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■ * -*•' . t — •/ THE SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1939 in f ' x ‘ Jlsk Me Jlnoiher A A General Quiz The Questions 1. How is most of the boundary between the United States and Canada marked? 2. What is the meaning of llanos; llamas; lamas? 3. Which tree is the emblem of peace? _ 4. How fast does a rainstorm travel? 5. What is your maxillary pro tuberance? 6. What physical feature makes Minnesota the northernmost stata at the Union? The Answers 1. By a series of more than 9,000 monuments. 2. Llanos are extensive plains in South America; llamas are camel like animals; lamas are Buddhist priests. 3. The birch tree is the emblem .of peace. §|if 4. Ordinarily rain clouds travel 7 with the wind at the rate of about 15 or 20 miles an hour. 5. Your jaw. 9. Lake of the Woods county ex tension. NEVER SLEEP ON AN "UPSET' STOMACH m mi Neutralize excess stomach acids to wake up feeling like a million To relieve the effects of over-indul gence — escape “acid indigestion” next day — do this: Take 2 table spoonfuls of Phillips’ Milk of Mag nesia in a glass of water — AT BEDTIME. While you sleep, this wonderful alkalizer will be sweetening your stomach... easing the upset-feeling and nausea . . . helping to bring back a “normal” feelmg. By morn ing you feel great. Then — when you wake —take 2 more tablespoonfuls of Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia with orange juice. That is one of the quickest, sim plest, easiest ways to overcome the bad effects of too much eating, smok ing or drinking. Thousands use it. But — never ask for “milk of magnesia” alone — always ask for “Phi flips” ’ Milk of Magnesia. PHILLIPS’ MILK OF MAGNESIA ^ IN LIQUID OR TABLET FORM Patience Brings Peace Patience ought to be the first attribute of the man who lover peace.—Paul Painleve. 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Barton Y EARS ago in lecturing on ventilation to school teach ers I gave the old rule. “Every pupil should have an air space of 1,000 cubic feet—10 feet high, 10 feet wide and 10 feet long— and the air should be changed three times in each hour.” Today, and for many years past, air space is not dis cussed because, as long as air is in motion — carrying used air away and allowing fresh air to enter a room—proper ventila tion is being obtained. That the air may not be moving too fast, thus caus ing drafts, is now being carefully watched. However, in addi tion to moving air, air must be of a cer- t a i n temperature and moisture for both health and comfort, so trains, cars, and even busses, besides homes, offices and other buildings, are now equipped with what is well known as air con ditioning. In order that the general public should know more about air condi tioning, what is the proper rate of movement of air, and also the proper temperature and moisture, the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers has made a code of minimum requirements fer comfort air conditioning. Set Ideal Conditions. “For winter air conditioning, 70 degrees (Fahrenheit) indoor tem perature with 35 per cent relative humidity (moisture) when outdoor temperature is 30 degrees, is set as a minimum design standard. “For summer air conditioning an Indoor design schedule of ’effective temperatures’ (which are an index of comfort based on a combination pf temperature, relative humidity, and air motion) is established, rang ing from 71 degrees effective tem perature when it is 80 degrees out- Bide to 75.5 degrees effective tem perature when it is 105 degrees out doors. “The code specifies the introduc tion of outside air for ventilating purposes at a rate of not less than 10 cubic feet per hour per occupant pr not less than 15 cubic feet in premises where smoking is permit ted, with removal of 95 per cent of ordinary dust particles to provide the necessary air purity.” The rate at which air is allowed to flow into the room should be total more than 50 linear feet per minute, , • • • Give Heart Chance To Fight Influenza During the influenza epidemic of 1918 the military hospital with which I was connected asked for volun teers from a certain unit to each give a few ounces of their blood as they were leaving hospital after re- coyoi -ng from influenza, yfithout exception these men of excellent physique gave the amount request ed. This blood (which had fought influenza successfully) was then in jected into the more serious cases of influenza with excellent results, the record for the hospital standing among the first half-dozen for the continent. This blood, fresh from withstand ing influenza, had developed so many “antibodies”—disease fighters or resisters—that it was, of course, a great boon to the tired or worn blood of the patient. Notwithstanding that it