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Play Just as Important to
Well-Balanced Life as Work
A vacation helps to balance our
powers, to give us a more symmetri
cal development. It keeps us from
becoming one-sided. It improves our
judgment.
People who alternate work with
play, who frequently get close to Na
ture, preserve the sweetness of life;
are sounder, saner: have more com
mon-sense than those who never
drop their work.
Man’s Friends Glad He Told
Them About Black-Draught
Writing from Texarkana, Texas,
Mr. W. T. Bentley, of that city, says:
“I have been using Black-Draught
for fully forty years. I would have
a bad taste in my mouth and head
ache. I knew I needed a laxative —
something to cleanse the system. I would
hunt up the Black-Draught and take a dose.
I would be relieved in a few hours. In
Black-Draught I have found a simple rem
edy —- one that does not have any after
effects. I do not know of anything better
to take for a dull, tired, listless feeling. I
have recommended Black-Draught to many
friends and neighbors. I know they have
been glad that I did, for they have said so.”
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YOUR kidneys are constantly Filter
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their work—do not act as nature in
tended—fail to remove impurities that
poison the system when retained.
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BEFORE BABY COMES
Elimination of Body Waste
Is Doubly Important
In the crucial months before baby arrives
it is vitally important that the body be rid
of waste matter. Your intestines must func
tion-regularly,completely without griping.
Why Physicians Recommend
Milnesia Wafers
These mint-flavored, candy-like wafers are
pure milk of magnesia in solid form—
much pleasanter to take than liquid. Each
wafer is approximately equal to a full adult
dose of liquid milk of magnesia. Chewed
thoroughly, then swallowed, they correct
acidity in the mouth and throughout the
digestive system, and insure regular, com
plete elimination without pain or effort.
Milnesia Wafers come in bottles of 20 and
48, at 35c and 60c respectively, and in
convenient tins for your handbag contain
ing 12 at 20c. Each wafer is approximately
one adult dose of milk of magnesia. AU
good drug stores sell and recommend them.
Start using these delicious, effective
anti-aeid, gently laxative wafers today
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Keeping Up
With Science
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© Science Service. —WNU Service.
Newly Found Nerves
Act as “Spares” to
Speed Heart Action
Tests on Dogs Reveal
Their Dual Function
NEW YORK.—Science’s firs,
step toward an understanding of
recently discovered nerve fibers
for speeding up heart action, a dis
covery which may lead to their
identification as hitherto unknown
sympathetic nerves, was an
nounced to thb New York Academy of
.Sciences here by Dr. Lucien A. Brouha
of the University of Liege, Belgium.
Discovered at the University of
Ghent in 1934 by Jourdan and Nowak,
the tiny fibers have remained pretty
much of a mystery to science, the only
definite fact known about them being
their position alongside the vagi nerves
which run from the brain to the heart
and which serve to retard the cardiac
beat.
Even now, Doctor Brouha explained,
little is known of their function In the
normal body—but in dogs whose sym
pathetic nervous system has been re
moved, these new nerve fibers take
its place. Indeed, so successfully do
they substitute for the missing nerves
that Doctor Brouha finds it absolutely
impossible to distinguish a normal dog
from one without its sympathetic sys
tem.
How Dogs React.
It was the ability of the new nerves
to replace the sympathetic system in
dogs that led Doctor Brouha to his
conclusion concerning the possible
function of the nerves as a substitute
for the removed system. In the nor
mal body, he believes, the nerves may
aid heart regulation to a very small
extent, although he said that in all
probability they have additional func
tions as yet undiscovered by science.
In research leading to these results,
Doctor Brouha conducted pioneer tread
mill tests on dogs both before and
after removal of the sympathetic sys
tem. The experiments were performed
in co-operation with Dr. David B. Dill
of the Harvard University Fatigue lab
oratory where Doctor Brouha is carry
ing on his investigations this year.
Outstanding among his finds were
that the general behavior of a dog
whose sympathetic chains have been
•emoved remains normal, although the
leart beat of the animal at rest is
slightly less than normal, and that
emotional excitement produces the
usual definite cardiac acceleration.
Substitute for Regular Nerves.
