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Use Drip Method, Claim Experts, for Best Coffee First step In making good coffee is to start with a clean pot, preferably scoured. The labor-saving habit of rh\sing is not enough for either the old-fashioned coffee pot, the percolator or the newer drip utensil. Second comes the amount of coffee to use. Many coffee recipes call for a certain amount of coffee to each cup of water. One popular recipe, for instance, recommends one tablespoon of coffee to each cup of water used. Best way to make a satisfying coffee, however, is to measure the coffee and water carefully, increasing the proportion of water and coffee each time, until you have found the combination which suits you best. Third, whether made in a pot, percolator or drip-o-lator, coffee should not be boiled. Boiling drives oft aroma and flavor. Thus* the longer coffee boils, the more bitter and less fragrant it beepmes. Properly made "boiled" coffee is really "steeped." That is, hot water, not boiling water is poured over the coffee until the desired flavor is obtained. For this reason, home economics experts claim that the best brew is made by the drip method, in which water that has been heated to the boiling point is poured or permitted to drip over finely ground coffee. Find 'Lost People* in Isolated Spot of Peru A town composed of 80 white families, which had been out of contact with civilization for 25 years, has been discovered at the mouth of the Rio Pinquen in the southeast corner of Peru, Captain Conterno, in charge of a corps of Peruvian aviators, reported. Not only were they ignorant of the present war, they didn't know who won the World war. The isolated community was in the department of Madre de Dios (Mother of God), a mountainous section bounded on the east by Bolivia and the north by Brazil. The aviators discovered the community while flying for the SwedishAmerican scientific expedition, known as the Winner-Gren expedition. The aviators, according to Captain Conterno, landed near .the community and were joyfully received by the inhabitants. The Spanish - speaking people seized the newspapers the aviators gave them and read them avidly. Some members of these "lost families" asked the aviators to take back word to Peruvian authorities that they would like a school and a radio telegraph station established in their village, Captain Conterno said. . ^ ^ ? Ancient Laws u In Ohio it's, unlawful to: Attend a prize fight. Drive past a horse without consent of the horse's owner. Join a fraternity, sorority or other school group. Go fishing or quarrel with yqur wife (or anyone else) on Sunday. Break into jail. Anthony J. Koval, lawyer, whose hobby it is to unearth oddities in the statute books, found the above came under the list of violations contained in Baldwin's Blue Book of Ohio Laws?and they have never been repealed. Fines for driving a motor car past a horse or horse-drawn vehicle without the consent of the horseman?or refusing to stop your car when overtaken by a horse?range up to $50. Another section states that "whoever, being a pupil in the public j schools, organizes, joins or belongs , to n fraternity, sorority or other like society" is a lawbreaker subject to I a $25 fine. Not the War War docs not have anything to do with the weather, Dr. J. L. Cline, United States weather bureau forecaster, has declared. "A great many people seem to think that the firing of guns in Europe has something to do with the rainfall we are having this summer," he said. "To prove this is not true we only have to look at the record, which shows plainly that there is nothing particularly unusual about this year's weather. During April, May and half of June. 1940. the war months, we had a total of 14.53 inches of rain. In the same months of 1920 we had 19.33 inches. In the peaceful April, May and June of 1922 we had 23.08 inches. In 1935 the total j for the three months was 15.92 inches. So you see we still are far from setting any new precipitation record." First Grade Pupils Know First grade pupils know an average of 23,750 words, according to tests made by Kathcrine Smith, a ; graduate student at Northwestern university. She tested vocabularies j in three schools and in 12 grades j and used the new vocabulary test J devised by Dr. Robert H. Seashore. | professor of psychology at the university. Dr. Seashore announced recently that his test indicated that the average adult had a vocabulary of 155.000 words "The variability of scores within one grade is one of the striking characteristics of my results," she said. "In each school, the first and second graders knew more basic words than did the poorest student in every other grade level up to and jnohjd'rg fhe eleventh grade." fffmrnmrnrnmrnrnm^mmmmmmmm^m,^ ..... , . 