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
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Skilled Operators
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•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. A said course was served at
ten-fifteen. The following players
made up the tables: Mesdames
Hugh Camp, Julian Allsbrook, R
P. Beckwith, Misses Winifred
Beckwith, Margaret Clark, Ruth
Transou, Lucille Carlon and Mrs.
Steve Lipscomb.
Fahey and
Daughtrey
Plumbing Contractor*
State License No. 283
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REPAIR WORK
Estimates Cheerfully
Furnished
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