THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY, MORNING FEBRUARY 21, 1915.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.