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THE CLINTON
N.EWS-RECORD.
1Artificial Light Is Na 'a ,
Aid to. Egg Production'
High production of eggs during
the summer months can be obtained
iavithout artificial lighting in the
,poultry house, announces R. C.
Ogle of the Cornell poultry -depart-
spent, who adds that the announce
hent may interest poultrymen who
,bre trying to increase egg produe-
Hon for the country as well as for
, greater income for themselves from
'their poultry.
"Birds that h t beenhave under
artificial lights during the earlier
Months of the year, outlay, in the
summer, the birds that have had
artificial' lights,", he says.
"Little, if any, gain is made in
annual egg production from present
quality poultry stock when placed
under artificial lighting,!'
Com •
paring results ofthe past
,two years, he announces 11 per
cent better -production from the un-
lighted tests : than from the, lighted;
ones, in the month of May; '9 per
Cent better
production .in: June;.
hearty 10 per cent in July; and near-
ly.10 per cent in August. I
Heretofore,poultrymen have
placed their pullets under lights ,to
stimulate egg production. Today,
with the better quality stock avail-
able lights are not so important,
Ogle says, as previously when it was•
more often necessary, because of the
quality of the hens, to stimulate egg
• production.
In tests, in California recently, the
pullets were found to live better
without the lighting. in tests on
pullet flocks, 6 per cent fewer have
died in the cases in which lights were
not used.
Hypertension Said to Kill
More Persons Than Cancer
If your doe"tor tells you that you
have a blood pressure of 130, he
means that you're all right on that
score. (Normal adult blood pres-
sure: 110 to 150,) He also means
that the pressure in your arteries
will drive up a column of mercury
130 millimeters high, or a column
of water about 5 feet 10 inches high.
Hypertension, or high blood pres-
sure, causes headaches, dizziness,
insomnia, leads eventually to hard-
ened arteries and overburdened
hearts. Hypertension kills more
people a year—some 375,000 in the
U. S.—than cancer. Specialists call
patients with high blood pressure
hypertensives."
Dr. Irving H. Page did not bother
with these ABCs of the malady when
recently he delivered a lecture in
Manhattan, on "The Nature and
Treatment of Hypertension." Dr.
Page, a top-notch high pressure
man from Indianapolis, showed that
great strides have -been taken in his
specialty in the short space of seven
years. Doctors used to take a de-
featist view of hypertension,
ascribed it to the "mere ravages of
physiologic aging," Treatment con-
sisted mostly in keeping patients re-
laxed and calm.
- Nerves, endocrine glands and liv-
er are all involved in hypertension.
But apparently it's the kidneys that
count most. The typical hyperten- 1
sive has clogged kidneys; his nerves
and glands are often perfectly
sound.
13y a series of ingenious experi-
ments, researchers found renin,
an organic chemical manufactured
by the kidneys, which raised the
blood pressure of animals,
Embroidered Life, Story i
Some people tell their life story i
in an autobiography, others paint it
on canvas, still others record it in
music or poetry.
But Mrs, F. A. Murray of Bridge-
water, N. J., has embroidered her
life's history in many -colored silk
on a piece of fine old linen in
three years.
The autobiographical linen is 38
inches by 20 inches and on it are
the highlights of Mrs. Murray's life,
from her birth down to, the present,
The linen was hand-woven by her
great-grandmother as a fine sheet,
and Mrs. Murray never would have
damaged it just to make a sampler.
But her son Alan cut it up when he
was young to use for a sailboat and
she used the leftovers.
More than 60 small pictures are
embroidered on the sampler, a few
are traced but most of them are
drawn right on the linen.
Tips to Libraries
Public libraries everywhere might
take a tip from the library in Dans-
ville, N. Y,, a town of 5,000 popula-
tion.
Up in Dansville, writers may
leave manuscripts at the library to
be read by the public. At the end
of each manuscript a blank page
gives readers space to record criti-
cism. Though the manuscripts are
not permitted to be taken from the
building, 60 were perused and com-
mented on at the library in a two-
week period.
