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HOME AND FARM M AGAZINE SECTION
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Marvels of Everyday Science
Competent Scientists Apply Their Skill to Problems of Agriculture, Houskeeping, Schools, Business and Governmental Activities.
N EW SYSTEM of teaching boys
mer will flatten the lead and spread it
girls h< w to swim, instituted out, filling the hole tightly and over­
A in and certain
Cincinnati schools equip­ lapping enough to hold it in place. A
r
ped with bathing pools, is thus de­ few strokes with a filo and a rub with
scribed by the Scientific American: An sandpaper completes the operation. The
aparatus is employed consisting of an repair is permanent.
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oval track secured to the ceiling over
the pool. A dozen trolleys run on the
Mail Boxes Indicate Activity.
track, and from each depends a rope
A German statistician has figured out
that the number of collection boxes
used by the postal authorities of each
nation may serve rs an indication of
commercial activity. According to his
information the nations rank commer­
cially as follows: Germany, with 155,-
76(5 boxes for collection of mail; the
United States, with 144,640; France,
9,724; British India, 75,083; United
Kingdom, 71,986; Japan, 67,694; Aus-
tria Hungary, 59,503; Italy, 39,767;
Russia, 31,714. Other countries range
from Switzerland with 13,472 to Persia
with 17 and Abyssinia with only 6.
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Searchlight Makes Ships Visible,
That the war color of naval vessels
was selected because of its invisibility
by day rather than by night, is the
statement recently made by a naval
officer, and tests seem to show that a
vessel painted in this color, while diffi­
cult to see in daylight, is easily picked
up and made visible by a searchlight
at night. In one case a vessel painted
in the war color was detected at a dis
tance of 17,000 yards under the search
light. There seems to be an insuper
able difficulty in connection with this.
For night work alone olack is believed
to be the best color, but this is a Color
too easily distinguishe 1 in daylight to
bo considered.
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K
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BY A PHYSICIAN.
E ARE passing through the annual
round up in many households, and
in some parts of the couutry it
is all over with and peace is drawing
near.
It is true that the women of the
household still call the men down if
they walk in without thoroughly clean
ing their shoes or if a coat or hat is
carelessly left where it should not be.
It is also true that mother is still
nursing a lame back and aching mus­
cles, but she is so glad to know that
it is over and everything clean and in
order that she is comparatively happy.
Now, let me tell you something about
housecleaning.
"There now, never mind. I know I
am a man and am not supposed to look
at such things from the woman’s view
point, but I am just egotistical enough
to say that 1 know better than some
of you, and I will also say that what
I know about the matter I learned from
a most excellent housekeeper, who never
found it necessary to do what most
women call “ spring housecleaning.'’
Why! Well, in the first place she
found that in most homes the process
was followed by colds, sore throats,
child ailments and a great amount of
physical suffering on her own part as
well as great inconvenience to the en
tire household.
W
■ M OUTII breathing is the cause of
undesirable things.
It is
said to lead to adenoids and other
throat troubles, also to chest ailments.
At the same time one should remem­
ber that mouth breathing is sometimes
a symptom of adenoids. The back of
the noso being blocked by these, the
child cannot inhale air in sufficient
quantity through its nostrils.
When you notico that a child keeps
its mouth continually open and cannot
breathe comfortably through the nose
you should at once consult a surgeon.
Eating with the lips unclosed is a
very bad habit. It may not perhaps
affect the health, but it may affect the
child's future socially and affect it
very seriously. People fight very shy
of those whoso table manners are dis­
tinctly unpleasant. Correct this habit
when noticed.
MM many
O YOU know:
D
That a bag of hot sand often
lieves neuralgia.
re-
That warm boraeic acid solution will
with a belt attached. Twelve pupils
remove dandruff?
fasten the belts around their waists and
That a littlo soda water will relieve
the swimming lesson is on.
sick
headache caused by indigestion?
