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THE SIOUX OITY JOUENAL: SUKD AY MOBBING, MAECH 19, 1911. 6 Mali tfi- ouicade distillates rrae re wir.es. 'Swp win. e.s a physicians ti.cir hence their rrar r.r ncr whk even 1 1-c ii a 1 i -j -1 a 1 Vr.ited Statr? are the iv tit.r.t-4 x''f fciw of a i States hi-, be criticise It is -ca. that I Where Dr.

Wiley, the World's Greatest Food Chemist, Declares that We Overeat, Overdrink, Over-E very thing We Kill Ourselves with Alcohol, with Tobacco, with Soft Drinks, Avith Overwork, and Often with Sheer Laziness A Nation of Extremists, We Suffer Keenly Because of This Character-istip -Our Rich Men Overeat and Our Workingliien Suffer Horribly from Poor knawledge of the slmple5t rules of "dietetics. There fault in the Imperfect educational system by means of which young men in the United State? aro fitted to begin their battle with the world, so glaring as this fault of the omission from ttui education of our girls of the very simplest preparation for their work as housewives." We went back, presently, to the subject of intemperance In alcohol conump-tion. The proftrssor still held in ins htm the stein, half emptied now, tut not i than half emptied. He evidently thinks that drinking slowly is a l.abit v. the cultivation.

A Drunkard Nation, Too. "The word as npT''i' the consumption ot at! alC'-hoLe he saU, "usually mean, to it of nature, and sin always results in punishment of one sort or another. Her indulgence soon brings its sad consequences. Her wc-lght Increases a her p- r'A ft vjp aim. i yfe a fJvfi JIM "Host of them undoubtedly believed that they had passed beyond the possibility of any Waterloo, for most of them had won that victory which the American counts greatest, the victory which brings wealth with it.

But in plain, cold facts, their victories had many of them been empty triumphs, for, through the lives which they had led they had robbed themselves of many of the pleasures which their wealth, if they had spent it wisely, might have bought for them. There was not a single man In that distinguished group who was lithe or sinewy. There was not a man there at that banquet who did not measure more arovind the waist than he measured around his chest. No man ougnt to have a waist which measures more than his chest does. It is a DR.

HAEVEY W. WILEY. Harvey Washington "Wiley, the most famous food chemist in the world, who. In the following article expresses somewhat startling" views, was "oorn, according to "Who's Who," in and is the best preserved man of his age I ever saw. He is an Indianian.

His first degree (A. wa3 granted by Hanover (Indiana) colleRe, iniserr and since then learned degrees, actual and honorary, have been showered upon him by a dozen universities, including Harvard. Of several he has been a member of the faculty. He served nine years, from 1873, a.3 state chemist of Indiana, and became chief chemist of the United States department of agriculture in 18S3. He is connected, also, with the scientific staffs of half a dozen colleges, has been American representative to many chemical congresses in Europe, was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor of France in 1909, and has carried off a dozen medals offered by divers governments as tributes to his original-Icy and skill in research.

He is the author of a round half dozen standard works on chemistry-" American thf actual use of them whatever a world of i on the Ing of the tvy ar.e e' "prohibltir-n." "It is hard to say enough asair.st t. intemperate use of ale vile but I am ylaci to hav.j the v.n:: o'. iying what 1 mi. In fe u.e::: foolish i-ecj ie this co mtry n-. as we have ror.e in everything, far.

of course. He held the in oM in h.s hand sr. -1 looked at it with ot i' an a of 1 he si! a and u'. vj MU'-: lit put the vii touched stf.rs as he went on. a th-u; its feilows niht be trade him tcgnt it v.

rer-1 "Constant if 1 k-s of ah-ohvd. in hy lev er Went on ally, ding pretr.aturt?:;-, cither fi i i.t (A wnat i-t-TA hot i a i -r. 1 1 T. Induced by tl fir indulgence or th tough lack of that resisting pjv.tr of which tit-? aleuhol has robbed them. I am not ono of those who think a glass of pure ol 1 wine or mug of long l-evf necessarily, offer any tinea, to her.l;h.

i -As a matter of plain fact they do not. if i used reasonably. It cannot be dt nit-d, 1 r- 11..., rf erages Is a habit former, and. undoubtedly, one of the nv.st rapid formers. Little by little, if his temperament is so inclined, the consumer will become forgetful of the ill effe ts of Us excessive use.

