The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, June 13, 1941, Page PAGE SIX, Image 6
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. . ^
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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."
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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
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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,
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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.
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Removing Dirt
Dirt and old wax can he removed
from a floor by wiping with clotns
wet with turpentine.
Sculpsit .Means Carved
Sculpsit is a Latin term meaning
he carved or engraved (it); the
sculptor is.
Bicycles Licensed
Bicycles in Paris must be licensed,'
the fee being equivalent to 50 cents
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