This seems to be a good way to
help budding authors, give libraries
^extra reading matter without ad-
ditional cost, and give the public a
chance to read many things so new
they haven't even been published,
Vitamin Dosing
The public's indiscriminate dosing
of itself with vitamin tablets was
criticized by Dr. Russell M'1 Wilder
of the Mayo Clinic before the Insti-
tute of Food Technologists. There
is no evidence, he said, that too
many vitamins or an excess of ono
type of vitamin may not be -in-
jurious, in view of our limited knowl-
edge of the subject.
WTJJ T YOUR WAR SAVINGS
SCAMPS CAN ACCOMPLISH
$5 will let a soldier r r fight for you
with 100 rounds of rifle ammunition,
$10 will Stop a tank with one round
of 18 or 25 -pounder shells.
$20 buys a cannonade, of four 3.7.
each anti-aircraft shells.
feu will provide a 500-1b. bomb to
drop over Berlin or Berchtesgaden,
Men Wear Veils Among
Tuaregs in North Africa
It is an odd fact that most of the
worlds" continents have the initial
"A." This is .true of Asia, Africa,
and Australia. It is also true of
North America and South America,
in regard ga d to the. second part of the
name. Europe is the only continent
without that init'iah
The reason for Africa's name is
not clear. One theory is that it
came from the name of a certain''
tribe in northern Africa.
That tribe is made up of so-called
"Afrigha," It is one of the Tuareg
tribes of the Sahara desert.
The Tuaregs live mainly in the,
western and central parts of the
vast desert. They have villages in
some places, but many of them
spend most of their time wandering
about,
The skins of Tuaregs arewhite
or mostly white, but they usually
are fairly well tanned by the desert
sun. Their eyes are brown, as a
rule, but some of the natives are;
blue-eyed.
There is a veil custom for women
in some parts of northern Africa,
but this is not true of. the Tuaregas.
Their women go around without
covering their faces, except when
they are called to meet a stranger
andwish to shoe?' him respect.
It is the young men of the Tuaregs
who wear veils! They keep a piece
of cloth over the lower half of the
face. Chiefs and sons of chiefs wear
blue cloth. Others use white cloth
for this purpose.
The Arabs of northern Africa call
the Tuaregs by a name meaning
"Men of the Veil." The reason for
the cloth may be to guard against
the sand, of which there is plenty on
the desert!
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Symptoms of Cancer Told;,
Advise Prompt Treatment
"If you are fair -skinned and burn
or turn red instead of getting a tan
in sunlight, don't overdo sun bath-
ing lest in Iater life you develop
conditions conducive to skin can-
cers."
"A 'wart' on the back of the hand
that is inflamed more than a ordi-
nary wart is possibly the beginning
of a dangerous cancer."
"If you have a bluish black spot
on your skin that suddenly starts to
spread, have it out. It is cancer."
"A' persistent, thickening lump,
especially in .the breast, is a danger
signal. Suspect cancer."
These were pointers given by six
prominent physicians at a symposi-
um in Beverly Hills.
Speaking on cancer of the stom-
ach, most prevalent of all types,
Dr. Clarence J. Berne • warned
against "carcinoma phobia" or can-
cer fear, saying:
"Fear of cancer is harder to cure
in some persons than actual cancer
is in other patients."
Early recognition of cancer with
prompt treatment assures cures in
90 per cent of the cases, all the
speakers stressed.
"The terror of discovering you
have an operable cancer is not to
be compared to the thousand times
worse hopeless terror at discov-
ering you have sought help too late,"
warned Dr. Philip J, Cunnane,
speaking on breast cancer.
Telling Age of Fish
Telling the age, origin of fish 'and
how many times they have spawned
by their scales is a new technique
recently developed by Dr, R. A. Nes-
bit of the United. States Fish and
Wild Life service and David H. Wal-
lace of the Chesapeake Biological
laboratory of Solomons, Md.
The scales of fish show annual
growth "rings" ,much like the an-
nular .rings in trees, Fish scales
are better age indicators than teeth
in horses.