And if this true of malt li it is at least as true of distilled lif.uors. "When ci'her one Is ir.ire and old and has been left lon in the wood it? original characteristics do, undoubtedly, be come so changed that it is quite impossi- Me to say that they weald be injurious to health, yet the continual use of them, of any alcoholic beverages, while they re- main improperly aged, or it they be pure, otinot fail to ho disastrous to the human body and human brain. I take my stein of leer. occasionally, a jdaee i like this, where I am certain that it is quite pure, and like it. Prohibition Perhaps Wisest.

"But perhaps the wisest thing, considering all sHle? of the question, the impurities of many beers and liquors, their habit forming qualities, the ease w.ti: which so mrny men and women form appetites for them and the disastrous consequences hh-h re sure- to come when they are used to at: excess, would be absolutely to piohioit their saio in th-United States us beverages. Cheap, adulterated beer made largely of malt substitutes, and cut cap whisky made of dilute alcohol have no rlt to mtr.ei:d them. They are used solely to prviucs intoxication." "How large a proportion of the lienors used in the I'nited States v.ouid come beneath a ban prohibiting the use of adulterated beers and liquors'-" I inquired. "I cannot tell exactly what ih? proportion would I e. but 1 admit will, real regret that it would certainly be large." "Larger than in other countries!" To my astonishment I'rof.

W'oey answer promptly that in this fault v. lead the world. "Not larger, I should say," said -v -0 otner country is doing as roue as we ara toward the purification of it hi- cohollc beversges. Although the quan- of njultcrat now UIKi the m- is to be deplored, the fact re- mains that we are making greater efforts than are being made in any other ruction of the world to prevent their manufacture and their sal. With malt liquors v.e have done already fairly elt.

End v. distilled liquors we have really accomplished much. Our beer-s. already, are hotter than the KngUsh. but they are inferior to the French.

We have pome bad habits In wine manufacture, this country of aldln The practice in juice before fermentation, or, even, of fermenting the pumice after supa- and water have been added thereto, make American except those produced In California, far more alcohullc than those of other countries, and far more alcoholic than they should be. The use of sugar in this way adds nothing to the wine but alcohol that Is, nothing but a poUonous substance. Happily the greater portion of th. wine? mad out In Cali- fornia are free from thw undoubted evil, except the sweet wines from that state. They, unfortunately, are often fortified with highly rectified and yet very impure militant suffragette as that? Why.

to tea the trun, tt wasn a at all; it was an 'ami," Mrs. Gilbert Jones, founder of the National League for the Civic Education of Women. When trouserettes were mentioned she looked reminiscent. "I remember when bicycles were so popular," she said. I did admire the bifur cated garments designed for women who 1 rode.

I said to onth I was in Paris at the time 'I should think all women would admire these bicycle trousers and want to wear Worth said, "but all women have not beautiful feet ajd Solving the Food Problem. New York World: A hen belonging to rv it 1 to s. l.eji i too i i i i i i 1 i i proceed by lack of exercise and gluttony and overidleness to wipe away enjoyment of their trophies and of life In general; that poor Americans, unable to buy much of the best food, spend what they can unwisely on that which does not give them the best value in strength building qualities, and thus make their condition worse. We Kill Ourselves in Many "Ways. If we are well we kill ourselves with stimulants to help us to enjoy a stimulated access of our strength.

If we are ill we dope ourselves with too much medicine, which, in the first place, is unwisely chosen and unfitted to correction of our ills. Not only are we drunkards, but we drink vile liquor. Not only do we smoke too much, but what a large proportion of us smokes Lj vile and much more injurious than properly prepared tobacco. "We are a nation of extremists," Prof. "Wiley said to me the other day in Washington.

"We are extremists In our eat-i g- -fenTo tLi u'g76ri nking," pta i working. And as a nation we are suffering from this, and shall, if we do not learn wisdom, suffer more." Prof. Wiley is the man who proved that we are poison eaters, and by means of what became world famous as his "poison squad" learned just how much the poison hurt us. The poisons were not popularly known to be a part of ordinary diet on our meal tables, but were, in fact, the various adulterants and flavorings used by the trade as definite component parts of manufactured, foods. The pure food law would not have been upon the statute books had It not been for Wiley.

