HAVE YOU TRIED NO. 1?
The following very interesting ques
tions and answers are clipped from the
Scientific American. The first ex
periment would probably make an ex
cellent qualifying test for prospective
Christian Science converts.
1. A vessel of boiling water may
bo removed from the stove, while boil
ing, and set on the palm of the hand,
and retained without discomfort so
long as the water continues to boil.
Where does the cold come from to cool
the metal bottom of the vessel while
boiling? 2. A cat may be suspended
by the legs, in the air, a few inches
from the floor (say six inches , and
when released, in this short space,
will turn over and strike on her feet.
Where does she find the leverage to
shift the center of gravity, so as to
turn her body over in this short
space? A. 1. The explanation of the
fact that a kettle of boiling water may
be placed on the palm of the hand
without discomfort is this: The heat
necessary to keep the water boiling
conics from the iron of the kettle
and thus the iron is cooled, so long as
the water boils. The sensation of
cold arises from the taking of heat out
of the hand by the iron. It is a good
conductor of heat and so gives its
heat to boil the water and becomes
cooler to the hand. When the water
no longer boils then the iron becomes
too hot for the hand to endure it. 2.
The turning of a cat in midair has
been a puzzle to scientific men. Pic
tures of its falling were made by the
National Academy of France by cam
eras before the days of the moving
picture camera, which showed the cat
in different positions during its fall.
These showed wide changes in the
position of its body, especially in the
humping of its back, the movement of
head and legs and the switching of its
tail. All these actions doubtless pro
duce the rotation. The remarkable
features of it all is the wonderful rap
idity with which the mind of the ani
mal must work to direct these mo
tions.
TIIE HEART OF THE ATHLETE.
At a meeting of the Medical Society
of the State of Pennsylvania, I)r. Rob
ert N. Wilson of Philadelphia said that
two vital questions involved in college
and schoolboy competitive athletics
were: (1) The utimate (post-gradu
ation) result of public competitive
athletics upon the health and lives of
the participants; (2) the possibility of
determining the genuine physical in
tegrity of the proposed participant or
his lack of the same, especially with
respect to his heart. Reference was
made to the many deaths in recent
years among former athletes. He
knew of no instance of recovery from
a major infectious disease in an ath
lete, except in the typhoid epidemic
at Easton, where a number of under
graduates—probably not then shorn
of their resisting forces—had made a
successful fight and recovered. It was
to be remembered that the normal
heart would not tolerate repeated in
sults without loss of recuperative
power. Latent athletic injuries would
seem to explain the tendency of the
strong and robust to die when the less
powerful won out against infectious
disease. A still more radical evil was
the encouragement offered by college
and university to the schoolboy to
emulate his college brother in compet
itive athletics. Dr. Wilson said that
he stopped short of advising against
active competition as the Germans
had, but pointed rather to signboards
written in bold letters. Trainers
should be taught the meaning of the
collapse of today in the future of the
athlete. He believed that some day
college authorities must of necessity
conclude that no form of athletic event
was sane which demanded of the par
ticipants the semiconscious state of
heart exhaustion at its conclusion.—
Scientific American Supplement.
HEALTH PRECAUTIONS
IN LAUNDRIES.
The washing of garments in large
public institutions, where the soiled
linen of a thousand families is mixed
together, is a comparatively new thing
in our civilization and demands pre
cautions that were unnecessary when
washing-day was a purely domestic
holiday. The operation of washing, to
be sure, is in itself a sterilizing pro
cess, and investigation has shown that
there is little or no danger from this
source, but washing is not the only
incident of laundry-work, and there
remain dangers of infective communi
cation that can not be overlooked. Says
an editorial writer in The Journal of
the American Medical Association
(Chicago):
“The high temperature, soap, wash
ing-soda, and other chemicals to which
lothes in the laundry are subjected
'n the washing process are responsible
for a sterilizing action. Bacteriol
ogic examinations have repeat
edly demonstrated that it is ef
fective. Dr. Dederer, who represents
the Committee on Occupational Dis
eases of the woman’s department of
the National Civic Federation, frankly
states that there is no danger to public
health from ‘mixed washing’ of cloth
ng with contaminated articles. It is
pointed out, however, that while the
washing process practically sterilizes
the clothes, the reinfection of clean
linen is possible when it is sorted and
counted in the same room with soiled
linen. Clean linen, when exposed to
infection through contact with soiled
linen, may disseminate infection. The
upshot of this is that soiled linen
ought not to be received, sorted, or
marked in rooms in which clean linen
is kept. Eating and drinking should
be prohibited in rooms in which soiled
linen is manipulated, and laundry
workers should be instructed concern
ing the latent hygienic dangers which
they may encounter in their work.
