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I- Women's Work By GAY PAULEY United Press Staff Correspondent New York U.R Next time hubby complains about how hard he works, suggest he take your Job as homemaker for a while. Chances are you work harder. If you're typical of one group of homemakers, you work a nine-hour day. six-day week. The nine-hour day Is the average computed by the New York State College of Home Eco nomics, Cornell University. The figure was reached after a study of 250 women living on farms, doing housework In town, or keeping house and also holding effice Jobs In town. Dr. Elizabeth Wlegand, who directed, the survey, said most women report 300 activities on week day and spend more time an average of one hour and 28 minutes on food preparation than any other single job. Clothes Care The women, whether farm or city dwellers, like cooking best The farm women dislike care of the house; the city women in dicate the greatest dislike for dish-washing. Farm women also do more cooking, and prepare more complex meals, than city women. Dr. Wiegand said all types of homemakers average nearly as many hours for care of clothes and housekeeping as for cooking. Less than one hour per day goes for dishwashing, marketing and such odd chores as paying bills or balancing check books. The city homemaker without an outside job devotes less time, an average of just over eight hours, to her work. The woman with the second Job averages an 11V4 hour day, with about seven of those hours devoted to sal aried employment. The Cornell study found that the working woman also gets less rest and sleep, spends less time on personal care, and has fewer community and recrea tional activities. One of the problems of the home laundry is keeping White nylons white. Laundry experts recommend that white nylon clothes be washed separately from colored Items and soaked first. Wash with soap and soft water and rinse thoroughly- Nylon can be bleached if it becomes yellowed from washing in hard water. Chlorine bleaches will do the Job, but they weaken the fiber. 'Bleaches made especially for nylon are available, however. You can give a whiter look to yellowed nylons by using bluing In the final rinse. The bluing doesn't take out the yellow tinge just disguises it. By VIVIAN SANDE United Press Correspondent New York U.R) Milk la such a fundamental of the American diet that it's hard to believe there are daces wher nconle are still skeptical about Its bene- xiia. Sine World War IL Swiss bora Gertrude Lutz, the former wife of a Swiss diplomat, has been traveling in such places in Yugoslavia, Poland and Brazil "In Yugoslavia." ah said. "many people who received powdered mux (tnrough a Swiss relief agency) thought It was whitewash for their homes." Now, as chief of the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund in Brazil, Mrs. Lutz finds people who aren't sure milk is safe to drink. Mrs. Lutz' headquarters la In Rio de Janeiro, but she spends about one-third of her time In the field, checking up on the dis tribution and use of UNICEF supplies and equipment and in vestigating new requests for as sistance, field Work In the two years she's been In Brazil, Mrs. Lutz has traveled 85,000 miles in the interior. She's supervised the distribution of $2,000,000 worth of UNICEF funds, matched by Brazilian government funds, as the inter national organization arrange ment specifies. "That," she figured, "means the feeding of some 100,000 chil dren and pregnant women a day." During a stop-over In New York after her first trip home to Switzerland In two years, Mrs. Lutz talked about her experienc es in the field. She talked of driving for hours, by Jeep, on In credible roads, to villages scat tered through drought-stricken areas. She talked of the food - customarily fed to Infants in these outlying districts, a mix ture of hot water and flour. Aud she talked of the mortality rate Renta Brand New Gulbransn Spinet Piano from the Valley Music Co. 523 Crater Lika Ave WEIGHTY DISCUSSION on merits of respective headgear occurs In Eraser, Colo, as President Elsenhower compares his western hat with those worn by Paul Harper (right), 18 and Jim Lynch, 19. of Grand County Mounted Patrol. They called on President when he arrived at Aksel Nielsen ranch for visit. (International) Science at Work New York (U.R) "At least in rats," said Dr. John S. Stamm of the California Institute of Technology, hoarding is based on "the orderly function of the nervous system." Humans call hoarding "thrift" or "saving" and consider it highly desirable except in times of acute shortages when the hoarder of scarce commodities becomes unpopular with non hoarders. Dr. Stamm did not try to an swer a prime question of science which concerns the differences and similarities between rats and men. But "at least in rats" he eliminated thrift by cutting away a little brain. By operating on thrifty rats among children as high as 350 per thousand, as compared with about 28 in 1,000 in the United States. - The attractive 47-year-o 1 d woman also talked about the ac complishments of UNICEF in many villages and how the child feeding program often develops into a community center. Community Gains As an example, Mrs. Lutz cited the case of one village of 5,000 population, 300 miles from the nearest city. The wife of a merchant in the village, as soon as she heard of the milk distribution program, recruited several other residents to help her turn an empty hut into a dis tributing center. When the villagers got used to gathering there for their milk and