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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1929-01-31, Page 6Mannlg Rayon Rayon le se fabric suede trete ,t cone patina of wood pulp with vertone other vegetable substances, or len- over ends oe cotton, w140l1, by a cbem- icat Process, are transfov'ntod into song wiry fthers leaving a silky sheen. It le a practical fabric, and Is being used extensively with great satisfaction as. a substitute for real sills, Jt is poets - liar in one respect, in that it becomes greatly weakened when wet; alkalis and heat iihio affect it just as they do sills. This 008 not mean that it abould be classed as tin extremely deli - tato or, fragile material, but simply that special ,methods slrolild be em- ployed he lemidering,it. There are so many different types of rayon, fabrics that it is, possible to answer' the persistent question, "How should reran be washed?" only by one general statement, and that is that all rayon fabrics aro fine fabrics, and any washing, treatment which can be treed .011 tine silks may be used' on rayons, When to Wash --When to Cleanse Reset). fabrics shpuld be tested for color fastness before washing, just as are silks and wools. A safe test Is to squeeze a sample, or a small portion cut from an inconspicuous part of a ready-made garment, in clear luke- warm water for five minutes, drying it am. comparing it with the original material. If the colore do not run in plaia lukewarm water, the material is safe with the necessary cleaustug neu- tral soap. Rayons which fade to plain water should be dry -cleansed, Shall rayon be soaked or scrubbed? The question is ofteu asked, "flow can you get the dirt and soil out of rayon if you don't soak or scrub it?" White rayon may be soaked. but col• Dred ones are likely to became streak- ed or smuclgetl if soaked even for a sliest time. 1Tany colored rayons stay be washed innumerable times; in respect to the dust and soot present with ue perc'eptibie fading which In the air that it is impossible to give would run and streak if soaked even any set intervals at which curtains for five or ton mlrutee. One doesn't should be washed. The action of light ec'rub and rub silk; and wools—why and air at open windows tends to do It with rayons? Simply dissolve weakens the threads, especially it the enough neutral soap :lakes in hot curtains are exposed to them while water to teat the suds are lukewarm, soiled. The life of rayon curtains is that ie, ne a temperature between 95 lengthened considerably by frequent and 1i 1 degrees Fahrenheit. Put in laundering. No special method is re - 81 garments and wash them at once, qulred, if the fact that they are fine equeeeieg the thick suds through and fabrics is remembered, and they are t eotialr the material. Put badly soil• laundered accordingly. Shake the cur- ed (Mega through several fresh suds, tains to remove the dust and do any for dicey suds will not remove dirt. required mending before submitting to Wash rayons frequently, or as 8001 water. It is wise to measure the aur- as an; kind of soil appears. The tains before washing so that they may,. longer soiled rayon remains unwash- be restored as nearly as possible to ed, the more difficult It is to wash it their original size. Pin thin rayon cur- clean. Besides, the soil and stains tains to sheets on a flat surface to dry. tend to dull the colors and weaken the The heavier ones may be hung on the fibers, 'Washing will not injure it; line. In such eases, hang them neglecting to wash it may. Frequent straight and gently square the corners wae'iiug preserves the bright new ap- together so that the weight is evenly pearanea and lengthens its useful life. 1 distributed. Avoid hanging them out It is a cleanly habit and a safe one to on a windy day, for the slapping at the wash out rayon garments after each wind Is likely to break the threads of wearing, It takes but a moment to the material. swish the dainty things around in a bowl of suds, and they dry very readily. Rayons That Fade The colors colors in rayon materials are Honolulu.