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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1950-04-20, Page 3Canned Lobsters �. . Come Out Fighting llcclu.;e rich epicures ail over tlmerieu are clamoring for New 1$uglaud deep-sea lobster's, Joseph It. 11tte±luuald lots spent $150,000 and teu years trying( to perfect a method Of-pa'ki11g them sn that they firrive ut and fighting after travelling thousand, of utiles. Be now cans theta alive. Lobsters resent stir travel. They nre subject to altitude "bends" and frequently die in tatlsit. A lord lobster is n WW1 loss to Ott epicure. They have to be killed,iuunediate. ly before choking if the full (fin flavour is to be retained. The high travelling mortality rate pushed up the cost of New England lobsters to exorbitant limits, Mr, r'facDonald got to grips with the problem hi 1939 by fitting up a laboratory and staffing it with mar. fee biologists: 32,000 lobsters were used in experiments before success was achieved. He won't tell the secret, but says that "a pinch of powdery substance in -the can of -fresh water does the trick," This sebatance contains six ele- ments highly beneficial to lobsters, So beneficial are they that the. big claws have to be pinioned before canning: Mr, MacDonald's firm guarantees that their lobsters will remain alive for six days after processing. Some have popped- out of their .cans in highly belligerent mood after spend- ing sixteen days hi hermetic con- finenlent. It's a wonder they don't open their own tins) Just What Is "The Milky Way"? "What is the Milky • Way, and why is it unapprochable by man??" There are two questions here, and I shall deal with the first one first: "What is the Milky Way?" said Sir Harold Spencer Jones, the Astronomer Royal, in a recent broadcast. L'his is a question that was much discussed until the observations of William Herschel, in the last decade of the eighteenth century, answered it beyond doubt. When William Herschel first de- veloped an interest in astronomy, ha bought a copy of Ferguson's As- tronomy, the best textbook of the day which passed through many editions The ahnost.contplete ig- norance of that time is reflected in Ferguson's. book, hi which twenty- one chapters are devoted to the solar system and only one to the stars. The then current knowledge . aatout the Milky Way is summed up in one brief paragraph. It says: 'There is a remarkable tract round the Ileavens, called the Milky Way frotn its peculiar whiteness, which was formerly thought -to be owing to a vast number of very small stars therein; but the telescope shows it to be quite otherwise; and therefore its whiteness must be due to some other cause.' Roger Bacon had asserted that the Milky Way in the sky is 'a meeting, or knot, of. a number of small stars, not seen asunder but giving light together.' Ferguson believed that the telescope had proved his view to be incoorrect, but he was unable to suggest any other explanation of its appearance. His negative conclusion was not much more informative than the view of the old Greek mythology that the Milky Way arose from a. few drops of milk which the infant Iiercules let fall from the bosom of Juno, When William Herschel was seized with a passion for astronomy, he decided to make a telescope for himself, because he was too poor to hut' one. He was undeterred b:' his early failures, and persever- until he was able to snake telescopes which far surpassed, in optical qual- ity, any that had been made pre- viously. ffaviug made a good telescope, ire turned it on the Milky Way, and Ile has recorded how 'the glorious multitude of stars of all • Clear the Tracks for Springtime—with a mighty "swoosh," a big rosary sooty plow bucks its Way itr the. yearly spring chore of opening th e Yellowstone branch line. Here, Old Man Winter's last stand is a solid one• Twelve feet of snow were Moved to dear the 56 -mile rail route for the rush for summer vacationers. possible sizes that presented them- selves here to my view was truly astonishing. ' So the nature of the Milky Way -was settled beyond doubt. The stars of which it is composed are so far away that they are individually invisible to th0 naked eye, but their number is so great that we can see their integrated effect. Imagine a candle being moved to such a distance that Our eyes are just ratable to detect it, and that, when 100 candles are put in its place, we should then be able to see a bright patch of light. Herschel explained also, why the Milky Way appears as a narrow belt stretching right around the heavens. It is because our stellar universe is in the forth of a flatten- ed disk, like a millstons. The radial extension of the system is much greater than its thickness. So in any direction in the Milky Way, we are looking through the system to its most distant limits; in any other direction, we look through a much smaller depth. The stars its the Milky Way are very far away. Remember that our sun is a star, and not a partic- ularly bright nue. But we should have to push it to a very great dis- tance before it became invisible. The distances of the stars in the Milky Wray have been measured. we take as our unit of distance tite light-year, that is the distance "twltich light light—travelling at 186,000 miles every second—would travel hi a year, which is about six million -million miles, the dis- tances of the stars in the Milky' Way