Another important find was that the
,eapacity to stand very intense exer
cise is not at all diminished three
months after the removal operation,
that time being necessary for the dog
to recover from the operation.
Experimentally checking the possible
influence es a rise in bodj’ tempera
ture or ipuscular meJsfeclism. Doctor
Brouha found that they are definitely
♦.ot responsible for the accelerated
heart beat. Nor are adrenalin or sym
pathin, for with the removal of the
sympathetic system, these hormones
are not secreted into the blood stream
10,000 Sterilizations
in California
PASADENA. —Over 10,000 human
sterilization operations—lo,Bol, to be
exact —have been performed in ac
cordance witli the California state
sterilization law, E. S. Gosney, presi
dent of the Human Betterment Foun
dation here, announced after compiling
the 1935 figures.
These operations, Mr. Gosney point
ed out, were performed on inmates of
state institutions since 1909. Neither
the figures nor the California steriliza
tion law have any connection with
privately performed sterilization op
erations such as the one now figuring
in the Ann Cooper Hewitt law suit.
Discussing the sterilization law for
inmates of state institutions, Mr. Gos
ney said:
“The consistently careful adminis
tration of this measure in California is
reflected by the fact that during the
first six years of the enforcement of
the law, sterilizations per year in
creased from 11 to 116; total 577;
yearly average, 96. During the last
20 years they have gradually increased
from 182 in 1916 to 870 in 1935.
New Sky Wanderer
Found by Belgian
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.—A tiny
wanderer of the sky, now known
only as an object, probably eith
er a comet or minor planet, has
been discovered by Prof. E. Delporte
of the Royal Belgian observatory. In
formation regarding the discovery has
been received by Harvard college ob
servatory and distributed to the Ameri
can observatories.
The object is so faint that only targe
telescopes can sight it. It is located
somewhat west of the constellation of
Leo.
X-Ray Burn Hazard
Is Reduced by
New Baffle Method
Cancer Treatment Enhanced
by Increased Radiation
NEW YORK.—A new method
of decreasing materially the
dangerous X-ray burns which
have long been a hazard in the
treatment of cancer and other
malignant growths by these pierc
ing radiations was described be
fore the meeting of the American
Physical society here recently by Dr.
G. Pallia, physicist of New York.
One possibility of the new method
is that better treatment of deep-seated
cancers will be achieved, according to
Doctor Failla, because the present limi
tation of the amount of radiation
which can be given a patient Is de
termined by the burning power of the
rays on the skin. Any method to re
duce the skin burning from X-rays will
illow more potent radiation treatment.
Damaging Electrons Eliminated.
Doctor Failla, long known in this
country for his basic contributions to
medical X-ray therapy, told how he
is now cutting out much of the sec
ondary electrons which are an essen
tial part of any X-ray beam. It is
these charged particles of electricity
which actually split apart the atoms
of the skin and produce ionization in
them. It is ionization which causes
the skin reddening and damage even
though seemingly adequate protection
is afforded by heavy shields of lead.
The lead shield. Doctor Failla points
out, protects other parts of the body
than the point where the radiation it
desired but, of necessity, the opening
for the X-rays allows any electrons
also in the beam to come through.
How New Method Works.
Doctor Failla’s new method takes
advantage of the fact that when elec
trons strike matter they are deflected
at large angles. By setting up a sys
tem of baffles or stops a beam of X
rays containing only the desired gam
ma ray type of radiation can be at
tained. The deflected electrons are
caught by the baffles.
“The advantage of the use of X-ray
beams stripped of secondary elec
trons,” said Doctor Failla, “is appar
ent in X-ray therapy, since the ioniza
tion in the skin is reduced.”
Animal’s Ears
Are Best “Mikes”
Scientists Find
PRINCETON. —Quantitative measure
ments on the ears of guinea pigs show
the animal ear to be a far more effec
tive microphone than those construct
ed mechanically, according to the an
nouncement of Profs. Ernest G. Wever
and Charles W. Bray, of the Princeton
University Department of Psychology.
Small currents arising in the coch
lea of the inner ear and measured on
an oscillograph provide an accurate
measurement of the response of the
animal to sound, and the results of re
cent experiments show that the animal
is capable of responding to tones of a
wide range of frequencies, even though
these tones be quite faint, whereas it
is a well-known fact that mechanical
microphones must sacrifice either sen
sitivity or range.