—The remnants of a fish not always fast, any more than colors trap built in 1350 by King Maileltulcaki are always fast in any other type of to supply food for his array and for material. When, In the fast -to -color the population of Oahu were uuearth- test it has been determined that a ed recently during dredging opera - color will streak or run the only thing tions in the Pearl Harbor channel. that can be done is to have it dry- Vast quantities of wood, torn loose cleave:;, or take the same extreme from tate sea bottom and brought to precautions in washing that one would the surface by the dredge scoops, take in washing colored silks, namely, were identified by Houoluln experts to wash each colored garment separ- as posts which were placed beneath ately, as quickly as possible, fn Buds the surface of the water more than verging to cold. Do not soak. Dry 600 years ago. 010 maps, banded quickly. Do not leave the artiede down through generations, co•robo- rolled up while damp. If these simple rated the location of the trap. precautions are taken, even the col- The trap was one of the largest ores rayon fabrics that are wont to and most impo>:tailt along the shore faire, ordinarily launder very satisfac- line outside of th present naval base. torfl,. Happily, too, the colors in It contained more than seventeen rayon fahrica are usually rich ,end kinds of wood, most of which were clam and, for the most part, fast to brought to Oahu from the island of washing. Hawaii. Some of the timbers in the Nothing can he done to set unfast walls were more than eighteen inches colors permanently. Soaking in water thick. They were sharpened and to which salt, vinegar, alum, etc., have driven into the sand end loose coral. been added is useless. It would cost Cocoanut leaves, braided between the the malmfacturers but a negligible posts, made the whole enclosure fish man to employ any of these simple tight. Most of the wood dislodged method of making colored fabrics this week was found to be in an , ex - fast to washing, and they would have celleut state of preservation, heen trhken advantage of long ago if The fish were carried into the trap by the ,action of the tide and were segregated by an ingenious system of pockets. which singled out the nehu, mullet and other small varie- ties. Sharks and -ulna went into other pens. Shadows cast upon the water were used to frighten the guar water does not remove the soap and ry into the jaws of the trap. Ioosened dirt etfteientiy. T11e soap holds the dirt and soli in solution, and the rinse water is intended to remove it. Complete remove' is essential for fresh,•ciean-looking clothes. Squeeze out as mu".r of the rinse water as possible in the hands. Never twist rayon or put it through the wringer. Roll it loosely between tarkislh towels and gently knead out the excess moisture. Gently shake out the wrinkles and pull the artfelee into shape. Dry on dry towels oe a flat surface, if possible in the fresh air. Do not dry near me cessive heat, such as a radiator or reg- ister, or in the direct rays of the sun. It is rat good practice to use a water softener when washing rayons. It is difficult to know just when enough has been used, and an excess Is sure to affect the colors, and some- times harm the fibers. The safest and most economical way to eaten the water is to use enough active, pure neutral soap to produce and maintain lasting ends after. the (lathes are all iu. Heayav or very'soiled garments "Couples who Have dilficuit.y'ht get - take more 800(1, 'tit g atone anywhere eventually try With al,lst 'ayes fab'.es the best the pawuebope. -, results are obtained in irgning by pressing thein oil the wrong' aide Walt R warm, 408 lint, iron, while Ile mate- rial is stili butte Marin. In the 0158.0 of thin dress materials, the garments pail generally be belied at once. Heavier ones dry readily if shaken for a few minutes after'taking tllelu from the towels. Knit ,underwear rarely needs pressing, but' 11', desired, 11 Should be pressed on the wrong side, Combinations of Materials • The sale rule to fellow iii launder- ing rayon which is combated with Due or more other fabrics. is to use the methed which is Best for elle , inose delicateof the fibers, A material is only as strong as its 111o8t fragile tread, and If this ,fact •is borne in mind, the tragedy of pulled or torn textiles Will nut be encountered; Cotton and rayon mixtures produce attractive and colorful fabrics at a moderate cost; their beauty can be preserved by frequent intelligent washing. It handled with reasonable care, white rayons will stay sparlctngly white throughout their lifetime, I{eep them spotlessly clean, Waslliltg does not yellow white rayons, Knitted Rayon Knitted rayon is a splendid, moder- ately priced substitute for real silk. Keep it fresh -looping by frequent washing, for stains, if allowed to