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- , . - , . . -Jv'iW-v-v.V.w:- .-VK -. v;:.t : t-'-. d : , , : .- i ' 1 1 -I' r 1 4 THE - QirepONj-SUNDAYS JOURN Why Stars Twinkle in the Sky .J- : . ; . Do Brain Waves REALLY Exist? rPTHEBE is absolutely no scientific proof roat there is Is ... i . ... I of tne existence of "brain waes. 55 OW oftett you may have beard a little child ask:: "What makes the 'stars twinkle ?"! Perhaps you answered with a bit of verse or poetic fancy, not knowing the real scientific reason. Here it Is: . Although we live upon its surface, we are not outside the earth, but at! the bottom of a sea of air which forms the earth's outer most crust and extends above our heads to a height of many miles. We cannot see the stars save .as we look through this atmos phere, and the light which comes through, it Is bent, and ofttimes distorted as to pre sent serious obstacles toj any accurate tele-. Bcopic stuay or tne neayeniy Domes. Frequently this disturbance Is visible tof the . naked eye, and the; stars are said to 7- : : ' r Earwig Type Most Maligned Insect nnHE earwig, one of the most familiar X types of insect life fjmnd in garden and field, has been much maligned. So says W. Harold S. Cheavin, F. R. &I. S., a well-known BritlshJBCientisL ! A great dislike for the earwig has ex isted for centuries because of belief that it delights to creep into the human ear and cause, death. The name, says: t'roressor Cheavin, probably helps to keep alive this idea, which is absurd to entomologist. He contends that insects considerably smaller than the earwig would have trouble in en tering the human ear, and in nearly every is a fourth attempt would fall. The earwig; of an Inch long. That It is chiefly responsible fop age to pet plants isanother absurd about this insect, says Research proves that it lis a boon pest, feeding largely on lice, and preferring dead vegetables. apblde insects twinkle--i. e., to quiver and change color many times a second, solely in consequence of a disturbed condition of the lair and not from anything which goes on in the star. The effect is more riarked low down in the sky than in the zenith. t is worth knowing that the -planets show very little of it, because the light they send to earth comes from a disk of sensible area, while a star, being much small ;r and farther from the earth, has its disk x iduced practically to a mere point whose li?ht is more readily affected by local disturbances in the atmos phere than is the broader beam which comes from the planet's disk. j At all times, whether the stars or not, their light is through the atmosphere i pear to stand higher up : true positions. To the atmosphere, vapor and dust, is duej ing of day that we call ever seen the twilight eastern sky just after from a hilltop-or some open view to the east. i ' None of . the people who accept their i .i existence ever has been able even to suggest wht material they might be composed f. These two statement, were made by Sir . Ray pankester in the course of a discussion of hi findings on this subject recently, j His opinions, he asserts, are being accepted by the! thinking men and women of the world everywhere. .There is(no apparatus in connection vith the! human brain which can reasonably be supposed to act as a "detector" and convert 'supposed brain waves into a sensible farm, as is necessary In the operation of rire less telegraphy. Moreover, supposing that there is some undiscovered detector appa ratus, like the Marconi coherer, acting so as to receive the undiscovered but assumed brain waves discharged intermittently by a distant brain," what agreement has been made between the owner of one brain and the: wner of another corresponding to the Morse alphabet? Without some such code the brain waves j could convey no such information, and yet in none of those who think they hare received "telepathic" communications profess to have any knowledge of a code, or to be able tjo in terpret intermittent signaling by brain waves. "It appears now," said Sir Ray Sankes ter, "that, though some of the believers in telepathy have entertained the notion that the sense organs and the substance of the brain are acted on by imaginary brain waves emanating from distant brains, yet that the latei Mr. F. Myers and other leading be lievers in 'telepathy' disavow altogethei any explanation of 'telepathy' as arising from the action of waves or impulses upor the sense organs or physical structures oi' the recipient. ' The orthodox appears to be now Comfortable imftthlnff AsilWI 'snirlt' Inde pendent of matter! and its associated modes of rnotjon, anjthat telepathy is clue to the commiinicatiobj o spirittj with spirits' in their own unidaown ways; j . .' j Tfcere docsj ncjt seem to be much for a ireasonable mnp to say v ben such assump tions are