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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 27, 1915. 0- f - .KAV.-i.V.-hK mm --;:-?.:0.y.?lK ow Women of Old Rome . Became tite'. .Q'yrviit'JT Tvi FT -:A"' M'if - vir H MOW,- the beauty-craving woman of ancient Rome wonld hare liked to lire la this day and age of electric vibrators, electric needle, rubber masks and other scientific appliances for bringing back the charms of youth. - Investigation hows that : she resisted advancing r age until the last concealed her wrinkles. helped her figure with Judicious padding and replaced lost teeth by artificial ones of. Ivory, fastened with gold. The Roman woman needed for her toilet a whole bevy of maids, of whom each was ft specialist and had her peculiar skill and duty. Milady's dressing table, ; which was often of considerable dimensions, con tained pomades and perfumes of various kinds, and a whole armament of boxes, phials, knives, tweezers, brushes, bodkins and . scrapers. In the evening, when she betook - herself to repose, a cake of fine dough, kneaded with asses milk, was spread over her face, to render the skin elastic and soft and to preserve its delicate tint Asaes' milk had a high reputation for its cosmetic powers. The Empress Pop paea, Nero's consort, was the first to bring it into vogue; and when she traveled she was accompanied by a drove of she asses, that she . might always have a supply of fresh milk. In the morning this plaster of dough was dry, and it was then slowly and carefully washed off with fresh milk. Then began the work of the "kosmetai," as these dressing maids were called. The eyebrpws ' were drawn with . the pencil la fine arches, the lashes darkened, white and red laid upon the cheeks, the nails trimmed and polished, the hair oiled, perfumed, and the coiffure built op; then shoes of soft. bright leather, or sandals with ; straps todded with pearls, were put on the feet, and finally the perfumed garments folded about the person. Last of all came the ornaments for the Kill e or IF XOU saw a man murder a sick baby you would be his eternal enemy. Flies kill many sick babies every year just how many nobody is Able to say. .But you consider the fly menace of trivial Importance. ;v Physicians who realize the peril of files realize that if the average layman could see ft fly commit its many crimes just as they do the life of the insect would be short Therefore a campaign of education to suppress, it has been begun. Here are a few facts about the death dealing insect accumulated by Dr. G . A. , Jordan, health commissioner of St. Louis: The fly lays Its eggs on any organic matter, preferably on stable refuse. The eggs number about 120 at each laying. These eggs become fully developed flies in about twelve days. There are ten to thirteen generations in lone season. One small pile of stable refuse can pro duce a crop of 600,000 "files. Neglected garbage and dead fowls and Janin 720, nlmals also are favorite breeding places. The descendants of one pair of files from prtl to September can amount to 5,598,- .United States government. , I These figures are based on each female .fly laying only one batch" of eggs when she may lay four batches. I More than 60,600,000 germs have been actually found on the body of one fly. c The new-born fly begins to lay eggs hen 2 weeks old. If all flies descending from one pair hould live and breed their descendants ould bury the entire earth forty-seven feet ieep. . : Virtually every fly In a city was born jh that city. . The fly by his habits is attracted to and a wis over and feeds upon all kinds of dirt id carries this upon his body and legs. Germs cause disease just as seeds cause Powers when either is planted in proper soiL ioui ooof or ute doq; w your wue r child may be proper soil. ; What Is the use of screening your house md 'then going but and buying food upon arhlch filthy flies have crawled? i All flies will go into a trap If there Is 10 other food about. ' A fly seldom travels over two city blocks "rom his breeding place unless carried on ' rood, the back ef a hdrse-or in a convey ance upon which he happens to alight I : Any fermenting or rotting material at' tracts flies. They also are fond of milk, nsh and sweets. The fly Is ft voracious feeder, often swal lowing one-half its body weight at one meaL It feeds continuously if food be present Keep your premises clear of any filth, of xposed garbage or other: organic master, roectallv mUTinr. Sv that ronr neirhkn r ilso keeps his premises free. I - : Put out your fly trap early and keep It v or king "every day. Have fly swatters scattered about your house convenient for' ase.