re- main, are diilicult to remove. Knitted rayon garments do not readily resume their original size if once stretched, so care should be used not to let the weight of wet garments pull the material out of shape. Sweat- ers and other similar garments should be measured before wetting, so that after washing they may be stretched and pulled to their original size and proportions, and pinned to the towels on a fi:;t surface t0 dry. Rayon Curtains Different localities vary so greatly Old Fish Trap Found 011005 coull be set so cheaply and easily. Ringing and Wringing Rayons Renee thoroughly in three (never Mee than two) lukewarm rinse waters. The temptation to use cold rinse wate_ should not be yielded to, as cold Arizona Co pietes the Wor'ld's Highest Highway Bridge Santa Fa By. rhotu World's Highest Highway Brld9e—Arizona„ In the middle Of March, 1028, a motor colossus on teu wheels, dragging behind It a sturdy trailer, roared smoothly into the Santa Fe freight yard at Flagstaff, Arizona; swallowed fifteen tons of structural steel, and then beaded away into the northeast on the first of many journeys that were to' mean much to travelers from every corner of the world. The huge truck ended this first of four months' continuous jour- neys at a mushroom growth o2 White tents and frame buildings 130 mites from Flagstaff. A few yards away a doll -red chasm split the earth, At tite bottom snarled ,a leaping chocolate river, L'y'nd rose 'the yellow and green puled talus of the.Vermiliion Cliffs Here , in the Navajo Tudien Country of northeastern Arizona, at the nw'U1- ern tip of the Painted Desert, and in a setting of amazing grandeur•, was the one point in nearly 000 miles where engineers had decided that the greatest natural travel barrier on the continent could he bridged. That barrier Is the Colorado river proper, born deep .in southeastern Utah, at the junction of the Careen and the Grand, and flowing thence through Cataract, Glen, Marble and Grand Canyons—the most stu- pendous series of gorges on the globe. Until this year it has been unbridged for vehicles from Green Enver, Utah, to Topoc, 600 miles below on the western border of Arizona. There have been, and are, only a couple of vehicular ferries, and these uncertain at best, arid often dangerous and abandoned. It is seven guiles below old Lee's Ferry that the new bridge,' -rightly to be called the Lee's Ferry Bridge, conquers the hidden river in the world's highest Span. Beneath it, la Marble Canyon, the Colorado races through 'a rock slot with. sheer limestone wails nearly 500 feet high and only 585 feet from rim to rim. All through 1928 work on the bridge has continued. This December the Lee's Ferry Bridge will be .an accomplished fact, its 13 -foot reinforced concrete roadway, with steel and 'concrete curbs, sweeping above the brown churn of the Colorado at '0. height of 405 feet. On June let, 1929, Arizona local end slate bodies, the National Park eervice, the Indian Department and the Santa Fe Railway Invite 'the world to a unique dedication en- c'ampment• and celebration at the Marble Canyon site. To engineer's the bee's Ferry Bridge is another milestone in the conquest of natnta1 obstacles. To travelers it is the lcey to connected exploration of the hitherto divided portions of our wonder -filled Soath- west. The manifold fascinations of 1118 Spanish and Pueblo cultures In New Mexico; the Navajo and Hopt Country; the endless attractions of northern Arizona; the Painted'Des- ert and the south rim of the Grand Canyon—all these will now be di- rectly connected with the AVM 'tins of the great Canyon, the Kalbab Forest, and Bryce and Zion Na- tional Park. Regular motor tours will be es- tablished next Spring by the Santa Pe and Fred Harvey front EI '.Covar Hotel at Caiand Canyon. Mexico to Spend 41 Million ®n New Highways Program for 1929-'34 to Open Outlets for Important Producing Regions Eight Cites To Be Linked Mexico City,—The Mexican govern- ment will spend $41,000,000 in buikjing new roads from this year to 1934, it is announced, according to "El Univer- sal," by Sanchez Mejorada, Minister of Communications and Public Works. The roads will be among the most im- portant in the country, ]inking the cities of Oaxaca, Puebla, Vera Cruz, Toluca, Guadalajara, Chiluahua, Ixnri- quilpaii end .Linares. The Ixhnlqulipan-Linares highway will be the most costly in the system, as it is estimated that e7,500,000 will be needed for its construction. Other Toads in