is able to reduce the power of influenza, this power in the blood does not last for very long, according to studies by Drs. R. W. Fairbrother, and E. A. Martin in the Lancet, London. These physicians state that in view of the great number of antibodies in this blood, it is surprising that it is not able to protect patients developing influenza as they may be again at tacked with influenza within 10 months or a year. Antibodies Soon Exhausted. It may be that there are a num ber of “strains” of poison in influ enza, so many strains to be con trolled or prevented from causing trouble that the antibodies devel oped by the previous attack soon get used up or exhausted. “As a number of recently infected persons were available, Drs. Fair- brother and Martin studied the fluc tuations or changes in the number of antibodies in the blood over pe riods of 10 to 12 months. The num ber or proportion of antibodies in the blood seems to tell the exact ability of the individual to resist in fection; a large number shows high resistance and a small number shows low resistance. But whether high or low, the body’s ability to fight influenza again is back to where it was (before the attack of influenza) within 10 to 12 months.” This means that if the symptoms— head cold, headache, tiredness, sore muscles, prostration — occur you should get off your feet at once and give your heart every chance to fight it again. • Ball Syndic ato WXU San tea. Floating Log Bore His Weight, So Man Developed a Curiosity I' Prepared by National Geographic Society. Washington. D. C.—WNU Service. What an eventful da^ when man first found that a floating log would bear his weight! What trial and error, what wreck and tragedy intervened even before the first dugout, or raft with clumsy sails of skins or plaited grass actually put to sea and finally reached a neigh boring shore safely! Imagine the daring sailors’ return from that first of all voyages. Shouting fellow tribesmen crowd about as they beach their craft, excited over the strange fruits and weapons the dusky Argonauts have brought back, and gaze curi ously at the lone woman captive, snatched from her coral-beach shel ter as the invaders retreated to the sea. Till then that distant shore, its peak dimly visible only on clear days, had been a region of mystery; now they had landed upon it, had tasted its dangers and delights. “Let us return for more wealth,” the excited welcomers urge. “Nay brothers,” reply the sailors. “The winds are evil and the waves run high. We must make a bigger raft and take more fighting men, for yonder they have mighty warriors to give us battle.” Contrast pirate pistol and cutlass, hand-to-hand sea-fighting technique with the World war Battle of Jut land, when armored giants hurled tons of projectiles at each other with lightninglike rapidity over leagues of intervening blue water. Man Becomes Restless Fighting on the water, perhaps, had less to do with the development of ships than did man’s peacetime pursuits, his restless urge always to find and see new lands, and to gain wealth by barter with faraway peo ple for salt, amber, and slaves. One primitive craft, in use to this day, is the Polynesian catamaran. Anyone who has lived in the Philip pines or cruised the waters of the South Pacific know this outrigger sailing canoe and its age-old use in inter-island traffic. Aboard this catamaran, long cen turies ago, dusky adventurers from Asiatic coasts, guided only by stars, the flight at birds, or instinct, sailed for countless watery miles out into the Pacific. Hawaii, Easter island, and New Zealand were all colonized by these daring sailors. There is some evidence that a few of them even reached the coasts of Mexico and South America. Egypt Started It Though history records no famous voyages made by Egyptian naviga tors, it was from early Egypt that shipbuilding ideas spread to Phoe nicia, Greece, and later to Rome— even through the Red sea to the Orient. The Chinese junk bears a strong resemblance to pictures of ancient Egyptian craft, especially in the shape of the hull. Although sea going ships grew up in the Mediter ranean, early Chinese used the com pass. Their junks, trading between Canton and the Persian gulf in the Third century, had magnetic iron needles; also, their junks used a rudder mounted on the stempost. Beyond the junk, however, Chinese shipmakers progressed little. On canals, rivers, and along coasts, myriad juhks and sampans continue to haul much of China’s colossal do mestic commerce. Phoenicia, today, is a forgotten land. Yet “merchants of Tyre” cor nered the world trade of their day. They sent dried fruit and wine to the then remote British isles, and brought back tin and cloth. They are even believed to have sailed around Africa centuries before Vasco da