A celebrated doctor told me recently that the man whom I am writing of had doubtless- saved more lives in the aggregate through study and through application of his specialties than Jenner saved with vaccination for smallpox, or than the men who wiped out yellow fever saved. That makes what Wiley has to say about our tendencies toward ruining our health through foolishness and ignorance decidedly worth heeding. I listened to. his calm, unprejudiced, and matter of fact arraignment of our nation, first at the handsome home well out in Washington, where he lives now since he has made the greatest chemist in the nation a complete and happy whole by taking unto him a wife, and, later; at the Cosmos club, a unique body of much more than social import, of which ho Is one of the real powers. He had just (By Edward Marshall.) SUICIDE is self destruction.

Then we- are a- nation of suicides, for we are continually destroying ourselves. I do not refer, now, to the small proportion of our people who hang, shoot or poison themselves, but to Wait. I do, emphatically, speak of those self poisoned. But I do not include in those I write of those who suicide in the ordinary acceptance of the term. I refer, rather, to tii whole mass of the peopl.

You will note the term "whole We are nearly all self poisoned. Which takes us back to the first paragraph. Recently Dr. Hamilton told me that we are a nation of drug fiends, now Prof. Wiley tells me that we are a nation of food, -drink and tobacco suicides.

"If you have read the brief biographical outline accompanying this article you are, already, well impresd that what Prof. WiieWavscali received as the utterance of one expert aliS to speak with rl authority. He is famet? at home and abroad as the greatest living 'Expert' on food chemistry, agricultural chemistry, and half a dozen Other kinds of chemistry. He knows. We suicide by drinking', not by drinking liquor, only, although liquor kills its many thousands every year, but by drinking many things besides whichr are not named on temperance pledges.

We suicide by- eating, not of poisons, only, but of good roast beef (those of us who can pay the price the trust asks for it), of bad raised biscuits (those us who are the victims of the average American cook), and of all sorts of things prepared as food which ought to be good tilings for us, but are not. TVe suicide by smoking-, not by 'usinir moderately the weed that cheers in Its pure form, but by immoderate use of vicious- preparations of it. We suicide by laziness, those of us who can loaf, and suicide by overwork, those of us who prefer to work, or are compelled to. And there are other forms of suicide of which Prof. "Wiley knows but will not speak, because they, do not strictly come within the line of his professional vision, although in a general way he grants that more Americans choke out their lives with worries tfian choke it out with ropes: that more good Tankee brains die atrophied from lack of exercise than perish from too constant effort; that rich Americans, grown bo through Dar.ee: may sv i a i -r i "It l- 1 i he 1 crt -of r.

i of h. ut." vth-rs far ar.d -i for fvair; le. so Cviled r. a i a as they co. deadly and j.

ah: tarohJ, t-i. sold an threat against w. enormous ard oft d-i lose 1 1 ks a l.t;r.d try, witi. thorlty. -j gerons q- of theso the coi.s-! have cour.tri-s Kr.giand.

el. pon the a i r. s- -n r. i to Tobacco ar.d "And i "The com men in the indica. tho our ea terated a he mos el sumption of harmful to tieular.

a I vice of smokir.ir i'. -not banish mankind the adulterated, i.ot we could get or. better ithout inveterate uroke the man who chews toU mo us chemist 1 okel v.u "In ti.e cons of mat kcd. ne Kletehe: Ism. whler, is rr.astieat is "L'o -R1 indulge in It would be We.

are. es I have s. Kvcn Ir. ficial a r.ia'.ter as a' go too far and pock! in many ir.s:-. our i- -much ath.letics is not too murr f-; few am a bel.e contests, I ts.at often help, l-ut -Som prc isK-r.

in -Lvrated in athletic r. ThLs would would the In other words. should be a ta everv and now" ti training of a omitted majority." Copyright, 1 I': Mrs. Susan island. ls 9 sv.

has rlaee.i window of a r.clhr.ore hen is a Brahma weighs our.es. It inches thick. 7s in -enee the long way, -tv ay. Proficiency Receg: Washington Star: teacher was endeavoring truthful. "Of course," he 5i does not yet read he strikes der wrons: -But," he added with plays der rests tenor voice, hasn't hen he talks he he.

fter dined when we met at his home dined well, but moderately, upon simple things. Down at the Cosmos club he smoked anO drank smoked part of 'one cigar, drank just one stein of beer. It was a good cigar, not doped; the beer was pure, un-doctored. Wherein both differed, he told me, from the cigar3 and the beer which are consumed by a large portion ofour smoking, drinking citizens. That, as we talked, he did these things, was characteristic of the man.

