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WORLD'S BEST COMICS Lighter Side of Life as Depicted by Famous Cartoonists and Humorists THE FEATHERHEADS Quiet, Plea?e' HUM I 1 THOUGHT ibu "said this , SVJI N?- WOULDN'T MA<e ANY j W*~l W ZltUHgj Wt kinp1 OF NOISE AtlHOVS AM OlfttR I VKH/-A Motsy 1 MOISB MMOYJ M O/Sfe^ S'MATTER POP? Ho, Kid?! Hei'e's Something to Do About Dirty Facet! By C. M. PAYNE n & MESCAL IKE Swing Your Partner VM.H.CV DATCS SOrYS IP ^ OOWT LET MIM IM, Jj HKS CjOKiKi*. Cmc^Kjjy, ^l>oO?* Tv? BuhO'sjS kkk ALU Tw / vcNV Sm?00>CC5 orrio 7 a 1 >o- Roc^. y r icxj i UKjoeRSiAMOj Ov? TV? ^grHETS TmE KinjO ) ^ op a rag op maw ojho J PhOvjE. y^y AtcuANS ORioOS J j<^r^<\HOMe THE y\ BACOW / < 3PeC.?Au.y iwmCNI VmiT-6 OEjm OU6TCO) J m-s.r& i\ ' UAUP MiT5 A yVKK-OP.' kTXjnA Pip*! fWA?J WA-/ -r'KApe UNDER | COVER 3E not T'Sol OUT 0'"W [ House AUAM5UIN 5 ADVENTURES Button, Button [l Our Pet Peeve ?yHf.G-K8TTNEIt jj"] \r*o HQygs lA^a. ' Hat Problem Into the night court they marched a man who had all the earmarks of a professional tough guy. This chap was as desperate looking as any go rilla you've ever seen. The magistrate looked down at the surly prisoner. "Well," asked His Honor, "guilty or not guilty?" The prisoner scowled. "Figure it out yourself," he snarled. "That's what yer gettin' paid for!" ? Mark Hellinger in New York American. Not Needed "In this scene. Miss Trimm, the young man rushes into the room, grabs you, binds you with rope from head to foot, and then smoth ers you with kisses," explained the film director. "Is the young man tall, fair, and handsome?" the actress asked. "Yes. Why?" he asked. "Then he won't need an.- lope." she replied.? Stray Stories Maga zine. etrr*?f W uiW ukix econtt ittW rwouilCT. 60CS on cw* auitfLV. which is w*?T ? ?MCI CO V> so SlflVW/ DIVERSION By GLUYAS WILLIAMS Keeping Up ? Sclenco S*rriee. ? WNU S?rvlc%. Body Cells Drink as Well as Eat, Movie Films Show Have Special Apparatus for Trapping Fluids BALTIMORE. ? Moving pic tures of life under the micro scope show that certain cells of the body drink as well as eat, us ing a ruffle for their drinking. This discovery was made by Dr. Warren H. Lewis, of the de partment of embryology of the Car negie Institution of Washington and the Johns Hopkins Medical school. For this bibulous '.ype oi cell activity he has used the word, pinocytosis meaning "drinking by cells." Since seeing it in study ing moving pictures of cell life, Doctor Lewis has been able to observe it directly by watching the cells through the microscope with out the aid of the camera. Cells Look Like Raffles. The outer edge of these drink ing cells flattens out into a thin membrane which looks like a ruffle. In the films it is seen to be con stantly waving about, often project ing out for some distance from the body of the cell. Globules 01 fluid in the medium in which the cells live can be seen floating into a fold of the ruffled edge of the cell and being surrounded by part of the ruffle. v Trapped within its folds, which probably fuse around the globules and completely enclose them, they move rapidly on into the interior uf the cell and within from one to five minutes may be seen with other globules that surround the cell nucleus. Cells Drink Heavily. Som# of these cells are pretty heavy drinkers, it appears, for Dr. Lewis reports that under certain conditions they take in a rela tively enormous amount of fluid. In the course of an hour the total may amount to one-third of the volume of the -eli. As though a human toper were to down six or eight gallons in the same length of time. It is not only the macrophages which are drinking cells. Dr. Lew is has seen cancer cells drinking and also has observed it in cells from part of the stomach tissue of rats. It may be that all cells drink. Inventor's Device Tunes Ship's Radio Despite Heavy Seas WASHINGTON.? An ingeni ous circuit intended to eliminate the detuning of a ship's ? radio transmitter and receiver produced by rolling seas, and thereby help insure the ship keeping in constant touch with other ships, is revealed in a patent granted here to a Par is, France, inventor ? Jean Re bo tier. When a ship rolls at sea its ra dio antenna tilts toward and away from the water. How Signals Are Lost. This causes a change in antenna capacity, which means that the re ceiver may be thrown out of tune, and the transmitter out of control so that the radio signals received or sentyrat vary in intensity or may be lost .Jtogether. To compensate for this, the in ventor connects the antennt with a variable tuning element, an ad justable condenser, whicn is worked automatically by the roll ing motion of the ship. No matter what position the ship is in its antenna capacity remains constant. Signals sent and received, therefore, cannot vary with roll ing. "Lost" Earthquake Is Located in Himalayas WASHINGTON. ? The "lost earthquake" has been found, hid ing in the Himalayas. This