Smith-
his
tests
Senses
QLINDFOLD frlend.
BU
Now
'place under his nose a num- ber of common subjects: food, flowers, camphor, moth balls, ica and so on. Ask him to smell them and then to tell you what they are,
This test shows clearly the extent to which we rely on sight In order to identify things: the other senses give little help.
Place a candle on a table, and stand at least six feet away from it. Close one eye and keep it closed. Now try to knock down the candle with one finger.
You'll understand from this how it is that having two eyes help us to judge distances, us well as helping us to see objecta ns "solids."
Blindfold a friend, and ask
hin
to pinch his nose tightly. Now let him cat small pieces of 'in different foods, arranged pairs, and ask him to tell you what they are. For instance, you might try a piece of beef and a piece of pork, a piece of Jeltuce and a piece of raw brus- sels sprouts, and so on.
You will
when Brid that,
it is smelling is Impossible, dimeult to tell different fastes from one another, Tasting" is namely "smelling."
A Lay Sermon
APHRASE like this, if we
powerful
read for Instruction, should shock us Into attention. It is a warning that the word of
and God, quick though it is, and sharper than any two-edged sword, con so be blunted
Handling the word by its own ministers us
of God deceitfully.
2 Com., v., 2.
be made
of none effect.
"Ile hus preached the Gospel by living it." Thus writes of Liti someone of Grenfell
brador. anch the saying embodies the secret of minis- every truly successful try.
To preneli # hidden
Just Arrived
ex S.S. Rawalpindi
from
WEEK-END
"Please, precious, it's hard to concentrate while you stand there screaming about getting a divorce."
By HUGE REDWOOD
Gospel is useless: t Is the manifestation that tells. Ask yourself where your religion is least contagious. If among those who know you best, are you handling the word of God deceitfully: are you failing to live it out?
Jesus denounced the Pharisees. for throttling it with tradition. They are doing it still in our own time. But the mischler.is deeper when Christians fulsify it by faithfulegs and loveless example. "We preach not our- selves, but Christ Jesus," wrote
Paul. Is that true? TA our life bld with Christ in God, or is it so very unhappily in evi- dence that the Christ within us is hidden Instend?
PROBLEM
DOUBLE ACROSTIC
UPRIGHTS
For Freedom there'll be much amİSA If that should go the way of this.
LIGHTS
1. Hard-working?
trial.
But it lacks a
A river, too, there's no dentall
2. The snare, the lure, the gin is
here-
And part's reversed.
quite clear?
IM that
3. Success outstanding she'd have
had
AL
I any girl's Olympiad.
4. 1 yearn? And note: with half
an niitude
One gets what's different quite
from latitude.
5. Some of these chaps (they do
look brave) Have lately shave."
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Weather prophets work
in code
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ID you know that weather experts, when they send reports to one another, use a special code?
For instance, the speed of the wind is re- corded, not in miles per hour, but according to the Beaufort scale, named after the inventor, Admiral Beaufort.
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He based his seale on the behaviour in the wind of the average size fishing smack or trawler.
in a No. 1 Beaufort scale wind. stecrage fishing macks Just have way; No. 2 Wind fills the salls of the sbacks, which then move is the salls of the sinneks, which then move at about one to two miles per hour, and so on. The Beaufort scale enn. if necessary, by converted into miles per hour.
How they record It
THEN
THEN there is the air pres- sure, recorded in mystert- ous units called millibars; a millibar is the force sufficient to give a mass of one kilogram (Just over 2 lbs.) an acceleration of one centimetre (2
make an centimetres
inch) per
second,
The average pressure over the globe is about 1013 millibars; but in their reports the experts cut short the millibar reading so that a pres- sure of 1012.5 is written 12.5.
On weather maps, places with the same baromètric pressure are joined together with es called isobars; the isobars are usually plotted at in- tervals of 2 millibars.
Next there's the business of fore- casting depressions (wet points) and unti-cyclones (dry-spots).
A depression is an area of low pressure in which warm and cold sections of nir meet.
When a depression forms, air weighing anything up to 100,000,000,- 000,000 tons is moved away from the area concerned, and no one knows how it's done.
As the depression moves along, the cold air section of the depression forces the warm air section off the ground and surrounds it. The wätër Vapolir In the warm-air-then- condenses and falls through the cold air to the ground. Where it Rains
THUS any time there's a depression the bulk of the
fald falls where the advancing warm Beetion meets the cold section. If you want to study a depression In detail try rending D. Brunt's "Weather Science for Everybody",
Forecasting the weather is not easy. Most depressions that affect ills country are formed in the North Atlantic, and they may not be noticed for some time.
Looking ahead is only part of the weather expert's work. It may be just as important to know what the weather was ke three months or three years back,
A law case may turn on it or the water engineer may want to know Just how big he must build a re- survolt.
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What Keeps the Clock Right?
WHY does the clock tick, Dad?"
"W" "The pendulum makes it.
tiele,"
"Why does it have a pendulum??” Here we give up, or run for the book of answers to children's ques- tions
Experimented
The pendulum has a remarkable property, discovered by Galileo,,who let his mind wander while in church. He noticed that a swinging lamp took an even time for each swing, whe- ther it was making big swings or Bile ones.
He
at home, and found that all depends on the length of the pendulum; not on its weight, and not on the width of its swings. Give it n big swing and it hurries up give it a light touch, and it swings a le way very slowly, so that the time taken per swing is al- ways the same.
But the time taken per swing is greater for long pendulum than for a short one. So you can alter the time token by adjusting the length of the pendulum.
It is from faels like these that clocks have been developer.
A clock needs a movement which. shall be continuous and regular.
Water-clucks have been made which depended on the speed of drip, King Alfred made them of candles. Some what expensive.
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The pendulum clock releases a toothed wheel notch by notch, one for each
swing. This wheel driven by a weight or spring (the mainspring, which you wind up). A fly-wheel can be substituted for the called hairspring pendulum which
to keep
tries to keep stationary, but altow- Ing It enough freedom swinging backward and forward.
This method is used in watches. You adjust the speed by tightening or loosening the hairspring.
ANSWER TO PROBLEM See 3rd Column
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For the Nails.
Nail varnish which lies smoothly and does not chip is the dream of every home manicurist. You can achieve the chic fingertips of the salon if you bufier your nails with a powder polish im- mediately after washing and before filling. Then a final rub with polish remover, and they are ready for varnish. For parties, Lip with platinum, gold or silver.
Two Shades
same
Keep two shades of the powder if any of your features are not quite so petite as you wish. Your checks may have been called plump. your chin-line may be heavy, your nose large, your eyes not deep set enough. Use the darker shade of powder just where the flesh is too full. They do it stage and screen-it's good for everyday life too.
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