-- , - ' , i.: 7 , Bcreeaeveryrdoor and window and wipe M Murderous Famous as: Beauties hair, such as frontlets, diadems, pins, or strings of pearls. The Boman lady prized .. not only the artistic beauty but ais the material value of her jewelry, and did not shrink from displaying a parura that cost millions.. The 'Empress ' Dollia Paulina, consort : of Caligula, appeared : at . her . be-: trothal ceremony decked in Jewelry valued at 40,000,000 sesterces, or Sl,t48,000. It consisted of emeralds and pearls, the art of cutting diamonds then being unknown. So now the beauty, having been dressed, : ' perfumed and decked with Jewels, sets out to receive the homage of an admiring world. Whatever her destination,' her delicate feet must never touch the'hard pavement of the streets. The curtained litter stood ready; .eight stalwart Cappadodans, her slaves, were waiting to bear their mistress wher ever she might order. T Taking a fan of 'feathers In her hand, she moved to her con- : veyance with the calm and noble -gait of a matron and the stately carriage of a great lady, and, reclining on soft cushions, was borne away, leaving a waft of perfume In the air as she passed along. Halrdressing among 'the Roman women was an art, and the slave girls intrusted with this important duty were Instructed in it by professional teachers. For a long time auburn or golden ; hair was most esteemed. Hair of a natural blonde was rare among Roman women, but they used a kind of caustic pomade or soap, in which ashes were an ingredient, to give their dark tresses the admired hue. In other words, they were our first "peroxide blondes." ' The application of this dye was not agreeable, but they submitted to it with exemplary patience. The hair was first, washed in lye, then rubbed with this dress I'll Kill You,' Says the H ouse Fly This, an Ordinary House Fly, May Carry 1, 600 fiOO Disease Germs About It. the wire of your screens with ft cloth damp ened with coal oil ' This preserves thef wire and keeps the fly away. The mosquito is responsible for every case of yellow fever and malaria that ever existed, because these" two diseases can only be conveyed from man to man through his bite. We are just commencing to realize the deadly possibilities of the fly in conveying such deadly diseases as typhoid fever, tu berculosis, Infantile paralysis and other fatal maladies that have laid millions in their graves. - . j u The fly, eating from the same plate as you are, may be carrying upon his body, -feet and legs a. million germs. 1 Wild, dangerous beasts and poisonous , snakes are killed on sight Flies kill more people in one year than wild beasts or snakes ver did. Most of such beasts and ' snakes never get an opportunity to kill a human' being, . but any of the millions :, of ' flies in every city has such a chance every day. ' T - .- , .. ' : y Germs on theN body" of a 'fly ' multiply faster than the - fly does.' Patronise - the merchant who protects you by keeping the " food he- sells you serened from flies. ' ; The solution df the fly problem Is the J destruction of the April fly. Every 'fly de- ' stroyed in April -means - swarms less - in ; September. -' - - , - - Dont - use fly poisons - around ' places -' where children may. come in contact with them. A fly' poison is also a child poison. . Use traps and swatters. 2 s." '. Where Roller .Skates Originated ROLLER skates were patented and used In France as early as- the year 119, and a few - years later " an Englishman x named Syers - patented ' them and manu v factured them ; in England. ? Syers skate consisted of sandal mounted on five nar row wheels in a single row, so arranged, however, that only two of them could touch the floor at the same time. Several other - similar, skates were patented In England during the next forty years. . . In 1865 Mr. Plympton of Boston pat ented ft roller skate and inaugurated the ' ing and exposed "to the rays of the sun. Even this was not ' always effectual, and then recourse was had to a wig, the blond ' hair for which was obtained from female' captives or Imported. f Merchants traveled through the - Teutonic - tribes . "buying up blond andred hair. , Great care of the hair, was also cus tomary among the -Greek women and the men, as well. ' To .: have ' the hair cut, or dressed, the men went to the barber-shops, which abounded in all the Greek dtles. As at the present day, the barbers were noted for their loquacity and knew how to enter tain a customer with all. the latest gossip. Indeed, their shops' were often frequented en this account, and became resorts of the idle, ' the curious t and the talkative, who passed there a considerable part of the day. , ...... ;". : - -: :,:' Greek women often wore false hair, and dyed gray locks - black, Or faded tresses auburn. To perform this latter feat they used a caustic wash and exposed the hair to the rays of the sun. In this point the men were scarcely behind the women, for they, too, used cosmetics to dye the hair and beard black when they began to turn gray. Dyeing them brown or blonde, ; though sometimes practiced, was considered effeminate and foppish. . An elegant Greek lady needed for the completion of her toilet no less than fifty different articles, all of which a garrulous writer has enumerated. In the list we find mirrors, Jars and phials, unguents and oils, combs and brushes, pencils and colors. She' well understood, for that day, how to de fend