| Show t h A t. e. e I J r L S 'S ft f if h 1 y r 1 r ti ti 1 t. t KC 4 I r 1 r I I I 4 J tr 1 I I r. r y 11 tt 1 I I ings books I o fJ r Why We 1 Can NOT N 0 T r I 2 BELIEVE OUR EYES BEING is fa believing people used to 5 say nay Probably moat most of us say ay it day to-day and believe It It but it depends depends de de- penda altogether on what you ou eee see It la is quit Quite possible to see something that Isn't so just lust justas as it Is possible to hear something that fiat isn't so BO Of Ot all aU the senses sight bas has been held beld to b N b. L the most accurate A boy may whistle while walking along a country lane and people eople will believe It is the singing of a bird Or Ora a bird may sing and one will believe it is 1 some come lad whistling A team driving through a covered bridge of ot the old fashioned old type sounds Bounds like Uke thunder and so eo on The sense Bense of hearing then than is a by no means accurate That has long been known A piece of ot mercerized cotton feels feels like satin n. n The sense of at feeling or r touch is in accurate And so eo it is Ie with the sense of ot smell amelL Neither the sense of touch hearing or or smell Emell Is infallible This has long been known and that is why people have bave de deg d declared dared that seeing Is believing as it W way was U Uthe the one sense they were certain was quite accurate te I J saw it ft with my own eyes eyes is another expression that was used as a final argument ment To see ace anything with ones one's own ey eyes was wag held to be proof beyond question The quickness of ot the hand is known to d deceive ehe the eye but the eye does not deceive the mind u as a result The eye In n such an Instance Instance In in- tance stance Is s not inaccurate te but merely merel y a bit low slow But when objects may be steadily j i viewed for a long while and d continue to de de- SIMPLE ILLUSIONS That Prove Things Are NOT Always WHAT THEY SEEM 1 the eye as eg S Is the case with hundreds and one one cannot thousands of things day to-day truthfully say seeing Is believing An unusually clever demonstration of at the neatness and dispatch with which th the eye may deceive one was recently made at t the Optical Conference in London by Professor Stirling M. 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D When he had bad finished there were man many In n his bis audience who were amazed ed Among his illustrations of figures and objects and various lines that Invariably deceive the eye several were used that were known to many but for the most mOlt part he made novel demonstrations The parallel lines Jines by means meMS of short diagonal lines at acute angles running through them made the long lines nes look as 8 though they were about to join at one end something no DO self respecting parallel lines Unel 1 o r O Looks can do Sm Small ll white clr circles s packed close e In Ina Ina ina a black background look Ute like hexagons because be bet- because cause they Irradiate where the black and white whit are most tense in the e triangular spaces Steady gazing at a a. white dot above aboY a s white dash on black will make the dash waver Wayer and then disappear entirely Black squares quare with very Tery narrow white lines dividing them give a ghostly smudge where the white lines Intersect intersect in- in n which Professor Stirling e explained laa la 18 laa a tem temporary afterimage after I One of the queerest illusions wan wae made by New Uses for Adb Adhesive sive PLASTER I J EOPLE regard adhesive plaster ster as something some some- something PEOPLE P thing to stick sUck on the skin over cuts cute 1 b burns and bruises and bruises and nothing nothing- nothing mOre more That Is what the plaster was intended for but but so o many other uses have been found forIt for forIt It that that It has become of great value the only trouble ruble uble being that few people really know of or the many uses sea sea- seato to which It can can cane be e put By adhesive plaster platter i is is' not meant the ordinary cheap grades of so called court plaster that Is frequently given away for ac ad advertising purposes and comes In white black and Ind pink sheets That is generally a poor quality of adhesive plaster T The e sort that Is meant in this article is the surgeons surgeons' adhesive ad hesire plaster a thick durable plaster of great wearing quality sometimes called shin shinplaster plaster Good adhesive adhesive plaster may be used for lor or repairing repairing repairing re re- re- re pairing all sorts soda of things such as garden hose hot water bags mackintoshes rain coats atI rubber gloves rubber boots bootS' foot rubbers rubbers rub rub- bers berg bersand and overshoes The 1 plaster laster should be applied warm and can be p put t on better by byres res pressing sing a a warm Iron over it If U j you u are sewing carpets or doing any bard hard needle work put a a asmaH a small round piece of f the plaster on your finger or hand where the needle or crocheting hook rubs rube This will prevent troublesome friction and bUsters blusters Wrap a piece around a splintered broom or mop nop han handle le to prevent splinters from hurting the hand Strips strIp glued to the under c corners of rugs will prevent them from curling up r Long Lone narrow strips stripe around the tops of j