That this electrical method of meas
uring sound effect is accurate was de
termined several years ago when the
small currents were amplified about
half a million times and run into a
telephone receiver. It was then pos
sible for one person to talk to the ani
mal and another person in a distant
room not only to recognize the words
but the voice of the speaker.
Find Sex Hormones
Will Influence Eggs
WOODS HOLE, MASS. —
Male sex glands of unhatched
chicks were caused to develop
decidedly female characters by in
jecting the female sex hormone sub
stances theelin and theelol through
the eggshells, in experiments reported
before the meeting of the Genetics
Society of America here. The research
was carried on by Dr. B. H. Wlllier
of the University of Rochester and
Drs. T. F. Gallagher and F. C. Koch
of the' University of Chicago.
The theelin and theelol were In
jected In rather heavy quantities.
From day to day, eggs were removed
from the incubator, opened, and the
developing embryos dissected. The
ovaries of the chicks that would have
grown up to be hens were not affected.
Neither were the left sex glands of
the chicks that might have been roos
ters. But the right sex glands devel
oped, surrounding their characteristic
male tissues, other tissues just as
characteristically female.
Boys “Cry Babies”
as Much as Girls t
NEW YORK.—Little boys cry Just
■ as much as little girls.
So Dr. Catherine W. Brackett of
i the Child Development Institute, here,
has learned by timing the crying of
pre-school youngsters.
Between the ages of eighteen months
! and four years, the average child
I spends 2.5 per cent of his days—or
’ nights—crying. That makes an aver
age crying time of 36 minutes a day.
One of America's Seven Wonders.
South Carolina Feature.
All Americans are familiar with
Niagara Falls, the Grand Canyon
and fnost of the other Seven Won
ders described by Baedeker. One of
the most beautiful of these Won
ders, however, is known to compara
tively few of our millions of citi
zens. This is the famous Magnolia
and Middleton Gardens near Charles
ton and Summerville, South Caro
lina.
Up the winding Ashley River,
these two spiry gardens, both in
ternationally famous, have been the
mecca for flower lovers for over 225
years. With their hundreds of acres,
landscaped and planted by scores of
slaves working through two decades,
they present a veritable dreamland.
Delicate wistarias come to the
ground from 75 to 100 feet high.
In addition, dogwood, laurel, bay,
spirea, syringa, and jessamine
abound, with cherry, holly and cedar
trees. Most lovely of all, however,
are the azaleas which in the village
of Summerville and in the nearby
Magnolia and Middleton Gardens
form a colorful spectacle, culminat
ing in "Azalea Week” usually the
latter part of March, which brings
thousands of spectators by special
trains or in private parties.
Near Summerville are also the
Cypress Gardens where one is poled
by guides through an impenetrable
water forest of giant cypress trees.
These gardens are at their very
best from February through April.
In Summerville, surrounding the
famous Pine Forest Inn, once more
open to the public, also are gardens
of Azaleas and Wisteria covering
many acres. It was to Pine Forest
Inn that Presidents Theodore
Roosevelt and Taft came during their
administrations when they visited
the beautiful gardens.
Tibet, Land of Mystery
and Terror for Natives
Sinister tales of sorcery reach us
from the East, where every
thought, every action is governed
by centuries of ingrained supersti
tion. But none equals the sheer
horror of the mystic rites prac
ticed by those primitive people who
live on the high, snow-bound table
land of Tibet, says a writer In An
swers Magazine.
In the land of the Lamas a
cruel, austere religion exercises the
most terrorizing influence over Its
devotees. Fear of ghosts and de
mons haunt every devout mind.
Some go mad or die of terror dur
ing frightful ceremonies.
Like many uncivilized peoples,
the Tibetans live at the mercy of
their own vivid and uncontrollable
imaginations. Grotesque and fear
some hallucinations — monstrous
shapes and phantoms — confront
the credulous, half-crazed Tibetans
at every turn. •
Their terrors assume reality In
their own minds, till, hypnotized
by their fears, they are unable to
distinguish fact from fancy. They
liev in a nightmare world peopled
by specters and demons.
