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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (July 31, 1915)
___ News of the Churches and Religious Topics Directory. Baptist— Mt. Moriah—Twenty-sixth and Sew ard streets. The Rev. W. B. M. Scott, pastor. Services: Sunday School, 9:30 ai m.; preaching, 11 a. m. and 8 p. m.; j B. Y. P. U. at 6 p. m. Zion — Twenty-sixth and Franklin (temporary location). The Rev. W. F. Botts, pastor; residence, 2522 Grant street. Telephone Webster 5838. Ser vices: Devotional hour, 10:30 a. m.; preaching, 11 a. m.; Sunday School, 1 to 2 p. m.; pastor’s Bible class, 2 to 3 p. m.; B. Y. P. U., 6:30 p. m.; choir devotion, 7:30 p. m.; preaching 8 p. m. Episcopal— Church of St. Philip the Deacon— Twenty-first near Paul street. The Rev. John Albert Williams, rector. Residence, 1119 North Twenty-first street. Telephone Webster 4243. Ser vices daily at 7 a. ni. and 9 a. m. Fri days at. 8 p. m. Sundays at 7:30 a. m„ 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday School at 12:45 p. m. Methodist— St. John’s A. M. E.—Eighteenth and Webster streets. The Rev. W. T. Os borne, pastor. Residence, 613 North Eighteenth street. Telephone Doug las 5914. Services: Sunday, 11 a. m. and 8 p. m., preaching; 12 noon, class; 1:15 p. m„ Sunday School; 7 p. m., Endeavor; Wednesday, 8 p. m., pray er and class meetings. Everybody made welcome at all of these meet ings. Grove M. E.—Twenty-se-cond and Seward streets. The Rev. G. G. Logan, pastor. Residence, 1628 North Twen ty-second street. Allen Chapel, A. M. E., 181 South Twenty-fifth street, South Omaha.— The Rev. Harry Shepherd, pastor. Residence, 181 South Twenty-fifth street. Services: Preaching, 11 a. m.; Sunday School, 1:30 p. m. The Rev. Harry Shepherd is closing is fourth conference year and is urg ing memberc and friends to pay in their Dollar Money now. The fourth and last quarterly meeting will lake place the third Sunday in August. Science Notes BY WILLIAM G. HAYNES. Biood Bread. Not long Ago attention was called to the fact that a flour from bananas was being used an a substitute for wheat flour. How the little children’s mouths watered for a taste of that Hour’ Right on the heels of that comes the announcement that a bread made from blood has been in use foi many years. The Scientific American gives the following note: "Prof. Kober of Munich has pub lished a little treatise on the utiliza tion of blood as food, from which Die Umschau quotes the following state ments concerning the use of blood in breadmaking. For centuries blood bread has been the staff of life of the Esthonians of the Baltic provinces and their colonies in all parts of Rus sia. It is made of rye flour, with an admixture of at least 10 per cent of whipped hogs’ blood. In the vicinity of Petrograd ox blood is also used. Blood bread is very nutritious ana is highly praised by EBthonian physic ians because of its richness in organic compounds of phosphorus and nerve restoring salts. Bread made with ox blood dries very quickly, but this de fect can be remedied by the addition of potato flour, which is now a com mon practice in Germany. Blood bread is the most natural substitute for meat, and, with government con trol of the slaughter houses, it need cost little or'no more than ordinary bread. According to the Frankfurter Zeitung, rye bread containing hogs’ blood has long been used in Olden burg. Hard Water. This sounds like a “tough proposi tion,’’ but it isn’t. It isn’t nearly so hard as ice, the real hard water—hard to get and hard to keep. Hard water, generally speaking, is water containing certain mineral sub stances dissolved in it. The hardness of water is brought to the attention of the housewife by the fact that a larg er amount of soap is necessary to make a good lather than is required when a “soft” water is used. There are two kinds of hardness, namely: temporary and permanent. Water becomes temporarily hard by reason of the fact that it has dissolv ed in it a gas called carbon dioxide. Now, when the water comes in con lact with calcium carbonate (or chalk as it is known), the dissolved carbon dioxide converts the insoluble chalk into a soluble form known as calcium bicarbonate. It is this substance that prevents the easy lathering of soap. To remove temporary hardness it is merely necessary to boil the water, when the soluble calcium bicarbonate is decomposed, giving up the carbon dioxide, and reverting to the insol uble calcium dioxide, which may be found as a sediment in the bottom of the container. Permanent hardness, on the other hand, is due chiefly to compounds of magnesium (a constituent of