The portion of the scales shaped
like an inverted "V" which lies un-
derneath the skin reveals these
"rings." They show up as blank
spaces where the new scales were
not laid down due to slowed growth
during winter. It is necessary to use
a microscope for accurate results,
1,086 Dolls 'Motherless'
The recent death of Mrs. Mary
Anna Wherland in Fresno, Calif.,
left "motherless" a family consist=
ing of 1,086 dolls which she pains-
takingly collected and cared for -dur-
ing the past 40 years.
The collection occupied 30 show-
cases in the Wherland home and
included dolls of every size and na-
tionality, from all parts of the world.
Mrs. Wherland began her unique
collection when she decided to
keep her children's dolls as remem-
brances. Through the years she
added to this hobby until her home
became a little girl's "paradise."
The collection will find a new
home, with Mrs. Wherland's daugh-
ter in Eugene, Ore,
Patron of Rila. Monastery
Although Bulgaria's famous Ella
monastery has been pictured on
many stamps, a new stamp intro-
duces to philately the founder and
patron of this 900, -year-old monas
tery, Ivan Rilski, saint of the Greek
Orthodox church.
Pilgrims to Rita ' are allowed to
see and sometimes touch a mum-
mified hand, sacred relic. of St.
Rilski,' The relic is said to effect
miraculous cures.
Rita monastery is shown in the
background of the new stamp.
There are 14 churches and 300 guest
rooms within its walls. Views of
the monastery 'have• appeared on
Bulgarian stamps of 1911, 1921 and
the 1940 airmail issue, *.
111
THURS., MAR. 26, 1942
en eral
Colchicine Increases`
Growth Rate of Tobacco
Long used as a remedy for gout,
colchicine is a slightly poisonous
aklaloid compound which occurs in
the seeds^of the meadow saffron or
autumn crocus, Colchicum autum-
nale. Several years ago, Dr. Albert
Francis Blakeslee, famed geneticist,
of the Carnegie institution'sstation
on Long Island,; announced the dis-
covery of remarkable effects pro-
duced on plants by colchicine. 'The
drug causes a doubling of the
chromosomes (heredity carriers) in
the germ cells' of vegetables and
flowers, producing sharp changes
which breed true. It increased the
growth rates of tobacco, phlox, on-
ions, pumpkins, cosmos, radishes,
portulaca, digitalis. It abolished the
neck in bottleneck squashes.
Since then, scientists have pro-
duced a spearmint with lemon fla-
vor, bigger tomatoes, peaches,
strawberries.
Dr. Laszlo Havas, a Hungarian
biochemist working at the Univer-
sity of Brussels in Belgium, found
that colchicine affects animals as
well as plants. Certain bitterlings
(small fish) acquire bright red tints
when ready to breed. Dr. Haves dis-
covered that the change can also be
caused by colchicine, though more
slowly;. and that colchicine speeded
up the action of the sex hormones,
Recently David Burpee, enterpris-
ing Philadelphia horticulturist, an-
nounced a new marigold, created by
means of colchicine. Ordinary mari-
golds have two sets of chromosomes
in their germ cells; the new one
has four. Such plants are called
tetraploids. The name of the Burpee
creation is "Tetra Marigold"—or
Tetra for short.
Four inches in diameter, deep or-
ange in color, Tetra Marigold has
heavy, vigorous petals which make
the flower exceptionally durable.
Masai Warriors Pick Up
Homes, Take Them Along
In eastern Africa, near the Equa-
tor, live the Masai warriors and
herdsmen, AIthough they have dark
skins, they are only partly of Negro
descent.
Between the ages of 16 and 20, a
Masai youth is a soldier. Later he
marries and becomes the owner, or
part owner, of a flock of goats or a
herd of cattle.
Masai homes are made from hides
stretched over long poles. When the
people are about to start on a
march, they take down their homes
and carry them along. The folded
hides are placed on the backs of
donkeys, and the poles drag on the
ground behind the animals.
The leading men of the tribe may
have several wives. The favorite
is likely to be given ,a large supply
of ornaments, including brass or
copper wire, which she wraps about
her legs and arms. A large amount
of wire proves that the husband is
"rich," and the wife may find her-
self loaded down so heavily that she
can hardly walk.