jelly jell Uy 7 i W Watching a C in g MOTHS Eat Your Clothes s E EACH year a housewife's Ifancy lightly cothes cothes The damage this creature turns to thoughts thoughts' of not of-not not ot not love but buL docs does is v very rr small compared with such orf or or- f as bacteria but it t I is large Jarge enough to c cause use the tile housekeeper considerable uneasiness uneasiness un un- easiness and disquiet Many a 3 fur or woolen garment has been ruined by th tho o caterpillar of tl the e moth for tor the m moth th Itself has no no Jaws jaws x and takes take no food But the caterpillar of the moth clothes moth has haa l. l certain unique peculiarities which make him himas f J as i much a matter of interest as o of t resentment resent resent- r ment Like a very few other Inse Insects tB he be t makes for tor himself a portable h house use from the fibre of ot the goods whereon whereon he Is 16 living con con con- ia enlarging this house as lS he grows 0 This house or case or tunic as it may ber be r c- c called being the same color as the fabric acts as s a protection for only the head and three pairs of legs of the caterpillar emerge from tram 1 the e front of ot It As AI the tile caterpillar grows growa in length he be adds a few more hairs to the front of It it cementing it there with a slime sUme that it t exudes a and d since the creature is Very every very flexible flex flex- I ible It can turn round In the tube and p put t tIta Its Ita head bead out of ot the tail taU end and add a few fibres there also In this manner the caterpillar cater cater- caterpillar pillar not only completely protects himself f but his Is 18 perfected and It takes harp sharp eyes eyel Indeed to locate him Jars will keep the contents context t a tight air ht If It a new shoe hurts hurt YOU you at the heel where the top of the stiffening comes in paste a large piece of the plaster and it will smooth o out t the ridge be between the stiffening and the top rop of or i the h o heel and prevent bUsters blisters It Is s also good for hasty basty mending Bachelors who tear their clothes can mend them with strips stripa of this plaster carefully placed on the under side of the tear This Is es especially good for those Ix bothersome little three cornered tears men frequently get in their clothes For a crack in fn a derby hat a a. piece of ot this plaster inside will m prevent further tearing or cracking and keep it smooth If a pane of glass in the window is la cracked and you fear the Winters Winter's blast will blow blow U ItIn It ItIn In over night or a Summers Summer's rain and wind windstorm windstorm windstorm storm will wilt shatter the remainder patch It up with this plaster until the the glazier can put In Ina a new pane For sealing seating up packages sealing big envelopes envelopes en en- that are not gummed hinges to cardboard cardboard cardboard card card- board b boxes and aids in making dolls dolls' houses houses' for the children this plaster Is valuable 1 Children frequently lose their overshoes J J Jand and rubbers and caps in school Stick little i strips of this plaster r in th them m and use UEe them them for labels writing the childrens children's names on l I the plaster This will save all sorts of bother These are but a few of t the thousand and one one's i things adhesive plaster will do but with these suggestions scores of other uses for the then plaster should come readily to mind Ind r I HE newly restored science of ot business efficiency T THE I is beginning to make itself fe felt t in n philanthropy It is IB a a. poor business policy to devote all your time and capital to a paying badly business when there Is a well well paying paying business that is iB suffering This AIm sim simple pie truth is already beginning to have a wide e effect on the relation of society to o the care of the tho unfit The degenerate child of the minded feeble and chronic pauper has better food clothing and medical attention Is given more personal care and better educational edu chances than th the child of the Independent and self respecting workingman It is 19 now seen that the greater number of the institutions of the United States are arc not for tor the Improvement of ot those whose lives are worth while to the State but for tor the petting of at those who aro arc not worth while or at least not as much wort while No expense sh should uld be spared to help a competent man establish himself to give ghe him a chance chanc to bring good citizens into the world but It W t is difficult to see seo where the State is bettered by en enabling the vicious or minded feeble to hand band on their vices or 01 their weaknesses weak weak- weaknesses nesses to a host of children Business efficiency not considering sentiment declares declares de de- clares Glares it to be little lIttie less than swindling to tax lax the workingman so heavily that he finds finds' it difficult to lIvoI live lIvo I in order to spend those taxes on raising paupers whoso whose I Incompetence drugs the labor market and whose cl children children chil chil- ll dren decrease the power power of the nation It is the same sameI I as picking out the worst animals of a herd for Or breed brooding breeding Ins t purposes Instead of ot the best It costs three times limes as much to educate a feebleminded