every day Epsom salts). These compounds are not affected by boiling, so that the hardness is removed by a chem ical method of treating the water and converting the magnesium salts into insoluble compounds. A third form of "hardness” not des ignated in scientific treatises upon the subject is the topic of the follow ing interesting paragraph: “I>o you realize how hard water is when a boat sails through it at full speed? Water passing at fifty miles an hour is not the limpid liquid we are accustomed to bathe in. If you put your arm overboard from a hydro plane running fifty miles an hour, and strike a wave crest, the probability fs that you will break your arm or your wrist, because at that speed the wa ter has not time to give or even to change shape, and striking it is like striking so much metal. If a swords man should enter one of the great hy draulic quarries, where' a stream of water, under enormous head, is used to wash down hillsides, and attempt to cut into one of those streams, his sword would fly to pieces without be ing able to penetrate the water. The stream is like a bar of iron.—The ‘Youth’s Companion. Device Which Prevents Listening on Party Lines. One of the most prevalent annoy ances with which telephone subscrib ers have to deal is the “cutting in” by another person on a party line. Any attempt toward the elimination of the evil will receive hearty indorsement from all sides. The following descrip tion will no doubt be of interest to the long-suffering victims of the tele-' phone eavesdropper: An automatic licking device which prevents eavesdropping and interrup tions cn party lines will be of interest to many telephone subscribers. The lock weighs less than a pound and can be carried in the vest pocket. It may be connected to the telephone it serves or to the terminal box from -which the several lines are distribut ed. The action is automatic, the me chanism being composed of a series of magnets and contacts which are brought into operation when a re ceiver any place on the party line is removed from the hook. A clear line from the subscriber to the central of fice is made automatically by the magnets and contacts. Telephone en gineers have tested the invention and it is said to have worked properly and promptly.—World’s Advance. “Turning the Stomach.” How often have we heard a friend say, “Don’t mention that while I am eating because it will ‘turn my stom ach’ ” Everyone has undergone the experience of having his or her stom “turned” at some time or other. Now, what is meant by “turning the stoip ach ?” Some light is thrown on the subject by a recent article by Dr. Lusk of Cor nell medical school. The article is brief and is taken from the Journal of the American Medical Association," and follows: “When food Is taken without appe tite, this important preliminary flow of gastric juice does not take place and proper digestion is rendered more difficult. “The appetite is like a magic wand influencing the whole of the digestive process. Fear and anger lead to a parched throat, and in an entirely sim ilar manner to a parched stomach, so that food can not be well digested under these circumstances. It is fa miliar to all that the sight, smell or sound of anything repellant will cause loss of appetite. The writeF has seen an artist faint when an operation of Dr. Carrel became the subject of a dinner conversation where men and women were present. The appetite is favored by the extraneous refinements of civilized life, such as a spotless ta blecloth. It would also be affected by the cleanliness of the preparation of the food could one always look behind the scenes. It is affected by the at mosphere of cheer at the table. Nei ther scolding parents nor snarling chil dren facilitate the digestion of a Christmas dinner. The question of flavor in all Its ramifications is there fore a very important one. It is one of the pitfalls of the prescribing phy sician, because he is very likely to be lieve that what he likes is excellent and what he detests is bad. The great multitude of people like pickles, but some do not; the latter class must not argue that pickles are therefore injurious. The common foods of life, such as potatoes, tomatoes, and bana nas, all have their personal enemies based on dietetic prejudices which are largely imaginary, although as a phy chosis the manifestations of repulsion are very real.” BURGESS-NASH COMPANY j “EVERYBODY’S STORE” announce their Second Annual July Clearing Sale Starting Friday, July 9th flj—izrrzr—.-7"- , -=■ We Print the M< mitor WATERS BARNHART PRINTING CO 522-24 South Thirteenth St. Telephone Douglas 2190 \t-— ■ i