made, jsxcept that thejr ate as s iimpt: ons an alpogethei unwarranted as aumpt ons. Axe the statements as to facts hich are saLljto. iiecessitate the supposition that o le human mind can communicate with, a nother without making n$e of th ordinary channels of t ie senses sufficiently well sup ported to wa:n-ani; their acceptance? They s.re of1 two disilnct groups :. "A record of experiments on persons in which the a m was to transfer! x selected image:! from in initiating to aj-receiving' mind by mere thought, and without any ap peal to the sease rgans. The reality of th transfer is esjUma ted by comparing the num ber of identities obtained in the thought of he initiator a nd the guess of tte receiver Vith tjhose wlLlch would be: obtained by mere coincidence in a long series of trials. "Hj is a curious and significant fact that a ilong series of experiments in this jthought transfer rence it was found tha,t when jthe perspns acting as initiator and re ceiver! respectively were in separate rooms jthe guess of jthe receiver as to what had been thought Cif by the Initiator was not more freanentlv cbrrec ; than was to be exoected by unbiased joinjeidencej i but when the-fre- fceiver and thie initiator were in the same oom ninety sacc!sses wi;re recorded in 617 trials, where! las if due to unbiased coin cidence, there! should have been nly eight "The stortes tof apparitions iof distant persons to thejr friends, either at some very pr at or soon after death. Homes for Snakes jcritical moment, are credible lh sd far as icurrence now i tlons and then they record the oc- of such halludna- L Wasting Our Maple Sugar Material OU J-eceritly learned tionait cement show sanitary cement bathtubs Y these bathtubs being constructed exclu twinkle bent in its passage so that the stars sp in the sky than their i I with its suspended also, that lengtheh- twilight. Have ytfu arch rise up in the (sunset? Look for it other place with an THE 'demand for maple sugar in; the United States, it is said, is ten times greater than the supply, although this! sup ply, is 47,000,000 pounds annually, r But! then statistics show that only half of the trees available for the purpose are utilized. This means that many of our farmers even those of Indiana not excepted are neglecting to take advantage of an important source of. income. Science has turned its inquisitorial eye more than once on the sugar tree, but, sa far, has failed to solve Its mystery. Investiga tion -has merely recorded certain facia; it has not explained them. It is known, lor instance, that the sugar maple is far more" particular than the uninitiated suspect. For its sap to flow, nights must be cool, clea r and still, with the temperature at least 10 de crees i warm ling to! there J i weiow jxreezmg ; I here them, and sunny, But there the days must be with the temperature ris- 30 degrees kbove freezing, aind, finally, must be a fall of rain or of snow after If our r five successive days of such weather or the sap will cease to flow. hardly more of a mystery is in the fact that the is than there He needs slvely for the along similar use of pigs. lines has The government of Brazil Paulo a snake vlded with concrete houses. The snakej farmer who has the trees to tap fails to tap dam-idea Professor Cheavin. , and not a and! plant to fruit or . 1 . 1 j 1 j hi j 1 ' 1 ' Mother Goose Not Mere Book Character, but Lived and Breathed Ti it OTHER GOOSE, joy of our childhood , . . -.mx. M,M,w,.,i.W(WW!, i j fullness. No bobble skirt tor her.l B sum M l i i i 1 You May Not Know OTHER GOOSE, joy of our childhood days, ; was not a creature of story books i alone ras you doubtless supposed--but a real flesh and blood woman ! The real name Of .TMother; Goose" was Elizabeth Foster. Boston has the right to claim her as its own, as she was born there in 1665. She married Isaac Vergoese, other wise Goosed in 1692.. she. lived in Boston until the advanced age of 92, kept young and happy reciting nursery' rhymes which she composed. ; . Though she was always fond of telling stories for children she composed these rhymes that bear her name to entertain her own- grandchildren, he told them over time and again to the laughter and shouts the production; bites and for fact that all no demonstration to prove ! if i j - to him that the weather conditions favorable for the flow of sugar sap are favorable for little work about the farm. And he needs, surely, no reminder that an eager! ; able market ajwaijts the product, jwhy, then, only jhalf thd product available is collected. j and why half of this natural Resource is j wasted is perplexing to the ordinary mind. farm Where that at held id were New Information reached farm serve the double put pose of providingva supply of material for for snake of serum antidote educating he public to the snakes are