be down to the very
sou. The test of her skill In house
wifery, she considers, is an empty cup
board at sundown. Then she requires
no ice to keep things over until the
next day.
The cost of Ice, which in many an
American household amounts to 11 a
week, would be an unthinkable extra -
\ usance In France. There is no Icebox
among the littlngs of the Paris kiteh
t ii. Instead, there is in every apart
ment the cold storage cupboard, set
In the kitchen wall, with shutters on
the outside, through which there is al
ways a circulation of air. A wire net
ting on the Inside of the shutter pro
tects the food from dust.
ALASKA SALMON
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As 1 suw the Admiral Watson taking
on thousands of cases of salmon at
iSeldovla 1 asked Mr. Randolph how
long the fish then being shipped had
been out of the water. He said: "Only
a day. They go from here to Seattle
and can be on your table In New York
in three or four weeks after they are
caught." Fresh fish!
Mr. Randolph said that one of the
choicest delicacies he ever ate was a
mess of breaded broiled hearts of the
big king salmon. Some of these fish
weigh 180 pounds each, while the red
or “sockeye” salmon average only
, ight pounds. "They taste like sweet
i breads," he added. “It is too bad
jthey are wasted." And so are the fine,
large livers, as big as your hand, and
the spawn which if It was sturgeon
eggs would command a high price for
i caviar. Rians to utilize some of these
products are being studied by Mr.
Randolph and by others. Another
, tidbit is the little chunk of sweet, ten
der meat lodged in the cheek of the
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I salmon, just below the gilts. The can
nery reserve such delicacies for them
iies and their friends, but the lime
will tome when they will find special
mention on the rncnus of the highest
,ji iced restaurants.
j l tie canary get ut wholesale only
about 1J cents lor a one-pound can
i toe best red salmon and only half
the price for Hie pink and even less
■ >r the while. The led salmon con
stituted only three-sevenths of the
pack, but three-fourtity in value of
.tie entire product The public pre
ters the red meat and is willing to pay
j iuuoie price for it, do much for grat
: .tying a taste.—John A. dleicher.
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