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About The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1915)
THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY, MORNING FEBRUARY 21, 1915. c ence uf-tq jnL i NCI AN Some New Facts HOW Healthy TllOUghtS Will Bring YOU Health You May Not Know A FRENCH Invention Is a revolving fan which may bo carried in the iocket and operated by pushing btittons with the thumb and finger. BY TOUClirNU 8 pedaj an automobile driver can drop a new humier no as (n form a fender that will prevent anything going under the wheels. ANEW Italian aeroplane with numerous wing surfaces Is designed to act as its own parachute antt come to earth safely In event of a mishap. THE top of a new jap range is equipped with pipes through which water circu lates and is heated while the burners are being used for cooking:. TO ENABLK a motorist to smoke while driving a New York Inventor has pat ented a perforated metal shejl to Inclose a cigar and retard the draft. MHHMM9l0immfmJIP"VWM,w 1111 - . mmi g FOR gathering dust from walla a woman ha patented .1 has to be placed over a broom and be held in place ly suspender HkH strap. ALJAIK manufacturing plant in Wiscon sin is ihr H r-1 in 1 hi' tinted States in "whch the kilns are lired ith gas instead of wood. A FT F-It tesiin;: steel iinilorf i-m Hies on its ear for several vears an Kngliah rail road has relurned to iron as less liable to corrosion. F-iOll metal workiys then- has been in vented a combination shears and ham mer, a spring forcing the jaws open after they have made a cut. ATKJMMINC table for drawings and blue prints that is equipped with a niotor-driven revolving knife has been pat ented by a Chicago man. AlriJOrtJH more wool 1 used by manu facturers in the Fnited Kingdom than in utiy other country, the T'ulted States is the greatest wool-consuming country in the world. New Process for Auto Bodies A FRENCH firm of motor car mamif.niur rrs makes its car bodies by a novel 'process of plastering. Builders are familiar with the process of making partition walls by erecting a screen of wire netting' and t coating It with a layer of plaster. Prac "thully the same thins is done in the new process of making car "bodies, except that a very different plaster in used. The frtiine 'wnrk of the car is made of wood, and on this wire netting is tacked. Then the mod eler begins operations with palette and trowel, daubing the wire netting with the plastic material, which he spread out smoothly. When the coating haw set it may lie dressed down with a plane and sand paer. just like wood. After that it is painted" and rubbed down with oils and var nish until it assumes a very high polish. It is claimed for the new process that the car bodies can be manufactured with a great saving" of time, and also that a very light and durable body s obtained. Electric Bulb a THE ordinary sixteen candle power elec tric bulb, attached to an ordinary' re flector, has been used by "the French physi ciHit, t'haput. in a series of interesting ex periments. It is said he has succeeded in healing refractory sores and ulcers, such as those caused by burns; or severe abra sions. - The account of hi? method is given ay fol lows : The reflector, with bulb attached, is placed on either end of the affected irea on folded towels, the bulb lieiug kept as near as Ksslble to th lesion without causing the unpleasant sensation of heat. The treat ment is applied daily or on alternate uays for an hour. It Is observed to cause a copius outpouring of serum at the affected area. This Carrot Has Bad Habits HAVE you ever seen a stewed carrot V Of course you have. And ate one. too. Rut that is not the kind of a stewed car rot Ave really had in mind. Perhaps it should be termed, the "inebrate carrot." for really In truly, cross our heart, this par ticular friend of the family table can be come fearfully intoxicated, according to Trofessor Jagadis Chunder Bose, instructor of natural sciences at the University of Calcutta, India. The professor was lecturing to a select group of professors at the University of , Chicago. In the course of his discussion he mentioned that a chemist once left a dish of alcohol near a tine, upstanding, healthy young carrot one day. Sniffing the aroma, the carrot began acting disgrace fully. "Why, this vegetable was actually maud : lin," said Professor Bose. "and did not re vive until it had been taken out in the fresh air." Shocking! With the aid of the "emotiongrapn." which he recently invented, the professor said he is able to prove that plants have emotions which the instruments record in . a startling way. apol- Select Your Reading Matter Y M are the are what you think, or if you not. it is not for lack of hearing affirmation that you are. A Washington physician is the latest au thority to put his patients on a diet com pounded chiefly of the aphorism, "Think well and you will lie well." Instead of sending his wealthy society women patients to sanitariums or sunnier climes to rest their overtaxed nerves, he is ordering them into classes in psychology to Healing Power and the area of redness surrounding it dis appears shortly after the exposure. Rapid healing of previously rebellious ulcerations and rapid disinfection were produced in this manner. The method of treatment is also effective in certain chronic skin eruptions where there is scaling or discharge. Some New Uses For Old Rope Ol.I rope, like old tin caus and other things generally considered as waste, has its sjieclal market and uses, and in every seaport the collecting and classifying of olcf rope is an important business. Hope