are of the order of 10,000 light- years upwards. That answers the second part of the question: Why is the Milky Way unapproachable by than? If we could travel with the speed of light towards the Millcy Way (assuming that some suitable node of travel had been devised) it would take us several thousand years to arrive, The journey would take so nittclt longer than the span of hu- man life tilat• it is, obviously, quite impractible. A WHITE SPITZ dog and a Persian cat owned by Bob and Judy Nesmith of Dalton, eat from the saute dish. The dog always waits politely until the cat has finished her half of the food before starting. SEALING WAX coax TEST TUBE LIGHT OIL AND KEIio5±ae 111 — By Harold Arnett STORING GLASS CUTTER KEEP. GLASS CUTTER FREE OF RUST IN A TEST TUS? CONTAINING OIL AND KEROSENE. FIX CORK 011 CUTTER HANIdE ANb SECURE WITH SEALING VWAX.CORK REMAINS ON HANDL WHEN CUTTEIIis IH USE. AND SEALS II)BE WHEW CUTTER iS NOT IN USE. PRESERVING LEMON: KEEP LEMONS MUCH LONGER BY COATING THEM -LIGHTLY Wft'H PARAFFIN, New Theory About Migraine Headache A migraine headache is what most of us call a "sick headache," Sometimes headache ponders and rest bring relief; more often they do not. Wliat causes a migraine or sick - ache has been the subject of medi- cal discussion fur decades. Not 0110 of the hypotheses advanced in the past has been worth a 'teadacite powedr. Now comes Dr. tvlurray ni. Braaf in the New Yorlc State Journal of Medicine with a new ex- planation, one which he believes he has proved to he right in numer- ous cases. Instead of finding, the cause of migraine headache in the head, as most of his predecessors have done; Dr. Braaf finds it in the neck. In the majority of cases of migraine headache that carte under his ob- servation, tenderness to the touch. and X-ray pictures indicated a con- dition much like that which pre- vails when disks are dislocated in the spine. He inferred that an in- jury to the neck (a fall on the head, • on the back, on outstretched arms) was the cause. The fall may have occurred years before there was a Migraine attack. When the neck was injured, ligaments were apt to • give way, so that a disk between two vertebrae protruded. The dis- placed disk compressed the sur- rounding nerves and thus set up a neuritis, of which one symptom was a sick headache. If this eplatlation was •Correct, the obvious remedy was to get the protruding dish back into place by strengthening the ligaments and putting them to work. This is ex- actly what Dr, Braaf did. He stretched the neck with a pulley apparatus applied at the back of the head and under the chin for a few minutes. There was no pain. Large doses of vitamin B-1 were also injected to counteract the neu- ritis. Of patients whose neck were stretched at least three times a week for one to two months, 85 per cent reported relief that lasted. The results were evaluated on the basis of the frequency,. intensity and dur- ation of the attacks before and after treatment. THRIFT "To o rents of bicarbonate of soda fur indigestion at this tine of night," cried the infuriated drug- gist, 10110 had been aroused at 2 alio„ "when a glass of hot water would have done just as weal" "\Neel, wee1," returned McDoug- al, "0 thank ye for the advice, and I'll no bother ye atter all. Good night!„ PSYCHOLOGISTS, studyiug gorillas at the Bronx 'loo, found then( suffering front melancholia and recommended that keepers should force themselves to act jolly and so deceive the arcs into a shirr of happiness. New and Useful ..Too.. Brush Handles Handles of new paint brushes won't cake, roughen or blister fing- ers, is claim. Of plastic, handles have chisel tips to remove pits, blisters, (toles for stringing. * * * Mows Edges New gasoline -power "Sensa- tion" Mower which runs along fences, foundations for close cut- ting, eliminating hand work, says maker. This made possible by switching wheels to forward posi- tion. Front of chassis also folds to expose blades for weed, brush cut- ting. Has 20 -inch blade, uses 1.9- h.p. engine, or larger. * x, * Ring Clothespins New circular clothespins fasten clothes. to line by finger pressure on "trigger" inside pin. Ring de- sign enables housewife to clip sev- eral pins on fingers for easy carry- ing, say smatter. Of Celanese plastic. * * * Swinging Girl Clock New clocks have girl on swing for pendulum forward and back rather than sideways. Set in re- cess with Colored garden. Said to ' fit into most room interiors; self- starting electric movement; indi- rect lighting. Mantel, wall models. * 0 1' Scientific Boomerang New plastic boomerang can be thrown by anyone strong enough to throw ball, claims manufacturer. Leading edges beveled to work like ailerons of airplane; flies out al- most horizontally, veers left, re- turns, does a spiral like autogyro while landing. Measures 24 inches, goes up to 100 yards, is bright red for finding if lost; special reversed aileron models for southpaws. xl g Took Actress To Supper, The Couldn't Pay Bili kfow would the fauttuts beauties, ded Bhs4 a vivid and er0.crrairt- ing culled riot; of short biographies of people who did not marry. It was when Lady Portsmouth, thinking to nd+l ±0 1104 social stature, out on dee!, tunnrnitlg for tine death of a princely personage it. Flatlet to whom site was iu 110 4010 related. Nell lost no tithe in exhibitai.g her- self in public in tmrelieted black, burleaqucly