Gama. Vikings, bold sailors in their day, ravaged the coasts of Gaul and Spain in their stout oaken vessels centuries before Columbus was born. Living on dried fish and such little grain as they could carry, they later explored the northwest Atlan tic; about 1000 A. D., Leif Ericsson voyaged to North America through icy seas. In each passing century, after Egypt supplied a pattern for sea going merchant craft, first the sea farers of one nation, then of another, made improvements. Columbus’ flagship, for example, was a “mod ern” boat, compared with Leifs open “long ship.” His crew had bet ter sleeping quarters, bigger water casks, more dried meats, better Old as water transportation itself, but still modern! This is a gufa, water transport on the Tigris river, which goes forward by twirling in a circle. Slightly round-about, perhaps, but it gets there! arms and clothes, and better navi gation charts and instruments. Human Powerhouse The Venetian galley was the fight ing craft when Christian allies un der Don John of Austria defeated the Turks at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. In that battle larger ves sels carried 100 crossbowmen, 40 cannon, and catapults for throwing stones. Power came from 150 gal ley slaves, chained to their long sweeps and whipped savagely upon their naked backs to make them pull hard, in steady rhythm. In Greek and Roman galleys oars were arranged in two or more tiers. The Venetians abolished this sys tem, installing all oars on the same level. The rowers, however, sat on two or three different levels, with the benches inclined in such a way as to leave each man’s motions &. •'-> ■" . ■ i 4 \ 1 WkMM : . - Hl'c a -i > If it floats, it’s a boat. With canvas unfurled, Miami bathing girls take advantage of both wind and waves in a new sport, surf sailing. tree from interference by the others. The oars of each group of two or three rowers projected through the same opening or “rowlock.” The high bench was nearest the center of the vessel and its occupant pulled the longest oar—sometimes meas uring nearly 50 feet in length. The galleys themselves were about 150 feet long. We look how at models of the tiny caravels of Columbus, and are amazed that in craft so frail he dared so much. We might set his whole fleet, the Pinta, Nina, and Santa Maria, upon the decks of the new Queen Mary and still have room to drill a regiment of infan try. Yet, in their day, these were stout little ships, developed by man after centuries of experience with Egyptian Nile and coastal craft, Chi nese junks, Phoenician traders, Arab dhows, and Roman galleys, successive rungs of man’s maritime ladder. Caravels Seaworthy Despite their small size, often less than 100 tons, caravels became fa mous for seaworthiness on long voy ages; Vasco da Gama used one in rounding the Cape of Good Hope; so did Magellan. Opening the doors of a new world wide era of exploration, commerce, wealth, and empire, the little cara vel poked its bows into harbors pre viously unfurrowed by white men’s ships, and fled safely from unfriend ly shores, easily escaping from the canoes of warlike native tribes. Among heroic pioneer navigators in this age of exciting discovery was Sir Francis Drake. This Eng lish sea hawk sailed around the globe in the Golden Hind at the end of the Sixteenth century, and was the first Englishman to pass through the Strait of Magellan and to explore the west coasts of South and North America. Drake scraped his ship’s bottom hard by what is now San Francisco bay, crossed the Pacific to the East Indies, and sailed home around the Cape of Good Hope. Rich with spoils from Spanish ships, he reached England after an ab sence of nearly three years. Household Hints By BETTY WELLS “C'VER since my doll dressing ’ days, I’ve loved to sew,” writes Evelyn A., “and I’m pretty good if I may be so bold. I make most of the family clothes. I’ve al ways dreamed of a really well- equipped sewing room but so far I’ve had to be content with using a make-shift comer of any room that could be spared. Now we’ve just added an addition to our house, and my husband has a den for his carpenter bench and I have a sew ing room. Both of us are thrilled. “But all of a sudden I’ve got stage-fright because I want this room to look attractive and be use ful and I’m not quite sure just how to achieve that. Can you help? I’ll need some kind of a big cutting table but the room is really too small to have this out on the floor all the time. Besides I’d rather like to have this room as a sort of a little sitting room to use between sewing sprees and a big cutting table would rather spoil that effect. What would you suggest in the way of furnishing and decoration, keeping in mind “I’m fixing a sewing room for my self.” that this must be first of all