feebleminded feeble feeble- feebleminded minded child in a iL special school as u it does a nonna normal cl child B THE AP o r S R RM i 21 t t 7 j. j rJ M A tl Cx A S L' L s D 34 B CA cri LL 2 L R Ci Il LEIS IS E Ho N FIr r IL ILL I'LL t if t r i y I ICA r I- CA r Bl BIRtI 1 T PJ Cr r TO FA F cn Bj B Nt rr T Te-n Te B BI t s o R- R ACAD IS Hi ID D R. C LY l N YES ES LO LooF r r AL' THE Wr ur r LINE nIC AND PE INEL IR r rUxI rr Y r 1 To Io B SIB g fro LL Lr I YOU MIGHT TRY i Keep Keeping ng Water Cold F YOU ar are in the habit of f taking a a. pitcher of ot Iced water to your room roomI I IF on retiring try this Procure a a. square pasteboard box with lid sufficiently nUy large Jarge to hold your our pitcher and give It two or three coats of varnish Tarnish on the outside allowing each coat to dry thoroughly Place your pitcher of ot water in this box on retiring putting the lid Ud on tightly and you are sure of having cold drinking water any hour of the night Lemons for the Face FEW drops of lemon juice in tho the water In which the face race Is washed A removes all s and leaves the skin akin fresh tresh and satiny as aswell wen well as making it fairer and clearer A little lemon lomon juice rubbed over the cheeks before retiring and allowed to dry will wUl remove Summer freckles I and whiten the skin and if persisted in will wUl eventually carry off ott all blemishes of the complexion that are not caused by impure blood or or other internal trouble Scaring Mice Away TO 0 keep mice away scatter small pieces of at camphor in your cupboards and drawers They greatly dislike the smell of camphor and will wUl go far away from fram It Boiling Cracked Eggs N egg that Is cracked can 1 be e boiled by enclosing it in a piece of soft J AN paper When the paper paper becomes wet It adheres s to the egg and prevents prevents pre pro vents it from coming through the shell shen This process should be successful in every case cue the tho crack is of a moderate length Oil Oil- Stained Oil Stained Carpets 0 take oil on stains out of carpets spread the soiled parts part thickly with witha i ia TO a paste made of fullers fuller's earth and cold water Allow It to dry and andI I then remoVe remove with a stiff brush in a public school yet et in the large Jarge cities such as New NewYork NewYork NewYork York there Is not nearly enough school room for the normal children and largo sums of money are spent in n J L ut ii iiI I We Wo waste money educating and c- c cran r.-r r. t r minded and slight alight normal ormal poor children ren The feeble minded are aro of or no nc u. u use to the world whilo wale the tho normal normaJ child if tf aided grows grow into a k-e- k sae ae l man mAD means of letters on off a background of black squares where It looks as though the letters were staggering about at all aU angles as S In Inthe Inthe inthe the Illustration when as a matter of fact they are all upright and parallel Putting the bird in the cage is another pleasing illusion as the illustration shows and the manner in which a circle Is made to look smaller than another circle of exactly the same size Is most amusing The professor also drew two lines of equal length and by a couple of Vs Ns added made one of these lines JInes appear nearly twice tho the length of the other All An these and many other remarkable things Professor Stirling did to prove praTe that the sense of sight is scarcely more to be trusted than the sense seas o of hearing or smell The professor began beg his lecture with the following text Ion about bout the tho wisdom of Solomon I I from rom the And hardly can we discern the things that are upon the earth and with great labor find we out the things which are before us us declared tl the 1 professor has baa pointed out the many imperfections of th there th eye ere but no instrument of at human manufacture can compare with it in applicability to the solutions of at all kinds of problems involving the action of the other adequately adapted organs that participate with It In the act of seeing special schools for those who are under normal In addition addition ad the tho minded feeble-minded chI child d so educated never bc- bc normal normaJ but gener generally ny becomes a pauper and thus the fhe States State's money Is wasted to the State Stat at the expense off on tho the cl child Ud whose parents had a right to althe al alt the help tho the country could give them A nations nation's use of its money Is not so greatly different from that of the ordinary citizen at least if It the nation wastes money it suffers as docs does the Individual But the nation has no money of ot its own Its finds fiends fl are all trust funds and misusing trust funds is often called caned by very ugly names Th The increased burden u upon on the laboring laboring labor labor- ing man is largely due to the fact that he has not only to support himself and his family out of at his wages but buta a large Jarge share of someone else's family as well If a a I I thousand men earn each a dollar a s day day the year round I they can live on it It If each of those has three to support support sup sup- I port It is difficult to live Jive on the sum but still the i worker has his bis family pleasures In part compensation if it however this thousand men have to support one onehundred one onehundred |