her beauty from the attacks of ad vancing age, and only yielded to the nut- , versal conqueror. Time. Fifteen minutes after flies had ' been fed on sugar saturated with" typhoid bacilli their specks were found to" contain thou sands of the living bacilli. We 'used to drink the milk: from which a fly had been removed. Nowadays one . had rather eat the fly, because most' of the filth had been removed by bis bath and was left In the milk. The fly does carry disease and he can be eradicated. These are the two cardinal points to be 'remembered In the warfare now being waged upon him. Do not leave the fight on -the fly to -others ;,, do your part . The common house fly does not bite; he sucks. Before he feeds he puts out a drop of saliva and sucks It back and forth until 'the substance he is feeding -upon Is dis solved. Would you like to eat after him? If the fly carried only filth and not dis ease that would be enough to condemn him. You see the people living about you in spite of flies, but you forget the legions that are in their graves because of him. If you saw a fly kill a little child you would be his -eternal enemy. Because yqu cannot see him do this is no reason why ; you should be any less his enemy. Just so soon' as every one does his part on his own premises, .: Just so soon - will , there be no more flies. When you fight the ' fly you are protecting yourself and your -family and. your . neighbor and his family. Thai place . to - swat the fly is where he breeds, not where- he- basks. ' .first system of skating-rinks in this coun try.1 The- first publio skating rink, was ; opened ftt ' NewportT H. L,? in" 1866. The' skating craze spread from that dty all over -the country,' raging most fiercely on the Pa eiflc coast - There the amusement became '4 so popular, that the right' to use the Plymp ton skate in Ban 'Francisco alone sold for' $23,000, v : r ,:...'. ' ; f. The craze died tind was revived several' times since. Its present popularity, espe cially among - children who akate ' in - the street and on the sidewalks, Is growing. ' "' - n ' ' iiiil ygv.y ' mMtm.M ... i , , nnmu ...wi''y.j,''vjy n-- : " ill i ? I i -?-.v- t ' 'JW ' : I i I 'i f. r "' 'K.. ? , -' ! ' I ' .A "s 7t - r. y-i ':. '-V. W v 1 V ! " (i ? " - t ' - ' -f' vs" 'c: ' m : , - ,'f s -y I , . The Roman Woman Needed a Bevy of Maids, All Beauty Specialists, Here Are 1 Many Opportunities HERE are a few simple things so badly needed that the Scientific "American calls upon inventors to get busy and in vent them: 4 A compartment cigar case to put in the pocket whose unfilled compartment or com partments may be collapsed without impair ing the protection offered to the cigar or cigars contained in the filled compartment A ticket holder for holding the price and. lot tickets to a coat or other garment which ticket can be easily applied to and removed and another inserted, all without mutilation f or other Injury to the garment , - . . . . , ; - , ." 9 1 r- .. v , . .. , , ... ... ... ; ' How Bullets Telephone Their Location to Physicians SURGEONS in the military hospitals of France' are now making' general use of .all the most recently invented processes 'and apparatus for performing operations. Among these are the- electro-magnetic and -- telephonic methods of finding bullets, frag- . ments o shells or other foreign bodies in -' the human tissues, The electro-magnet is useless in discov ering lead ox other metals that are non magnetic, but whenever there la iron . or steel, even la small quantities, in the object to be found It is most) effective. Dr. Jacques Boyer describes In La Nature how some of this apparatus is used. Of the electro-magnet he says: The apparatus Is placed in ft frame above the patient The surgeon, wfeo must operate with nonmagnetic instruments (German silver or 25 per cent nickel steel), , easily discovers the presence of the foreign" body. " The patient tfeels a characteristio pain and the skin Is elevated Is the form of a very pointed cone. Then he proceeds ' easily to the extraction of the fragments of ' projectiles under the skin or muscles." The telephonic probe. Invented by Pro fessor Alexander Graham Bell, Is in con stant use today. Dr. Boyer says its beauty is Its simplicity; for anyone, can improvise such ft probe at trifling expense. In Its simplest form - it consists ' of an ordinary How a Bullet in the Head May Be ''jx Located .by ' Radioscopy. telephone receiver with two wires, to the end of one of which ft silver spoon Is at-1' -tached and to the other a slender copper or steel rod. . Dr. Garel's method of Using It Is ' to Inject cocaine-adrenalin Into, the wound, place the spoon in the patient's mouth, hold the receiver to bis own 7eAr "vri?his left : hand . and with his right- Insert- the probe Into the wound. The instant It touches the - object sought the surgeon heart ft click,- for ftUjelectrlc current has been formed by the ' chemical action of -the' juices of the body upon the two metals.' - - ' ! Dr. Glrdner has perfected this apparatus by substituting ft head