Masai men are tall and their
bodies are well -formed, but often
they plaster their faces with red
clay or white clay, which does not
make a pleasant sight. Around
their legs some of them wear feath-
er anklets with little bells fastened
on. The bells tinkle as the man
walls.
Some Masai soldiers carry shields
covered with ox -hide. While guard-
ing themselves with such shields
they hurl spears at the enemy.
Spiced Coffee
Early records show that the first
coffee drink served in a New York
coffee house combined cinnamon
with coffee with. honey added for
sweetness sake. That was in the
year 1668 when coffee was intro-
duced in America for the first time.
Four years later coffee was being
made in the homes of New Yorkers
and coffee spiced with cinnamon
continued to be as popular a drink
at the home hearthside as it was in
the public coffee houses. Smart
hostesses are reviving the coffee -
with -cinnamon' drink at parties to-
day. It's "Coffee Imperial" now
and here's the 1941 version of the
New Yorkers' first cup of coffee:
Put dash of cinnamon in each cof-
fee cup; pour in hot, freshly made
coffee. Top with whipped cream
and dust with cinnamon.
Arizona Mines. Yield Riches
Arizona produced $2,500,000 in as-
bestos last year and a major part
of it came from Gila county, ac-
cording to Dr. T. C. Chapman, dean
of the college of mines at the Uni-
versity of Arizona.
Dr. Chapman pointed out that as-
bestos is one of the materials used
in defense of the United States and
said that of the 14 critical materials
nine are minerals, for which the gov-
ernment has set aside $400,000,000
for purchases.
He declared an increase in the
price of low-grade manganese to 65
or 70 cents per unit will be neces-
sary on a five-year market to in-
crease present production in. Ari•
zona of manganese, which last year
totaled 1,600 tons.
Fortune Teller Guesses Right
Shuffling her cards, a tea room
fortune teller in. New York city sage-
ly told Emma Gross: "You will
soon visit a large building and sign
some papers." So it came to pass.
That very night, Policewoman
Emma Gross visited Brooklyn-
Queens night qourt—a large build-
ing—and signed "sortie papers" un-
der which the fortune teller Bras
held for the illegal practice, ,
African Native Adopts ,.
Strange Method of Rest
Many of the dark-skinned natives
of central and southern Africa knew
how to raise crops before men from
Europe came to their lands. In-
stead of hoes, they used digging-
sticks.
iggingsticks. Nowadays they are provid-
ed
rovided with hoes which they have ob-
tained by trade with the whites.
The Belgian Congo is largely' cov-
ered . with :forests, but there are
stretches of grass land. When the
grass is dry, it is burnt and the
ground is broken up, with hoes.
Sometimes all the men and women
of a tribe take part in clearing the
land. The chief crops are corn and
sweet potatoes.
When the crops are growing, chil-
dren stand on guard, and are ex-
pected to scare away animals which
might do damage. They throw
stones, or shake sticks, at baboons
and antelopes which come near.
The hippopotamus is another ani-
mal which likes to visit gardens,
especially at night. To save the
crops from that beast, fences are
built. A hippopotamus might easily
butt down a fence, but he seems to
fear a trap and let it alone.
Another source of food is hunting.
Some tribes depend almost entirely
on the game they kill. Their weap-
ons include clubs, spears, bows -and -
arrows, throwing knives and
swords.
When fighting against other tribes
the warriors sometimes' put poison
on the tips of their weapons. The
poison is composed of juice from
certain plants or venom taken from
snakes.
African hunters kill elephants,
lions, leopards, and many smaller
animals. Elephants almost always
are captured in traps before they
are slain. Hunters of the Baganda
tribe are not allowed to eat the flesh
of elephants they kill, so they use it
in trading with other tribes.
Miracle Plastic Is
Perfect for Curtains
Imagine shower curtains which
will not mildew, crack, crease, rot,
fade, shrink or waterspot—and in
addition are the most heavenly col-
ors you ever saw and of a texture
you love to touch. Sounds too good
to be true, but along with the other
miracles of modern chemistry which
have given us such things as ny-
lon stockings and lucite furniture,
comes this new plastic for shower
curtains.