a utility room. I want it cheery and pleas ant to work in.” First off, why not inveigle your husband into building in a set of cabinets and shelves across one wall of the room. You know you can’t have enough for sewing oddments. Then in one section of this he can have a cutting table that will drop down out of the wall when needed, or swing up out of the way between times. You might like to have an ironing board swing down out of your cabinet too because you’ll cer tainly need one. How would the idea of pink walls and woodwork strike you? Yes, I mean a definite pink, though not too deep. Then curtains and slip cov ers of navy calico with a tiny white sprig in it . . . finished with white ric-rac, perhaps. By all means h£.ve at least one comfortable chair here, preferably-two if you expect to use it as a sitting room on “beau” nights when your daughter wants the liv ing room. And if you have room for a studio eouch, what a good solution of the extra guestroom space I For the walls, collect botany prints and frame them in white painted frames. For working, you know how much easier sewing is— or rather the clean-up—if the floor is either bare or covered in lino leum. So have your floor plain, then add some flowered hookedj rugs, scatter size, that can easily be swooped up out of the way when you’re going to sew. 1 * * ‘ j. Such Luxury! “You should just see me on my. new chaise longue,” Edith said over me phone this morning. “Though sfleh luxury never seems quite re- sfeectable somehow. Mine is French with a striped covering in blue and cream. ‘“It has me all pepped up to fix utf our rooms,” she continued. “How wbild you like the idea of cream w£|lls and light blue taffeta curtains smftcked across the top? A blue taffeta bedspread, too, with a smocked flounce, and a flowered rug in K French design and delicate col orings. I’d thought about cream lace, ruffling and billowing all over the (place, for the dressing table skijrt. I’ll need new lamps and a (My new chaise longue. N cp\ woulo’you have?” “Well,” said I, “I’d adore the lace dressffig table skirt—I’m wonder ing wlfether that might not be nicer for the bedspread, too. Maybe a contrAit would be better for the arm chair—an old rose or else a warm4Hne shade of orchid! And lamps i ninth Dresden design vase bases Mid cream shades. And you’ll want flight blue taffeta down com forter Ip 1 8° on the bed. And a soft light blife silk quilt for the chaise.” “It’ll lum out to be a case of the new bra* andirons,” laughed Edith. “I’ll be building me a new house for my chaise! Edward didn’t know what hedwas starting.” “Speakibg of Edward,” I remem bered hqt big and burly husband. “How wifi he like such a dainty room?” cu “Oh, HSTl love it,” she replied. “I know' r if sounds crazy, but he adores fro^rou. I guess he doesn’t need to w^rry about his masculin ity—it’s obvious enough. So I won’t have much trouble selling him the idea of doing over the room as our budget pei*mits.” Lucky lady! • By Betty Well*.—WNU Service. Richest Yield in Vitamin Content Yeast, Milk, Eggs, Meat, Fruit Sources of Supply By EDITH M. BARBER ' | 'HE word vitamin came into ex- istence only 27 years ago. This name was proposed in order to describe the newly discovered but potent organic compounds which were beginning to be recognized as necessary for maintenance and growth. Although the letters A, B, C, D, E and G have been given, as new vitamin units were established, re search work in the famous labora tories throughout the country have shown that all of these are made up of a number of fractions. Dr. C. A. Elvehjem of the depart ment of bio-chemistry, University of Wisconsin, discussed the vitamin B complex in practical nutrition at the recent meeting of the American Di etetic association in Milwaukee. At the present moment this complex has been found to be divisible into at least six parts, each of which has an individual influence upon physi cal well-being of experimental ani mals. Dr. Elvehjem made the point that at present we have not enough available information in regard to the vitamin content of food. First analyses are always made with foods which are easiest to test. At the moment brewer’s yeast and wheat germ seem to be the richest natural sources, but vegetables, fruits, whole grains, milk, eggs and meats also contribute. We also are beginning to have at our disposal vitamin concentrates which allow us to take measured amounts in convenient form. String Beans and Celery With Cream. 1 pound string beans 1 bunch celery % cup cream Salt, pepper Cut beans crosswise and cook un til tender with a dash of sugar and a dash of salt in a small amount of water in a heavy covered pan. Dice celery and cook until tender in the same way. Drain vegetables, mix together with cream, season to taste with salt and pepper and reheat. Whole Wheat Fig Bread. 