They were not evidences of an insincerity, but proofs of his sincerity. For the gospel which he would like to preach is moderation. Ouly what he thinks our national Jnsanity makes him an advocate of actual prohibi- "MoCeration," as a matter of fact, is thn i of tliis careful stu dent of the humanT the fuel which gives It power. A Drunkard Nation, We. He is too earnest to be genial, too plump to be an ideal soldier, too big of feature to be handsome, too wise to be deceived, be fooled, or be unjustifiably sensational.

"In the mere consumption of alcoholic liquors," he said, thoughtfully, "we are not the most' intemperate of nations. England drinks more per capita than we do; but still we drink too much, and what we drink is not the best of alcoholic beverages at all times. There probably are more teetotallers, proportionately, in the United States than in England. We are extremists, always. When we do a thing we do it with of energy We drink too hard.

If we drink at all; most of us who smoke, smoke far too much, and so it goes throughout our national life "We are far more intemperate in eating, for example, than the French or Germans are, or he Italians or the Aus-trians. This may be due to opportunity. It may, perhaps, be more due to opportunity than to a racial tendency. All mer- may be Inclined to overeat when nr "ood than they actually need is ph. before them regularly.

But he that as it may, we are the greatest over-eaters in the world, and we must pay the penalty for that and other sins of a like nature by being likewise the most dyspeptic nation in the world. Too much food kills our energy as too little weakens that of the more necessarily frugal nations." I had been talking with a man about our very poor and had been saddened by his tales of their sufferings. Prof. Wiley's sweeping statement that we eat too much was therefore somewhat startling. "I do not mean the laborers or farmers," he explained, in answer to my questioning, "although -I think but very few among the laborers iu this country-suffer from real lack of food, or need to.

I mean professional Americans, and Americans in business life and social life. A very large proportion of the prosperous in the Vnited States proclaim prosperity by means of gluttony, or the unwise selection of expensive but improper food. Watch the capitalist, the business man of average prosperity, the American professional worker. You will find him puffed, unhealthy, handicapped in body and in mind by his great greed for food, improperly selected and lmprop- erly prepared. I recall that not so very many years ago I was invited to address Farmers This club ia not what its name- indicates.

It is no aggregation of the horny handed agriculturists dwelling In the rural districts of the empire state, but is a social body made up almost wholly of the city's multimillionaires. They are all farmers, I presume. I have no doubt that every one of tVra holds title to a so called farm. Most of them are rich enough to own counties if they wished to. Napoleon Ate Himself to Waterloo.

"Well, there were twenty-five or thirty of them present at that dinner, and when I rose to make my address, I was really impressed by the picture which confronted me. That table was surrounded, not by men who took the utmost benefit out of their wealth and got the most advantage of it which was possible, but by a group of overfed and under exercised unfortunates, every one of them, or almost every one of them, a victim of his own Ignorance, physical laziness, overfeeding, oversmoking, and overdrinking, too. although, of course, there were no drunkards in this most distinguished party. "My first sentence to that tableful of millionaires was: 'You all eat too much. "They looked at me complacently and smiled.

And then I ended my address with a great truth: 'Napoleon ate himself to Waterloo' over the canned fruit left from the recent suffrage bazaar, smoothed down her lace tunic and shook her head. "The funny, notion people have about she sighed. "I suppose some folks really expect to see us come out in trouserettes. Well, we shan't." When asked which she would choose if obliged to wear either a trouser or a hobble skirt, the Jeacer of the state suffragist replied without the smallest hesitation. "The hobble skirt, of course." Dr.

Anna Shaw, president of the National Woman Suffrage association, while distinctly against the trouserette proposition, did not go so far as to prefer the hobble skirt. "I'm not going to wear trouserettes," she said emphatically, "but if I did I'd wear a pair of. them, and not Just one, a3 the fashionable women are doing today." Then -the national president leaned back in her and looked reminiscent. "It's strange sbo said, "how from the earliest days of the suffrage movement wanting to vote has always laid a woman open to the suspicion of wanting to bifurcate her garments. You know how the suffragists have always been caricatured mannfeh creatures with short hair, clumping boots and bloomers.

