Dead Animals Live Again
Here's the behind-scenes work that prepares animals for permanent
display in a museum, as demonstrated in Chicago's Field museum.
Above: Taxidermist W. E. Eigsti fits teeth in a manikin of an African
dog faced baboon. The other animal is a drill from Guinea.
Charles Mueller and Frank Gino, wearing dust masks, bare the bones
of an ancient American rhinoceros from a slab weighing several tons
which was excavated near Agate Springs, Neb.
Putting finishing touches on a specimen of giant panda from Tibet.
At right, baby fur seal skins from the Pribilof islands are being prepared.
Staff Taxidermist Leon L. Waiters and his assistant, Edgar G. Lay
bourne, at work on a narwhal. This exhibit is of a cellulose-acetate
compound, invented by Mr. Walters. In certain hairless animals, more
lifelike results are obtainable by this process than by mounting the
actual skin.
GAS, ONCE WEAPON, NOW KILLS WEEDS
Back during the World war, tear
(as was one of the weapons of
military offense. Many ? crucial
objective was gained while its de
fenders were weeping, helplessly.
But next year, perhaps, tear gas
will And a new use and one far
removed from violence. It will
help produce weed-free putting
greens for the nation's golfers!
J. A. DeFrance, of the Rhode
Island experiment station, trac<?
the use of tear gaa to kill weeds
back to the (hell-battered No
Man'* Land of France .
In the present practice the soil
destined for the green is placed
in a large box and several holes
drilled in the earth. Down each
hole are poured a few drops of
liquid tear gas, a canvas cover
applied and left for two days.
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ADVENTURERS' CLUB
HEADLINES PROM THE LIVES
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOUKSELPI
"The Furred Terror"
By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Banter
Hello everybody:
Orville E. Gibbs of Jackson Heights, N. Y., Is today's
Distinguished Adventurer, and the tale he tells is one that will
make the hair creep up the back of your neck. It's a yarn that
reminds me of the gladiatorial arenas of Rome where they used
to throw Christians to the wolves and pit men in deadly combat
against Numidian lions and bears from the German forests.
But it was neither a lion nor a wolf, nor a bear that brought this
package of thrills to Orville Gibbs, and instead of a Roman arena, he
fought it out in the living room of his own house.
I don't know how it was in Roman timet, but nowadays ad
ventures, like Charity, almost always begin at home.
All his life, Orville Gibbs has been thrown into intimate contact with
wild animals. He ran away as a boy to join a circus, started as a water
carrier for the elephants and worked his way up until he was a full
fledged trainer handling all sorts and species of wild beasts. From the
circus he drifted to Hollywood and helped direct animal films. While
he was there he was given several monkeys which he kept in cages in
back of his house. He trained these monkeys, and they're still there,
taken care of by his father. None of them ever gave any trouble.
Jack Was a Bright Monkey.
But there's always an exception. Orville moved East, then went to
South America, bought another bunch of monkeys and shipped them
to his home in New Rochelle, N. Y. He and his wife started to train
the whole bunch, but one of them? Jack ? was brighter than the others.
Orville concentrated on him. He would bring him into the house and
have all sorts of fun with him. But Orville's wife kept away from that
monk. He had bitten at her arm several times.
One evening Orville brought Jack Into the house. He had him
on his lap, playing with him In the nsnal manner when suddenly,
without warning, Jack emitted a ferocious screech and leaped tor
Orville's throat. And that was the beginning of as horrible a
battle as any Roman arena ever saw.
"As he came for me," says Orville, "I threw my right arm to ward
him off. Jack's teeth snapped shut, and he broke practically every bone
He crouched Orville's left wrist.
in my hand. The hand started bleeding as if an artery had been sev
ered. I was so stunned that I could do little but shove him away, and
at that he made another screech and leaped again.
It Looked Bad for Orville.
"X threw up my left arm. He crunched it at the wrist, piercing the
skin and breaking several bones. Then I leaped to my feet, just as he
jumped at me again. I was dressed in riding clothes, and the
heavy boots stood me in good stead. I kicked at him savagely and
it stopped him for a moment, but he bit clear through the boots several
times."
That was just the start of a terrible fracas ? and a mighty bad start
for Orville. "There I was," he says, "cornered by a wild monkey, weigh
ing thirty-two pounds ? screeching horribly? and leaping from chair
to chair to table trying to get at me. Whenever he thought he had me
he leaped at my throat, and here I was, my hands useless, bleeding like
a stuck pig, and growing weaker every minute."
Orville's wife had run from the room. He shouted to her to pass him
his rifle and cautiously she broke a pane from one of the French doors
and pushed the weapon through. "To my horror," says Orville, "I could
not even pull the trigger. I passed the gun back through the broken
pane to my wife telling her to cock it ? all this time dodging several
savage rushes and leaps. Finally the gun cam* through, cocked. I
don't know to this day how I ever succeeded in aiming it and pulling the
trigger, but if I had placed the gun to his head and fired I couldn't
have made a more perfect shot ? right between his eyes!"
He Shot the Maddened Beast.
