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Show , F OO- STRANGE MR. YOU We are strange nervous mechan-Ejfl mechan-Ejfl jams, wo humans, fearfully and wonderfully won-derfully made. And there are three i Of the strangest things about OB, caught in the far flung net, todays news: A young soldier, mentally wrecked hy shell-shock, was experimented on j by doctor?. Taken to a room where everything was a vivid red, be shriek-ed shriek-ed in agony. Then they led him to a ho primrose-yellow room. He sighed happily, hap-pily, drifted to deep sleep. Kept in this room he rapidly recovered to normal. nor-mal. S. T. Ballinger of New York tells ' this remarkable story of a convention of paint and varnish makers. Bollinger says scientists have dis- covered that a room furnished in a j dark color tends to cause melancholia and an aversion to work A red room in temporarily stimulate?, then reacts In nervous headache. Blue induces calm. Creen seems to impart happiness and vitality. Yellow maks people ami-wM ami-wM able, contented, soothed A good tip. when ou redecorate the home. To avoid monotony, use combinations, not one color ;ilon' : The effect of color vibrations on our nerves Is a mystery. ;!, Railroad riding will be rougher as I ' M the weather gets colder, says Dr. Plimmon H. Dudley, weather expert lor New York Central railroad. : He explains it this way: Winter cold : H makes the steel rails shrink in length ' a 150,000th of an inch for each degree ' $'J the thermometer drops. To our delicate deli-cate nerves, riding seems very bumpj ' Ifl over the slight gaps between the I shrunken rails. You think it wonderful that "frost" can shrink steel rails and mako them crack. More wonderful- is that we strange humans are more powerful than either cold or steel, both our slavcB. Our mental and nerve powers, compared with animals', aro little short of terrible. In Western Electric laboratories, this is discovered: The human voice can be reduced to a millionth of its volume and still be heard. But the voice cannot be heard when reduced ll to a ten-millionth. This is a remarkably fine distinction, distinc-tion, the vanishing point of sound eo H lnflnlte6tmally minute that the human brain cannot concelvo of it. Yet It holds good for all normal H human ear?, although no two peoplu HI hear the Bame thing in exactly the same way. When you ponder marvels, consider the delicacy of the human nen .-eg that Ml make all this possible. nn |