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BATHING To MAKE THE recent discovery of a wonderful method for purifying the blood actually by or treating it chemically and electrically bidi fair to. relegate to the medical acrap pile that long established practice of swallowing copious doM of bitter medicines to correct unhealthy conditions of the life stream. This marvelous new process, which II. W. Secor and J.

H. Kraus describe in Science and Invention, consists in extracting the blood from the body, either wholly or in part, and purifying the blood chemically 'or otherwise; then re pumping this blood back into the body. The first method, which was tried out experimentally, but which now has been abandoned, was to extract all of the blood from the body, and as this was done the veins and arteries were kept dilated or filled with a substitute solution, such as saline (salt water), or Locke's solution, the pressure in veins being kept approximately constant by cfTeckingwith a blood pressure gauge securod to the subject's body. After two experiments carried out In the laboratory of Long Island College Hospital, by Prof. Kretz, Instructor in physiology and physiological chemistry, and by Mr.

Kraus, Prof. Krcts being greatly Interested in the experiment, in which the animals used for this research work succumbed, it was Anally decided that the best method of carrying out the blood purification process here suggested, would be to connect the mrifying apparatus with the patient, as shown the accompanying drawing, so that the blood would be taken from a vein in one arm, passed through the apparatus, and finally allowed to fas back Into a vein In the patient's other arm. this way only a small portion of the blood, possibly 5 per wnt of the total volume (the average human body contains approximately six quarts of blood), would be passing through the purification apparatus at any given time. Fol The PALM TREE NEAR Faridpur, in Bengal, India, stands a date palm known there as the "praying palm," on account of its extraordinary behavior. In the evoning, while tho temple bells call to Driver, this tree bows down as if to pros trate Itself.

It raises its head again in the morning, and this Is repeated every day of the year. This extraordinary manifestation has been 'regarded as miraculous, and pilgrims have been attracted In large numbers. It is alleged by the superstitious that offerings made to the tree have been the means of effecting marvellous cures. Th movements of this palm have recently been mm The "Praying Palm" In the Morning. studied and explained by Sir J.

C. Bos, the Hindu physiologist, one of the world authorities on the taction of plant tia.ua to stimulus. The following account, partly quoted and partly abstracted from the Transactions of tte Bose Institute, is from the Modern Review date palm is a rigid tree, its trunk being about 18 feet In length and 10 inches in diameter. It must have been displaced by storm, and Is now at an tncl.nat.on of about 60 degrees to the vert.cal. In consequence of the diurnal movement, the trunk.

throughout its entire length erected In tha morning and depressed In the afternoon. The highest point of the trunk thus move, up an Sown through a distance of three feet; the neck above the runic is concavt. nomine" In the afternoon the curvature is re Urge leave, which point high up the sky in the morning are thus swung round in the afternoon through a vertica. ais nee of about 15 feet. To the popular imagina tion, the tree appears like a living am, more than twice the height of a human being, which leans forward In the evening from it.

towering height and bend. It. neck till the crown of teave. presses Against the ground in an attitude of de VOt A difficulty arose at the beginning In ob rfoni Utl II tmm WHERE do all the lean penciw and where do they go! Although almost everybody has one, many folk never buy one. but even so more than 750,000,000 are menu factured for use in the United State, every year, reauiring many thousands of cords of wood.

qBut wood, suitable for lead pencils are besom ln scarcer and many manufacturers are turn 5 caplr. Red cedar and red juniper, accord to the American Forestry Association, are wood, chiefly used In making lead pencils. A hunt i. on for other kinds of wood that will y. nlace of these.

In East Africa a kind ofced.r hi been found with which experiment. ntpnTductlon in the United State, is about MOOO case, of pencil slats per year. From each 100 gross of pencil, is made. Th.s results tatbout fw000.000 pencils of American grown i. nt to for leave.