That Was as untrue of the pioneers in the movement as it is of the suffragists today. There never was a woman more fastidious, more exquisite about her clothes than Susan B. Anthony was. -She always wore soft white ruching about her neck and wrists and she had very pretty hands, by the way and never did I see that ruchlng anything but absolutely spotless. It never looked wilted, as ruchlng has a way ot getting on most of us after we've worn a piece a few hours.

When I call up a vision of Miss Anthony at. home I always see her putting fresh ruchlner in her dresses. "She never tolerated the smallest carelessness in the dress of the young women helpers in the cause. I once came, into her office, I romember, with one of the buttons on my basque we wore crocheted buttons in those days a Lit fra3etL I wasn't allowed to go on with my work till I had mended that button. In her later years, when she could afford it.

Miss Anthony wore soft silks and velvets. Like most Quakers, she loved bright colors, and in her house dresses she indulged thi-s taste, but In public, of course, she wore qukt tints. Anybody who connects Miss Anthony with the bloomer movement Is much mistaken. 'You can't carry on more txa. one reform at a time, she overeating habit grows on her, and her unwillingness to exercise grows more and more pronounced.

Her circulation becomes sluggish. That is a. inevitable as th result of any problem in near mathematics. Given a certain cause, we know what result is absolutely certain. And when her weight' increases and her circulation lags, her beauty fades.

Women Waste Their Beauty. "It is not Rood economy. Women are not clever managers of their physical Our men are bad enough, but certainly our women are mno'i we.se Beauty fade as quickly among our i J.H iui men. And fading bea'ily means, of course, that. like the men.

the women have lost health. So they, through their biid management of their own bodies, to say nothing of what their lives do in th way of robbing what might be the best of intellects of their fines? and rea 1 destroy with suicidal silliness the vei things on which they most depend for happiness. Oar women do not hold their beautv by a dozen ears as long a they might hold it if they willed to so and followed ordinarily wie Of daily routine." it seems to me, a pretty fierce arraignment of our prosperous of both sexes of our prosperous. Our men, through gluttony and iaziness, destroy their comfort and capacity for uefui-ness, oiir(womi rob themselves of hea'th und beauty by the same things overeating and sheer indolence. "Tell me of the less absurd among us.

I Implored. "Surely there are not, air.uni our workers, similar vices and absurdities. The drones may act like Idiot, but Prof. Wiley interrupted almost eagerly. It became quite clear, at once, that he found cause for criticism here, as well.

"It is quite true," he said "that the man with hoe and hammer rarely eats too much. There are two reasons for this. First, he does not find it such a simple matter to secure the excess food, and, second, the fact that he must dig dirt with hoe and strike blows with, the liam-mer means that he must take real exercise. Thus he is automatically preserved from two ills which the rich man suffers from the ill of gluttony, and that of slothfulness. Laborer Does Not Escape the Curse.

"But the worklngrrran Is not at all more likely to be wise in what he eats than his rich brother Is. The man who does hard manual labor is well sustained by very simple things corn bread and pork, for instance; but the corn bread should be far more prominent as a feature of his diet than the pork Is. Too often he reverses this and eats more pork than he does bread. Fat, starch, and su.ear are great producers of bodily heat, ar.d if one generates much heat in his own body, then he must work hard, expend much actual energy, to keep in good condition. The diet of the man who labors with his muscles should certainly contain more starch, sugar, and fat than that)f him who does not.

but it should be as well ooked. And there, again, find a rub by which the worklngman is far more the sufferer than the rich cooking Is a characteristic of our national life. -pp3reTrtly7 and many of our ills are due to it. Many of the evil rucvia v.wv.. 1 1 I.

a i. t-I irt nvpr. eating mignt more accurately ue hjci ni to unskilled or ca.eie:-. e-HjiMni. average wile Ot tno amencan wurmng- man knows less about the proper prepar-, ation of his food than does the wife of any other worklngman In any of the world's advanced, progressive nations.

We are a nation of bad cooks, and the workingman Is the great sufferer from this. "It seems that this discussion lias become, really, a statement of our national intemperances, and in the terrible Intemperance of bad cooking we easily lead the world. The rich man who establishes a fund and finds a way of properly administering it to teach good cooking to the women of this country will do a greater good than any man Iras ever done or ever will do by leaving millions to our universities. To found the greatest college that the nation ever dreamed of would be a work of little usefulnes-s compared to that. I shall now say something which the women will not like.