Sanitary measures involving personal
hygiene are essential for their own
welfare as well as that of the public
served. The problems involvd have
never received any serious attention
from public authorities in this coun
try; but the rapid growth of the laun
dry-business is certain to awaken in
terest in them, as it has been aroused
in the case of public restaurants,
bakeries, food-shops, and other insti
tutions which are assuming household
functions.”—Literary Digest.
WASTE NEWSPAPERS AS A
FUEL FOR MILITARY CAMPS.
Italy has aptly and inexpensively
solved the problem of supplying her
soldiers, who are campaigning in the
mountains where dry wood is scarce,
with suitable fuel for their camp fires.
In all the leading cities of Italy
there have been organized bands of
boys and girls who go about collect
ing all the discarded newspapers they
can find. These are brought to es
tablishments where other boys and
girls convert the sheets of paper into
solid rods of fuel, under the direction
of women teachers. These are then
cut into short lengths and packed in
individual bags for distribution among
the soldiers in the mountains.
It is said that the compressed paper
fuel is not only entirely satisfactory
for the purpose intended, but also most
convenient. Should a soldier desire a
little hot soup or coffee he only re
quires three or four pieces of this
unique fuel to heat the food. Light
ness is another consideration in favor
of the improvised fuel, especially in
the mountains where weight is a par
amount factor.—Scientific American.
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DEMOCRATIC MAYOR RAPS
LOUISVILLE “JIM CROW” BILL.
(Continued trom first page.)
wire possible. The first man to speak
out was the Mayor. They did not
stop there. “Marse” Henry Watter
son who was at his winter quarters at
Palm Heach, Fla., was reached, and
the Colonel grasped the situation im
mediately. He has always been known
to be fair and just in his editorial col
umns.
Women Play Their Part.
The women of the race have been
playing their part to keep the law
from being passed. Those who work
out in service are doing the work. In
most families of this city, race women
are in service. They have the ear of
big business men’s wives who in turn
have spoken to their husbands to use
their influence on the legislatures of
this city to vote against the bill.
These women have taken such a keen
interest in opposition to the bill that
white people have become stirred as
never before to help them. Letters
have been written to other members
of the Legislature to vote against the
bill. So many look upon the bill as
a “bugaboo.” It is said that if it
passes it will be aemeans of delivering
the vote of the race into the hands of
the Republican Party. Naturally this
will effect the independent vote and
the Democratic party will be the suf
ferer. This is one city where race
men have divided their vote and the
division has been a means of both
parties making a bid for the votes of
; the race. Public opinion, however,
has risen higher; mere politics and
the press of the city are opposing the
bill on the question of fair play, and
on the ground that Louisville does not
j want nor need such a bill passed;
j there is no reason for it and there
j fore it should not become a law. The
press of the city wants it known that
it is not the desire of the citizens of
this city to have such a law, but just
a personal desire of Mr. Knight. Some
say that he wants to ride into popular
ity with his foot upon the necks of
the members of the race—that he
wants to be another Vardanian or
Hoke Smith, but Henry Watterson
says as long as he lives no such
characters shall disgrace the fair
name of Kentucky. The last time Col.
Watterson spoke in public before a
| mixed audience, he said, after being
intrduced by the Rev. C. H. Parrish,
“I want children of your race to have
the same educational opportunities as
my own children.” Today he is say
ing through his paper, he wants his
i and other men’s children to sit side
by side in a street car and not that
they should be put off to a side like
.-heep. It is reported here that the
bill will fail because of such strong
opposition.
“is Alice musical?’
’ “No, but she always sings if you
ask her.”—lioston Transcript.
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