Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I Hit Barawtll P«op>t-8—U—L BaniwIL 8. C, HiTWay. Jily l 1M7 SUCH IS LIFE—No Lap Pets! • By CHARLES SUGHROE inuSHOUiv. ' feel a eoMPU S!i VWHEM I COME HOME AU-TIRED OUT, WHV poes this Biff Lummox wb^auem- AUIMALS AlWAVS DIP take to ME» I HAD A DOG AT WASUT HAPPV EXCEPT IN MV LAP THEN PONT EVER SET B-EPHA FORA PET NT/ au Restore Sight of Blind Eye by New Operation Surgeon Uses 40 Hot Needles and Electricity. New York.—Dr. Oscar B. Nugent, chief surgeon of the Chicago Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat hospital, de scribed how he thrust forty needles into a man’s sightless eye, seared each wound with a high-frequency, short-wave electric current, and made the eye see again. The operation, said the doctor in an interview after attending the as sembly of the United States branch of the International College of Sur geons, is typical of the new tech nique in which eye surgeons make new wounds to cure old ones. This stricken man—a typical case —suffered what is called a retinal separation. The retina, which is the inside coating of the eyeball, had become detached. It had pulled away from other layers of tissue. The task was to bring the layers of tissue together and keep them there. In this case, as In similar ones specialists are treating. Dr. Nugent said the first step was to cut the tissue covering the white part of the eye. ‘Then In order to operate on the back part of the eyeball, where the retina should be fast like the paper THESE BODIES OF OURS By LEONARD A. BARRETT ELEANOR HOLM on the wall, it was necessary to cut one of the controlling muscles. “Then the eyeball could be turned inside out in about a quarter of a circle. After that, over the whole area of detachment the small elec trodes were put." As each needle was thrust in the electric current was turned on, and it made its cauterizing wound. Each was left in its place until all forty were in the eyeball, each detached from the holder that had been used to place it. Each then, at the climax of the operation, stuck in the eyeball like a pin in a cushion, with threads ex tending from the ends so that all were shown in proper location. All Back Into Place. Finally all were withdrawn, a fluid separating the retina from oth er tissues released, and the retina was forced by the eyeball itself back against the other tissues. The eyeball was turned around, back in to place; and nature, in its process of repair of tissue, made aO tissues grow together. “The wounds In this esse and in all such cases were mode so that the scarred tissue would readily ad here to the other tissues, ” Dr. Nu gent said. “The rough edges made by each needle were like rivets. They riveted the retina to the other tissue. “ He meant, he said, they rivet the parts if the operation works. Some times H does not. But his portion of sucesaful operations of this kind now is 90 per cent £My G I^eighbor w w Says: IfousMd J-fints J ' By BETTY WELLS J ' It is true that they are not wdrth very much, these bodies of ours. About the cheap est thing for its size in all the world. Cheap, but indispensa- • ble. We could not get along without them. We dress them up as if we thought them very important. We hang jewels on them and spend fortunes trying to ward off the ravages of time. We deco rate them with all sorts of cos metics for the purpose of making them appear other than they are. Poor body! A marvelous peak in the evolutionary process: truly, we are “fearfully and wonderfully made.” Physiology tells us that only the cerebellum, the back part of the brain, is essential to physical exis tence. If the front part of the brain is removed, the body can still func tion in terms of physical reactions. The front brain is the canter of our mental and emotional energy, which without the body, would be incapa- Hybrid tea rosea used as back ground with blue ageratum and pink dwarf phlox as a border makes ~ beautiful garden. ***'**»«■ was wrw awrw vw J —U during warm weather. So care fully store them on a th ■■■-i e4-a a- coldest part of the lea in Lovely Eleanor Holm, world champion backstroke swimmer, basks m the sun on the shore of Lake Erie during a respite from her appearances as*Aquabelle No 1 In Billy Rosa's Aquacade, hugs mu sical and water extravaganza at the Great Lakes exposition. The exposition will continue at Cleve land through September I. neserve tenover sweetened spu ed vinegar from bottled pscklee and use in place of vinegar and sugar In Cocoa can be aO ready to make, or e cool chocolate drink If prefar. by mbtmg yew of cocoa with a little water and sugar and bringing in a bod and putting aside in the ice bos Mix ture la now reedy, and all yon need to do to to stir in with the milk and warm. • • • In preparing pmeappie gelatin be sure that the pineapple la first cooked, otherwise the raw acid will prevent solidification of the gelatin. • • • A teaspoon of salt and a dessert spoon of lemon juice makes an ex cellent “salt of lemon” for remov ing iron rust. • AMoctaue Newspapers —WNU Semes AMAZE A MINUTE 8CIENT1 FACTS — BY ARNOLD Disease Blown by the wind/ Government workers HAVE gathered SPORES F AN ALTITUDE OP 18,000 PEET IN STUDY. ING PLANT DISEASE DISSEM INATION. Food fop V« OP POOD CON SUMED IS PERISHABLE VS Prehistoric toothache Toothache was sup- pereo ovia so,ooo YEARS ACq PREHISTORIC ••'T HAT’S my best color,” com- A merited Dottie Young as we admired the lovely old blue of her living-room walls. And it does bring out her eyes and makes her skin simply bloom. i She used her old mulberry twist weave rug, then hunted to find cur tains of a pinkish cast but verging toward a pale mulberry tinge rather than the usual peach tone. This was a rayon gauze that hangs deli cately but it’s not really transpar ent. She followed this tone through a deep pinkish lavender which she quilted and used as a slip cover for a pair of chairs. All the other furniture she slip - covered in a sprawling floral on a light beige ground but with deep purply-reds in the pattern—almost mulberry they were. Crystal for accents, lilacs and lav ender sweet peas and iris and del- 11 and very near my living room. I saw a very pretty India drugget rug. Do you think It would be ap