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Show ' WHAT CHILDREN SHOULD I KNOW ! Do You Know r 1 The gold flecks in your wall paper; 1 on the brilliantly lithographed cigar labels' and candy, baxes; your gold finished radiators, beds and lighting fixtures, most of the gleaming gold decorations in your theatre and hotel lobbies are made with bronze powder : an article o ftrade formerly mon- i opolized by Germany, but now an im portant product of Aerican Industry? Most paints are made out oflead and zinc and oil? The colors are largely mineral. Some of the eolors are made from coal, some, such as burnt sienna, are just clay. A child too heavily clothed is as much exposed to colds an one undeT-dressed, undeT-dressed, Warna Dr. Russell L. Cocil of Cornell University Medical school. That's because too many clothes bring extensive prespiration which is as bad as exposure in chilled air. j Gas, the soft, Inxlsivle, sometimes odorless, sometimes ppungent, poison-! poison-! ous vapor, if allowed to be free will I escape harmlessly into the atmos-i atmos-i phere, if confined it will break or I rend the strongest steel, the hardest j rock ? It is gas that gies the explosives ex-plosives their gigantic power. Look ata piece of pig metal and ! try to imagine how it can possibly be ; combined with linseed oil to make . paint. It's eaJily done by corroding the lead. Corrosion causes the lead ! to resolve tself into white flakes easi-I easi-I ly powered and hence easily held in ! suspension in oil. Most of our hairbrushe bristles j conies from China and grow original -' ly on Chinese pigs? ! More furniture and automobile I seats are now upholstered in leather substitutes than in hide leather, and the ordinary layman cannot dis-: dis-: tinguish the imitation from the real I either with his eyes or finger tips ? I |
