Westmoreland Recorder from Westmoreland, Kansas • Page 7

WHEN GROWTH STOPS. ira axmi am riimnv. leeeui uiscoveries mm eate that the thyroid and other ductless glands mysteriously control growth. New Orleans GRIM WAYS IN GUINEA. Skull! In Every House, and Enamies Killed In War Are Eaten.

Walter Goodfellow, who led a British expedition into Dutch New Guinea, says of the very primitive people found there: "The natives County Correspondence Reasons Why Ws Do Not Keep on Increasing In Statura. Six pounds and a half is the weight of the average child at birth; ut the end of t-he first year the average weight is eighteen pounds and a half, a gain of twelve orange; cereals oatmeal, crack! wheat, farinn, hominy, two three tablespoonfuls of one of theaw-cereals, with cream nnd milk; fg-B one to three, according to the of the child, cither soft boile scrambled or poached or in the fora of an omelet, or a lamb chop or fall for variety occasionally; one three slices of bread three-eight. -of an inch thick, with butter. Ten a. an apple, a banana.

couple of graham crackers or small glass of milk; one hour 5v dinner. 12 to 1 p. m. soup. wear no clothing, hut this needs to His Match.

"Richard Mansfield had a ready tongue," said nn actor in a Broadway restaurant, "but he often met his match. "lie once hired a comedian who is now a irreat success, but the be qualified in the case of widows in pounds, and at the end of the sec Matters of Interest Qatherea by a Corps of Reliable Writers from Various Parts of the County. ond year the weight is twenty-three pounds, a gain of only four pounds and a half. And with each successive year the gain is less and less until maturity is reached. Why is the gain less each year? And why does it finally cease altogether? The reason is that the absorbing Familiar.

But when in toncn of his great mourning. At such time a woman is very much covered up. She wears elaborate grass clothes, like a long mantle, and has a thing resembling a huge poke bonnet over her head. She also paints her (ace with yellow ocuer. The natives mourn for men, but not much for women.

At the moment of death a great walking or screaming is set up, and every love he would have smothered her with kisses she drew back. "Sir." quoth she coldly, 'no fa- WHALE MEAT IN JAPAN. Bold From House to House by Natives In the Villages. I suppose no question is more fre-ouentlv asked than "What does GARRISON Dr. Lovine was in Kansas City the latter part of last week.

Paul Carnahan spent Saturday night and Sunday ai Stephen Harris'. Jessie and Delia Bayles are visiting the Floberg family in Milton- nnd butter; meats rare steak, -tt roast beef, mutton or chicken (lii.r may be given once a week). T'r'Ti one-eighth to one-fourth of pcv Jii of meat should be given, accent', vi to the age and capacity of the cr; 1. Baked or boiled potatoes, with bet ter and salt or stewed with mvt, nnd a green vegetable, such as sp nch, carrots, string beans, gnaw peas, cauliflower, squash, a puree dried soy beans or dried peas, sy- milinrities." Vet even in that trying moment his presence of mind did not desert him. "If they are indeed familiarities to vou, certainly not," he retorted and bowed ironically, afler which, assuming an easy air, he betook himself off.

Puck. whale meat taste like?" It is a hard one to answer. The flesh lias a flavor all its own and quite unlike surfaces inside the stomach and intestines do not and in the nature of things cannot grow proportionately to the growth of the body as a whole. During the first year of growth the child's body becomes approximately three times as large as it was at birth, but the interior of the stomach and bowel of the lild at the age of one year is not even twice as large as it was at birth, let alone three times as large. "Yet all the nourishment which supplies materials for growth has to bo absorbed by the membrane which be given three or four times a at this meal, or baked beans may given, one to two tablespoonfu't and this will in a measure take place of meat; glass of nvUV.

Hominy or rice may he given Was a Mystery to Him. "Well. Hiram," said one farmer to another. "I'm sorry to hear the bad news about your woman Sarah. Is it really so that she has been taken to tin1 insane nsvlum?" "It certainly be," said the farmer wie larmer body covers himself with mud.

The dead are always buried in the morning about an hour before daylight. During the night the whole village evidently sit up wailing. One would start off in a quavering voice high above all the other voices, and they would keep this up for hours and hours. The dirge or wailing song which they chanted was most impressive during the silence of the night, and the tap-tap-tap of the tomtom accompanying it added to the effect. About an hour before daylight they would take the body off to bury it, and one heard this wailing with the regular tap-tap-tap of the tomtom gradually dying away in the distance.