They go through the motions of
That a cupful of strong coffee will
“ sailor fashion’’ and the “ Australian
remove the odor of onions from the
crawl” as per the direction of the swim
breath?
ming instructor, who keeps watch from
That well ventilated bedrooms will
around the edge of the pool. They can
prevent morning headaches and lassi­
not sink, so the only thing remaining
tude?
for them to do is to swim. This “ water
H o w d id she a v o id i t ?
That a cupful of hot water before
merry-go round ” has proved so suc­
By simply keeping clean all the time. meals will sometimes relieve nausea
cessful that others like it are to be in
In the first place she found that the and dyspepsia?
Traffic Telephone in Germany.
»tailed in schools where a bathing pool
greatest trial was to take up, clean and
That one in a faint should be laid
An electric street railway in Frank­ relay the carpets, so she took np every
is a part of the equipment.
fort on the-Alain has recently supplied carpet in the house and made them into flat on the back, with the head lower
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than the rest of the body if possible,
its lines with a portable telephone to rugs.
Road-Making Device.
the clothes loosened, cold water applied
enable
the
conductors
or
motormen
to
This Invention, patented by Hugh 0.
Then she painted and varnished all to the face; and otherwise let alone?
Tayjor of Buhl, Idaho, is simple in con report troubles directly to the main the floors, and after that she got a
That tho best time to bathe is just
»traction. It is a drak constructed of a office. The telephone is of ordinary vacuum cleaner. A little work daily before going to bed, as any danger of
piece of sheet metal four feet long, four construction, but the connection has and a thorough use of the vacuum taking eold is thus avoided and the
inches wide by a quarter of an inch novel features. A long pole, equipped cleaner once a week has from that complexion is improved by keeping
thick. It is attached by means of rods with uninsulated hooks, is carried on time on kept her houso in just as per warm for several hours after leaving
to the axle of a wagoo or buggy, and the car, and when connection is de feet condition all the time as it was the bath?
drags immediately behind the wheel, sired the pole is taken out and hung formerly after the spring liousechean-
smoothing the track and inclining loose on the telephone wires at the side of ing.
Angora gnats have been need with profit
4irt toward the center of the roadbed. the track. The battery ease and phone
to keep fire linos Hoar of inflammahle vege­
• e e
is so constructed that it may be easily
tation on nations! fore6ta in California.
carried during conversation, straps be ^F IIE R E are some ways to kill flies.
Carbolic acid may be used as fol
provided for suspending the apparatus
lows: Heat a shovel or any similar
over the shoulder.
EARN CHIROPRACTIC
article and drop thereon 20 drops of
A a rien ce th a t m eet« th e need« o f e v e ry otic w h o
i« wick. M fciN a n d W O M E N a r e M e e M ^ b l i.ra c '
carbolic acid. The vapor kills the fiirs
Mahogany to Imitate Walnut.
ti(K>nen>. E n te r a profeaaton th a! m akes you ’n d e-
p en d e.o l, a n d b rin g s vo u ro o n y. W e h a v e th e be«t
A case of wood staining that has a t­ in a room.
enoran. ( Jane Row f u r a n « *
WRTH N K t t l M M .
A cheap and reliable fly poison is bi­
tracted considerable attention was that
P a c i f i c C h ir o p r a c t ic C o l l e g e
of staining mahogany to represent wal chromate of potash in solution. Dis­
C O M M O N W E A L T H B U IL D IN G
» O S V T L A N p ,
Q W g tlO M
nut. This seemingly purposeless use of solve one dram (one teaspoonful) in
one valuable wood to imitate another two ounces of water, and add a little
came about from the fact that a walnut sugar. Ihit some of the solution in YOU WANT THE B E ST SPRAYER
Y o » w an I la M <e tune,
finish was wanted for a reom at a time shallow dishes, and distribute about
temper, trouble and tree*.
when walnut of the exact size and kind the house.