that is covered with heavy graphite or tar is even more valuable today for making oakum than lightly tarred material, while hemp rope with the original heavy coating of tar worn off by weathering is often used for bag paper. A small percentage of untarred hemp rope, used in its prime for hoisting and other such purposes, is being converted into cigaret paper in Europe. Scraps and waste from old tarred rope, and also old oakum removed from seams of ships, are now used for making boards. Copper Colored NO. THE accompanying picture is not i likeness of copper-colored triplets. It is a group of Samoan girls who, like all of the girls of their race, are exact duplicates of one another. llow their parents are able to distinguish letween them is a puzzle they alone can solve. The portrait fails to show the wonderfid luster of the skin of these dark damsels. It looks like nothing so much as dark, pol ished copper. Dark as is their skin it is fair compared with their eyes and hair. Their hair is black, soft and wary, and it is usually worn hanging until they are married. The dark luster is embellished by the brilliant flow ers which they twine in their hair flowers which invite and entice by their rich col oring aud rare ierfumes. Their eyes are almost as black as their hair, warm and pleasing. Their figures are no less attractive, for the Kaiuoan girls are generally slight, especially when they are young. Their forms are symmetrical," and they are easy and graceful in their movements. This is especially true of the village girls, who are as happy and free from care as they are attractive. These girls are naturally clever, but after they have learned to read and write and have mastered the first steps in arith metic they do not worry their heads about more knowledge. -The olimate is so warm in these islands that the girls wear scant clothing, not With the Idea of Feeding Yoar Brain learn how to adjust their thinking in such wise that they will not overtax their nerves or anything else in their effort to live twenty-four hours out of a day. One of these classes meets weekly In the library of one of Washington's feminine leaders of higher thinking, and its teacher is the head of a famous girls' school. Early in the. social swing of the winter debutantes, In the midst of the whirl of a first season, and matrons with the weight of the smartest functions of the season on their shoulders came on medical advice, or without it. to hear the laws of the intellect and the interrelation's of the will with in stinctive reflexes expounded. What they expected to get out of it from a health point of view was a helpful under standing of the intimate connection be tween peace of nerves and poise of body, and the physical reflexes which accompany every grade of emotion. Towers for Testing Aeroplanes Twc are WO steel towers, each sixty feet high, now being used In England for the purpose of testing the effects of different air currents on aeroplanes. At the top of each there Is a rotating platform, on which large models of aeroplanes can be exposed to winds from different directions. The spot has been carefully chosen so that no stress or obstructions can deflect the winds or cause eddies of air which might affect the tests. The models. can be placed in any position, and the platforms can be turned so that the wind can 6trike them in any direction, while delicate instruments register the velocity of the air current. F.y means of these towers different type of flying machines can be tested without danger to human life, and when the best models have been decided on there is an Beauties Who Are These Samoan Beauties Are much more than some bright colored scarf wound about their hips. Their chief deco ration are flowers and several chains of bright beads. - .IMWmjgBlP" ' - .. ntnawiMi urn - if" '' "iit,fj'-Av'",':-MKgmftr ' - tfXttitt i n 'f iri t '''" ' :' W"J W fc.""' ' 1 Ju "'""'V 111 1 1 on Health-Producing Ingredients, Just "If a person has chronic kidney trou ble" in the words of the teacher of an other of these morning society classes in psychology that are interesting Washing ton this winter "you may expect to find that that person is harboring a sense of wrong, or is the possessor of a chronic grouch. "Irritation or worry has its reflex action upon the digestive organs, while happiness enables one to digest nails, if such a thing were necessary." The elements of psychology are taught by means of James' famous book on this subject. Wrben the novices have mastered that book and have themselves well enough in hand to be aide, to stand and deliver their reasons for keeping poise through intellectual grip on their nerves, they are taken further along, deeper into the mysteries of human consciousness and psychic control, and are introduced to the other apparatus which tests the different kinds of propellers. This Is the "whirling table." which is sixty feet in diameter and is mounted on a vertical shaft, turned by an electric motor, so that the table itself can be made to re volve at various speeds up to 1(H) feet a second. As the wind outside cannot provide all the different conditions that are required an elaborate system has been installed which, by means of fans and screens and ob structions, can produce artificially nearly all the atmospheric changes that an airman is called upon to face. Then, by means of models carefully constructed to scale, ex perimenters can ascertain more or lesa what will happen in certain circumstances. Exact Duplicates Not Triplets They're Chums. They are skilled at weaving cotton and in working in the fields, but a good deaj of their