CHEETA 



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CHELTENHAM 



In the United States the production of 

 cheese, including that made on the farms, 

 amounts to about 300,000,000 pounds a year. 

 About one-half of this is now produced in 

 Wisconsin. The exports, approximately 17,- 

 000,000 pounds, are greatly overbalanced by 

 the 30,000,000 or 40,000,000 pounds imported 

 from Europe in normal years. Many foreign 

 brands of cheese are now made with consider- 

 able success in the United States. 



Food Value. Cheese long had the name of 

 being a very indigestible substance, and later a 

 saying gained currency to the effect that 

 "cheese digests everything but itself." But ex- 

 periments have proved conclusively that by 

 most people cheese is easily digested. Occasion- 

 ally there is a person who cannot eat it, but 

 there is scarcely a food, however wholesome, of 

 which the same may not be said. There are 

 also highly nutritive qualities in cheese, which 

 contains a large percentage of tissue-building 

 and of energy-forming substances. As a heat 

 producer, cream cheese ranks high, and should 

 therefore be used more in winter than in sum- 

 mer. Its fuel value averages 2,000 calories per 

 pound, or almost three times that of an equal 

 weight of eggs. Just because of this high fuel 

 value, cheese should not be eaten in large 

 quantities. See CALORIE; FOOD, subhead Chem- 

 istry oj Food. E.H.F. 



Consult reports of state or provincial Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Stations (or Farm), also Tear- 

 book of U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



CHEETA, CHEETAH, chee'ta, or HUNT- 

 ING LEOPARD, lep'ard, a large cat of the 

 African jungles, three or four feet high, and 



about the length of a leopard. Its limbs are 

 so slender and its body so long that it is 

 the quickest animal known for running short 

 distances. Because of this fact it chases its 



prey, and does not crouch and steal upon it, 

 like most of the cats. Tawny-colored, black- 

 spotted, excepting on the throat, the skin of the 

 cheeta is valued for wearing apparel by the 

 chiefs of African tribes. 



The cheeta is also well known in India, 

 where it is tamed and trained for hunting. 

 Like a falcon, it is held in leash and kept 

 blindfolded until the game is seen. Then it 

 is loosed and it makes a quick dash for the 

 animal, which it holds down until the hunters 

 come. The Crusaders introduced the cheeta 

 into Europe for this purpose in the fourteenth 

 century, but it is no longer so employed. 



CHELSEA, chel'se, MASS., in Suffolk County, 

 is a residential suburb of Boston, three miles 

 northeast of the city and connected with it by 

 the Boston & Maine Railroad, electric lines 

 and steam ferries. The Mystic River, which 

 separates Chelsea and Charlestown, a part of 

 Boston, is crossed by a long bridge. The area 

 of the city is two square miles. In 1910 the 

 population was 32,452; in 1915 it was 43,426, 

 including a large element of Jews, Irish and 

 Armenians. 



Chelsea has a Federal building, erected in 

 1908 at a cost of $125,000, a courthouse, city 

 hall, state armory, Carnegie Library, United 

 States marine and naval hospitals, a soldiers' 

 home and Ye Old Pratt House, a Revolution- 

 ary tavern. Although principally a residential 

 city, it has important manufactures of rubber 

 and elastic goods, foundry and machine-shop 

 products, stoves and furnaces, tiles and pottery, 

 mucilage and paste, shoes, woolens, brass goods, 

 wireless apparatus, lithographs, etc. 



The city was settled in 1626 as Winnisimmet. 

 A part of Boston from 1634 to 1638, it was 

 then incorporated as the town of Chelsea, and 

 became a city in 1857. The city suffered a $17,- 

 000,000 property loss by fire in 1908. 



CHELTENHAM, chel't'nam, an English 

 watering place, popularly known as "Asia 

 Minor" because of the numbers of returned 

 Anglo-Indians whom its mineral springs attract, 

 It is in Gloucestershire, eight miles northeast 

 of Gloucester and 109 miles west by north of 

 London, and had in 1911 a population of 50,035. 

 Its waters, efficacious in diseases of the stomach 

 and the liver, are its chief but not its only 

 claim to fame, for its educational institutions, 

 from grammar school to college, have more 

 than a local reputation. Cheltenham, despite 

 its age of more than eleven centuries, is dis- 

 tinctly a modern town, well laid out and 

 adorned with beautiful thoroughfares. 