weeping, explaining to enquirers that she was inconsolable over the passing of the ('Ilam of Tartary. Best of a Queer Bunch Nell was generally a winner in a contest of this sort. But sIk was no match for Louise 114 getting what she wanted out of Charles—probab- ly because site was not very inter- ested in money for its own sake. She was extravagant but almost recklessly generous. And of all the harpies who aut•1'Onnded the King site seems to have been the only one who was geuuiutly fond of hint, Stopped the Show Nell's reputation as an actress rests chiefly on tate diary of i'epys, an enthusiastic: and highly critical playgoer, He adored her as a woman and as a comedienne, but was very definite that she could not tackle tragedy. He speaks of "a great and serious part which she does most basely" in the "Indian Emperor," But in "Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen," he says: "There is a comical part done by Nell that I can never hone ever to see the like done again by man or woman." In this play Nell had a dance in boy's clothing that "stopped the show" and set a new fashion --all the Court ladies tool- to wearing male attire. Found Food for Convicts Even if there is no truth in the tradition that Nell was largely re- sponsible for the founding of Chel- sea Hospital, there can be little doubt of her Many charities. Highly practical they were, too. Among her other activities, she specialized in providing convicts with food, And very necessary this was, in an age when jailers were responsible only for seeing that their prisoners did not es- cape and not for keeping tl.ent fed. Charles must have worried over his Ne1l's lack of money sense. For as he lay dying he said to his. brother: "Let not poor Nelly starve." The request was loyally carried out: but Nell survived Mint by only two years more. - Even allowing for those rollick- ing days of laxer morals, Nell Gwyn cannot but be called a good woman. But she was a warm- hearted, generous creature, as be- loved by her public as by her Royal master. the most celebrated actresses of the past, strike us if we could (meet theta to -day? 'sVould Mrs. Siddons after some co:.ching in modern technique, (make the atone vivid impression 011 us that she (lid 00 her contempor- aries? Ong 2110 (could be, if anything, more of a 5111110t1 to -day than she was 10 her (Iw'11 time is Nell Gwyn, For she uas a cockney of cockneys, and the true cockney does not change, Her verve and vitality, quick tongue, devastating honesty, generosity; even her extravagances, would win London's heart to -clay as completely as in Restoration times. writes Charles Solomon in "l'itBits' Did She Sell Oarnges Next to nothing is kuown of her early life. Even the story that she sold oranges at Drury Lane is pro- bably untrue. Her father may have been a tradesman in Hereford or a soldier in Wales, The first hard fact costes from Nell herself, who admitted in the course of a quarrel with another actress that she had first made her living in somewhat questionable surroundings. Nell was contrasting her own faithful- ness to one man with her rival's collection of three or four— "though I was brought up to fill strong water to the gentlemen and you, a Presbyter's praying daughter." Nell never pulled her ,punches, even in the presence of Royalty. She was once enjoying a Uusman's holiday, watching a play with an admirer, when they discovered that King Charles himself was in the next box. Charles had already seen Nell on the stage. This closer view so enehated hint that he in- sisted on taking the couple to sup- per, bringing with hint his brother James, Duke "of York (afterwards James II), When the bill for the supper had to be paid, neither Charles or James had ally money and Neil's ttnlmtppy admirer ltad to settle. "Odsfish," cried Nell, "but this is the poorest company that ever I was in before at a tavern." It may have ben her gift for re- partee that so endeared her to Charles—himself a very pretty wit who did not object to being the source of wit in others. Certainly be enjoyed the duels between Nell and her chief rivel, Lauise de Kerouailte, the Duchess of Ports- mouth. At one time, when ft seemed as if the lovely Duchess of Mazarin might carry off Charles under Louise's nose Nell went into mourning for, as she explained, at the top of her voice, the'Duchess of Portsmouth's ruined hopes. Another of her japes at her rival's expense, which also concerned the wearing of mourning is quoted by Henelut Foss in his hook "Unwed- Self-control—The facial expression of "Tiger." is that of a cat who didn't eat a canary Tiger exercises almost perfect will power as three pet canaries stroll by under his nose. He wouldn't touch one of them for the world, but can't quite resist licking his chops. New Mosquito Boats on the way—Those hard-hitting, fastdodging PT boats of World War .Cr are growing up. Here is a ::ketch of the new all -metal torpedo boats to join the fleet is.e this year Much larger than current P'.1's, the new boats will have greater opera?ing rangy, more fire-power and bet ter stability in rough setts. BOU,PORD SAKES A!W&f WHAT IND 80±901±0 DO ATO 4IMI. 8 ,.(� V WHAT 15 17? WHAT'S THE MATTER WrrH M1WR PO •i ? pow it TOUCH 0171 M PLEASE DON'T TOUCH IT I 514 WHAT HAPPENED? DID YOU Dk09 $OMETHINO Ohl 1r? NO, NO, 1T JUST FELL ASLEEP! 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