time l spent singing and dancing, pastimes of which they are very fond. as You Do Your Stomach. master philosophers of past and present, one after another. If it does no more than keep the society woman's mind off herself and the symp toms of her particular sort of nervous un rest, the astute physician who started the fad of studying psychology o' mornings proclaims that it is doing as much as he expecte, and more. Here's a Foolproof Poison THE latest thing on the drug market Is "foolproof" bichloride of mercury. During the last year or so there have been so many erases of accidental poisoning from this dangerous but highly effective antiseptic that manufacturers racked their brains to produce a tablet that could not be mistaken for anything else even Tn the dark. "Foolproof" bichloride of mercury was . I - - .. Flaw in U. S. Patent Laws IN GERMANY a person who is granted a patent of any kind must work that patent in Germany within three years of the time the patent is granted or forfeit the patent right. In the United States you can take out a patent and never work it, If you don't wish to, and still retain the rights and privi leges which the patent grants. Aniline or coal dyes are patented in Ger many and in the United States at the same time, but as the German manufacturer Is not obliged under our patent laws to manu facture the dyes in the United States, he manufactures them in Germany and at the same time controls the United States market for bis goods through the patent granted him here. of One Another They are much beloved by their men when they are suitors, but this love continues and grows after they are married. The men make great effort to treat their women well, fearing that they will be loved by men of neighboring tribes. The mental standing of their husbands is high, they are honorable, generous and good fishermen. When the time comes for these young women to be courted the men will , have their bodies tattooed from their hips to their knees. They will approach these girls In gentle words with a language soft and liquid. They will scatter plenty of flow ers at their feet and serenade them with romantic strains. Gentle and kind as these damsels are, they are born coquettes and are not easily won. These people are pure Polynesians; tbey are dispersed over the Pacific from Hawaii to New Zealand. Their land Is a fitting setting for their natural beauty It is rich In flowers and coral reefs. Part of the archipelago be longs to the United States aqd the rest is owned by Germany. INK can be removed from light colored fabrics by washing with milk, then with turpentine, rolling up the goods for half ao hour and washing in water. CO 1,0 ft A JK) is the leading state in tbf production of tengsten ores and vana dium minerals How to Drill Holes in Glass Tin of HE following Is a satisfactory method of drilling holes in glass : Take a piece of straight copper the size of the bole that it is required to drill. The tubing should have a wall of one-thirty-seeond of an Inch or more In thickness, depending upon the diameter. The tube is set up in a drill chuck and driven at a speed corresponding to that of a twist drill of the same slse. The tube is fed down onto the glass with an In termittent movement, and a mixture of emery and oil la dropped onto the glass at the point where the hole is to be drilled. After a ring has been cut in the glass on one side the work is turned over aud the -drilling completed from the opposite side. This will prevent chipping the glass when the drill nears the opposite side. The copper tubing Is soft, so that It holds the rii err, and as copper Is an excellent conductor of heat t draws the heut away from the glass, preventing it from being cracked. An Idea of the rapidity with which holes can be drilled In this way may be gathered from the fact that a five-sixteenths inch hole can be drilled through an ordinary sheet of win dow glass in seven minutes. the answer. The tablets are strung per manently on a thread, like beads, and in addition they are dispensed in a bottle having a distinctive shaie unlike the or dinary bottle. Furthermore, the tablets themselves have a peculiar shape, are bright blue in color, anil ench one Is labeled "poison." Tho manufactureri! say, and it seem with reason, that a person woukl have to lose all his mental faculties In order not to be able to defect these pellets from head ache or other tablets. He might not no tlee the shape of the lottle or the peculiar shape of the tablet, its color and marking of "poison." But he would not be expected to ignore the string, which roust be cut before the tablet is detached. New Plan for Summoning: Waiter O H, wAiTEnr But said waiter seems not to have hea rd. "Oh, waiter:" Again no response. You grow annoyeJ. The head waiter passes by. You endeavor frantically to signal with as little success. If you are a woman you iierhaps stamp your French heel. If you are a man you probably eschew naughty words under your breath. Such experience is familiar to most all of us. Appreciating this fact, those looking toward efficient table service in hotel dining rooms aud cafes have struck upon a novel idea for attracting the attention of different waiters and indicating the desires of a patron. It consists of a standard carrying three ejeetricp lights, each of a diffcreat color. The lights are operated by push buttons a different button for a waiter, bead waiter, or wine server. A light remains burning until a diner has received attention. The scheme is till in Its infancy. But we jpijr see these signal standards in o r hotel fining-rooms and cafes In near future.