"In their huts they preserved the skulls of their relatives. Dr. Wol- anything else. In the first place, it is not at all like fish. And why should it be, for a whale, although living in the water, is no more of a fish than is a horse or a cow.

True, eome species at times eat small fish, but it is not habitual with any of the larger whales, the food consisting chiefly of a little shrimp about three-quarters of an inch in length. The red meat has a decided gamy flavor and rather rensginds vale this week. Mrs. McAninch and children departed last week for a visit with relatives in Idaho. Roy Fleming of Carnahan Creek visited friends here from Saturday until Monday.

Anton Christopherson visited friends in Manhattan from Satur nr na lines the stomach, and especially the small intestine. It. is therefore husband, "and I don't it, Joe, how Sarah could have gone crazy, for she hadn't been out of tho kitchen a day in twenty Ladies Home Journal one of venison, but its grain is very plain that growth of the body as a a whole must gradually subside as the tissues to be nourished gradually approach a size at which their demands balance the utmost supply of nutrition taken up by the stomach and intestine. Another reason why we gradually cease to crow is that with the nd- coarse. The Japanese prepare it in a variety of ways, but perhaps it is most often chopped finely and eaten raw with vegetables, dressed with a uimrpjiuuniiiis), biiiiiii' um.t; i such as plain rice pudding, bread pudding, custard, blanc-mnnge, ice cream.

At 4 p. in. an apple, peach at pear may be given if the child hungry. Half an hour should betaken for supper, at from 6 to p. m.

bread anil butter and a g'cwi, of milk, or bread and milk, rrjij 5 with one of I he cereals, bread avt butter with jelly, fruit juice or sirup, a bit of cold meat or or scrambled eggs. laston and 1 went down another river and visited a very largo village where we desired to collect some 6kulls. It was always rather difficult to establish trade at first, but after the first shyness had worn day until Monday. Jeptha Bayles left for Pittsburg. last week to visit his two sisters, whom he has not seen for 35 years.

The show given in town Saturday evening was not very well attended. It was reported to be a rather bum affair. Miss Lissie Travis returned to her home at Jas. Brooks the last of the week after spending the Fourth with friends at Wamego. vance in years we are usually called upon to extend proportionately I more energy in the business and I pleasures of living.

The infant i which grows so rapidly lies most of off we found the natives only too brown sauce. One of the most common sights of a Japanese village is the peasants carrying great chunks of meat on pans swung from their shoulders, selling it from house to house or in the streets. The flesh of the humpback whale is most highly esteemed and in the winter sometimes brings as much as 30 sen (15 cent?) per pound. During the hot summer months, when the price of the meat is very low and it will quickly spoil, the greater part of it is canned. At One woman brought out the skull the slP.

most of lts cn 1 k-hr her 'u, K. Experiments show curious dif Unrestrained. The old tombstone, in the quaint fashion of its kind, implored the passerby to pause and drop a tear, and no sooner had the beautiful girl read the inscription than she begat weep. But her mother reproved her. "Cecilia," she exclaimed, "why snn yon not have more restraint' You are requested merely to drop tear, nnd here you have burst into leveral Puck! FEEDING THE CHILDREN.

Building Up Diet Recommended by a i New York Physician. Parents of young and growing children will study with interest the following possible solution ol the problem of what lo Iced then on. prepared by Dr. M. Sill, New York physician, for the Med ical Record Dr.

Sill suggests this I led .1 le hi compiling a diet for both lienllh and malnourished children: One hulf hour for breakfast, 7 to 8 a m. pIhsh of milk hnked mmW. Woeful Lack of Confidence. A prominent actor tells about v. Chicago theatrical woman alxmt wed who was one day amusing self by going over the To a friend who dineM- crcd her, prayer book in hand, a hi-' said "I always make it a point to this, for no matter how well yon may have known a pnrt in the Miss Nellie Weber, who has been working for Mrs.

Wiley Pucket this summer, has gone home for a few weeks' visit. the Oriental Whaling company's stations thousands of cans are made, filled and labeled, later to be own child and wished to sell it to us. Presently the whole village street looked like a Golgotha, all the people having put the skulls they owned outside their huts. They did not ask us to buy them, but they evidently hoped we would do so. Every house had three or four skulls set out in front of it.

Another time a man brought the skull of his young wife to sell. It struck me as being a particularly erewsome sicht. because he stood shipped to all parts of the empire. Martha and Bertha Carnahan of mttlllia OllU UCl inn Roy Chapman Andrews in Metro Mclntyre frewk visited the Thomas 1 ference between the amount of food necessary to incre.i!e any of the lower animals the same number of pounds during the period of growth. It was found that the amount for all lower vertebrate animals was practically the same, but that the amount for man was six times us much.