Y ou w ant to raee fruit that
hrtat« the hi«hrst p o r a .
was not available. Owing to the simi­ Traps, nets, swatters and liquid poi­
Y o u want to know all about
larity in gram and texture in the two sons are among the best things to use
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» p ra re r b efu re you l»uy.
At the outer end of the drag is a disk woods the imitation might deceive even in killing flies. Also a solution of for- i W r i t e f o r , V l l T i g U l " n < . v " • ' • ■ , M r .
(J a ta Jo<u») fl7
^ flM k n » w . D o Y ou w a n t Io
which serves to cut down the sides of an expert.
malin or formaldehyde in water is ef­ B i l l I M I H A C B IIK tY B B .
T h e P rice*
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the track. Taylor has one of these
fective. A spoonful of this liquid put
Manufacturers 182 Morrisan S t, Portland. Orfe
drags attached to his mountain hack
into a quarter of a pint of water and
Gyroscopic Automobile.
and it fills all holes, leaving the road
A new gyroscopic aparatus for bal exposed in the room, will be enough to U. S. and Foreign Patents
smooth after the passing of the vehicle. anciBg two.wheeled Tehie,M> recently kill all the flies.
Obtained.
To quickly clear the room where
brought out by a European inventor,
How to Mend a Hole.
has reached such a stage of develop there are many flies, bnrn pyrethrum Rend Sketch and Description for Opinio*
It is easy to repair holes in pots and ment that it is now being promoted powder in the room. This stupefies the
as to Patentability.
pans without the aid of a tinsmith commercially in England for use both flies when they may be swept up and
PETER HABERLIN,
Make the hole round by inserting the on monorail ears and two-wlieeled auto­ burned or fed to the birds.
200 Victor Bldg., Washington, D. O.
point of a knife and twisting it. Place mobiles. In this apparatus the preees-
the pot or pan upon any firm, flat piece sional power of the gyroscope is em )
of metal, such as an anvil, a bar of iron ployed for maintaining the balance of
the vehicle in the same manner that it
is employed in stabilizing a ship, but
with a mechanism that is remarkable
for its simplicity in comparison with
We make a specialty of Western Canada homesteads and are the only
the precession engine and ether con­
reliable party on the Coast that is locating settlers on Canadian land
trolling apparatus ordinarily used with
We locato you on the very best mixed farming land in Western Canada.
an active gyroscope.
VS e can locate you on 320 acres on good sandy loam soil, mostly prairie,
located east from Edmonton. Wo can locate you on 160 acres of black
loam soil north and northwest of Edmonton. All the lands that we
Machine Records Steps in Walking.
locate yon on will be close to town and railroad. Rome is mostly all
The mechanics of the muscular effort
prairie and some is mostly all timber. The lands north and north­
used in walking, in golfing, or in play­
west of Edmonton have good drinking water from 8 to 10 feet from
ing other games may be recorded with
surface. A great many of the claims have ereeks through them and
exactness by means of a new device to
there is plenty of water for irrigation. The ¡and« east of Edmonton
which the inventor has given the name
are more adapted to wheat raising. We loeate you for »30. Parties
are leaving our office daily. You will never again get an opportunity
kinograph,” I t consists of a system I
of getting a homestead in Western Canada as good as yon ear; get now.
of levers connected with a recording 1
We also have a few nice elaims in Routheastern Oregon of 320 acres
pencil in such a way that a step upon I
each that we ean locate yon on and that we can recommend and guar­
fr an inverted flatiron, so that the hole a movable platform is registered on a
antee.
is immediately over and touching the strip of paper, whieh it propelled by
iron. In the middle of the bole place a clockwork. The difference of the step
shot about tha size of the hole. Any in walking and in running is marked,
73 SIXTH STREET, PORTLAND, OREGON.
p.ece of lead will serve if shot is not and the swing of a golf player makes
handy. A rew sharp blows with a ham distinctive impressions.
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