gear with two ear pieces for the single telephone receiver. In order to leave both- the operator's hands free. - , f The X-rays are- being used now In allj. the'hospitais for-finding the exact situation The lower berth In a sleeping car is stuffy ith the windows dosed, and if you open the window the cold sir is directly on you. It is thought that the riding pub lic, would appreciate some deflector or dif fusing construction which could be applied to the open window over the usual short' hinged screen and permit the entry ef fresh air, at the same time preventlnf It from blowing directly upon the passenger in the berth. -' 'x'-''i ' - , Some means for effectively preventing the mirror effect la show windows, tllu ef of any foreign body The precise localisa , tlon of such a body . depends upon knowl edge of the exact points at which a ray from, the X-ray machine enters and leaves the body. Among the systems devised by the. surgeons that of Dr. Jaugeras is one of the most precise. Suppose he has to find a bullet In a man's head, for examplet He places the patient Immobilized In a certain ' positionf before the screen and sets the X-ray bulb at such a height that It casts the shadow of the bullet on the screen. With a, pencil having a mftalllc point that makes it clearly visible on the screen he marks on the patient's akin the point A, at which the ray enters, and the point Ax, The Telephone Probe Is Shown Here; in Actual Use. - at which is emerges. Thus he getfttthe two 'extremities of straight line some where en- which the bullet lies. Then he turns the patient through ft certain angle, but' keeps the - bulb and the screen in the same positions. . Again he marks the points Facts You May Not Know THE eyes of a South American fish are divided, into two parts, the upper adapted for vision in the air and the lower for use under water. - A BATHROOM towel rack made of pipe to be . connected with the hot water -system has been invented to insure ft sup . ply of warm and dry towels, -;.:-'-.' ACCORDING to English figures, the world's consumption. of tea is steadily increasing and the demand for British tea J far exceeds the, supply. - a ? WYOMING Inventor's can .opener con-" rjLeists of a pointed shaft to be Inserted, . Into the center of the top of a can, along '.which 1ft a wheel with a knife edge to be rolled 'around the can. - " ' . . , npO ENABLE a person to clean his shoes,: X before entering a. house ft Kentucldan has invented a scraper above which are mounted two' brushes, backed -by springs strong enough to make them effecttrev to Aid Her in Making Her toilet. for ; Inventors fect r we all notice in 'passing such a win . dow in which our image is reflected and the contents of the window are shut out of , view. Naturally, the shopkeeper who works for a display in his window resents it not being seen. V President Wilson," wwho" is an ardent golfer and also dependent on his eyeglasses, is reported as saying that he cannot play the , game in the rain because of the fto cumulation of moisture on his glasses, whicS leads to the suggestion that specially devised glasses, or some treatment of the ordinary lens may solve the problem! : This Is the Telephonia Probe In vented. by Alexander H. Bell. - . ' 11 y B, at which the X-ray enters, and Bl, at which is emerges. Thus be gets the two extremities of a second line somewhere on which the f bullet lies, f The. precise situa tion of the bullet Is at the point of inter section of these two lines. The surgeon now fits a flexible ring of metal - around I the patient's ' head at- the height of the four points and mark these, upon the ring, which represents a section of the patient's head.. Removing the ring, he marks Its outline upon a sheet of paper and rules straight lines from the points A' to Al, and from B to Bl The point at - which these lines Intersect Is where the bullet lies. - His knowledge of the anatomy ef the skuir and brain enables him to de cide ' where 'most effectually to open the man's head, and how most safely to enter the brain and cut - out the bullet Hie -same principle Is applied to other parts of the body. - IN GERMANY there has ibeen patented method for making paper re-enforced by cotton or linen, a sheet of the fabric being inserted between two layers of pulp, with which It mixes Intimately. ; " MEASURING the current carried from electric , wires by streams of water from fire hose, an Italian experimenter found that chemical extinguishers were the most dangerous Are fighting equipment to use around live wires. . . - ' A SHOWER bath that can be carried la a vest pocket the invention of Cali fornia n, consists of ft curved tube to be In serted Into a bath tub faucet through ft cork, water spraying out through a slit la the other end. ...... ..... . .. , A., BVt,J.Ltr TTUV WUUi ASSW vestigating the oil-bearing deports of New Guinea has found evidences of petro leum extending over an area of ,509 square miles and ha recommended lnune lats - development . . r .'.''. 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