propriate? What would you sug gest?” Here are our prescriptions: If the living room furniture isn’t too fat ■ • far Dslaty Dot. phinium art Dottie’s favorite flow ers here. She highlights them with pink flowers when she can get just the right pink. Flat silver frames for her pictures made unexpectedly distinctive details . . . and her sil ver tee aet repeated that note. Dottie herself is usually to be found in something trailing and creamy colored, or alas in simple pastel Linens that go so wall with bar eyes and that room. The reason this room pleases us so much is because it not only suits dainty Dot, but It has substance enough to match her broad shoul dered gray (weeded Henry. And the furniture coverings can stand a growing family since they all zip on sad off tor cleaning. When Wa Went on a European Trip. and overstuffed looking, it could be reupholstered and used with the Italian pieces. If it is too bulbous looking, replace it with heavy but rather straight line pieces. These can be quite as comfortable as the other type. In any event, we’d like dark dull red for this—either dam ask or brocaded velvet But we’d not have the chair* the sama, old blue would be our choice for these two chafes. A . third upholstered chair could be in a deep dull gold. A blocked linen on a natural ground might b* a good idta for the dra peries — something wita a large scale motif and a Renaissance type of design. Tall brass lamps and accessories of brass would be ap propriate and attractive hare, and for the well perhaps a reproduction of an early Italian painting. Jlsk MeJ .. • A Gumral Qaim 1. How tall must a man be to be considered a giant? 2. Which heavenly body la brightest, the sun or the North •tar? S. How fast does electricity travel in ff wire? 4. Are the Hawaiian Islands a possession of the United States? 5. How deep is the deepest oil weU ever drilled in thin country? 6. Are the tears you see shed in the movies real? 7. How much worn currency ia destroyed by the United States daily? 8. What is the largest bear found, in America and what ia its weight? Answers ' 1. Wo definite height is set. Bar- j num, at one time, specified that [ no one less than 7 feet 2 inches tall should be engaged for exhibi tion as a giant. 2. The North star is brighter than the sun, the former giving forth about 525 times as much light as our own sun. S. According to the modern the ory, the velocity at electricity in a wire is the same as that of light— 186,284 miles per second. 4. The Hawaiian Islands are not a possession of the United States— they have the status of a Territory and are an integral part of the United States. 5. The deepest oil well ever drilled in this country is located at Bakersfield, Calif., and is 10,448 feet deep. 6. The tears you see the actors and actresses shed in the movies aren’t real tears. They are drops of glycerin. 7. Uncle Sam destroys from three to four tons of old worn and •oiled currency every day. 8. The brown bear ia the largest American bear, aoma reaching 000 pounds. SciBftcB and Advertising T RIED and true era **I want on a European trip and •hipped back from Italy some very beautiful Renaissance furniture. In- Little four-year-old Lora Dt Mao ot Harvard's cllntc who are • study at hex remarkable ] development Lors. who re in the Weet End of Boeton. can read, writs and spell as well as an ordinary twelve-year-old. She also can tap-dance as weU as child movie prodigies and has a routine of 40 songs. ble of expression. In other words, our personal self needs a body through which it can both manifest and express itself. These bodies of ours are “living temples''—every part of which vi brates with thoughts, desires and impulses. Think of our loss in mu sic, architecture and in the mechan ical trades, if we had to part with the human hand. Think of the un bearable silence if we should lose the organs of speech. Think of the tragedy of blindness if the optic nerve should become paralyzed. Movement, sound, light: these be long to life. We protect these bodies of ours against the aftermath of death. Life insurance is perhaps one of the best ways to provide for those dependent upon us. But the phrase “life in surance” is a misnomer. We can not insure life, for it is immortal. We insure these bodies of ours, and when they no longer function, we call it death. What dies? In reality nothing. Death oceans destruction, but not annihilation. Destruction of the combination of chemical ele ments which make these bodies, but the elements themselves are taken back by Mother Nature to herself. We should take proper care of these bodies of ours, for through them the personality expresses It self. In them we have the composite elements of humanity, capable of greet achievement, subject to con tinual frustration An impaired to- Dante's chairs—ell hand carved In u very dark wood (almost black) whseh I placed In my living I made two dark rod velvet me lor the two chair*. at taupe mohair doe* not go well with this other furniture, end 1 would like to either rt-upholster my throe pieces with some sort of dam- FOR AFTERNOON ask or get background of my rug ie a dark red scattered with dark blue, groan and yolkrw (a Persian hunting scene). Would you adivoe mo to got a now living room sot, and If so, what period or stylo and what color should I got to go with my Italian pieces? Or if I would re-upholster the one I have now what colors should I have the three pieces and what material? I have beige Ve netian blinds and I use no curtains. What color and what kind of ma terial should I get for draperies? Should I get a floral pattern or stripes? “My dining room is small—9 by MALAIIA COLDS An attractive cotton afternoon dress. The flecked novelty fabric with its woven rose-colored stripe is an imported glorification of a seer sucker weave. Catalin fastenings match the stripe. The bandeau hat is of harmonizing linen. Honor Men at U. S. Naval Academy CiMeisaa b as Bab No one can grow who does not profit by the criticisms of his friends. WHgMi m Ofc. m aeic au—t. u. t. cur What 1 Do Not what I have, but what I do is my Kingdom. Flics laucts sea baa four a haw am fe*vw auadfemp ia tuna* auaa amass m v ama at me gpwfiuabas * lasfc A GDuMMpus tic W OUR. BfeMuy a CL