750,000,000 pencil, for the BLOOD II NEW lowing this method the blood would have to be passed through the apparatus for a considerable time, possibly 20 to SO minutes, so that eventually all of the patient's blood would pass through it, and then the relative condition could checked from time to time, by taking small samples from the apparatus and applying the usual microscopic and other testa. The main reason why this latter method has been decided upon as the proper one to be used In this purification process, when it hss been worked out in more detail and actually applied in hospitals, is based on the fact that in the former method Just exactly what the authors predicted actually happened. That is, the animal in each experiment ceased breathing when about 80 per cent of the blood had been extracted. It is interesting undoubtedly for the lsyman to bear in mind that tho blood has the peculiar property of clotting, coagulating or thickening, and in order to prevent this, it had to be kept moving in a warm chamber, free from air, with also a certain amount of saline or Locke's solution added to It It Is a remarkable thing to note that the heart kept on beating very strongly, and In fact was still pulsating three hours after the operation was started. (An animal's heart has been kept beating for eight days after its removal from the body, by placing it In nutrient sajine solution.) Artificial respiration as well as the use of a pulmotor were brought into play in an effort to keep the animal fully alive (of course the animal In each experiment was anesthetized before starting to extract the blood), but as the lungs had no reason for functioning, respiration ceased under the conditions brought about.

No solution equivalent to the blood has ever been developed; in blood the red corpuscles carry the oxygen, and this property is not present in That "PRAYS tabling sanction of the proprietor to attach the recorder to the tree. He was apprehensive that the miraculous power might disappear by profane contact with foreign looking instrument. His misgivings were removed on the assurance that "the instrument was made In Dr. Boss's laboratory in India, and that it would be attached to tha tree by one of his assistants who was the son of a priest. "From results of observation it Is found that the tree is never at rest, but in a state of con tinuoua movement.

The movement is not passive, but an active force is exerted; tha force sjenessary to counteract the movement ie equivalent to the weight of 47 kilograms In other word the force is sufficient to lift a bus mT tha around. "The special apparatus devised made the tree reoord automatically 1U movement day and night A long coureo of Investigation brought out the fact that the movement was due to variation of temperature. Further research showed that the tree was acted on by two contending forces, the geotroplc action in virtue of which the tree tried to erect Itself, and the antagonistic action of rise of temperature which opposed the tropic curvature. The tree was never at rest, but in state of 'dynamic which was upset in one direction or the other by the changes of the environment The fully grown and rigid tree is The Same Tree with Head Bowed as if In Evening Prayer, thus 'sensitive' to the slightest external change, even the passing of a cloud across the sky, making known its perception by movement. The arbitrary distinction between ordinary and 'sensitive' plants thus disappears; not only the particular palm, but every tree and its vartbus organs are shown to perceive and execute movements in response to the changes of its environment It is not the Mimosa that Is alone excitable, but trees also instinct with sensibility.

Tholr rigid trunks perceive and respond to the multitudinous stimuli of their environment" Lead PENCILS lb home market, which means an average of IOC IIUIIIO uiamow, seven pencils per persorT, figuring on the last census. As far back as history goes man has tried to make things to mark with and to set down hi. thoughts. The Axe tec. and the Pharaohs had crude marking devices.

A. early a. 1750 Kalm, a Swedish naturalist, made experiments with American cedar. In 1812 William Monroe made 500 pencils at Concord and sold them in Boston, but the war stopped his plans. In 1861 Eberhard Fabor began making pencils on a large scale In the United.

States. The graphite which makes the mark is, of course, the important part in the manufacture of the pencil. Ceylon has furnished much of the graphite used in America. Graphite Is also found in Madagascar and in Mexico. Cxecho SIovakia contains deposit, of both the amphorous and crystallne graphite.

In the United States the chief deposits are in Alabama, New York and Pennsylvania. Lvii'iSlH ni'n i 1 hi 'hi I How LIFE STREAM saline or other similar solutions used in such work. Part of this original Idea was based upon the interesting fact that in major surgical opera tions, where the patient may have lost a large amount of blood, the loss is sometimes compensated for by pumping saline solution into the blood stream, and this is left in the body, the natural physiological processes taking care of it. One of the admirable advantages of the newer scheme in the opinion of Messrs. Secor and Kraus, where only a part of the blood Is purified at a tlmo, lies in the fact that the patient does not necessarily have to be anesthetized.

