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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1918)
USING A MEDICINE DROPPER. The Mora Wanting It U H.ld th Big gar the Drop. Will Ba. When using a medicine dropper it is important to use it correctly, especial ly If measuring ont drops of some powerful medicine like strychnine, morphine or arsenic, for drops vary widely in their size. Dr. it. P. Garrow of London recently reported to the Lancet the results of aome experiments he had made with a medicine dropper and a simple solu tion. He measured the solution very carefully and then took it all up into a medicine dropper, from which he turn ed It, drop by drop, holding the drop per at different angles and counting the drops as they fell. With the dropper held vertically (at an angle of 00 degrees with the hori zontal) Its contents made 100 drops. Held at an angle of BO degrees Its con tents made eighty-two drops; at 20 de grees they made sixty-eight drops, at 10 degrees they made sixty drops, and held horizontal they made only forty eight drops. In other words, the drops become progressively larger as the dropper is moved from the vertical position. A drop from a dropper held at an angle of GO degrees is one-quarter larger than normal; thus, if the nurse has to give sixteen drops and holds the dropper slanting she Is really giving twenty. And the more slanting' the dropper the bigger the drops. TESTING THE DENTIST. Ismail Pasha Didn't Want ta Take Any Painful Chances. To illustrate oriental habits of thought Lord Cromer tells in the Quar terly Review this story of Ismail Pasha, khedive of Egypt It once happened that Ismail was suffering from tooth ache. He sent for a European dentist, who told him that he ought to have the tooth out Ismail said that he was afraid It would be very painful. He was informed in reply that If be would allow the dentist to administer laugh ing gas to him he would feel nothing. He still doubted, but told the dentist to bring his apparatus to the palace. The dentist complied and explained the process to the khedive. Ismail then summoned an attendant and told him to send up the sentry who was at his door. When the man arrived the khedive ordered him to sit down In a chair and requested the dentist to take out a tooth on either side of bis Jaw. Ismail then asked the man whether be bad felt anything, and the man told him that he bad not But Ismail was not yet satisfied. He said that the sentry was a young, strong man and that he would like to see the experiment tried on some one of weaker physique. Accordingly be summoned a slave girl Ad had the dentist extract two of her teeth. Finding that she did not show evidence of extreme suffering, he then consented to have his own tooth out About the Purltana. In the American Magazine William Eoscoe Thayer says: "It is the fashion of late to speak condescendingly of the Puritans as of a people of narrow views and of men of sour temperament, but no descend ant of theirs and no later Immigrant who now dwells in the commonwealth, they founded and enjoys the blessings which it bestows upon us will fall to glory in being able to trace back to such forerunners. The story of the conditions which faced the passengers of the Mayflower when they landed at Plymouth can never be too often re peated. To have as founders of our state men and women who 'had the fear of God In their hearts, but feared the face of no man,' ranks as the ini tial glory of Massachusetts." Simplest of Cements. Condensed milk applied to the edges of the pieces of broken china will keep the article as intact as the majority of cements on -the market today, writes Edwin W. Ely in a letter to the Elec trical Experimenter. Mr. Ely adds that be has mended saucers that have withstood washings in hot water and has mended a telescope lens of fairly large size with this unique cement Checking a Skid. When you are driving an automobile and It begins to skid the skidding will be checked if yon will Immediately turn the steering wheel In the direc tion you are skidding. A car skids when there Is a momentum tending to turn It about the center of gravity. When the forces about the center of gravity are balanced the car will not skid. American Boy. Laad Filled Ineerlptione. In Job xlx, 24, is an allusion to the use of lead to fill carved Inscriptions upon stone by pouring the molten lead into the cavities of the letters to ren der them legible and at the same time to preserve them from the action of the weather. WHEATLESS BISCUITS, Parched eornraeal Is the feature of these excellent wheatless biscuits. First, the cornmeal one-half a cup is put In a shallow pan placed in the oven and atlrred frequently until It Is a delicate brown. The other ingre dients are a teaspoon of salt a cup of peanut butter and one and a half cups of water. Mix the peanut but ter, water and salt and heat While this mixture Is hot stir In the meal which should also be hot Beat thor oughly. The dough should be of such consistency that It can be dropped from a spoon. Bake in small cakes In an ungreased pan- Tola makes 16 biscuits, each of which contains one sixth of, an ounce of protein. Hie Three t. "He must be a perfect savage." "Whyr "He threatens bis wife with hi club when they have a difference." IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICIIIIHtllllllHtttttf ' 1 1 tttf iiis.ij L Now is the best time in History to Build Not since the Civil war have the prices of farm productts been so high wheat, corn, alfalfa, rye, barley, oats, hogs, cattle, sheep, have doubled in price, and in some cases trebled. 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