Show half the people of althe the united states are descendants ol of a common ancestor according to a book about to be published by david starr fordan president of the leland stanford university and president of the commission of the Arneri american cao breeders bleeders Bre eders association based on an exhaustive study of 1000 american families dr jordan says that isabella de Verman doig daughter of a crusader wife of 0 the i duke of warren who lived in the i evv twelfth fifth century is is the common progenitor of the millions whom he st stamps arriDs the fittest of the english speaking rac race e poorer rela ons of john D rockefeller ard and J P morgan ln will bp be nm to prove their caw bv tr dr jod johns inq book a lenth are ine alti od in n family nenn J ferson rf lincoln ohp two hammons Ham sons cleveland and roosevelt are among the hitherto unsuspected cousins the fireless cooker s seemed i such an impossible thing thine when first introduced introduced that for several years people peddle thought it must bs be a fake but it has been found that it does not require s great amount of 0 h heat hat at to do cooking provided it can be confined and kept from escaping hence perhaps the world will not be so ready anady 1 to sc scoff off when they are told that I 1 an apparatus is now being made which will cook merely by the aid of the heat of the sun As at this new automatic stove has only been made for use in very hot cou boutries coul ries tries such as egypt and india the I 1 principal of this device is that of coll acting concentration ratin g and confining the suns rays A sort of cell or box is made which is lined with mirror s I 1 ed at such angles that they tend to reflect the suns rays to the center 1 the food to be cooked is placed in the center anat covered with i a glass bell which excludes the air air the solar rays being focused on oa the food soon raise its temperature sufficiently i so that it will be cooked the glass cover sep separates aratea as in the case of the glass roof of a conservatory to allow the rays to enter but to confine and hold back the heat beat |