SUCH IS LIFE ? 'Nature's Lesson
By CHARLES SUGHROE
"Sun Boiler" Is Employed
for Cooling and Heating
Scientist See* Great Possi
bilities in Device.
Cleveland, Ohio.? Dr. Charles G.
Abbot, secretary of the Smithson
ian Institution in Washington and
one of America's foremost "schol
ars of the sun," revealed here, in
connection with a demonstration of
his "sun boiler" that he believes
the sun can be made to cool in sum
mer and warm in winter.
Reversal of the sun's normal ef
fect involves harnessing the heat
given off by the sun on clear days,
Dr. Abbot said. He believes the
"sun boiler" can do the effect
reversing trick.
It is a simple apparatus, consist
ing of a concave mirror that catches
the sun's rays and casts the heat
onto a tube of water. Concentrated
by the special metallic reflector,
the heat raises the temperature of
the water and turns it into steam.
At the demonstration. Dr. Abbot's
"sun boiler" was able to develop a
?team pressure of thirty-five pounds
to the square inch by using the con
centrated heat from eight electric
lamps.
Many Adaptations.
"There can be many adaptations
from the boiler," Dr. Abbot said.
SMART FALL OUTFIT
Here'* a very imart outfit (or (all.
The simple sports dress is o( dark
oxford gray wool with kick pleats
front and back. Red bone buttons
trim the bodice (ront. Over this
is worn a sports jacket o( gray,
red, and black plaid, which (eatures
the latest novelty, a cowboy studded
belt of black leather. Her sports
hat is oxford gray; so(t crushed
crown banded with black gros
grain ribbon. ? Posed by Tala
BirelL
"It can be used to run a steam en
gine to develop electric power, to
pump water for irrigation purposes,
to distill water in places where it
is brackish or to serve as a source
of power on the farm. But it may
be used directly to heat or cool a
dwelling."
A current of air passing through
the boiler tube may be sent into a
sand silo where the heat may be
collected and stored for periods of
nearly a month, according to Dr.
Abbot.
The sand silo, now a subject for
serious research, is an insulated
chamber shaped like an ordinary
silo, but containing sand, stone and
a glass wall. The heat from the silo
may be released gradually into the
home when it is needed, Dr. Ab
bot said.
"On the other hand," Dr. Abbot
pointed out, "the principle of re
frigeration such as applied in gas
burning refrigerators may be used
for cooling. The heat from the sun's
rays would take the place of the
gas burner.
Simpler as a Cooler.
"Use of the 'sun boiler' for cooling
during the summer would be more
practical, of course, than its use for
heating in the winter. You would
naturally have more sunlight in the
summer, or in the tropics, where
refrigeration is most needed."
A "sun boiler" with a mirror fif
teen feet long and twelve feet wide
would develop two to three horse
power, Dr. Abbot said. A sun power
plant spread over a square mile of
barren and heat-baked land would
generate 70,000 horsepower.
Dr. Abbot said his "sun boiler,"
with a few modifications of its pres
ent design, could be placed in pro
duction.
SMy ^Neighbor
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Ivies grow well in water in the
house. Keep in glass so that light
may reach the roots.
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An omelet in which six eggs are
used will be much lighter if three
fourths teaspoon of cream of tartar
is used in preparing it.
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When cleaning your refrigerator
use one tablespoon of sal soda to
four quarts of cold water. This will
keep the drain pipe clean and free.
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When a Cinderella plant shows
signs cf withering, stop watering it
and let it go to seed. As flowers dry,
gather seeds and save. Plant seeds
next April.
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A new and tempting way to serve
gingerbread cakes is to cut the
cakes in halves and put cream
cheese mixture between the halves.
This is a delicious accompaniment
to tea or as a luncheon dessert.
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PUBLIC
OPINION
By
LEONARD A. BARRETT
A recent radio address was with
out precedent. An associate justice
of the Suoremp
court felt con
vinced that it was
the better part of
wisdom to ad
dress the public
over a general
radio hook-up. In
fact, we might
say that the ad
dress was inter
national in char
acter, for Europe
as well as our
country listened
with deep inter
est xo wnat jus
tice Hugo L. Black had to say.