not venomous. A concrete wall high enough to keep the snakes from crawling out surrounds the farm, but it is low enough to allow visitors a chance to see over. It is by this means that this educational and profit- work is carried on. Familiarity breeds con If yfc ; the na Chlcago shown what At any rate that and Is happening here Inside the wall is also lined with concrejt connect the snake houses. America. maintains at Sao reptiles are pro- happened a water-filled trench, e, while cement walks At nignt tne snakes are herded into these double-shaped structures and the doors are closed. In the morning an attendant jwakes up the reptiles by prodding them wUh a stick through a hole in the door, afte r which the doors are removed and the snakes come, out for their morning bath in the trench. Paper Clothes New Japanese Fashion ... 1 tempt here as elsewhere. snake that ydu have believed to gerous enemy see a a dan- playing with its master, each! day you gradjaally alter your opinion of it. ers of "kamiko, as lied in Japan, Is said 3e than flannels. The in it, and though soft er of silk wadding Is eet of the paper and Siberian winter this I sixteen varieties of sugar may be ob- N iail'LEAlE-NT ha$ Been patentea ror J" slicing a boiled egg evenly. x-i EYLON produces I J palms from which tained. Wuviiis wire poies ior electric wires or lights, have been invented by a Chi- Icagoan. I a PATENT has been . nister in which teas curately blended by an amateur. T ITCHBLENDE has XT India and a syndicate has been formed to exploit the deposits for radium a NEW form of railroad Ucket, by being accompaniment of of joy. i: It was not until 1719 that her rhymes were collected and published by her Fleet. These facts are only of value be cause they make the lovely character or Do Nof Think She Re f f, TT A.I .3 and give her this to show hobble skirt Tor her. plenty I of flare her white sltoct Be sure She wants klngd and the son-in-law, Thomas Mother Gpose that we know and lovelmore interesting. I The fa'vorite story teller we know rears a large mopcap that hangs down, cotering the ears !a?nd crowned with a high point. i none Interesting Facts About granted for a can- or coffees can be ac- been discovered in t punched, a few times, can serve for 800 different stations. w (ROM France enmps JP pin, the prongs being; Its springs to hold it In place. a juiiN in tne siot machine has been in fx vented for checking fimall packages in publid rX, A famous German L have been erected life-size models; of the huge beasts of prehistoric times. - - F GERMAN invention Vlue printing apparatus that so Reflects the. rays from an arc lamp that all parts of It he print are illuminated evenly he made to a two-pronged nat- so shaped as to act umbrellas, canes or places.! : - !! i anima park there is an electric Asks Physicians to Write in English THE New , York Medical Journal urges physicians to write prescriptions in Eng lish, Contending that fewer mistakes will be made In putting up m edicines. "If a med ical substance has anp effect except upon the Imagination it will have that effect as much when! written in English as in perfect Latin," says the periodical. It adds that doctors still write their prescriptions ire Latin because their ancestors did so, and perhaps because-it impresses tie patient, but the names of the drugs now used "look as" formidable in English as in Latin." i ' ' . . j - Bamboo Blooms Every j Half Century CERTAIN species of bamboos flower only once. in fifty-five years, and, strangely enough, all the trees j in a locality flower about the same time. Those In Burma began flowering last year ana now are all in blos- I A i those that spring from the seeds born of this flowering will take their places and wjll not flower until about 1970. They may flower sporadically at other times, but.thej seed does not! mature, for the bamboo cannot fertilize ftself. ".!" ii Her dress is just! as odd. any. color sine ybu like, too Ion, ornamented the sleeves g. th (with i i j iave It is fashioned of none too tight and e skirt is quilted and 'is wide side panniers, while more than their share of black slippe -s ornamented with silver colonial shoe bucklesl I Do not thiik she resembles a witch; not a bit of it. 1 hough her features i re promt-, nent she has u fascinating face aid a keen, bright look. She does not carry a broom stick; nothing more jpor ljess than a crook, and goes acconpanied! by i flock cf geese. Though wis may not di her. full homage she is the frind of ciildripn the world over. There are many languages, but! none too many to embrace the ("Mother Goose" rhymes. As 1 he children js story ! a6j says, "We all love these nursery rhymes because! they have plenty of atlon Still tiiey are so childlike in their simpUcity., I call her the patron saint jof the bursary. versa! favorite." and