Ifl other words, the patient can be fully conscious, as the only surgery involved Is to make slight incisions, with the aid of a locaj anesthetic, and to place the two hollow silver needles in the median basilic veins of either arm. A special glass pump is used to force the blood through the first rubber tube into and through the first stages of the purifying process; this pump Is placed near the end of the chain of apparatus, which by Its alternate suction and pressure will help to draw the Walls Hive "Ears" and "Tongues," Too THE very curious and interesting acoustical effects observed in the Whispering Gallery under the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, as explained by the lata Lord Raylelgh, are due to the curvilinear propagation of sound, the waves which proceed from a sourcs placed close to the wall of the gallery clinging to its surface and creeping tangentially along it This view was developed mathematically by Lord Raylelgh Papers," vol5, p. 017), the theoretical conclusions arrived at being (a) that the sound wave, travel in a comparatively narrow belt skirting the wall, the thickness of this belt decreasing with the wave length of the sound; (b) that in this belt 'the Intensity Is a maximum near the wall and decreases rapidly and continuously as ono proceeds radially away from It; and (c) that the Intensity does not fluctuate markedly when one proceeds circumfer entially parallel to the wall. A writer in Nature became much interested In the subject, snd by the courtesy of the authorities of.

the cathedral was enabled to carry out an extended series of observations the gallery with the view of making a precise test of Lord Rayleigh's theory. Tho experiments show conclusively that while the indication of theory a. expressed In (a) hr substantially accurate, neither of the conclusion, (b) and (c) 1. in accordance with actual facta. Using a steady source of sound placed cw to th wall at one point, it wa.

found that elsewhere the intenaity of the sound showed pronounced oscillations in proceeding Inward radi from the wall. th. ear of the observer pacing several times through alternate zones of great Intensity and of comparative silence. In the lat tor some of the overtone, of the source could be l.rd clearly, while the fundamental was practl These alternation, of Intensity Toafd be demonstrated in the gallery, using a faTrly high pitched source and a sensitive flame ThedUtance between th successive zones of silence was about the same as the half wave Ungth of the source. There were also dist.net periodic fluctuation, of inten.lty in circumferentially that is, par.

1 1 to thy wall Th. latter were not equally distinct in all parts of the gallery, being most marked st the other end of the diameter containing the source. It was aUo found that effects similar to thoj observed at St. Paul's may be demonstrated In ttrboratory with any l.rg circular reflectmg surface, using a bird call with a sensitive flam, as sound detector. To Prolong Flashlight Battery THE life of a flashlight battery can be Increased If It Is treated In the following manner, which is suggested in Popular Boience MonUily'by Thomas W.

Benson: Before installing a new battery, take out the individual cells and give them a coat of sodium silicate, or water glass, as It Is commonly called. The entire cell should be coated, with the excep ton of the brass cap on the carbon and the 'bottoms. After drying, the battery may be reassembled and put Into service. This treatment prevents the drying out that always shortens th lira of dry colls. xmmw rwor.

atrriM, int. Is Removed from BODY and CLEANSED A Special Glaaa Pump la Used to Force the PaUenf. Blood Through a Seriee of Device and After Benewal Back Into the Body of the Subject blood through th apparatus and fore it back into tho body. The theoretical apparatus used for purifying the blood Involves both ehemfcal and electrical actions in the present arrangement; but of course later developments will undoubtedly be worked out, which may simplify the method involved to a very considerable extent. When the blood under its original pressure enter, the first compartment, which is kept warm to the proper degre by an electric heating coll (controlled by a rheostat, and the heat being observed by the thermometer shown in each in How a WOMAN NEARLY 4983 years ago, to be exact a 14 year old Chinese empress named Sl Llng Chi observed a little worm busily spinning fibre on the leaves of a white mulberry tree.

After she had watched this fascinating process until her callosity was satisfied she began to gather up and reel the fibr. i Soon mad a demonstration to th ladle of her eonrt land rntareatmf thm In this vmw mn4 Mbmorblng anoMnul. Togvthmt tha mpr nf hm court Iadiea bnrted thomaelvaa with tb task of waring this fibr into fabrics and am broiderina with it Th results delighted them. So far th emperor looked upon this absorb, ing hobby of his little consort with tolerant amusement To him and to the wis men of his court it was only a pretty gam lor XooJlsn women. But one day he was startled out of his Indifference when Si Ling Chi presented him with a beautiful ceremonial garment made from the worm's fibre.

