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The Brussels Post, 1925-8-19, Page 3The • „A.u.t.o.ffiob.ille GRINDING GIVES NEW L Automobile owners often wonder Why thole' Macbinee de net run better afterthey have been used two er three years, Good care has been given them, but soinotheig doesn't work just right. In many such cases the eyeln- dere need to be reground. When the automobile engine is built the inside e/ the eylinder is tinned to a perfect eirele. The pluton which elides up and down In the cylinder is false turned in n perfect circle., The piston cannot be fitted to form an air- tight joint because the temperature of the engine varies in nccordanee with the outside`-atlnosphore and theam- ount of heat generated in the engine itself. That is to say the temperature of the engine varies as the weather changes and also as more or less heat is generated in the engine to meet the demand for greater yr lesser power, Both the piston and the cylinder expand -and contract with the varia- trona in temperature, but not to the sante degree. Therefore a piston that fitted the cylinder perfectly at a cer- tain temperatvro would expand enough to atick fast in the cylinder at another temperature. Perhaps at still another degree it would fit the cylin- der so loosely as ter permit the gas to leak by making compression of the gas impossible. To secure a'gas-tight contact with the cylinder wall the piston is provid- ed with several flexible rings which expand outward and form a perfect contact with the -cylinder wall. They have sufficient elasticity to keep this contact as the cylinder expands and contracts dueto the changes in tem- perature. When the engine is being operated the piton slides back and earth in the cylinder and because of the construction of the engine the piston is forced with considerable pressure against the side of the cyl- inder. RESULT OF THRUST ON PISTON. The pressure of the expanding gas which produces the power for operat- ing the engine tendo to force the pis - eon straight out of the cylinder. But the resistanoe of the crankshaft which is connected to the piston by means of the connecting rod causes the piston to be forced with considerable pros- euro against the side of the cylinder because, during the power stroke, the alrank pin is travei3ng,through an aro at ono side of the centre of the piston instead of directly under it. As "a result of this side thrust on the piston there la a tendency to wear away one side of the cylinder wall. The rapidity with which wear takes place is affected by a number of fac- tors, perhaps the most important be- ing the perfection of the lubrication of the parts. As wear takes places the cylinder loses its true circular shape and be- comes oval. As the piston rings are not sufficiently flexible to fill in 'the "worn space, leaking is the natural re- spIt.. This leaking causes several ills. First, the gas which is being com- pressed passes by the piston, thus re- ducing the power generated by the engine, and as the gas condenses in the crank case the oil is diluted and its Ip'1, TO OLD CYLINDERS, .bibriefeting quality somewhat impair- ed,Second, on the auction stroke, • an excessive quantity of oil may be 'drawn pest the piston into the come bustion chamber, Where it burns, causing smoke and forming carbon welch,caueee, knocking 'of the engine. This carbon {Tato under the vaeves and {onuses lass of eompreeslon and short ciroulte the shark plugs, which in turn cameos the engin to miss fire, There has been much thought put . i upon methods of overcoming these troubles rnd conte temporary relief may be obtained through the employ - merit of some of the devices developed.. But permanent recovery can be ob- tained through restoring the cylinder to its original form of a perfect circle and fitting new pistons and rings to it. The most eatiefectory way of re- storing the cylinder is to regrind it, This is done by the use of emery or car'borunduni wheels en a machine' de- signed especially for thin work. This is a rather delicate operation and re- quires the service of a high grade me- chanic skilled in this line of work. When the proper grade of work is done the results are even superior to those attained in the new car at the factory. WIIn REQRINDINQ IS NEOESSABY. If the design of the engine is good and