the program include one from Ciudad Victoria to Guadalajara, cross- ing Mexico and costing $5,000,000; an- other from San Cristobal to Merida, traversing one of the most difficult regions of the republic, which will cost a like sum. Several routes of lesser importance are also to be built. The statement says that $4,000,000 is to be spent this year; 56,000,000 next year; 57,000,00 in 1931; $7,500,000 in 1932; $3,000,000 and $8,500,000 in 1933 and 1934, respectively. • These highways will open up impor- tant producing regious and give other rich areas outlets. The government since 1925, when its read -building pro- gram W85 launched, has spent approxi- mately $15,000,000 in the purchase et lnaehiuet'y and actualconstruction of highways. The government plans to complete the Mexican section of the Pan-Ameri- can Highway, from the United States border to the frotier of Guatemala, by 1034; "They say 'where there's a wial. there's a way.'" "Yes ---a way to break iL" UTTERLY S1114PLE. It's possible to cut this charming blouse out and finish it completely fn an hour. It is fashioned of silk crepe in smart modernistic pattern,_ with the shawl collar that ends at waist- line of plain harmonizing crepe. The lower edge of blouse is gathered into ahaped hipbands with scalloped edge with an attached jabot at left side. Sleeves have tab wristbands. Style No. 372 is designed tin sizes 16,818, 20 years, ,;$6, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust, and takes bet. 21/4 yards of 40. inch material with sal yard of 30 -inch contrasting for the 36 -inch size. Geor- gette crepe, lame, crepe satin, sheer velvet, wool crepe and sheer woolen appropriate fo: its •development. Pat- tern price 20c hi stamps or coin (coin is preferred). HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name 'and address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20e .in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for' each number and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto, Patterns sent by an early hail. British interest Centers Upon "Baby Airplane" London—The "baby airplane," a Simmonds Cirrus Spartan, holder 'of the world's non-stop flight record for a light plane, has, helped center avia- tion interest on these smaller craft. Tho plane, carrying pilot and pas- senger, flew direct from London to Berlin, and then repeated the feat three days later, returning non-stop with the same .crew from Berlin to London under six hours. The London -Berlin flights were not undertaken as stunts.- They are con- sidered to represent the light airplane at its true commercial worth, capable of carrying, at a moment's notice, passenger, fifty pounds of luggageand a 20 per cent. reserve of fuel, for more than 600 miles at e speed ex- ceeding 100 miles an hour under bad weather conditions. , I3, W. 31. Bantine piloted the baby plane on the flight, and his passenger was Lietuenant Colonel L. A. Strange, director of an aircraft construction company, who made the trip to trans- act business in -the German capital. The fuel cost a head fpr the one-way trip was about $15. The writing- of history is nolo re- garded as genteel employment for the lean of comfortable means who has retired from business.—Philip Gued- aUn, Research is rather like; a wild Sower which grows in unexpected places and does not take kindly to Planting in the garden. --Sir William Bragg, Two thousaud years have elapsed since the proclamation of human fra- ternity, yet human relations are still far from evangelical principles.— Foreign Minister Zaleski of Poland. Typical Scene of the French Capital With the arrival of PARIS SOUP KITCHEN OPENED FOR THE POOR " 0101 weather the glue 'became 'ion g at this soup kitchen iu the French eapitat, Pupin Reviews Year of Notable Gains in. Physics Columbia Man Sees Strides in Efforts to Detertninkc Structure of the Universe COssnie Rays Are Studied Millilen Explores Secrets of Interstellar Space Meas^of spring' applioationsofnitrogen, Notable discoveries" concerning the it was tonna Is largely dependent upon meet fundamental questions. p1 'tile the growth conditions of the Plant in structure of the universe were made tine previous fall, In a study of the in 1920, Michael 1, Punta, professor of eubjeot thestrawberry was used and electi'o-nlechallicS in Ooiuntbilt Univer- sity,, ,paid 'recsutlY, suinlnariaing' what 110 called great progress in plhysics.. The summary by Prof, .Pepin, Ya• moils for his luventions in the