This is not a coated or textile fab-
ric, but is a plastic, similar to the
glass -like suspenders andbelts which
will stretch and then return to orig-
inal sizes. The curtains will. also
give slightly if pulled, but the cur-
tain always returns to its original
shape. There are window curtains to
match the shower curtains so that!
the bathroom may be ensembled.
`Cleopatra's Needle'
A plaque giving a few historical
details about "Cleopatra's Needle,"
the first explanatory notice that has
ever been attached to the obelisk
during its 60 years in New York,
has been placed on the west face
of the base of the monument in Cen-
tral park.
Many visitors had inquired of park
Lung Amputations Have
a Met With Great Success
Six yearsago a middle-aged Pitts-
burgh physician with cancer of the.
lung made a long, painful journey
to St. Louis to beg a crumb of hope
from famed Surgeon Everts Am-
brose Graham. Both doctors thought
that death was inevitable, and Dr.
Graham decided on a last, desperate
measure, never before tried in the
history of surgery: complete ampu-
tation of the cancerous lung in one
stage, An incision wasmade down.
the sick man's back, beside and be-
low his shoulder blade. Carefully
Dr. Graham slit through tough chest
muscles, removed sections of seven
ribs, neatly severed the lutnpy gray
lung high up where the windpipe
separates into two branches. Then
he tied the stump with a tight catgut
knot. Finally he stitched up the
chest muscles. To his great joy, his
colleague survived.
Four years later the happy Pitts-
burgh doctor attended a convention
of the College of Surgeons. Late for
the meeting, he raced up two flights
of stairs with a couple of friends.
To , their amazement, said Dr.
Graham, the only one not winded
by the climb was the doctor with
one lung. His healthy lung had ex-
panded, had completely filled the
hollow space in his chest cavity,
Since that first dramatic case,
hundreds of lung amputations have
been performed throughout the
world, with great success. "In suit-
able cases," continued Dr. Graham,
"where the cancer is not too far
advanced, the operation can be done
with a mortality of only 10 per cent.
When the cancer is advanced, how-
ever, the mortality jumps to 40 or
50 per cent.
Doctor Prescribes 'Lots
Of Whisky' for Patient
In artery ailments, such as arteri-
osclerosis or Buerger's disease, pa-
"tients are often attacked by muscu-
lar weakness so severe that their
legs buckle under them. To tone
up the muscles, doctors try to send
a large supply of blood to the legs.
For this they give drugs to expand
the blood vessels, injections of salt
solution, or even cut certain tracts
in the sympathetic nervous system.
As a check on the blood supply they
take the temperature of the skin:
if the temperature rises, they as-
sume that the leg is getting a large
supply of blood.
But Dr. Samuel Silbert of Man-
hattan's Mt. Sinai hospital has long
been dissatisfied with this method
of checking blood supply, He had a
theory that there must be a differ-
ence between the temperature of the
skin and that of the underlying mus-
cles. With Physiologist Mae Fried-
lander and Physical Therapist Wil-
liam Bierman, he tested the effects
of various common drugs on both
skin and muscle temperature.
Aspirin, the experimenters found,
merely raises the temperatures of
the skin. Tobacco is harmful: it
lowers both skin and muscle tem-
perature. In their tests they decid-
ed that the most valuable drug for
arteriosclerosis is alcohol, for it
sends muscle temperature way up,
"I make my patients drink plenty of
whisky," said gentle Dr. Silbert.
attendants, and of the department
by mail and telephone, what the
tall shaft of stone carved with
Egyptian hieroglyphs was. Accord-
ingly,the park department designed
a plaque, which the New York His-
torical society had cast in bronze
and which was set recently. It
reads:
"Cleopatra's Needle. This obelisk
was erected first at Heliopolis,
Egypt, in 1600 B. C. It was removed
to Alexandria in 12 B, C. by the
Romans. Presented by the Khedive
of Egypt' to the City of New York,
it was erected here on February 22,
1881, through the generosity of Wil-
liam H. Vanderbilt,"
Moving to Small Towns
A "back-to,the-country" move-
ment of population seems definitely
under way in Pennsylvania; but it
is not exactly a trek "back to the
land," H. R. Cottam, rural sociolo-
gist of Pennsylvania State college,
commented in reviewing prelim-
inary reports of the 1940 census.