Blood began to poor from the gaping hole In the monkey's
head. Bat still, to Orville's horror, THE BEAST CAME ON
AGAIN AND AGAIN! Frozen with terror he passed the gun oat
again tor his wile to cock. And again Orville doesn't know how
he ever managed to Are it. This time the ballet caught the ani
mal right through the eye and down be went.
"And," says Orville, "down I went, too!"
"Orville's wife called the hospital. The ambulance came, and the
orderlies found him lying. on the floor covered with blood. Orville's own
doctor rushed to the hospital. "And," says Orville, "he didn't have his
gtasses with him. While I lay groaning and bleeding, they sent back for
the glasses. They gave me morphine and more morphine. By the
time the glasses did come the doc told me that I was so well doped up i
that I might as well go on the operating table without an anaesthetic."
Orville told him to go ahead. It took them exactly one hour and a
half and forty-eight stitches to sew up the holes that animal had made.
After that came Pasteur injections. His hands were reopened and the
bones reset. "And now," he says, "I'm back to work with a stiff right
thumb and a pair of hands and wrists that will be weak for some time
to come."
And nowadays, Orville has a motto. No more monkeys!
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Dental Cabinet Modernized
A dental cabinet with photoelec
tric control of the drawer compart
ments has recently been designed
which permits the dentist to open
the drawers without actually touch
ing the cabinet. The drawers can
be operated individually by passing
a finger over beams of light direct
ed at a photo-electric cell. Its use
eliminates the possibility of trans
ferring disease from the mouth of
one patient to another through the
handling of cabinet drawers. ? Elec
tronics.
Ancient Dwarfs
A runted and twisted tree pa
triarch, said to be more than 400
years old, is one of the sights in
the famous tree nursery of Kin tare
Kibe in Tokyo in which hundreds of
strange dwarf trees are exhibited.
Isle of Man, Small Island
The Isle of Man is a small island
in the Irish sea nearly the same
distance from England, Scotland
and Ireland. It has an area of
2Z7 square miles and a population
of 50.000.
Bats Conquer at Airfield
Officials were astonished when at
an airfield near Karachi they saw
seven stationary planes sink in the
earth. Investigation disclosed that
thousands of rats had tunneled un
der the ground. Poison was spread
to kill the rodents, but with little
effect. Gassing, firing, trapping and
all other modem devices were em
ployed against them, but without
success. At last, says the London
Daily Express, the authorities, ex
asperated, gave in. Now the rata
are in full charge of the airfield.
How Rare am Advertised Circus
When P. T. Ba mum's circus was
in winter headquarters at Bridge
port, Conn., he bad a man plow ?
field by elephant power as a means
of advertising the circus to pas
sengers on a railroad nearby.
California Oaee Tropical
Evidence that California was in a
tropical climate millions of years
ago was unearthed when a petrified
palm tree was discovered at Lodi,
Calif. The specimen weighs 150
pounds.
WHA T to EAT and WHY
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(?. Jfouiton (foudiii Sxplainl the
Causes of Food Allergy
Well-Known Food Authority Names the Foods
That Cause Trouble
By C. HOUSTON GOUDISS
? Cut M St.. N.w York atj.
ANEW phrase has crept into daily usage in recent years,
has in fact become so common that comedians use it in jest
and draw laughs from their audiences when they mimic, 'Tm
allergic! " But the words have deep significance for perhaps 30
to 60 per cent of tha population who have cause to agree with
the old saying that "one man's meat is another man's poison."
T1 ? ? -t
< nmj are victim* of I tie curious ?
phenomenon knoun at food al- <
lergy and have an abnormal reac- 1
tion to the proteins in certain
foods and other substances. As a
result, foods which are beneficial |
in themselves and which usually \
have an important place in m <
normal balanced diet, cause a '
variety of unpleasant effects.
These may range from hives or
I skin rash to a gastric disturb
ance with spells of nausea. The ]
? ?
uiuiviuuai may am- |
fer from migraine ,
headache or an at- (
tack of hay (ever ,
or asthma; or he
may have a tend- |
ency to what ap- j
pears to be bron- |
chial or head colds. <
It has been de- ,
termined that these 1
symptoms in an in- ,
dividual who is al
lergic are due to
intolerance of certain proteins.
Even when the offending foods are
fruits and vegetables, it is the pro
tein that is responsible. It has
been suggested that the sensitiza
tion results because at some pre
vious time, an unsplit or undi
gested protein in some way passed
through the membranes lining the
digestive tract and entered the
blood stream. This acted very
much like a foreign substance and
sensitized body cells in some way
so that whenever the same food is
eaten, the disturbing symptoms
occur as a sort of defense mechan
ism.
Heredity a Factor
A tendency to allergy seems to
be inherited. But the substances
which caused a disturbance differ
with each individual, and the type
of reaction also differs. For exam
ple, a mother may be allergic to
milk; her child inheriting the tend
ency may be allergic to Ash.
Drinking milk may give the
mother an attack of asthma; eat
ing fish may cause the child to
break out with hives.