Also experiments prove that in lower animals .11 per cent of all tho food consumed is utilized for growth, while in man only 5 per cent is so utilized. Although aduit men are on the average larger and heavier than women of the same age, girls between the ago of twelve and fifteen are larger than boys of that usie. and Kjellin homes last week. I Dickens' Boyhood Woes. Johnston street, Somers Town, it should always be rehearsed lo fore the piece is revived." Then rather playfully, -die rend the word "Till death do us part." Whereupon her friend inie rupted: where the London county council i there for a long time with the skull Alice Kjellin returned with them for a few days visit.

Edith and Anna Southerland returned Monday from Madison where they have been visiting their aunt the past two months. Miss Edna met them at Topeka. now looiisn mat is, miu i -dear? Sounds like one hasn't aov confidence in tho courts placed a memorial tablet to Charles under bis arm. Dickens, was associated with what "The natives seem to attach no was practically the first ray of sun- importance to the lives of the wo-shine that broke through the cloud- men ve once 6(lw a man drowning ed sky of the novelist's childhood. a woman and rescued her.

We got Tt was in 1825. when Dickens waB nn tn the hunk, where she lav WWl BgitaTT'-W '1 Rial Clarence Nudson of Colby, but thirteen, that a sudden improve- for 80me time before she was suffi-who is attending business college ment in his father's finances en- cjently recovered to get up and in Topeka, spent a few days last Ubled the family to leave the Mar- crawl'away to the village. I could week with his parents. Url Nud-i Prisn a ouse 'n cite other examples to show that jonnston si.reuu rui wira, nuu ty.iB not an isolated instance or Piano Pointers! with him son returned to Topeka for a short visit. Had boarded out during nis ratner a cruety.

Cannibalism is not prac-nnpnfinn in t.hfi debtors' prison. 1 u. u- nAAnla aa a i- i ii ru iiv i lie minima uw A merry party of young people, meant the resumption of home ceneral custom, but enemies killed t. i. -i .1.

members of the me. it meant aiso reuei nuiu iuc nf ha Kl iirt-inor fnptrtrv. for consisting of young ladies' and young men or wna nnw h- to a fairly eood Bchool in the neigh in warfare are eaten." Chicago News. Returning the Compliment. A pompous laird advertised for a man to do odd jobs, and an old fashioned Scottish worthy applied.

The laird interviewed him person borhood of their new abode. The Dickenscs remained in Johnston If you are in the market for ti Piano any time within the. next year it will oay you to give us a call and look over our Big Line of Artistic Pianos. Every Piant is a masterpiece and fathered hy a legitimate Piano Factory. classes in the Sunday School about 35 in number, celebrated the Fourth on Carnahan Creek in the woods on John Grindle's farm.

Two hay racks were decorated with bunting appropriate to the day and with flags, banners and penantB waving, it was a gay sight. The day was spent in fishing and other sports. All reported a fine time. ally, was pleased with his acquire- ments and promised him the situa- tion. "And what is vour name, my street for four years, and descrip- i tions of the locality occur, it will be remembered, in "Nicholas Niekle-by" and "Bleak House." Pall Mall Gazette.

Monster Beds. Though the bed? of tho royal per sonages of England ere ela'-'-r-ite ly carved nnd hunt; wib ri'd. tains even so lute the period, it is recorded that Kin? 5 1 Correspondence Solicited. Write for Catalogues. The Recorder, ry VIII.

's bed ouined only man?" he asked. I "My name is Tammas Jeems Pit- tendrigh, sir." "Oh, but that's too long a name! I'll just call you old Tom." "Well, well, sir," said Tammas, "but fat dae they ca' versel', noo?" "Oh, my name iB Nicholas Duff Gordon Ogilvy." "l.osh me! Ye couldna erpec' me to mind sic an awfu' lang name as that. I'll just ca' ye Auld Nick 1 r- i beneath all its t.ru-:v riouf or si i 1 i 1 i der a to precaution? taken against the of intended mischief to the royal person in the making of the bed. for "The Only Thing That Will Relieve the usher was to search the strrv through with a dagger "lhat there be none untruth therein and to tumble over on the down bed for the better Bearch The bed of Henry VIII. was nearly eleven feet square, and of even more generous is the great bed to which Shakespeare refers in a well known passage in "Twelftl, Night," which was twelve feet square.

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