1 r. - T Astronomers Do 'Looking* With Camera, Says Doctor This is going to break the hearts of all the amateur astronomers who ever dreamed of glueing an eye to the iargest telescope in the work! and ferreting out comets, stars, suns and nebulae without number. For it seems the scholarly gentle* men who work around' the Mount Wilson, Calif., telescope, whose 100inch mirror is tops at present, turn knobs and twist screws and fiddle with gadgets?but practically never look through their huge instrument. That is the disillusioning word Dr. Paul W. Merrill, member of the Mount Wilson observatory research stuff, brings to the 1940 conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, held at the University of Washington. "We don't spend any more time 16oking at the stars than the chemist does looking at the bottles on his shelf," the astronomer said. "In fact, the visitors to the observatory do more looking than we do." The observatory staff, Dr. Merrill explained, does most of its "looking" with the aid of cameras, because better work can be done and because the film can "see" farther into space than a human eye. To tell the truth the observatory Isn't more than passingly interested in discovering new stars. They have ejnough trouble trying to find out about the ones they have now. At the Mount Wilson station alone, more than 30,000 spectrograms of stars have been made with cameras. Light from a single star is passed through a prism to make a spectrogram, Dr. Merrill explatned. And, once a spectrdferam has been made, the observer# have a star by the tail, Dr. Merrill explained. By studying the film, they know the chemical makeup of the star, its direction and speed. Benjamin Franklin Not So Honett, Say# Teacher Prof. Thomas P. Abernethy, in one of his volumes dealing with technical topics explodes a belief thai men like Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, Robert Morris and George Washington were as honest as we would like to believe they were. These men had deep interest in the financial returns they expected to earn from speculations in western lands. Washington, he states, was i the "Peer Gyn\" of that period. Morris often used his official position to further advance his private interest, he points out. "The idea that Morris financed the Revolution out of his own pocket is purely mythological," Professor Abernethy writes. In dealing with the versatile Benjamin Franklin, the professor is distinctly an iconoclast. First of all he indicates the early Interests of Franklin In the ill-fated land companies of that day. Franklin established a close relationship with Silas Dean, an active intriguer and also employed as his secretary, Dr. Edward Bancroft, one of his associates in the land promotion schemes. Dr. Bancroft was known at that time to be active as a British spy. S?lf-Mi!king Cow The first self-milking cow has been produced by a research scientist of the American Husbandry council. Dr. Jaftpn Barottome devised the technique, which is# based on the fundamental discoveries of the Russian physiologist Pavlov, on the formation of conditioned reflexes. In training a cow to be a selfmilker, Dr. Boriittome places the milk pail in the appropriate position and simultaneously injects under the skin of the animal's hack a potent substance which has the effect of relaxing the sphincter muscles, thus causing the milk to flow from all four teats at once, says the Rocky Mountain Herald. This procedure is repeated three times daily, the dosage being slowly diminished to zero. Eventually a new habit, or conditioned reflex, is established, so that the mere placing of the milk pail causes an immediate evacuation of the udder. The nature of the substance injected has not been divulged, as further research is being done in the attempt to find a selective relaxant which will act on the udder sphincters alone and not on the other sphincters. 