It is not the purpose of this ar
ticle to discuss the merits of the is
sue upon which the associate jus
tice spoke, but rather to emphasize
the power of public opinion. Never
before in the history of the Supreme
SAFETY FOR CARVER
The fear of every carver of roast
or fowl that the meat might land in
someone's lap is overcome by this
household item, the roast clamp, in
troduced at a recent homefurnish
ings show in the Merchandise Mart,
Chicago. The shear-like clamp is
adjustable to fit any size roast or
fowl being held. Prongs, clamping
into the meat, hold it firmly in
place during the carving process.
court was it deemed advisable for
one of its members to explain a per
sonal relationship. Usually the
members of the highest court of our
country have remained eloquently
silent in the face of criticism; not
so. Justice Black. Public opinion,
whether right or wrong, demanded
a hearing. In this respect it dem
onstrated clearly and convincingly
its inherent power. The most im
pelling power, for good or evil is the
voice of the public mind. This is nec
essarily true in a democracy. We
could not have it otherwise and
have a free country.
The most important instrument
for the expression of public opin
ion is the public press. No agency
is more influential in molding the
public mind than is the press. With
this vehicle for disseminating infor
mation, it is comparatively easy for
this country to be simultaneously af
fected by mass psychology. When
out of control, it is an exceedingly
dangerous weapon. But the antith
esis is true: it may become an
instrument of incalculable good.
Public opinion elects presidents,
members of congress, and the ma
jority of the officers of our munici
palities. Public opinion determines
policies which control legislation,
its voice cannot be silenced when
grave Issues are st stake. It must
and will be heard whenever our
personal liberty has the right to
speak.
Many problems, moral, economic,
and spiritual, clamor for solution.
The most serious seems our in
ternational unrest. The peacc of the
world is fundamentally a matter
of the public mind. Do we iionestly
want peace? Do we desire it enough
to demand it by the united voice
of all the people? Our moral prob
lems will be settled when public
opinion demands it. The problems
of the under-privileged child will
be eliminated when public opinion
demands the right of every child to
be well born. The power of the mass
mind knows no limitation. From
it come revolutions and the rise
and fall of governments.
Whst is tbe public mind? It is the
composite will at tbe mass is which
every Individual's attitude may hs
r7~/ousQ(xofS y-fints
J ' By BETTY WELLS J
WE SAW a high and mighty in
* ? terior decorator put his nose
up in the air over the desires of an
engaged pair seeking his advice on
their new home. With "only" $3,000
to spend, said he, he just didn't see
how they could expect to do any
thing very interesting.
Well, well, we replied, but that's
quite a lot for a young couple to
have in cash to put into their house
of hope. And if knowledge and ex
With His Nose in the Air.
perience do not enable a trained
decorator to offer usable sug
gestions to people with a limit to
their resources, we question the cre
ativeness of that decorator. After
all the art of it is ideas ... it's
not so clever to be able to make a
room look like a million if a million
has been spent on it. But it is
clever to make it look like a mil
lion when it's cost a small penny.
Another interior decorator who's
a friend of ours takes pride in the
bright ideas she can think of that
can be worked out with hard work,
love, a needle and a tack hammer.
Here are some of her suggestions
of ways to get "decorator touches"
with trimmings.
In the Living Room. ? A sofa that
isn't so much one way or the other
becomes quite something by the
addition of a pile welting in the
seams and a deep rope fringe
around the bottom. Or if you have
a studio couch, finish seams with a
heavy rope in contrasting color and
finish the box pleated ruffle with a
flat woven tape braid. Two not
very-important windows with a
space between can be treated as
one by hanging the glass curtains
all across the two windows as well
as the wall space, then sweeping
draperies to the outside of each win
dow and adding to the draperies a
tassel fringe and bigger tassel-and
cord tie backs. A pair of uphol
stered chairs with slip covers of a
plain fabric can be finished all
around and up and down with an
inch-and-a-half width embroidered
braid or else a flower stripe cut
from a striped cretonne. Cushions
finished with wool or silk fringe or
trimmed with a smart flat woven
braid are nice touches. Lampshades
with silk braid, glass beads or wood
fringe dress up a room . . . often
an old shade of no particular style
can be high-lighted this way.