vitamin quotas, she got the nearest doctor to institute an in formation center for mothers and pregnant women. Villagers, for the first time, learned what medicine and nutritional knowl edge could do for them, and wanted more. They applied to the Brazilian government for help, and got it. Now the vil lage has a hospital, and the hos pital also is a center for classes on health, home management, home-making and crafts. "In places such as these," said Mrs. Lutz, "the milk distribution program of UNICEF is the dif ference between life and death. We're lowering the mortality rate among infants and children in Brazil every day we work." By DUOS SMITH United Press Science Niter and removing a bit of tissue here and there on the surface of the cerebrum, he found the thrift center was a strip of surf ace tissue along the median line of the brain. When about 13 per cent of this strip was removed, the thrifty rats no longer were thrifty. To check this, he took the same a mount of tissue from other parts of the brain surfaces of other rats. They remained as thrifty as ever. "On the basis of these investi gations It can therefore be con cluded that hoarding the accu mulation of useful material, such as food is indeed regulated by a specific area of the brain," he said. However, there's more to thrift or hoarding than that, "at least in rats." Heredity has some thing to do with it. One strain of genetically pure rats hoarded like crazy at every opportunity, while another strain, no less pure genetically, hoarded very little. He now is cross-breeding these strains to see what he can see. Dr. Stamm tested his rats' thriftiness or lack of it with food pellets. A runway connected their cages with stores of pel lets. The test was based on how many pellets a given rat would take from thje store and hide In the cage during a given period. Dr. Stamm recalled that other investigators had shown that, "at least in rats," temperature has a great deal to do with thrift. Cold weather makes rats more thrifty, hot weather less so. Thrift or hoarding is "a re latively complex type of be havior, involving both unlearned responses and learned activity, because the rat has to perform an act which conflicts with other drives, such as avoidance of strange situations and attempt ing to escape from a restrictive environment," he said. "Hoarding seems to be motiv ated by some unlearned drive which will persist for a long time and under adverse condi tions after it has once been re inforced. This drive is, more over, related to certain biologl cal factors." BACK TO SCHOOL "CHECK" LIST 1 m . mm mMmmmm The Suns of Perseus Start your youngster off on the road ta knowledge well-protected from head to toast (Well take care of the last item with the best-made, finest. fitting little shoes la town!) EXPERTLY FITTED AT Jorfield Shoe Co. "So. Oregon's Oldest Shoe Concern'' 221 E. Main St. Phone 2-2123 By J. HUGH PRUETT AMrBMir, Bxtcnrfoa Bhrilea Orafaa HlsW EducMloa Syittai In the deepening twilight six years ago while attempting par tially to forget the sadness oc casioned by the illness of one very dear to me, I was testing a 3-inch telescope on the tiny telescopic star which nestles al most in the rays of the North Star. After I had successfully glimpsed this little companion of , Polaris several times in a sky still far from dark, an air plane passed overhead, blinking Its varl-colored lights in meas ured rhythm. Hurriedly the tel escope was swung on its mount ing .and aimed directly at the plane. Pinpoints-of Light Slowly the aviator and I glided down the north together, passing en route across numer ous single little stars and inter esting open groups. Suddenly we dashed into a veritable confu sion of tiny pinpoints of light, dozens of them in two clusters. So striking was the sight that tha swinging telescope was In stantly stopped and the plane allowed to proceed alone. Unknowingly the flyer had guided the telescope into the beautiful cluster of Perseus. To the naked eye that part of the sky was then only bright, star leu twilight, but the power of the glass had reached out into the infinitudes of space, and brought the starry tangle' into human vision. On a clear, moonless night this double cluster Is dimly vis ible without optical aid, not as v' J WHILE all England speculates on whether Princess Margaret has lost her heart to commoner she appears gay and light hearted while attending numer ous functions. (International) stars but as small cloudy patch. At 9 p.m. in lata August It ap pears about halt way up In tha northeastern sky and directly below the W-shaped configura tion of Cassiopeia. Below it are the principal stars of Perseus, arranged something like a bent bow. Picture Equlslte Through instruments of great er aperture than a 3-inch and in a dark sky, tha telescopic pic ture Is exquisite. Tha field Is alive with glittering little lights, literally scores of, them. Soma appear fairly bright; others, dim; still others, mere points on the background of dark blue night. On good twin kling nights, their rapid scintil lations remind one of a swarm of exceedingly busy bees, every one working hard, energetically trying to do Its bit in the vast program of the mighty universe. The beauty of the picture Is enhanced by the. "tiniest of the tiny" which are visible only at the moments of best seeing. These appear as though sharp needles were at intervals prick ing the dark curtain of night and letting through tha merest intimations of the "infinite light beyond the stars." Brighten Than Sun These celestial Jewels are ac tually huge