Show BAILS w mm federal girt sleuth runs down suspected bivalves miss ruth C greathouse employed as an expert scientist in the bao division of bureau of chemistry at washington washington in the work which la being done by the government to in eure a supply of absolutely good oysters a leading part la being taken by a young woman miss ruth 0 greathouse by name who Is kept busy when the oyster season is at ita height miss greathouse Is one of the ex pert scientists of the bacteriological division of the bureau 0 chemistry in washington and has done some of its most important work under the bacteriological teri division comes all the in lon of oysters and shellfish ot all sorts as well as the testing 01 the hlll supply oysters may be tested tor disease germs usually typhoid gathered from the batera in which the oyster beds are located or they man be tested to determine their fitness for food under the requirements of the law it all sounds very difficult she said one day in speaking of her work but its like a good many other things it halt bad when you know more about it wherever it la possible a man inspector is sent out with any young woman but naturally it always con to send two on one tak ing so then I 1 go alone I 1 manage the small laboratory all right but of course I 1 can t the big one for that however there are always trainmen or station men or boatmen or wharf men somebody anxious to be nice looking into those blue eyes and at the crinkles in her hair one is quite sure that somebody is always acx lous to be nice and having seized the suspected oysters the laboratory must be set up promptly sometimes its a vacant store room sometimes in a freight warehouse at the station or on tha wharf or it may even be on an old barge that never heard the word science setting up the laboratory meana opening the big case and taking a casolene ga solene lamp a jar of a sea weed product for making a sort ol 01 gelatine gelat lne used in the work and a allm atless number of small fiat glass plates with inch high rims fitting one within the other the laboratory set miss ruth C greathouse up everything Is ready tor the bug hunt when the slippery bivalve has been vivisected vivisect ed his remains are trans berred to the glass plates and the plates filled up with the seaweed gelatine gelat lne seaweed gelatine gelat lne being regarded as an especially happy at mo sphere tor the growth and prosper ity of bugs As testing oysters also contemplate a testing the water from which have been brought it the oysters are seized at the point of shipment miss greathouse must promptly visit oyster beds and bring back to the laboratory vials of the water in which the oysters were grown and submit it to scientific tests in the course of a very short time the embryo bugs if any existed in the oysters have grown to husky ma turley and being discovered under mi crosscope cro scope to be ready tor the trans farence they are placed in vials of alcohol and are sealed later they will be introduced as evidence when the case comes up for trial |