? ? ?
Hinting Subtly.
It takes quite a lot to give us a
real rug thrill. Especially in a rug
that doesn't belong in a museum. '
expressed. The responsibility for
expressing one's conviction is one of
the privileges of freedom. How
faithful is the average citizen in
discharging this responsibility?
How many are willing to let the
other fellow do their thinking? In
dividual responsibility is a trust to
society, to conscience, and to Crea
tor.
C Western Newspaper Union.
Because rugs have been one of our
pet hobbies for years and our taste
has gotten pretty hand-made. How
ever, there are some new rugs on
the market that we're terribly ex
cited about ... in fact there's one
that we feel we simply must have
and are hinting subtly to that effect
at our own dinner table these days.
These rugs are machine made in
America; good velvet in quality.
Their names are as nice as their
designs and colors.
"Normandie Quilt" is blonde to
beige in coloring with a design that
copies An old Norman bed quilt.
Suggested for use with draperies in
eggshell and upholsteries in blues
and beiges. Perfect with French
provincial furniture, of course, but
nice with many of the walnut styles.
"Flowers and Scroll" is copied
after a Georgian needlepoint design
that is deliciously floral. Delightful
with Eighteenth or Nineteenth cen
tury furniture but could be used
with the more dignified maple. A
drapery ensembled with this repeats
the scroll and flower motif on a
smaller scale.
"Regency"? Suggested by an old
lark-ground floral needle-point doc
ument similar to one that Marie An
toinette worked on. 'Twould be
:harming with draperies of moire
with satin Roman stripes and up
holstery in green coptic cloth (a
spun rayon), and in the same fabric
as the draperies.
"Antique Kirman" ? A copy of a
ine old pastel Persian carpet in
which grays, blues and beiges pre
dominate. Perfect with Eighteenth
:entury furniture. Draperies of egg
shell and peach damask and up
holstery in a heavy beige cotton.
C By Betty Well*.? WNU Service.
TO HEAD ANNAPOLIS
Claude A. Swanson, secretary of
he navy, has announced that Rear
\dmiral Wilson Brown, Jr., shown
lere, present commander of the
.raining detachment of the United
States fleet, will succeed Rear Ad
niral David f oote Sellers as super
ntendent of the United States Naval
icademy at Annapolis, Md., on
February 1. Rear Admiral Sellers
will retire from active service on
March 1, upon reaching the statu
ary retirement age of sixty-four
rears.
As War Fever Rises in Japan
Toy guns, used in a stage revue in Osaka, are held by these chorines
on the roof of the theater as they get instruction from a Japanese officer.
Press agent stunt? Perhaps, but it indicates to what extent the war
fever has premeated every avenue of Japanese life. Other women aux
iliaries, with real guns, have their instructions qn what to do, should
enemy planes fly over the highly centralized industrial city.
IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY I
chool Lesson
By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQU1ST.
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
-Of Chicago.
C Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for November 21
CHRISTIAN WORKERS
LESSON TEXT? I Corinthian 1:10-13:
Galatlans 6:6 10.
GOLDEN TEXT? And let u< not be weary
In well doing: for In due season we shall
reap, If we faint not. ? Oalatlana 6:0.
PRIMARY TOPIC? In Our Church.
JUNIOR TOPIC? What Can I Do to Help?
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC?
What Can I Do for Christ and the Church?
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC?
The Need for Christian Workers.
"Laborers together with God" ?
such is the glorious and distinctive
title of true Christians, according to
the verse just preceding our as
signed text. Unfortunate is the all
too common error of regarding only
pastors and missionaries as the
workers in God's vineyard. While
we recognize that there is a special
calling for some men to leave their
vocations and devote their entire
time to the Lord's work, let us be
sure properly to stress the impor
tance of every Christian's being *
worker for God.
The portions assigned for our
study present the privilege and re
sponsibility of Christians as fellow
workers with Christ, under the fig
ures of builders and of seed sowers.