mysterious earthquake, somewhere in northern India, reg istered itself strongly on seismo graphs all over the world on May 27. Since then, scientists have been hunting hard for it, very much puz zled that no word had come out by wire or radio, because first calculations indicated its occur rence in the densely populated val ley of the Ganges, where great loss of life would have been certain. Now, from belated additional ca bles and radiograms that straggled in, seismologists of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey here, and of the Jesuit Seismological association in St. Louis, have re-located it, this time, in the remote, sparsely popu lated mountain fastnesses about 300 miles northwest of Mount Ev Mushroom ricking Dangerous Unless Species Are Known Old-Fashioned Tests Arc Held of No Value EVERY warm summer rain is sure to be followed by a sud den crop of mushrooms. Id woods and fields, in your front yard and around old stumps, they spring up overnight like ? well, like mushrooms. Wild mushrooms are tempting? they have a tang and flavor sadly lacking in store" mushrooms. But are they safe? Fear of being poisoned by "toadstools" is the cause of many a fine mess of mush rooms going to waste. There is no answer to that, ex cept to know your mushrooms spe cies by species. All the old-fash ioned tests are superstitions, and valueless. The silver-spoon trick, for example, tells nothing. The deadliest of poisonous mushrooms leaves the silver unblackened. Old Notions Baseless. Some of the old notions are com pletely opposite to fact, like the one that the kinds with black gills un derneath are poisonous. The common mushroom of the marketplace is black-gilled, and so are many of the best wild species. And the Amanitas, or death-cup mushrooms, always stay innocent ly white underneath. Amanitas Are Deadly. The Amanitas are one group of mushrooms that it is best to avoid completely, for while one or two of the species in this genus are good to eat, most of them are se verely poisonous, and even deadly. You can tell an Amanita by these marks: white gills, a ring or "veil" loose around the stalk, a half-bur ied cup holding the bottom of the stalk, and (sometimes) loose flakes of whitish stuff on top, that can be brushed off. Safe Species Cited. Good, safe species include the common meadow mushroom that is sold in the markets, the morel, which looks like a cone-shaped bit of honeycombed wax set on a stalk, and the big puffballs while they are still white and cheesy inside, and before they develop dark spots with the ripening of their spores Incidentally, there is no distinc tion between mushroom and toad stool. The names are synonyms, and refer to the shape of the fungus rather than to edibility or poison ousness. Any fleshy fungus with a white head or cap set on a stalk is a mushroom. Shield of Spartan Warrior Believed Found Near Athens PRINCETON, N. J.? A deco rated shield discovered by Amer ican excavators in the depths of a well near Athens is believed to be the famous shield of Spartan war rior Brasidas. That the shield is actually the special trophy of the Battle of Py los, 424 B. C., which the Athenians captured triumphantly from Gen eral Brasidas when he fell wound ed, is the belief of Dr. Edward Capps, director of the American School of Classical Studies. So fragile and important is the Spartan shield it will be kept in a chemical solution a year before being permanently displayed. Believed Authentic. The inscription links the shield definitely with the battle, he explained, and the fine quality of the shield, and care taken to hide it in the well, suggest its importance. Dr. Capps, who has just returned from Athens where the sixth year of excavation is being completed in the Athenian market place un der leadership of Dr. T. Leslie Shear, said that another outstand ing discovery of the season also was found in a well. This is an ivory statuette of a woman, about 18 inches high. Digging has revealed numerous workings of Athenian democracy. Marble machines, resembling mod ern candy vending devices, have been found, and were probably used in allotting citizens to serve in administrative and judicial capaci ties. Balls, shuffled, were ' presum ably dropped into a tube and drawn out at the bottom as needed. I Seek Oldest Americans at Continent's Doorstep WASHINGTON. ? A hunt lor the most ancient human beings in America fill be conducted this summer by an expedition to the northwestern doorstep of the conti nent, where the first imm grants presumably entered Led by Henry B. Collins. Jr. of the Smithsonian institution, llie ex pedition sponsored jointly by the National Geographic society and the Smithsonian, is en i-oute to the westernmost point of North Ameri ca, Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska This is the most likely plac..- wneie ancient men would have oussed from Asia.
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