We have too many phuios in this country and too few cook stoves, to much Latin and too little really intelligent leavening of bread, too much high school French and far too littte all very well, but one must think of many things in this battle." Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch. president of the Women's Political union and engineer of the legislative work of the Equal rVanchlse society, could give oniy a brief -answer to the reporter's query about suffragettes and trouserettes, because, she explained, she was Just hurrying out. to buy a new chiffon waist to go and talk to some legislators In. "Trouserettes?" she said, laughing gently.

"No, I don't believe we shall take to "It has been suggested that suffragettes could fight better in trouserettes," the reporter said. exclaimed Mrs. Blatch, in tones of bland surprise. "But we do not wish to fight. Men are very reasonable, and we have only to convince their minds to get the vote.

That is what we are doing convincing their We don't need trouserettes. For myself. I shall stick to my comfortable and voluminous ekirts." They were not very voluminous, by the way, but quite modish, and so wes tle natty coat Mrs. Blatch wore. Of all the suffragists interviewed, Mis Inez Mllholland alone expressed calm -Indifference toward the question of clothes probably because she is the -one the Euffraglsts-always put forward when they want to show the public that they have youth and beauty on their side.

Miss Mllholland gave her opinion over the telephone. -I don't know anything about clothes," she said, "but I am quite. sure that suffragists do not overdress. Like alWsensi-ble, earnest women with work 40 do, they sensibly and efficiently. I know a great deal was said about big -hats and hobble skirts being seen on the suffragist side' at the hearing Albany last week, but it Isn't so.

I saw no big hats or hobble skirts there. Do fine clothes help? the least. The womaai whose speech had the strongest effect at that heartns had paid the least attention to-dress that was Miss Leonora O'ltellly. I don't mean that she was not appropriately and neatly dressed, but she wore the smallest adornment. Those men cared about what the woman saidnot what she wore." About trouserettes Miss MilholUnd "ouIJ only say: "Oh, that is xtoo sIU7 to be talked about." But In the general chorus of dnuncia-tion ot trouserettes there "one voice which refused to condemn I condition which may well any man the next nu-ai JTmi -m V' 1 as your waistband is shorter than your lung band you need not foar fatty degeneration of the htart.

Our Wicked Dinners. "But. as I have said, almost all Americans who can afford it overeat. The fashionable dinner of the well to do American is not wisdom, it ia wickedness. It Is not only a ein asainst health, but it is an outrage of dietetics." "Tell me," I suggested, "what a proper dinner is?" I'rof.

Wiley looked up and nodded first at- me and then at a well fed member of the Cosmos club who looked in on us through the door. "Our dinners are far too elaborate," he answered, "and they are ill assorted, ill proportioned and ill cooked. No dinner should have more than one principal course, consisting of, for Instance, a roast of beef, potatoes, and, say, spinnach. These may be Introduced, pet haps-, by soup, not too rich, which occasionally may bo followed by a fish, and after the roast may come a salad and a cup of coffee but not daily. Just occasionally.

"How many rich men dine as simply as all that? Not many. And in consequence the rich men of this country are paying painfully the penalty for the bad habits Into which they have so generally fallen. It would be interesting to note just what the ratio is between a million and the deatli rate. The number which starvation kills throughout this country, or which underfeeding kills, is mighty small compared to that which overfeeding and bad feeding kill. The dinner I have outlined is enough for any man, no matter how rich he may be." Now it is a curious tiling that most important people when asked to criticise America and Americans, whether the critics be of native birth or of foreign birth, begin upon our women and first tear them to tatters.

Prof. Wiley had begun upon the men, which was another proof that he habitually thinks along original lines. I now asked him, though, if he did not have something of advice to give to women. "Oh, yes," he said. "The women make the same mistakes the men do.

The American well to do woman is as apt to overeat as her husband Is. I think, indeed, that she Is even likelier to." He stopped in thought a moment, perhaps because his marriage looms not too remotely in his past, although I may be wrong about this. At any rate he paused for quite a time before he answered wvn -nly. however, he spotreToldfy, confidently-CJ? apparently without the slightest fear dT consc'jehecs. Our Women Lead Appalling Divesr "Perhaps I had better-not say that exactly," he went on at length.