Among religious ascetics, the cer
emony of initiation to holiness
actually consists of invoking these
ghastly fantasies until the novice
is hysterical with fear.
Lovely Places of Scotia
All the wild and lovely places of
Scotia are full of memories. Duns
core, which readers of “Red Gaunt
let” will recall, is near the ruined
tower of Grierson of Lag, and the
scene of Wandering Willie’s tale;
of the mounds and-stones of Sten
nis, where Norse gods were wor
shiped and are buried, of the Cas
tle of Forres on the journey from
Elgin to Inverness where took place
the murder of the king immortal
ized in “Macbeth,” whose keep
goes back to prehistoric days, and
then there is little Dulce Cor Ab
bey in the country near Dumfries,
fragrant with the memories of
Lady Devogilla, mother of Balliol,
and one of the loveliest figures in
Scottish romance. Scotland teems
with such haunts.
Content, of Whisky
Whisky is 99.75 per cent ethyl
alcohol and water, says Industrial
and Engineering Chemistry. The
remaining quarter of one per cent
is a complex mixture which supplies
smoothness, flavor, and potability.
A mixture of grain alcohol and wa
ter is extremely irritating to the
sensory nerves of the mouth; there
fore this small fraction serves as
a palliative for the astringent mix
ture so that it can pass easily into
the stomach. The bouquet and mel
lowness characteristics of whiskies
rest solely in the composition of
these minute quantities of organic
“impurities” In ethyl alcohol and
water.
“Thoroughbred,” “Full Blooded”
The terms, “thoroughbred” and
“full-blooded,” are often mistak
enly used in place of the
term, “purebred.” Strictly speak
ing, Thoroughbred is the name of
a breed of light racing horses. A
purebred animal is a member of
some particular breed and Is regis
tered or eligible to registry in the
herd book of that breed. A pure
bred animal usually possesses a dis
tinctive and useful type which It
has the power to transmit to its off
spring, because it Is backed by a
long line of ancestors of the same
type.
Cross Stitch Kitchen Towels That
Are Fun to Embroider—or Give Away
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Pattern 757
Just a bit —but a telling bit—of
lecoration is all that’s needed today
to make our-household linens smart.
And so, simple cross stitch brings
color and life to humble tea-towels
which make dish doing a pleasure
rather than a duty. These motifs of
glassware and china —in cross stitch
—are easy to embroider. This hal'
dozen makes fine pick-up work, and
also a grand prize for a bridge party
—or most acceptable for a fair dona
tion.
Pattern 787 comes to you with a
Ambulance Speeds Laundry
but Siren Worries Driver
The driver of a Baltimore laundry
trupk, bound downtown recently,
was startled to hear a siren whine
just behind him. He looked into the
rear-vision mirror and saw a munici
pal ambulance. Sensing an emer
gency, he stepped on the “gas,” and
pulled to the side of the street, but
the ambulance kept dodging to the
rear. After passing several intersec
tions, he decided to get out of the
way completely and turned to the
right at the next corner.
The ambulance, with its siren go
ing full-tilt, followed. A block
farther he pulled to the side and
stopped. The ambulance drew up
directly behind. “I tried to get you
to stop,” a member of the ambulance
crew said. “This bag of laundry
dropped out.”
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are the orig
inal little liver pills put up 60 years ago.
They regulate liver and bowels. —Adv.
Painted Fingernails Old
Painted fingernails were fashion
ible in Egypt, 1000 B. C.
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Specialist Would Commission
Whistler to Paint His Doot
Whistler had a French poodle of
which he was extravagantly fond.
This poodle was seized with an af
fection of the throat and Whistler
had the audacity to send for the
great throat specialist, Sir Morell
Mackenzie. The latter, when he dis
covered that lie had been called to
treat a dog, didn’t like it much. But
he said nothing. He prescribed, pock
eted a big fee and drove away.
The next day Doctor Mackenzie
sent post haste for Whistler, who,
thinking he was summoned on some
matter connected with his beloved
dog, dropped his work and rushed
like the wind to the Mackenzie home.
On his arrival Sir Morell said, grave
ly: “How do you do, Mr. Whistler.
I wanted to see you about having my
front door painted.’—Kansas City
Star.
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