More people leaving the big cities
between 1930 and 1940 appear to
have settled in small towns than
actually became farmers.
This shift in population may have
been partly a reflection of the close
business d'onditions which prevailed
during the decade. Current indus-
trial activity stimulated by the de-
fense program may bring a tempo-
rary reversal from the trend.
The population of the state as a
whole increased only 2.8 per cent in
the past 10 years in comparison with
1.0.5 for the 1920-30 period.
500 Alien Weeds
California is now playing host to
more than 500 alien species of weeds
that are costing the state millions
of dollars annually. Some of the
worst pests among them are com-
parative newcomers and one or two
new species are slipping across the
state boundary Iines almost every
year.
This estimate is made in a survey
of weed problems in the state by
W. S, Ball of the state department
of agriculture and Dr. W. W.
Robbins of the University of Califor-
nia college of agriculture,
Sortie 25,000,000 a cr
es of California
rangelands, ':says the survey, are
now dominated by alienplants
which have replaced mucb e"
native vegetation. fa
History Explains. April 1
Historical explanations of the fool-
ing on April I are quite varied. One
man tells us that the custbm came
from India centuries ago; another
that it is a relic of the time when
in calendar reform the new year
was transferred from April to Janu-
ary 1 and the jokemakers bought
"New Year's gifts"; others that it
is a survival of folklore in France,
whence it was carried to Scotland
by some of the gay lads who fought
for France when there was lid fight-
ing to do at home, In France, and
in French Canada, the victim of a
joke on this date is called "un pais -
son d-Avri1." In Scotland he or she
is a gowk, the local word for a
cuckoo, reputed to be the most fool-
ish of birds,
Depression Diet
, Despite hard times, U. S. diets
have grown more nutritious in the
past 10 years. Reasons: (1) more
home canning; (2) more truck
farming; (3) wide government dis-
tribution of such vitamin -rich foods
as oranges, 'grapefruit, milk, celery.
In spite of all this, the average.
U. S. diet has plenty of room for
improvement, especially in some
southern rural districts where the
people still live mainly on hog and
corn. In a survey made from 1934
to 1937, says Dr, Cummings, "out of
every hundred families throughout
the country, only 23 enjoyed diets
which, from the nutritional stand-
point, were good; 51 had diets which
were fair; and 26 followed poor
diets,"
Bats Have Extra Sense
Bats, which hunt their food at
night and fly at terrific speed, might
often crash into obstacles if they
had to rely on their eyesight. In-
stead, they have a mysterious extra
sense. Their ears, and possibly
the delicate membrane of their
wings, are so subtly sensitive to
changes of air pressure and sound
wave that they are able to "heal"
an object in the darkness before
they can see it.. Scientists recently
released a blindfolded bat in a room
ro sed
crisscwith a network s n r c o£ piano
wires. The bat—rendered truly "as
blind as a bat" by the bandage—
flitted about the room at top speed
for more than an hourandnever
touched a wire.
Freighting in China Is
Done With Wheelbarrow
For the most part, China is a land
of "hand -labor," Things that we do
by machine are done by hand over
there.
There' are railway trains in China
but not nearly so many as the coun-
try should have. It is a common
custom for loads to be carried on
wheelbarrows pushed for miles
;through the countryside, from a
farm or a village to a city.
Chinese wheelbarrows are not like
the ones common in our land. They
are built so that the wheel is not
so far tothe front,
The wheel is of large size, usuaIIy
from 2? to 3 feet high. Its axle
often is made of wood, and as the
wheel turns there is creaking and
squeaking.
In Chinese cities we find some
streets wide and well paved. In
country districts, on the other hand,
the highways almost always are
narrow, Some are barely three feet
wide and are fit only for wheelbar-
row traffic.
Loading his wheelbarrow with
goods weighing a quarter of a ton,
a barrow man may spend 10 hours
or more pushing it along.