lubrication has been effective, re- grinding becomes necessary probably around 85,000 miles of use. Because of the feet that many users of pleasure cars find their machine of obsolete type during the months or years that pass while 86,000 miles is being ac- cumulated, regrinding has not been as universally done with this typo of car as has been the case with the automobile truck where efficiency and economy rather than style are the im- portant considerations. As the manufacturers of passenger cars continue to develop the one model idea rather than bringing out yearly models the styles will not change so rapidly. Then greater economy can be obtained by the owner by restoring his engine to good mechanical condi- tion instead of purchasing a new car. Many of the cars that are now traded in for new models are repur- chased at a low figure and the new owner does not consider them of suffi- cient valbue to spend much money on putting them in first class mechanical condition. ' However, although the mode/ may not be of the latest much trouble could bo avoided and greater satisfaction obtained in the use of ;a car of this type by attacking the source of practically all of the petty annoyances, namely, the worn cylin- der, This means regrinding. The whole matter of regrinding is something that every ` owner of an automobile should make somewhat of a atudy for there is a time in the life of practically ale motor vehicles when regrinding can be done to advantage. This is especially true if a person is a careful driver and uses his machine well and wishes to get the maximum number of years service out of it. There are places where a specialty is madeof regrinding cylinders and where expert advice can be secured concerning this problem. A Heavy Cold. Smith (on the scales)—"Can't toll why I should weigh more to -day than yesterday." Jones—"Haven't -you . just caught that heavy cold?" A Hope. It is to be hoped that all those who throw rubbish by the wayside continue their vandalism by aiming home great bunches of poison -ivy. Kew Gardens, London's famous hor- ticultural park covers 280 acres, 'A La Silhouette. The oldest silhouettes that have been preserved datefromCorinth in 700, but was known to be of much ear - Her origin. The name, however, was not applied to them until 1759, when one Etienne de Silhouette was French Minister of Finance. War had just left France in a state of great financial exhaustion and Silhouette insisted that the people remedy some of the finan- cial evils of war by rigid economy. During this period all_ Parisian fas- hions took the form of parsimony, Lace and ribbons were under the ban and coats without folds became the rage. In place of begemmed golden snuff boxes high and low used boxes macle from the plainest of woods, In- I stead of having great artists paint their portraits they portrayed the fen titres by drawing only the outlines in India ink. In that day all fashions were spoken of as "a 7a Silhouette," but the picture is the. only thing that has einem retained the name. More Grapefruit Wanted. British demand for American grape- fruit Is on the increase.: MUTT AND JEFF—By Bud Fisher. CROSSMORD PUZZLE CTRL INTLIINAT ONAL 0YNO10ATC. SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS -WORD PUZZLES Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure. Thee* ,will give you a clue to other words crossing them, and they in turn to still others. A letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either ' .horizontally or vertically or both. HORIZONTAL 1—A rook that splits Into slabs 6—Shaped 9—Particular account 10—Stringed Instrument 11—Future men 13-9mall face or surface 18—Strong .flavor 18—Viscous substance from pine 19—Exoresoence 21—Put an end to 23—Source of mineral 24—Filled with bullet wounds 25—To adminlater nauseous sub- stance 27—Existed - 29—Nothing but 80—Pronoun 32—Flies 84—One who forfeits 86—Spill 88—Ditch 40—Stoutness 41 -Agonies 42—Fright VERTICAL 1—Brlak 2—Clinging vine 3—Medieval slave 4—To discuss 8.4 -"Thread-like eubstanoe 6—Source 7—Indeflnite quantity 8—Railway station 10—Granted for temporary use 12—To examine closely 14—Confections 16—Apart 17—The common furze 19—More broad 20—Restore 22—Pastry 23—Immune 26—Spheres 28—Defeat 29—Deserve 80 -Desires 81—To send payment 88—Unmitigated 84—Part of t'ro ear 36—Meohanieal