4 % Pituitary Extract Dangerous In a report on paralysis in children resulting from injury of the brain at birth. Dr. George J. Garceau and Dr. George W. Gustafson of Indianapolis told the section of obstetrics and gynecology that in 13 per cent of 185 rases they investi- j gated the paralysis and brain injury ! were caused by the use of pituitary J extract to hasten labor. "Unfortu- 1 nately, pituitrin is too widely used for induction and augmentation of la- ! bor. in spite of continuous warning j from obstetric teachers." they said. In contrast to other reports, their < paper declared that anesthesia and ; pain-deadening drugs played little 1 part in causing the injuries. Labor was short in the greatest number of I mothers, they reported, and there is an increased tendency to injure tiie brain wlun the birth process lasts less than 12 hours. Eightythree of the infants n pre delivered spontaneously, thev reported, indicating that norma! forces of labor may be respons.h.e for the inu.ri^s, t'b ?n ?? :* r "I'.Trrv mi;'it not < I ' i . ! > \ ?, j-,. f ,>\ ?c N . -> , MUuamed Flib The little Redflsh is one of the true Pacific salmon and i* a fresh-water i relative of the Sockey# salmon. The ,; U. S. bureau of fisheries has stocked the waters of the Uinta mountains and Star valley in Wyoming with Hedfish. Despite its name, the color of the species is a bright silver with a bluish cast on the back and head; there are a few small black spots on the back and tail. The fish gets its name from the fact that, during the fall, it moves upstream to spawn at which time both sexes become red in color, distorted in form, and cease feeding. Calcutta Black Hole The Black Hole of Calcutta was a dungeon of the East India company in their citadel Fort William. It was 18 by 14% feet in area and meant for two or three men! When the Subahdar of Bengal stormed the fort on June 20, 1756, he believed that enormous treasures were hidden within it and that the incumbents refused to divulge the hiding place. His guards therefore drove all the white inmates, numbering 140, including one woman, into the cell. At 6 a. m. the following morning only 23 were alive. Riist Proof Skeletons In the taxidermy of animals for display purposes in museums and elsewhere, usually only the skins are used, an artificial skeleton being made of wire. Since various corrosive chemicals are employed it has been found necessary to substitute corrosion-resistant wire like monel to prevent rusting of the wire and resulting staining of the skins. Still Wondering Joseph W. Martin, house Republican leader, was recently offered a ride in an airplane by a wealthy Democratic oil operator. He accepted but still can't figure out whether the offer was due to the stiff oil regulations of the New Deal or whether it was a real gesture toward hospitality. ' , I. Q. Qui* A person's intelligent quotient (I. ; Q.) is figured by multiplying the ' mental age by 100 and dividing by the actual age. Thus, a normal person had an I. Q. of 100. Below 80 is considered subnormal, and a person of gifted mentality is denoted by a rating of more than 120; I Men Wore Lace During the first two centuries of lace making men had more lacetrlmmed garments than women. It was used for ruffs, cuffs, collars, scarfs and cravats. Ruffles of lace at the top of heavy boots were not unusual. Prevent Tarnish If soiled flat silver is not to be washed immediatelj', to prevent rapid tarnish, wipe off with absorbent paper and allow to soak, handles up, in a vessel of mild soapy water. Water on Exhibit A drop of water, regarded as a mineral because it has been entombed in a quartz crystal millions of years, has been placed on exhibit at the American Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. Pink Magnolia A pink magnolia is in blossom in San Francisco's Golden Gate park. is <?> 4frrs<i such flower ever to occur in the United States. The species is native to the Himalaya mountains. ?2,000,000 Building Down The government has torn down i the 239-unit Boulevard apartments i in Washington, built only 15 years ago at a cost of $2,000,000, to make way for a new war department building. Battery Acid The effect of acid on the .outside of the battery can be counteracted by wiping occasionally with a rag saturated with an ammonia solution. Known as Nicking The process of making a cross cut or cuts on the under side of the tail of a horse to make him carry it higher is known as nicking. One Shot Enough Maj. Harold W. Webbe, World war veteran, has an idea for a secret weapon from which one shot would wipe out an entire city. Powder Flasks In the days of muzzle-loading guns, natives of Central Amcfica made powder flasks from the bills of toucans. Honor Begon Begonia is a flower named in honor of Michel Begon, a French naval officer and a noted patron of botany. Canadians Eat More Eggs Canadians consume more eggs per capita yearly than do inhabitants of any other country. " " ? Removing Dirt Dirt and old wax can he removed from a floor by wiping with clotns wet with turpentine. 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