Sometimes the framework on a
Chinese wheelbarrow is made in a
way that will allow people to take
seats on it. They sit back to back,
very much as passengers do on
Irish jaunting cars,
Certain Chinese cities have a fair
number of automobiles, but not
nearly so many as cities on our con-
tinent. Outside of the cities there
are few automobiles to be found in
China,
Vitamin G Important for
Healthy Nervous Tissue
Riboflavin, also known as vitamin
B-2 and vitamin G, is necessary for
growth and healthy nervous tissue,
as well as good digestion. Doctors
recommend 2.7 milligrams (1,280
Sherman units) for a moderately ac-
tive man of 154 pounds, 3.3 mgs.
(1,320 units) for a very active man,
and 2.2 mgm. (880 units) for a mod-
erately active woman of 123 pounds.
Children need from .6 mgm. to 3
mgm. according to age, and as in
the case of nearly all the vitamins
and minerals the expectant 'and
nursing another needs extra
amounts.
In general, the foods rich in thia-
min are also good sources of ribo-
flavin, with beef liver at the top of
the list with 1,000 units of riboflavin
in a quarter pound, and beef kidney,
840 units in a cupful. Pork and
ham are fair sources. Beet greens
have 250 units per cup of raw greens,
and there are 300 units in a cup of
turnip greens. Kale has 190 units
per cup and collards 100 per 2-3
cup. Other good vegetable sources
are beans and peas, mustard greens
and spinach. Four stewed prunes
will give you 260 units, and 12 straw-
berries 120, but they are far above
other fruits in this vitamin. Other
good sources are: six oysters, 180;
four sardines in oil, 250; tablespoon
of peanut butter, 200; 1 glass skim
milk, 65;- 1 glass whole pasteurized
milk, 62; 1 ounce cheddar cheese,
200; 1 cup wheat bran, 110; 2 table-
spoons wheat germ, 300.
Discover Tiniest Meteorites
Discovery of the three tiniest
meteorites on record, with a total
weight of less than a tenth of a
gram, has been claimed by three
western scientists,
Making the announcement were
Dr. Frederick C. Leonard, professor
of astronomy at the University of
California at Los Angeles, and Dr,
and Mrs. 11, H. Nininger of the
Colorado Museum of Natural His-
tory.
The minute meteorites were found
as the result of dragging alnico mag-
nets through a number of ant hills
near Holbrook, Ariz.
In the process evidence was dis-
covered that failing meteorites are
accompanied usually by showers
of meteoritic dust and sand -like par-
tioles, which, according to the scien-
tists, may niaik the beginning of a
"new and important" phase in the
study of meteorites.
Dispelling Odor of Cooking
When a cooking odor permeates
the kitchen, housewives have burned
cinnamon, old newspapers and any
number of household remedies, to
dispel the odor. But they don't have
to resort to these any longer, for a
very simple gadget has been put on
the market that does away with un-
pleasant cooking odors.
A simple glass container, that
holds a cup of water, is put, on the
fire. When it comes to a boil, four
or five drops of incense are dropped
into it. After boiling for five min-
utes, the heat is turned off, and the
odors disappear.. Clean, simple and
easy to use are a few of its good
points.
Thief Likes Soft Rugs
An ingenious thief accomplished hshed
an amazing act of thievery, accord-
ing to the manager of a Chicago
apartment house. Police, while ad-
miring the feat, ,would like to nab
him and ask him how he did it.
One morning, recently, the man-
ager discovered to his amazement
that sometime before dawn, a thief,
without disturbing any of the guests,
had quietly pushed tables, chairs,
ash stands and other furnishings out
of the way and then departed with
a 12 by 12 ankle-deep rug that was
in the lobby.
And the doors and windows of the
apartment are locked tight every
night. a+
Built Bath Building; •
• ` Used Once, Destroyed
The Roman Emperor Heliogabal-
us,.
gained a reputation as a
p n ccen.
Eric.. His meals were seldom dull
affairs. He often brought racing,
chariots from the arenas and com-
pelled his guests to drive them about.
the dining hall while he ate, There -
were compensations, however. Al
guest served a dish of fruit would.
find jewels and gold' also in the
dish. He would frequently hold lot-
teries during meals, a prize for one
guest being 10 pounds of gold and
for another 10 pounds of lead.