1 cup white flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1V« teaspoons baking soda 1 teaspoon salt Vi cup sugar 2 cups whole wheat flour 1 cup shredded figs 2 cups sour milk or buttermilk % cup molasses Sift together white flour, baking powder, soda, salt and sugar; stir in whole wheat flour and figs. Com bine milk and molasses and add to flour mixture. Stir lightly until mixed. Pour batter into a greased loaf pan, and bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees Fahrenheit) about one hour. Broiled Swordfish. Dip filets in melted butter or salad oil into which paprika has been sprinkled. Or brush swordfish steak with same mixture. Put under broiling flame and broil on one side until brown, turn and broil on other until tender. Serve garnished with lemon and parsley. Creamed Hamburger. 3 tablespoons butter % pound hamburger 4 tablespoons flour Salt, pepper 2 cups milk Dash of Worcestershire sauce Melt the butter and cook the ham burger in it for half a minute. Stir in the flour and salt and pepper, and when well blended, add the milk slowly. Let boil one minute and season with Worcestershire sauce. A little minced onion may be cooked with the butter, if desired. Scalloped String Beans. % pound string beans or 1 can string beans 3 tablespoons butter 3 tablespoons flour % teaspoon salt Pepper 1% cups milk % teaspoon Worcestershire sauce % cup buttered crumbs Paprika Cut the beans in inch-long pieces and cook in a small amount of boiling water until tender, about 30 minutes. Make a white sauce of the other ingredients; melt the but ter, stir in the flour and seasoning and when smooth add the milk. Stir until smooth and thick and add the Worcestershire sauce. Mix with the beans and place in a greased- baking dish. Sprinkle with buttered crumbs and paprika and bake in a moderate oven (375 degrees Fah renheit) 15 minutes. Baked Bean Soup. 3 cups cold baked beans 3 pints water 2 slices onion 2 stalks celery 1V& cups stewed and strained to matoes 1 tablespoon chili sauce Salt, pepper 2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons flour Put the beans, water, onion and celery in a saucepan, bring to boil ing point and simmer 30 minutes. Rub through a sieve; add the to mato and chili sauce, season to taste with salt and pepper and bind with the butter and flour cooked to gether. Serve with crisp crackers • Ball Syndicate.—WNU Sarvtea. Knitted Rag Rug to Make in Soft Colors By RUTH WYETH SPEARS H ERE is news for those who have been writing me for more rag rug designs. A special Rug Leaflet has been prepared for you. It will be included free upon request with your order for the two books offered herewith. If you already have these two useful 2 MSOll/M fiRGCN » BLUR 3 DARK CRCCN * -nr yjiul 49 yja! CROCHET EDGE- books, send 8 cents in stamps for the Rug Leaflet Wooden knitting needles %-inch in diameter are used for this rug. Cut or tear the rags %-inch wide and knit them in strips 10 inches wide, changing colors every 10 inches by cutting the material close to the needle and sewing a new color to it When three strips have been knitted with the colors arranged as shown here, sew them together on the wrong side with heavy car pet thread. NOTE: Be your own decorator. Make new draperies; curtains; slipcovers; bedspreads and dozena of other things for every room. Mrs. Spears’ Sewing Book No. 1—“SEWING, for the Home Deco rator,” shows you exactly how, with step-by-step illustrations. Book 2—Gifts, Novelties and Em broidery, shows you how to make fascinating things from odds and ends and will save its cost many times. Books are 25 cents each; it you order both books, the Rug Leaflet is included FREE. Ad dress: Mrs. Spears, 210 S. Dea- plaines St., Chicago, HL Safety Talks ) Crossing the Road H ERE’S the modern counter part of the ancient chicken poser: Why does a pedestrian cross the road—at the wrong places and without looking? That’s what the National Safety council is trying to find out after an examination of its records which proved that at least a third of the pedestrians killed in rural areas and 40 per cent of those killed in cities were crossing at places other than intersections. In 1937, the loss of life from these classifications mounted over the 5,600 mark. Relieve the dis comfort—put 3 drops Penetro Nose Drops in each nostril—the astrlngent-like action of the ephedrlne and essential oils re lieves the conges- v $ tlon, permits freer nasal breathing. Soothing, cooling, quick-acting. Feel relief with every breath you take. PENETRO r 051 ■ DROPS Heart to Heart A man cannot touch his neigh bor’s heart with anything less than his own.—G. Macdonald. NERVOUS? Do you ted *o nervous you want to *ereun? 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