repetition 87—Game of cards 89—A elty of Scotland I.H.S. Glean, poet soul of Galilee, What truth could dim Thy radiancy? Why must we hedge and screen; and bind To separate Thee from Mankind? Thou, whom sad elnners made their own. How could they reach Thee on a throne? On Calvary Thy tortured brow No halo wore, nor neede one now. O simple -hearted, weary -eyed, We love Thee more undefiled! --Mildred W. Stillman. Consolentloue. The plumber worked and the helper stood looking on. This was, his first day. "Say, he inquired, "do you charge for my time?" Certainly, you idiot,' came the re. DIY, "But I haven't done anything." The plumber, to fill in the hour, had been looking long at the' finished job with a lighted candle. IIapdhng the two inches of it that were still unburn- he said witheringly; ed to the helper, 'Here. 11 you've got to be so dared Conscientious, blow that out!" Old He Need a Sea Voyage? A doctor was examining a mien wee had come to him foie the first. time, Satisfied at last, the doctor looked at him gravely. "You are in bad shape," he said, "What you need is a sea voyage. Can you manage it?" "Oh, yes," replies the patient. "I'm second mate pn the Anna Marie, just In from Hong-kong. Flea and its Food. A young flea can go without food for a week or two. From the Sea Bottom. Some surprising things come out of the sea, for it Is rich not only in fishes, but in works of art, Remarkable treasures have been ' dredged from the bed of the Bay of Naples, and only a few months ago a diver sighted a drowned city off the North African -coast. Now some poor Greek fiehermen at Marathon have raised a beautiful bronze statue which was, lying twenty fathoms under the sca. Experts say it is it charming figure of a boy, and belongs to the bast period of Greek art 2,300 years ago. It re- sembles the work oY the school of the greatPraxiteles, and Is practically per - feat. Probably it Is a relic of a ship• wreck, or was flung overboard in a storm. Sea -Gull. Bird of no other life than skies and sea, As I now watch you soaring overhead, I know that of wild waters you were bred, And yet I, too, em kindred of all these;. I mark your wings that are so lightly spread 'Upward and onward in a fluent ease— Are you the sport of wind,s that fret and tease, And are you by their veering impulse led? Or else upon unswerving purpose bout, Beating the winds back 'even as you fly, Lllce one on some aerial mission sent First east and, west, then north and ,south on 'high, 'Unheeding voices blown about the sky, Losing uncertainty in divine conteut? —Sally Bruce I{involving. Ter Detect Fraud in Oxide. Artificial pride on imitation an- tiques is het deteoted by means, of an eleotro-chemical process 'developed at the Columbia 'University school of mines. -iHts is A GooD oNe l A WORD OF FouR LGTTE--tee MGANING SoMtttlING You see oN A READ. Tete Ale/SWEi2 is HAIR, of coucese _- SBO' RAM .AIN't oNl ALL HeADS i Lem BALD : THAT styes Mr AN lbeA of A WAY to CONFVSe MUTT: hie oLAtms To .Be AN Ge.PGRV AV c12oS3 leol2D SWIM OF THE 1 HUMAN SPIN Moat peraoue bathe from habit or for the comfort Or pleasure they get trent it, and eeinparatively few know the rslattellshlp that 41E1844 between bath. Ing and Demonai health, veld Dr. Mat. thins Nicoll in a rotwut addresa. The skiu,in relation to being a pre- teotive covering, la tiro great beat-re- ;gulating organ of the body. When In health the temperature of the human body r"amatins. practically the same in heat of cold, in summer or in winter, whether a person wears no olothes or sewe himself into many garments. The akin through its pores and the many little vessels and nerves with which it is supplied automatically takes Dare of the body temperature, A Network of Nerves. A person runs, or is .out in the hot ' sun. Heal of the body follows, The network of little nerver reports the fact to the skin, Its mesh of capillary blood vessels dilates, water oozes out; evaporation of the water cools the blood at the surface, and it returns to the interior to .stabilize the general body temperature. At another time the same person sits still in a cold room. His body radi- etes some of its heat Into the surround- ing atmosphere, and were It not for the heatregulattng power of the skin hie temperatumo would deep. But the nerves report the fact to the skin, and