Heliogabalus delighted in uncon-
ventional means of transportation,:
often driving behind four elephants,.
or stags, tigers or even in a wheel-
barrow drawn by four naked worn -
en. For one of his processions the
streets were strewn with yellow
sand mixed with gold dust.
Among his many extravagant
shows and entertainments was a.
great naval panorama inwhich canal'
ships were filled with wine.
He built a number of elaborate.
bath buildings for his use, in which.
he would bathe only once and then:
order that they be torn down.
Like other emperors, he was con-
stantly aware that he might at any
time be assassinated, and to thwart,
his enemies, he kept by him golden.
swords, purple and scarlet cords.
and poisons with which he might.
take his own life. He even built a,
high tower of boards covered with'
gold and jewels, from which to
throw himself.
All of his preparations were in
vain, however, for, his aunt and
grandmother plotted his death and,
he was slain in the latrine. His body,
was dragged through the streets and
it was intended that it be thrust into
a sewer, but this not being large
enough, it was weighted and thrown
into the Tiber.
Newts Return to Water
Four Years After Birth.
Triturus viridescens is a U. S.
newt which spends the first three to
six months of its life as a water
larva, then—in some parts of the
country at least—comes out to take
up residence on land. On land the
newts are bright red in color, are
known as "red efts." During this
phase they are immature and can-
not reproduce. After three or four
years, they go back to the water,,
slough off the red skin of adoles-
cence, assume the olive-green garb
of adults, acquire the keeled tail of-
an
fan aquatic animal, and tackle the
business of parenthood, Question:
What impels them, after so Tong a
time on land, to go back to the wa-
ter? Scientists of an older genera-
tion would have answered "In
stinet."
Biologists Edwin Eustace Reinke.
and Claude Simpson Chadwick of
Vanderbilt university and the High-
lands, N. C., Biological laboratory
nabbed some North Carolina speci-
mens of T. viridescens in the imma-
ture red eft stage and implanted bits
of adult pituitary gland in their
muscles. Within six days the newts
went into the water and assumed
the adult body color and tail shape..
Indians Increasing
Ever since the Pilgrim Fathers•
fell first on their knees and then on
the aborigines, the American Indian
has been pictured not only as a
shiftless ne'er-do-well but as a deca-
dent, dying race. Many a genera-
tion of U. S. schoolboys has been
taught a stern pride in the taking.
off of such die-hards as Rhode Is-
land's King Philip. Recently In-
dian -loving Commissioner John Col-
lier helped explode the myth that
these first families of America are
vanishing. Said he: Indians are in-
creasing in North America more
rapidly than whites; Indians of the
Western hemisphere number 30,000,-
000. There were never more than
about 900,000 Indians in the U. S.
Since 1900 they have increased
from 237,000 to 361,000—up 52% per
cent,
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Vitamins in Salads
Since Biblical days salads have
been known and valued for their
health -giving qualities. There are
records that show that the Egyp-
tians cultivated such .salad foods as.
onions and garlic, and the Romans.
44 in ancient times enjoyed lettuce and
chicory.
Today we are urged by food spe-
cialists to eat some fresh, raw
vegetables and fruits each day, as
they are known to be excellent
sources of vitamins and minerals.
Salads offer such splendid opportu-
nities:for variety that they might be
considered the most logical place to
include the use of both vegetables
and fruits in the daily food require-
ments. Salads may take so many
different forms in a meal that vari-
ety is no problem; they can be used,
as the appetizer or "starter"
course; the main dish; a dessert, or -
they may accompany the dinner
course. What more versatile dish
could be found? , •
50 Years, 20 Miles
Two brothers, living only 20 miles.
from each other, have been reunited
after 52 years 'apart. John Burke of
Lincoln, Maine, and William P,
Burke of Millinocket, Maine, recent-.
ly met for the first time ,since they
became separated, in Canada in 1889
when John was seven and William
11, A daughter of John learned of
her uncle's' residence in Millinocket.
during a visit there and effected the, te
reunion. -