suns, so far away that their light requires around 5000 years to reach us. Many are. 100 times brighter than our sun but are transformed by great distances Into small stars. Across the inconceivable stretches of space, the combined light of these mighty suns gives to the unaided eyes only the delicate nebulous spot, the myth ical sword hand of Perseus. Restoration Project Marks Medical Date Mackinac Island, Mich U.R A $40,000 restoration project has been started here to commem orate a 151-yearold date in U S. medical history. State medical leaders and po litical figures Joined in cere monies to lay the cornerstone of a shrine honoring Dr. William Beaumont whose analytical studies on human digestive processes in 1892 marked a medi cal milestone. ' The project, financed by con tributions from state physicians and civic organizations, is ex pected to be completed next year and turned over to the Mackinac Island state park commission. Dr. Beaumont's studies were made possible when Alexis St. Martin, a young trapper, was wounded accidentally by a shot gun blast. The victim continued to live but the wound left a gaping "window" In St. Martin's stomach through which Dr. Beau- ENSEMBLED FOR TOWN tht plus-sized dress for the 5-feet-5 and under A imoothfy fitted, pocket-detailed facket of color-flecked . "worsted" textured rayon ... a charming stitch-pleated dress with an individual life of its own, in luxurious, wash able "Korelta" rayon crepe.' "Pentagon" print in black nd-whfft with black jacket, navy-and-whito with navy lacker, or red-and-white with navy ocket. Sizes 12 plus to 72 phis, $1195 Iff TUf rACUIAMC AT ii. i, main Next Door to Robinson Bros. Men's Store WE GIVE SIH GREEN STAMPS 12 Sunday. August 30, 1333 KESPORD (OREOON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN A v JalfV Ji HFLL WALK NOW - Dennis Worden, 3V4, towers over his brother, Danny, 2, for the first time as he tries out his new "legs." Dennis, born with stomps, was fitted with new legs by surgeons at the Navy's prosthetic limb clinic in Oakland, CaL lawmakers Coma To Aid of Harried Debtor Hartford, Conn. (U.PJ Con necticut lawmakers have come to the aid of the harried debtor. The 1933 assembly passed a bill providing that no collection agency shall: "Use slogans in collection let ters or publications threatening legal suit or wage garnishment; use or threaten to use physical violence in connection with the collection of claims; furnish le gal advice or perform legal ser vices; or advertise or threaten to advertise for sale any claim as a means of forcing payment there of .. . unless such agency is act ing as the assignee for the bene fit of the creditors or acting un der court order." mont observed digestive proc esses. His findings provided med ical men with concepts of re actions of the human stomach to various types of food, liquor, and even emotions. The island trading post con taining Dr. Beaumont's office as it appeared in 1822, will be re stored. When cooking eggs use the simmer burner of the range and gently cook. Do not use boiling water to hard cook eggs, since too much heat makes the egg white rubbery. ; Try peanut brittle in apple sauce. Boll the brittle well and stir Into hot apple sauce while cooking on the top burner of your gas range. Serve in sher bert glasses topped with whip ped cream. It's real good. . the River and the Rock . . . Chapter 11 And now that I have come to the year 1851, 1 pause to take e breath; for our -own Rogue River Valley is ready to be discovered and settled. It all began with Mr. James Cluggage and Mr. J. R. Poole. Travelers had been using the trail south to California-and the gold fields for several months. However the settlers had not tarried in the Valley for the Indians had made it uncomfortable for the wagon trains and the Immi grants had no desire to be isolated, surrounded by hostile ' savages. However gold is a great courage builder, and when Cluggage and Poole discovered gold in Jackson Creek it changed the picture almost Immediately. They are said to have seen nuggets In the creek as they washed their faces one morning after camping by the brook all night. They are said to have done this and said that . . . but the fact remains that they did stake out 400 feet of Rich Gulch on Jackson Creek and were mining a pint cup of gold daily. This was in December . . . and by February every foot of the gulch was staked and claimed. Every day saw new wagons and pack trains crossing the valley until even the mountains surrounding the claims had been spoken for. It was in February, too, that a group of men from .Yreka, knowing that the supplies would soon be exhausted, quick ly knocked together a trading post. They carried clothing, boots, picks, shovels, gold pans, and Iron and most Impor tant . . whiskey and tobacco. In March Mr. W. W. Fowler decided that the gold be ing mined in the gulch was a legitimate enterprise, and possibly permanent, and he built the first log cabin In the Rogue River Valley; And that was the beginning ... a slap happy town quickly began to assemble. They worked hard In the mines all day and they wanted to play hard during the long spring evenings. And as always there were those who gravitated to the diggings to supply this need. Gambling houses, music houses and saloons began to . crowd each other on either side of the muddy road. Gam blers arrived to relieve the miners of their dust and nug gets. "Ladies' arrived to keep them happy so far away from home. It was a rugged, brawling, gold town. 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