"It might bo just a bit more accurate to tay that she Is more likely than the man is to neglect to exercise. The inactivity of many women's lives is really appalling to any one who understands the great importance of systematic exercise. Fashionable women rarely give themselves a chance. They are far too likely to depend on artificial exercise on massage and such substitutes. Only a small proportion of them seem to understand the absolute necessity proper exercise.

The rich American man's lire Is physically idle, but the rich American woman's life is far. far more so. AVhen she goes from place to place she never walks she has her motor ready for the littlest journeys. While the Is young she takes such exercise as her fun forces on her. Even the exercise of dancing, the potential benefits of which are often nullified by bad and heated air in crowded rooms, improper and unhygienic hours, unwholesome diet eaten at unhealthful times without the least regard for its relation to the exercise.

But as she gets a little older, and, marrying, becomes a matron, even this slight exercise Is dropped and she does practically without. "The result of such a life Is. of course, inevitable. It Is a sin against the mn. used to tell us.

"Woman suffrage is our work; we mustn't go off on the side isnue of drtsa reform. A few suffragists did wear Mrs. Amelia Bloomer's invention when she first got it out, but not for long; they didn't like the notice it attracted. "I don't know much about dress myself," the national president went "on, smoothing down her serviceable gray silk skirts, "but it does seem to me. that so far from showing, any signs of coming out In mannish clothes a good many suffragists nowadays are spending too money on feminine frivolities.

They spend more on clothes that might be used to better advantage in other waysv And their -doing it has a bad effect on the poorer women of the cause, who, seeing their well to do coworkers in fine clothes, long for fine clothes also." "Xo such thing," chorused the four or five women gathered at the headquarters of the woman suffrage party, in the Metropolitan tower," when the reporter called there and repeated Dr. Shaw's remarks about suffragists and purple and fine linen. "Suffragists have got to dress well to make the cause respectable," on of them went on. "And I am sure the poorer ones don't envy, those who can wear better clothes, than they can. There is no more democratic movement In the world than the woman suffrage move-ment." As Mrs.

Carrie Chapman Catt, the "big boss" of the iarty. wasn't tlvire, her followers undertook to answer for jier vhen the "reporter Inquired anxiously: "Is the 'Loss' coming out in trouserettes?" "Mrs. Catt In You don't know Mrs. Catt, or you suggest such a thing," her followers chorused reproachfully. "Mrs.

pursued a young -slip of a district leader, an three-piece suit of dull maroon, ''is one of those who dress for the sake of the cause. High thinking and plain living come -natural- to her. and I suppose she seldom had more than two dresses at a time, one good traveling dress and one housj drc-ss, until Miss Mary Garrett Hay became her- business manager, and convinced her that her position in woman suffrage work, demanded more Impressive raiment. Now, as often as Miss Hay deems It necessary, she says, 'Come. Carrie, you must have a new gown' and 'Carrie' is led to a dressmaker's and Invested with one of thos-e silk affairs we see her presiding over meetings in.

Oh, we suffragists aren't going to let the arils come it over ns In dress. We've rot to looli.nlce. Brains are NO TROUSER SKIRTS FOR THEM Suffragists Have No Use for Bifurcated Garments. i feelings would probably be very like the feelings expressed by the suffragettes and suffragists who asked by a Tribune reporter what they thought about donning trouserettes for convenience in their battle for the vote. "Trouserettes!" shrieked Miss Harriet May Mills, president ot the New York State -Woman -Suffrage association.

"I've never seen the things, but I'm sure-they must be perfectly hideous. Shall I wear them? Good "gracious, no!" Miss Mills, who was discovered at the state headquarters in. a pale gray silk frock, domestically engaged In sorting i (From the New York Tribune.) ANYBODT who thinks that the suffragettes are going to take to trouserettes," anybody who expects to see a suffragette in trouserettes tellins the world from a soap box on a street corner that taxation without representation is tyranny, has only to mention trouserettes to a few suffragettes to find out his or her mistakes It vnight be exaggeration to say that trouserettes to suffragette are what a red rag is Jull, but if a dlg nifiel, ladylike hen pheasant were ad--ised (o pat on wattles and spurs her sxxj Utj' 4 1 MUSICAL. THE TEMPTEB. Papa Do you think Tommy disturbs our neighbors with his drum? Mamma I'm afraid so.

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