I. Builders of the House (I Cor.
3:10-15).
The flrst requisite of a building is
a foundation and it must be strong
and true. Builders for Christ have
a sure foundation stone in Him.
1. The Foundation ? Jesus Christ.
There is only definite assurance
in Paul's word concerning the foun
dation. It is perfectly clear to him
that there can be no Christian faith
without Jesus Christ. Such a state
ment sounds almost childish. One
might well assume that no intelli
gent person would claim to be one
of God's builders, and reject his
foundation stone. But, 'alas, many
are they who claim to be Christians,
who profess to be raising a structure
of Christian life and testimony, but
who have set aside the only possible
foundation on which to build.
2. The Master Builder ? and his
builders.
Paul was a pioneer. He declares
his ambition and calling to be "to
preach the gospel not where Christ
was named, lest I should build on
another man's foundation" (Rom.
10:25). Such a privilege does not
come to all men, but let those who
thus serve learn of this "wise mas
ter builder" that they may lay only
one foundation ? Jesus Christ.
"Let every man take heed how he
buildeth thereupon." It is a serious
matter to serve the Lord as a build
er, for it is possible to go badly
astray at this point as well as in
laying the foundation.
3. The materials ? good and bad.
Whether we apply Paul's words to
the building of our personal spiritual
life or to the work we do in the
church they are equally serious and
urgent. "The day" ? when Christ re
turns, and we shall stand before
him to give account of the deeds
done in the flesh ? will reveal by
flaming fire whether we have been
faithful, true and diligent in preach
ing God's Word, in prayer, in sac
rificial service for Christ, or have
sought to introduce into our lives
and into the churches we serve the
"wood, hay, and stubble" of unspir
itual schemes, neglect of God's
Word, prayerlessness.
Saved? Yes, but entering into
God's presence as a man who has
escaped from his burning house with
nothing but his life. v
n. Sowers of the Seed (Gal. 6:6
10).
The figure changes. No longer are
we builders ? but rather sowers of
seed. Would that it were all good
seed that were sown ? but we see
the sowing to the flesh as well as
to the Spirit. This is true
1. In our own lives. The inexora
ble law of sowing and reaping pre
vails in the moral realm as truly
as it does in the physical. Men who
would never expect wheat to grow
where they have planted thistles,
seem to expect that they may sow
in their own lives the seeds of selfish
indulgence, of careless neglect of
the things of God, and still somehow
reap the fruit of good character and
noble living.
1. In the lives of others. We may
be tempted to take attractive by
paths and short-cuts to win the in
terest and aliegTance ofmen wTfijf
selves and the qhurch, but they will
prove to bring but corruption and
destruction. Spiritual seed will al
ways produce spiritual life.
3. Waiting for the harvest. Har
vest must be patiently awaited. We
know it to be so in natural things;
the same is true in the spiritual
realm.
a message 01 uire
One of the last slowly murmured
sayings of the American poet Whit
tier, as he lay a-dying, was this:
"Give ? my love ? to? the ? world."
worth while Living
Learn to do well; seek judgment,
relieve the oppressed, judge the
fatherless, plead for the widow. ?
Isaiah 1-17.
Haste
Unreasonable haste is the direct
road to error.? Moliere.
Four Strands of
String Make Rug
A durable scatter rug in cotton
?quick to do, inexpensive, sturdy,
colorful. It's made of four strands
worked together forming ? stout
"thread." Made in three colors,
you can have gay rugs for Winter
? rugs that will fit the coloring of
I ID *
your rooms exactly. Crochet the
medallions one at a time, some
plain, some figured, and join them
for this stunning diamond design.
In pattern 5927 you will find com
plete instructions and charts for
making the medallions shown; an
illustration of them and of the
stitches used ; material require
ments ; a photograph of the medal
lion; color suggestions.
To obtain this pattern, send 15
cents in stamps or coins (coins
preferred) to The Sewing Circle,
Household Arts Dept., 259 W.
Fourteenth St., New York, N. Y.
Please write your name, ad
dress and pattern number plainly.
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No one is so utterly desolate,
but some heart, though unknown,
responds unto his own. ? Longfel
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