NOBODY’S BUSINESS IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS THAT PESTER Evei> since I had the “flu” a year ago, my temper has been un balanced. I find it more difficult to be sweet and kind and gentle, but I took stock of myself the other night after retiring and made up my mind that I would begin the following morning, and be good natured, more considerate of others and smile ever after ward. Everything went along all right till my alarm clock went off at 5:30. (I thought I set it so’s it would begin raising sand at 7:30, not 5:30). I crawled out of bed and started toward the fussmaking demon and stepped on a pecan hull, and the next step contacted my left ankle with the right rocker of a chair. I went back to bed, but couldn’t sleep any more. I got up at 7:30. Tried to take a hot bath in cold water. While shaving, I nipped the southern end of my nose off. I started out of the bath-room and stepped on a cake of soap, and came to a few minutes later bleeding at the nose. I pulled my necktie in-two try.ng to get it to slip in a stiff collar; there were 3 buttons miss ing from my clean shirt, and I never did find my back collar but ton. I pulled a sock so hard, my foot went thru it; I broke a shoe-string while trying to tie a hard knot. I couldn’t find the comb and brush. My arm got hung in my coat sleeve and I tore the lining out. But I finally got down to breakfast, and the very first thing I did was squirt grapefruit juice into my eye, and the next thing I spilt gravy on my vest. The toast was OK, except it was burnt on both sides instead of one side. I knocked over my cup of coffee reaching for the salt shaker to shake over some soft boiled eggs that I ordered scramb led instead. After a few more mishaps, with my blood-pressure sizzling around 320 (normal for me is 130), I went out to my car to start to my office. The ear looked all right except the left rear was flat. I had it fixed in exactly 45 minutes, NRA time. When I crawled into the seat (of the car), the tail of my overcoat got hung on the door and I tore that off. The battery was so near dead. I had to be pushed off by 3 idle policemen. Then red traffic lights stopped me 3 times while I was being choked down 5 times. I finally got to the office and I had to explode. No fire made, no floor swept up, no orders delivered, and 10 bill collectors. I never intend to try to be abnor mal again so long as I live. It simply won’t work. Although he recently celebrated his one hundredth birthday anni versary, John C. Smart, of Orisk any Falls, N. Y., still has most of his teeth. Thirty-six bananas and five bottles of “pop” was the meal William Walker, of Glade Springs, Va., consumed to win a wager. Coffee Increases Efficiency # If Fresh, Experiments Show T>ECENT experiments at Cornell University show that coffee has a very definite effect on steadi ness and coordination between a person’s hand and eye. Subjects of the experiments tested their ac curacy by focusing an electric light on a moving photo-electric cell. After drinking coffee their coordi nation was appreciably improved. The same Cornell scientists found that when a subject drank liquor and followed it immediately with coffee his coord! ration dropped off, due to the effect of the alcohol. But as soon as the coffee took effect his coordination returned nearly to normal. One way to drink liquor and stay sober! Of course people haven’t been drinking coffee for the taste alone all these years. Coffee dr inkers know the “kick” it gives, bat not until now have its benefits been proved scientifically. As little as three cups a day, scientists say, enable the drinker to think faster, clearer and longer at a time. He associates ideas better, remembers more accurately. Fatigue and drowsiness disappear. But it has not been so well known that fresh coffee also stimu lates digestion. A series of ex periments at Colgate University have shown serious digestion dis orders to be caused by the ordinary noises of modern life, and that they can be corrected by adding fresh coffee to the diet. In another set of experiments, made in a New York laboratory, thirty medical students and labora- J tory assistants were fed stale and fresh coffee for months. All the equipment of modern science mea sured the results. When the subjects drank fresb coffee before meals, it sharpened their appetites. When they drank it during meals, digestion was stimulated. Stale coffee increased the acidity of the stomach abnor mally and slowed up digestion. Drinking stale coffee made the stu dents nervous and irritable, sub ject to headaches and sleepless ness. One subject became so ill after four successive days that he was unable to continue the experi ment. Stale coffee seems to be .dis tinctly unwholesome. Many chem ical changes take place in roasted c< i'fee as it ages. Some of these ci auges take place in the coffee oil. The oil of coffee carries the delicate aroma and flavor. With age, the oil absorbs oxygen; stale coffee oil has a musty, rancid odor. Scientists found that this delicate flavor-bearing oil evaporates rap idly after roasting, whether the coffee stays in the bean or is finely ground. They learned also that no available method of packing coffee after roasting could preserve it satisfactorily. It is the time that counts — the time lost between roasting and drinking determines the freshness of the coffee. One well known coffee manufac turer has met this problem by dat-1 ing its coffee and rushing it from several roasting plants to grocers in all parts of the country within a few hours after roasting. TOWN TALK Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Harrison spent Sunday in Rocky Mount. Miss Edna Watford has been appointed counciler for Presby terian Camp at Peace College in Raleigh, N. C., for this summer and she will leave the last of June for the term of camp. Miss Wilimena Branch, of En field, N. C., has been visiting here, the guest of her aunt, Mrs. W. C. Williams. Miss Ann Akers has returned home from school and will spend the summer here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Akers. Miss Elizabeth Joyner is at home for the summer with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Joyner, she has been a student at Greensboro College this year. Miss Josie Chase, who has been a student at Salem College this year has returned home for the summer. Announcing Kurley Top Beauty Shoppe Now Under Management —of— Miss Jessie Mitchell Citizens Bank Bldg., Nextdoor Western Union —0O0— PERMANENT WAVES Modern Equipment Skilled Operators All Work GUARANTEED —0O0— DIAL R-365 •MONDAY NIGHT CLUB M’s. Howard Pruden was host ess to the Monday Night Bridge Club, entertaining eight guests. The highest score for the evening was made by Miss Winifred Beck with who was given a handker chief. 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