PEANUT INDUSTRY

The first peanut oil factory in the United States will soon be established at Norfolk, Va., with a capital stock of $60,000. The company has issued a prospectus in which they calculate that the receipts from five tons of peanuts will amount to 225 gallons of refined oil, at 50 cts. per gallon; 3,680 lbs. of flour, at 2 cts. per lb. and 3,680 lbs. of meal, for stock feed, at 60 cts. per hun-

vour. I rarely have a coal fire more than died, which will make the gross receipts

twice a week, each time cooking sufficient for the following intervening days. At present I make bread once a week. In this way on five days in the week all I have to do is just to heat something in frying-pan or saucepan, or in basins in the cooker over an oil stove.

I call it good results to attain to such health and intensity of vitality as I am now

$415.90 per day. It is estimated that this will give a yearly profit on a five-ton fac- tory at $19,725. Peanut flour can be used for making bread, cakes, biscuits, etc. and is one of the favorite articles of food in the hospitals of Germany, according to the re- port of one of our consuls. — New Ideas. Peanut Soap, It is said that much of the imported castile

enjoying after years of vain struggling for soap is made of the oil obtained from Afri-

recovery of health by means of drugs. To can peanuts. It is now proposed to make

keep my own house in order and yet not be the soap in America from the oil of Virginia

a slave to it all day, and every day ; to peanuts.

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THE INFLUENCE OF FOOD UPON CHARACTER.

ByT. R. Allinson, M. D.

Naturalists know that if the pupa of the ordinary bee is fed on Queen Bread it de- velopes into a queen bee and not into an ordinary bee. Observant people also know that when their household dogs are fed on meat they are more vicious and uncertain tempered than when fed on non-flesh food.

Believing as I do that man is &ugivorous by nature, then it follows, if such a belief be correct, that man will only attain his high- est development of mind and body when he confines his diet to that obtained from the vegetable kingdom. In the British Isles we have, roughly speaking, three nationali- ties. The Scotchman is the tallest and heaviest ; the Englishman is second in weight but third in height ; whilst the Irish- man is second in height but the lightest in weight. The Scotchman is learned as a rule, and fond of an argument. The Englishman is reserved, and inclined to be choleric ; whilst the Irishman is credited with being a jovial and light hearted indi- vidual. We know that Sandy feeds much on oatmeal ; John Bull eats largely of flesh ; and Pat mostly eats potatoes. If a fairly healthy child be fed upon proper foods, at proper intervals and not given too much, he should grow up to be about five ft. eight in. high and weigh between 140 and 154 lbs. At 25 he should have all his teeth in his jaws, be sound in wind and limb, have all his senses in good working order. To at- tain a perfect bony structure the young must be fed oatmeal, wholemeal, barley meal, niaize, or some other farinaceous flour. If the husk or protecting part of the grain be removed then the food is not rich in bone- forming material. Children brought up on white bread and given the starchy product

of the gmins do not get enough nutriment for their bones.

When a child is fed on foods which con- tain all the nntriment required by the various organs, it will be in good condition and able to see the relation oi itself to its surroond- ings. Its blood being pure and containing the right constituents will nourish the brain and the child will learn its school lessons properly, and will also take iu qnickly the lessons to be learnt from all nature around it. But when a child is improperly fed, much of its energy is wasted in digesting, absorbing, and destroying the wrong foods taken. This will result in the child being slow at learning. The properly fed child is full of life, fun, and mischief, and when its life is properly guided will grow up an intelligent citizen and a humane person, considering the rights of others as well as his own . He will enjoy himself in a ration- al manner and not interfere with the enjoy- ment of others. But the badly and improperly fed person will become peevish, selfish and exacting. He is the only person to be considered, and he tries to get every- thing for himself.

Those who have experimented with a non- flesh diet have found the brain becoming clearer, the ability to study increased, the spirits brighter, and the temper milder and more under control. The sleep re&eshes more. The influence of tea and coffee is to excite the brain, cause us to bnild castles which are very real at the time, but when the action of the nervine irritant has passed off these castles are found to be castles in the air indeed. Flesh meat of any kind makes the eater acquisitive and regardless of the rights of others. But a man who lives on a non-flesh diet will have a clear brain in a healthy body. He will work enough to produce food for himself and his family. — 4 Spanish place, London, W. Eng. March,

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