Um small blood-yeasels there begin to contract so that lees blood is at the surface to be ccoled. The nerves also report to the muscles, and they begin to tremble and shiver. This causes the production of more heat. If the poresofthe skin are complete- ly stopped up (as they were is a his torical case of a child whose body was oovered with gilt paint), the person' will die within a short time, due to in- terference with the boat -regulation mechanism. Perspiration goes on con- tinually, generally insensibly. One notes it particularly if he wears a rub- ber coat, or when heavy shoes or gol- oshes are worn, for he finds his cloth - lag or Ms stockings wet or damp. Keeping Glean and Fit, So we bathe (1) to remove the re- sidue of this fgsetusibio perspiration;'. (2). to keep the pares open; and (8) to produce a definite environment tem- perature for our comfort—a 'hot bath ! to add -warmth to the body or a cold bath to lessen the bodily heat, A' warm or hot bath will often soothe a person weary with effort. A. cold bath I or cold sponge often brings sleep to a feverish, nervous person. The smaller the body the greater re latively is its radiating surface. So we protect the tiny infant from contact with a too low temperature or from; draughts, which 'very readily evaporate' the insensible perspiration; futher-' more, we do not bathe him at a tem- perature much below that of his body. Delicate persons who make little ex- ertion often find cold baths upsetting unless they get a good muscular reac- tion by vigorous shivering or extra clothing immediately. The heaethy athlete, however, takes hie cold show- er, hastens the needed cooling of his body, and thus strives to be clean and fit. There is no general rule for bathing, Society, however, demands that lta sense of smell shall not be offended by the dried residue of perspiration, other' wise the person dripping with perspira- tion might merely rub himself dry. o _ Answer to last week's puzzle: - 13WISSIR MU ©Ili ,o©©© QmI ar a t . t Q N W FW�AIMp� rs©U©©II a UNWNEraMINN Mn Ettimmuhirz, IMM Uf�alanC1 t fl1U dnUD poulakngmmlamun Photographing the Stars, The faintest stars visible to the naked eye are of the fleet magnitude, while with the largest telescope' photo- graphs may be made of star's as faint as the twenty-first magnitude. The way to cure a reckless driver Might be to sentettoe him to wail: for a while, With gasoline stations going up every hand it won't be long until crib?'y ear owner has his own private Tillig station. Half the world woudeus now the other haat ma0agee to live and keep ' an automobile, When radio experts eliminate the . sound of static within they'll still face the problem of eliminating the sound of Fords without, Route of Lord ttyng The governor-general's trip north- ward from Peace River Oroeaing cul- minated with his arrival at Aklavik in the delta of the Mackenzie river near Beaufort Sea, a subdivision of the Aro- tic Ocean. In all, Lord Byng will have traveled about 2,000 miles over waist - ern Canada's great inland waterways. The above map Showa his route along the Peace, Slave and Mackenzie rivers. Natural Resources Bulletin. The Natural Resources Intelligence Service of the Dept. of the Interior at Ottawa says:— One wonders se he travels along the railway, what becomes cf all the old railway ties that the suction gangs are constantly taking out and replac- ing with vete ones. Occasionally a fire is seen, when these old ties are being burned, but the greater portion of thorn are used by the railway men for firewood. It is the enormous quan- tity 64 these ties, however, that are required to keep the railway lines in proper condition, because, with the Heavy treble and the high speed with which they travel, it is 4esentlal that the roadbed be kept up to maximum efficiency. The provision of the necessary sup- ply of ties is apne of the problems with which the railways have to deal, and it le a very serious one. Rigid specs- flcations are provided, and a careful inspection is neceasary. When the millions of ties used annually is con- sidered, and that each tie has its pro- portion of the load to.,,amery, the nec- essity for this inspeettoh le apparent, In 1923, the last year for whish figures etre available, there were 14,- 764,880 railway ties out in Canada. Thane, converted into