T rouble-Making Foods
It Is difficult to generalise re
garding the foods that canse trou
ble, because they vary so widely
among Individuals who are sensi
tised, and often one person Is sen
sitised to a number of foods. It has
been found that the foods most fre
quently causing allergic symp
toms inelude wheat, milk, eggs,
chocolate, pork, fish and shellfish,
tomatoes, cauliflower, cabbage,
strawberries and oranges.
Skin rashes are believed to be
caused most frequently by hyper
sensitiveness to milk, cereal or
pork. Hives are reported to occur
often from eating strawberries,
chocolate, fish and tomatoes.
Wheat is frequently an offender in
migraine headaches. Asthma
seems to be common in persons
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who are sensitive to milk, eggs
and butter.
Other Oti ending Substances
Foods are not always responsi
ble (or allergy, and the symptoms
nay be produced by contact with
wool, feathers, dust, pollen, dander
from horses or other animals; or
sven the sting of a bee.
Discovering the Offenders
The ideal procedure for the al
ergy victim is to find out the of
fending foods or substances and
avoid them. For early recognition
af a tendency to allergy may pre
sent discomfort and trouble.
There are two ways to discover
the trouble makers. One is to
learn by experience, either by
seeping a record of the foods eat
en and noting the appearance of
symptoms, or by eliminating from
the diet, first one and then another
of the foods that are suspected of
causing difficulty. The other is to
let your doctor conduct simple
skin tests. Small scratches are
made on the arms and legs, and
each scratch touched with a solu
tion made of the protein of a food
or substance known to cause trou
ble. If a person is allergic to that
substance, the skin around the
scratch swells and becomes in
flamed. The inflammation disap
pears after a few hours and causes
no pain or inconvenience.
Other Foods Must Be Used
Once the offending food or foods
are determined, they should be
eliminated either for all time or
until the individual becomes de
sensitized. If the trouble maker
is an uncommon food, such as lob
ster or clams, the allergy presents
no great problem, but when chil
dren react to necessary foods such
as milk, eggs and wheat, the
homemaker faces a difficult task.
When milk is the offending food,
it must be svoided, not only as s
beverage, but in bread, cakes and
puddings. Sometimes dried or
evaporated milk, goat's milk or
soy bean milk may be used in
stead. When wheat is the trouble
maker, the alternatives include
cornstarch, rice flour, potato or
rye flour; rice and corn cereals;
tapioca or barley. When hen's
eggs are injurious, duck's eggs
can sometimes be used with abs
cess, or meat or fish may be sub
stituted.
Sometimes after a period of ex
clusion, an immunity is built op
so that later the foods may be re
introduced gradually into the diet.
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Don't lump to
It mast be berae to
many of the symptoms
by foed sensitivity may alse I
from other eseses. For this
son, it is newise to deeid
is allergic without dee
tion. Nor most the imag
the eirreat
of the subject be jl|?Hd to i
child rep to
to ekt
false i
On the other hand, !
should be sympathetic with both
children and adults who say with
good cause, "I can't eat thatl"
And it would appear that there
may even be some compi'nutt?
in this unpleasant situation. For
a group of scientists who have
studied the subject announced *
few years ago that those who be
long fc> the allergy group
to have * definite capacity for I
coming intellectually
Thus, the child who suffers
a skin rash or stuffy nose
due to food sensitiyity, if apt to be
full of energy when he
manhood and exhibit anoaui
ity for cultural leadership.
Mrs. A. M. T.? The notion
onions or lettuce contain i
[ some other narcotic drug is i
| without foundation. Tliey are two
; of our finest vegetables.
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it. F. B.? Vitamins A, C ml D
are required tor healthy teeth.
Calcium, in ade<|uate amounts,' to
also essential.
Mrs. A. F. J.? The caloric '
of fresh or canned mushrooms to
very slight, as their i
is in a form that cannot be i
assimilated. They are
however, for adding Savor and ap
petite appeal to many dishes.
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Peasant Motifs for Linens ?
The peasant note spells smart
ness in linens today. These fig
ures in simple stitches will add
:olor to accessories and offer
pleasant hours in their embroid
ering. Pattern 1743 contains a
transfer pattern of 4 motifs Ttk
by 9% inches, 4 motifs 3 by 3*
inches, 4 motifs 2 by 2V? Inches;
illustrations of stitches; materials
required; color schemes.
Send 15 cents in stamp* or colas
(coins, preferred) for this pattern
to The Sewing Circle, NeedJecnlt
Dept., 83 Eighth Ave., New York,
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3 cups sifted cak?
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sugar thoroughly. Add sifted dry
ingredients, alternately with milfc.
starting and ending with dry ooes.
Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites.
Bake in two 0-inch layer pans te
a 350 degree oven for 30 minutes.
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Put two unbeaten egg whites, %
cup white corn syrup and H cup
honey in double boiler top. Have
water in bottom boiling. Beat with
rotary beater for seven minutes
or until the mixture is stiff enaugb
to stand in peaks. Remove from
heat. Add H teaspoon vanilla,
and a pinch of salt. Spread on
cake. Then cover with moist co
conut.
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