OHIRTS and dra Opaper clothing is to be more comforta paper has little "life and warm, a thin. la placed between two s the whole is auilted. When weathering sort of clothing especially appeals to the sol dier ;of Japan. The Retail price for a vest is about $1. for drawers about $2.50. and for a cholera belt about 25 cents. The paper clothing is not washable an only draw- backL i No statistics of manufacture of paper Clothing In Japan Is available, but it In said that1 a firm in Yokohama is supplying large quantities of army, j It is strong enough! ordinary way lceable. . . . paper shirts to the Russian made of tough,, soft fabric, to hold buttons sewn on lutlie and apiJears to be very serv- Some New Facts b; our uni- Radium a Cure For Skin Cancer som. i The Hast time was In 1859-60. The RADIUM is an efficient and satisfactory means in the treatment of skin cancer, ! according! to. Dr. A- Schuyler Clark "of New York, who recently read a paper on thljs sub ject befoire the United Medical Society of that cityj He cited many cases in proof of his contention. , . The special point made by Dr. Clark was that ' all the cases treated by the single or missive dose method that is to say j with one treatment of very high power healed kindly, and none of them have recurred. He said that many of the cases when treated with repeated small doses either refuse to heal or recur after a short time. The scars left by' the healing after, one This Dosrs P this species will now flowered die and dose are smooth, nearly level, and show a minimum amount of deformity. Old World All i study t of Among -her characteristic, 'for ossess Hiimari Traits - At RS. E2 Y. ELTONHEAD bias recently X V X completed an interesting human, characteristics in dogs. findings are these : "Grief is a certain , many dogs have sought he missing ones and havd watched th ;ir lived away oj the graves of the one t whom their lives were devoted. "pelf-respect is evident to anyone who has made a istudr of dogs. Frolic and play are evelopjjd from puppyhood until real old age stiffens jjnuscles and loss of teeth forbids . the carrying; of ball or other plaything. ; - "Shrewdness is a trait, for where a dog has j been 'pe: and jja child enters into the family yjou v ill see at once the sulkiness and olslike jshov nn by the usurped one and sometimes even a tendency to revenge on one who caused the change. I ;, "One trait that Is especially human is lacking in dogs. They do not pretend to do what they do noi ; feel and mean, 'and in this mankind caft take him as a model with ben- bf men.1 , is a trait met with both in fine another dog Sharing tnOflfof anrl of pooo V( of Ours dog is the more likely he s to be jealous of in the affection of his efit tb the wtorld "Jealous and commo Drink Water and Live a Centurv ' . J !! . i " Aiuiuaiiaii mjitrunei. uuubui mat any one can live to b 100 years old, barring accidents, if he drinks enough water.: He ' declares he has discovered that.'old age is due to a deer. ase in jthe amount of water in the system, and that Father Time may be checkmated': by syst4matljc water drinking during middh: age. ; Firearms as War's Greatest Menace ' Y7IREARM8 cause the greater ber cent of 17 wounds suffered In war. Not exceeding the result of 3 per cent are swords, lances and the stabs by bayonets. like. Iti our civil war 90 per cept of gunshot wounas were in flicted by the 5 per cent by dogs, and the more loyal the hand rifle, pistol and revolver,' artillery and about by the bayonet, sword and other st rumen 3 per cent cutting ln- 1 ITS of gum camphor kept with silver will prevent the latter becoming dark. JAPAN recently launched a battleship with all of its engines at d guns in place. - .'!;; '. 1 f :- : AUSTRIA'S popula Hon this year has been officially estimated at almost 29,000,000. :! ff : ., . ' A TRIANGULAR t ay to hold a piece of pie unharmed in a. lunch box has been invented. ' TilE government of British Honduras is erecting at power Jul wireless station at Belize. . j , , . " . - a PAPER drinkingTcup that is unfolded J by the weight off water flowing into it has 'been invented. TJSSIA'S annual production of salt. Which fl rnvcrnmcnf mnnnnnlv nvnfrnl. exceeds 2,100,000 toni SO THAT fish cafi be boiled thoroughly without losing their form Is the purpose of anew wire basket : 1 ,: '.. 4 , "i - ' ' THIS year's sugar crop of the Phllp J pines promises to be the greatest In the history of the Islandiu ' -f FOH indoor target practice a pistol from whfeh a ping ping ball is shot by a spring has been patented. 1 . SIDE wind shields, to be fastened to auto mobile doors so as to swing with them, are an English inven tion. FpGR handling freight cars at Cleveland a large railroad lias installed electric lo comotives which run on separate tracks and push the cars with side arms. Ri V