field of electricity and author of "10101 i Im- migrant to Inventor," follows: "One group o£ experiments concerns the relation or waves and particles, as typified by light rays and electrons; \lotes Feetlllzing :S;raWberrlee Unless crop growers wlio use coma merctal fertilizers make a stutly of the effects of .applicatlens to {crop, tnucsi valuable matlJrial they be lost.. A .study or the suujeot by tine stole ticulturlst0 of the Department of Agriculture •at: Ottawa, leads to the eeeenslon that the season of apPlica- tion' is a highly important factor where there is a deficiency of any particular plant food. The ussful- treated with .different fertilisers at: different dates, The In 0110 was done by, M, B, Davis and'H. Hill of the Horticnitnrel Division of the 111xperi- mental Farms and is described in a new pamphlet numbered 96 of the De. pertinent dr Agriculture svhiph'shows in color plates the appearance the foliage of plants grown separately under conditions of diticioncy in nitro - entailer, the interaction between gen, potash and pltospherics. It was atones and ; light .quanta.; a, third, the clearly brought out that where plaids relation between eneee and energy, and the production of matter in inter- stellar space, "in the first grodp are the expera metlts gf C. J. Davlsson and 0, 11, Germer, the latter a former Columbia strident, and both of the Bell Tele- phone laboratories of. New York City; the experiments of G. 1', Thomson, of Aberdeen University, Scotland', and those of 17. Rupp, of Gottingen, Ger- many, Davisson and Gernter continued their previous experiments on the have bene starved . during tate fruit bud formation period for either ele- ment, very early spring correction of the starvation results in increased flower production -and "consequent yield of fruit, - Choosing Flowers for the 'Garden With the lengthening of the days and the arrival in many hones of the seed catalogues, there come thoughts of gardening. When going theouglt the attractive seed cataloues the ardent Sower grower would like to scattering of narrow beams of elec- add to this garden acreage so that he thous by single crystals of nickel, and may be able to grow many 08 the found complete analogy between this beautiful plants pictured and desorib- phenomenon and the scattering' Of ed. , `When one cannot extend .his X-ray beams by crystals, Huts con- garden boundary it becomes a quos - firming the previously announced tion as to the kinds of Sowers and. theory of the French physicist, de Broglie, that electrons or electric par- ticles may behave like waves.. "The 'equivalent wave -length' of an electron is found to depend on' its velocity just as de Broglie predicted. flower g'l'ower, sintpiifyhig the selec- Similar results were obtained by G. P. tions to be made when ordering or Thomson by passing electrons through planting the seed. This booklet, Bul- crystals and observing the diffraction lethh No. 00, which has been written patterns formed, and by E. Rupp; wlro by 'Miss Isabella Preston, specialist in diffracted ; eleotrohs with a . ruled' ornamental horticulture at the 17x- gratiing. I per•imental Fartn.-and available at Electrons Act Like Waves _ the Publications Branch of the De- " es results moan that use as Partment, gives hints on the starting Th e j t liglltrays, ordinarily emhsklered to be of annual Solvers from seed and i t have been found to act like growing them hieing the slimmer. It De - waves, Ihaalso contains a very longlist of corpuscles, so electrons, ordinarily. considered to be corpuscles, are now varieties of annuals that have been found to act like waves. tested at the Experimental Farms; "The second group of 'experimentsmost of them clueing many successive includes those of G. V. Raman and his seasons, Many of the flowers are II- eo-workers of the University of Cal- lustrated and all of them described cutta, India, and those of Bergen Davis as to their color, height, chalaeterts- awl Dana P. 14litclhell at Columbia tics, and season of. "blooming. University. "Last year Professor Arthur H. Flower Guide For All Canada Compton, of the University of Chicago, The bulletin' "Annual Flowers", is - was awarded a' Nobel prize in physics sued by Use Department of Agr'icul- for his discovery that a quantum. of ture, at Ottawa, although published in large editions has had to be re- peatedly reprinted to meet an extra- or•dinore demand for it. AA new edt-. part of its energy and momentum, tion of this most