their ediiivalent of etanding timber, represent 177,177,- 960 cubic feat, with a value of 918,- 228,547. Railway ties vary in length from 8 to 9 feet, with a thickness of front 6 to 7 inches and a width on top from 7 to 10 inebe , }yhils they varyof in grade accordingo the pur'po,9e for which they are to be used. Some of the tics are sewed or hewed on top, bottom and sides, while *there are Sawed or hewed on top shd bottom only. During recent years the Canadian railways bevel undertaken preserva- tive treatment of their ties, creosote being largely used, There are a num- ber of plants situated thso. shout Canada for this purpose, mai Ixiil- lions being thus treated annual (. ;t is claimed that the life of the tees is doubled by this preservative treat- ment. This is a big factor to the eget of upkeep of the railway lines, es the prices now being paid for lea are a heavy charge against operatThe lengthening of the lite of the ties, fprthermore, redubes the cost Of changing them in the roadbed, and will also reduce the supply of old ties available) for fireweed. In Northern Florida there are sgnle places where water, travelling under- ground from higher levels, spouts out with sufficient energy to drive turbo- generetors. Jeff Conf goes Mutt With a Bit of Rew.ola'se English. MUTT, A WoRb of Foot . LETTeceS MEANING SOMGTFUNG You sec- oN SoMe tfsAbsi r - v4WAT IS IT? Auto Teeth. Lolly — "Tha girl has Franklin Teeth," Pop—"How comes" Lolly—"Air cooled," 51 a girl really makes. up her mind to drive a oar nothing can stop her" An experienoed tourist ie one whoQ can' tell whether tyre a picnic ground or a dumping ground. If there ace no cuss words in the Orinase language, how do they etaet Lizzie on a cold morning? Lady Driver (at a garage)—"Do you charge batteries here?" Proprietor—"ure.we do." "Then put a new one In this car and charge it to my husband." "He was. a man of many parts," said the engineer as they gathered upthe pieces. Once the drunk tried to hold up the lamp -post; now he seeks, to climb it with his car.. Where would the world be to -day if 11 were taken by taxi drivers to as many wrong numbers as. it gets over the phone? To the autolst It is pest to be sure yeti are right and then stop. Hoge are worth more on the hoof, but ever lase and less •behind a steer- ing wheel. In the grade crossing league the loco- motive knocks out all the home runs, Girls used to marry for wealth. Now they seem to be satisfied with a mort- gaged home and a seOond hand cal'. We have our parking law !n town, but on the country roads, the sky $eems to be the sparking limit pulsing Mgteriet (to man etanding di.oaonsoletely beside a stalled ipa- eleeee—"What's the trouble, partner?" The Dia+coneolate One—"The blank- ety-blank guy I bought ,this ear from Wap a faith healer and there aren't any tools in it," There is no parking space along the way of the transgressor. The Proper Term. To qua eoasternation of the "Diego, 1 �on h taken n in in les- sees, Deefertueetely Alice's voice was not her most fascinating feature; in fact, rt might be described as her one bad point, eeeethellise, a ei ger she would be. Qg.e day her fatheb' came in from the field utter ectedly. He entered the house lir lits quiet manner and gazed wop4eringly eCee-ei'd the sitting room, !role which emahated curious, pounds. antt lest he oeaeroelod his emotions turned tq bis wife, who had ap. peered tram the 'cellar with her flu. Sure, lA her IV'S\ "My dcasaid Jplles."what is the cause of that extraordinary comm., then do the Bitting rote?" "That, Bob," replied his wife, "is Alice cultivating her voice." "Cultivating," echoed Jonas—"cults. vetting be blowed l That's harrowing!" Laugh It Off. If you're wprsted in a fight, Xaughitof TP y p'c� cheated of your right, aughitoff. lieu tt *;lake 'ut'agedtee 0f tr#lies, Don't shoot butterflies with Laugh It oft? If your week gets Into kink% L 110%11'4 gh it ofa i (1 you're near all sorts of briults, lees b it of •`e'' 1f its sanity your'rs after, LrPholrp's no i'setpo lilte laughter, T,augh 11 cit. Anonymous F^t.. The district visitor wassI' ipa1tiv/ ing with a shopkeeper who ltisdjust lost her husband: "i'm ante, Mrs. Griggs," she said, "you mirth him very Much," m'eu," said the beroavea, "le certainly do sewn strange to go lute the shop end find something in the till."