A garment of such dazzling sheen had never before been seen at the court of China, and from then on it became the fashion for all members of the court to wear clothes made of this wonderful new fabric In this way the wearing of silk became th SAFETY First in I WAS sitting in a car, puffing a cigar, when a quantity of ashe. fell down and my shirt front; a spark burned a hole in my coat," Mr. B. W. Dedrlck, of State College, Penn.

sylvanla, remarks. There is nothing unusual about that; you hav had th same experience many times. But did you promptly Invent a cigar pro tector to prevent It happening again? That is what Mr. Dedrlck did. Th protector, as described In Popular Bclenee Monthly, is msde of metal shaped lik th cigar it covers.

Th end Is perforated to admit the necessary air. It Is held lightly in plsce by clamps. The ashes drop into the cylinder and remain there until removed. No more cigar ashes Wonderful WAY That MONEY GROWS AN astounding ex ample of how the Investment of the smallest American coin could Increase Is that of on cent Invested in the year 1, that is, the beginning of th Christian era. The accompanying table, computed by a wiiard at figures, shows the accumulation which would have resulted if such a fund could have been started and maintained until th year 1910, at 6 per cent interest This particular table show, the accumulation which would have resulted at the rate of 6 per cent, to the year 1910.

If 6 per cent, hud been taken ONE. CENT ATt 5 At the mi of tht year too too too 400 500 CM 700 800 KM 100 1100 10 1300 1400 1900 1(00 1700 1800 1900 mi, It Become, filmy as a basis instead of 6 ner rent or if the table had been carried out a few more years, there would be scarcely enough space upon this page to reproduce it As it stands the amount runs into 206. 1 ELECTRICALLY Locke's solution are injected into the blood, pass I ing uirougn tne instrument, oy aajusung dropping device on their container, at the top, so that any desired percentage of these solution, can be injected into tho blood. The Locke', or saline solution helps to prevent the blood! from coagulating, as doe. also the warmth created by the electric heating coll, while th other solution or serum annihilates any disease germs 'which may be present Th comparative purity of th blood from dieease is checked up in th usual way by taking a small sample now and then.

Th microscope will show tha presence of large quantities of disease germs, while a culture will have to be made to make a final test for small number of such germs, which require some time. If th culture Indicates th preaenc of any disease germs, th patient may need to have the blood purified once more at a later date. Other disease germs can be destroyed by treating th blood with the proper serums or medicines. When the blood stream reaches the second In strument there Is another chance to add any disease germ destroyer or hyperacidity corrective, such as typhoid serum for typhoid germs which may be In th blood. In th third stag of th purification apparatus, th blood passe back and forth through a glass tub grid and as It does so, it Is subjected to powerful ultra violet rays, which, as is well known, act to kill practically all forms of dlseas germs.

There are several different arrangements which can used, particularly owing to th fact that the dosage of ultra violet ray. (her produced by mercury vapor lamps, fitted with quarts tubes), cannot be made very strong, a. the. and, rays have an untoward effect on the corpuscle, of the bldbd. the ultra Violet on the white corpuscles, and the rays on th red cells, a.

recently discovered by two French scientists. So if finally found desirable, after further research work in this direction, th ultra violet ray purifying stage may be eliminated and all the purifying done chemically, by an arrangement such as already provided; for In th first and second stage of the apparatus, or by a modified apparatus. Discovered SILK fashion throughout all China. Th cultur of silk became a national industry. China grew rich through th of ilkn fabrics to India, Persia.

Arabia and' other parts of Asia. So valuable was th industry to China that it preserved the secret of silk cultur with jealous care, and death was th penalty decreed for any hoJr roomf taWn ool ot Chm trm. JLnd tor eaiituriM neighboring ooun sought vainly to obtain from China the JIL. About 860 B. however, there earn Into China a princ of India who won to jots or a Chines princess.

Together they eloped into India, and th princess In order that sh might abl to enjoy her familiar occupation in her Anew home, carried with her some silkworm eggs and seeds of th white mulberry tree. She smuggled them through by concealing thera in her san Not long afterward she disappeared mysterl ously from her husband's pslsce ahd was never heard of again, but the secret she brought with her remained in India, and soon the eourU of the rajah, wer alive with rari eolored silken costumes. SMOKING DEVICE Use This Device When Smoking and Tour Wife Won't Scold You for Dropping Cigar Ashe on th Rugs. dropping on carpet and rugs to th great chagrin of tidy housewives. PER CENT THE.

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