useful work by Mies which energy and momentum is lost Isabella Preston, specialist ill orna• by the Xray. ' mental horticulture at the Deport - "The experiments of Raman and of mental Farm, Ottawa, is a very attrac- Davis and Mitchell extend this result tive brooklet, watch not only describes to the rasa. of electrons which are not the thousands of varieties but shows free, but are held by forces of attrac- tion inside the atom. A striking dif- ference Is that here the X-ray -quan- tum may either gain or lose energy, depending on the condition of the elec- tron with which it reacts.. "The amounts of energy gained or lost corresponds to the energy differ='I]xperimental Farms and Stations dde- ences between two states of the scat- tributecl over the different provinces. tering electron. Professor Rahman This booklet, which is Bulletin No. worried With visible light scattered 60, and available at the Publications Branch, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, is a trustworthy guide to one when studying •i:he seed catalogues that arrive in the homes at this season 01 the year. the varieties of them that One may grow with some hope of success. The booklet "Annual Flowers", issued by the Department of Agriculture at 08- 'taws, isof great assistance to the X-ray may interact with a free elec- tron, according to the ordinary laws of mechanics, giving the electron a many of the blooms arranged in vases, as well as general views of flower bells and borders. This .bulletin is useful as a guide is all the provinces, as *it gives the names of twelve varieties ,that have done best at eachof the twenty-one from liquids and solids, while Davis and Mitchell worked with X-rays scat- tered by carbon, aluminum and beryl- lium. "The third group referred to, eon - Mete of the experiments of R. A. Milli- ken on cosmic rays, -performed in the high Andes. Cosmic raye had previ- ously been discovered and studied in Europe by Hese, Kolho'ster and others, ' Experiments in Andes "Professor MilIlIcan has gone much further with the study of the amount and penetration of these highly pene- trating radiations from the heavens. To get above as much of tine atmos- 'phere as ,possible the has conducted ex- periments in the high Andes, - "Ile has been able to measure the approximate wave lengths .and hence the energy of the cosmic Day quanta. One at these quanta was of such mag- nitude a.s to -suggest that it may be produced in instellar apace by the unioir of four hydrogen atoms to form an atom of helium. "Since the masa of an, atom of lhelhmh is less than that of four hydro- gen atoms9 the excess mass must be emitted as an energy quantum .accord- ing to tile' Maes -energy equation of Einstein. Other quanta found by 1?i`o- fessor Millikan may be associated with the formation of silicon and of iron, "All these a'eSulte are obviously iir ter,related, .and all are of the very ihigliest importance in the quest of the :ultimate nature 02 electricity,' light and matter! lie (after many` musical gear 1EE changes) t 'tWould you like to be' able 1 to drive?" She; "Rather, would you?' • Corn For Poultry Whenever a mixture of grain con- taining whole corn is t111oevn to a flock of bens it will be seen that the coin will be ghicltly picked up by the birds in preference to the other grains. Unless one desires to fatten . his birds quickly corn, it ted at all, should bo cracked. and scattered In the littler so as to induce the exec - ciao of scratching. , Yellow corn is better than white, because it contains fat-soluble vita - mina, which is not present in the White. There is little or ne differ- ence in the feeding values of Clint and dent corns. Corn is rich in carbohydrates and may be more freely used during bile winter. Tihe new edition o£ Bulletiat No. 1 of the Department of- Agricul- ture at Ottawa, Poultry Feeds and Feeding, points out the tendency of a wet mash containing corn meal to spoil if inept too long.—Issued by the Director of Publicity, Dom. Dept. of • Agriculture, Ottawa, Husband (too enthusiastic)—Splen•• - did news, this, your being elected president of the women's club. Wife tea, ien't. it? And I have insisted that we are to be allowed to bring our husbands., Among the superstitions of British herring fisheries, according to A. M, -Samuel of the British Treasury, ono JO that mention of Site words flare, 'fheitt is stili one of the best of rabbit, pig, salmon or minister wiil hablis.—.George F. dohuson. bring bad luck,