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Show The Devil's Woodyard on Trinidad Trini-dad in the West Indies is the site of a peculiar tourist attraction-mud attraction-mud volcanoes. The famous platter-lipped women wom-en called "Ubangis" were given that name by a publicity man for Ringland Brothers and Darnum lc Bailey Circus. Actually, they came from the Ubangi River but another anoth-er part of French Equatorial Afrfc ca, and are members of the Sara tribe of the Territory of Chad. , The basis of mankind's clocks, the turning of the earth itself, varies var-ies slightly. It sometimes speeds up, then slows down. These differences dif-ferences are minute. From 1680 to 1800 the earth "lost" 27100ths of a second. The modern trend in preparing most vegetables is the use of as little water as possible and rapid cooking. For some obscure reason, a standard five-grain tablet of aspirin as-pirin relieves a, severe attack of asthma in some people. r " According to nutrition surveys, less than half the children of the U. S. eat all the milk and fresh fruits and vegetables they should Long hailed as the most widely used, and useful, medicine known to the medical profession, 105-year-old aspirin is now being studied for a possible dramatic new role in the fight against diabetes. dia-betes. A British Medical report stated that relatively .large doses of aspirin given to diabetics kept sugar in the blood and urine at normal levels |