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m > A r -r * r 'A r* v l-w I'* '4* II- r .â- 4. * « 9 5 * i * • f r â- *• « '• <l^ ' »â-  ^ ^ •.St â- i«» 1 â- * Canned Lobsters Come Out Fighting Because ricli epicures all over America are clamoring for New Knglaml deep-sea lobsters, Joseph R. Mac Donald has spent $150,000 .iind ten years trying to perfect a Niiethod ui packing them so that they arrive fit and fighting after travelling thousands cf miles. 'He now cans them alive. Lobsters resent air travel. They are subject to altitude "bends" and frequently die in tansit. A dead lobster is a total loss to an epicure. They have to be killed immediate- ly before cooking if the full fiin flavour is to be retained. The high travelling mortality rate pushed up the cost of New England lobsters to exorbitant limits. Mr. MacDonald got to grips with the problem in 1939 by fitting up a kboratory and staffing it with mar- . ine biologists: 32,000 lobsters were used .in experiments before success was-V.achieved. He won't tell the secret, but says that "a pinch of powderj- substance in the can of fresh water does the trick." This substance contains six ele- ments highly beneficial to lobsters. So beneficial are they that the big tiaws have to be pinioned before canning : Mr. MacDonald's firm guarantees that their lobsters will remain alive for six days after processing. Some have popped out of their caiis in highly belligerent mood after spend- ing sixteen days m hermetic con- firement. It's a wonder tliey don't Open their own tins I Just What Is "The Milky Way"? "What is the Milky Way, and why is it unapprochable by n-an?" There are two questions here, and I siiall deal with the first one first: "Whatsis the Milky Way?" said Sir- Harold Spencer Jones, the Astronomer Royal, in a recent broadcast. This is a question that was much discussed until the' observations of William Herschel, in the last decade of the eighteenth century, answered it beyond doubt. When William Herschel first de- ^veloped an interest in astronomy, he bought a copy of Ferguson's As- tronomy, the best textbook of the day which passed through many edidons The altnost complete ig- norance of that time is reflected in 'Ferguson's book, in which twenty- one chapters are devoted to the solar system and only one to the stars. The then current knowledge about the Milky Way is summed up in one brief paragraph. It says: 'There is a remarkable tract round the Heavens, called the Milky Way from its peculiar whiteness, which was formerly thought to be owing to a vast number of very small stars therein; but the telescope shows it to be quite otherrise; and therefore its whiteness must be due to some other cause.' Roger Bacon had asserted that the Milky Way in the sky is 'a meeting, or knot, of a number of small stars, not seen asunder but giving light together.' Ferguson believed that the telescope had proved his view to be iucoorrect, but he was unable to suggest any other explanation of its appearance. His negative conclusion was not much more informative than the view of the old Greek mythology that the Milky Way arose from a few drops of milk which the infant Hercules let fall from the bosom of Juno. â- ; When VVilliain Herschel was seized with a passion for astronomy, he decided to make a telescope for himself, because he was too poor to buy one. He was undeterred b;- his early failures, and persever- until he was able to make telescopes which far surpassed, in optical qual- ity, any that had been made pre- viously. Having made a good telescope, he turned it on the Milky Way, and he has recorded how 'the glorious nmltitude of stars of all Clear the Tracks for Springtime â€" with a niii^lity "swoosh," a big ro'.ary snow plow Isuck.s its way in the yearly springs chore of opening the Yellowstone branch line. Here, Old Man Winter's last stand is a solid one. Twelve feet of snow were moved to clear the 56-mile rail route for the rush for summer vacationers. possible sizes that presented them- selves here to my view was truly astonishing. ' So the nature of the Milky Way was settled beyond doubt The stars of which it is composed are so far away that they are individually invisible to the naked eye, but their number is so great that we can see their integrated feflfect. Imagine a candle being moved to such a distance that our eyes are just unable to detect i|, and that, when 100 candles are put in its place, we should then be able to see a bright patch of light. Herschel explained also, why the Milky Waj' appears as a narrow belt stretching right around the heavens. It is because our stellar universe is in the form of a flatten- ed disk, like a millstons. The radial extension of the system is much greater than its thickness. So in any direction in the Milky Way, we are looking through the system to its most distant limits; in any other direction, we look through a much smaller depth. The stars in the Milky Way are very far away. Remember that our sun is a star, and not a partic- ularly bright one. But we should have to push it to a very great dis- tance before it became invisible. The distances of the stars in the Milky Way have been measured. I: we take as our unit of distance the light-year, that is the distance Iwhich light light â€" travelling at 186,000 miles every second â€" would travel in a year, which is about six million-million miles, the dis- tances of the stars in the Milky Way are of the order of 10.000 light- years upwards. That answers the second part of the question: Why is the Milky Way unapproachable by man? If we could travel with the speed of light towards the Milky Way (assuming that some suitable mode of travel had been devised) it would take us several thousand years to arrive. The journey would take so much longer than the span of hu- man life that it is, obviously, quite inipractible. A WHITE SPITZ dog and a Persian cat owned by Bob and Judy Ncsmith of Dalton, eat from the same dish. The dog always waits politely until the cat has finished iier half of the food before starting. â€" By Harold Arnett STORING GLASS CUTTER KEEP SL^SS CUTTER FREE OF RUST iN A TEST TUBE CONTMHING OIL ^NO KEROSENE. FIX CORK OH CUTTER fVVMPlt AND SECURE WITH SEALM&WM.CORK REMMNS 0HHM4DU \NHEH CUTTER\S IH USE m> 5EM.S TUB'£ WHEMCUHERISNOT IN USE. PRESERVING LEMONS KEEP LEMONS MUCH I.0N6ER BV COATING THEM L16HTLV WITH PARAFFIN. New Theory About Migraine Headache A migraine headache is what most of us call a "sick headache." Sometimes headache powders and rest bring relief; more often they do not. What causes a migraine or sick- ache has been th'2 subject of medi- cal discussion for decades. Not one of the hypotheses advanced in the past has been worth a 'leadache powedr. Now comes Dr. Murray M. Braaf in the New York State Journal of Medicine with a new ex- planation, one which he believes he has proved to be right in numer- ous cases. Instead of finding the c? use. of migraine headache in the head, as most of his predecessors have done, Dr. Braaf finds it in the neck In the majority of cases ui migraine headache that came under his ob- servation, tenderness to the touch and X-ray pictures indicated a con- dition much like that which pre- vails when disks are dislocated in the spine. He inferred that an in- jury to the neck (a fall on the head, on the back, on outstretched arms) was the cause. The fall may have occurred years before there was a migraine attack. When the neck was injured, ligaments were apt to give way, so that a disk between two vertebrae protruded. The dis- placed disk compressed the sur- rounding nerves and thus set up a neuritis, of which one symptom was a sick headache. If this eplanation was correct, the obvious remedy was to get the protruding disk back into place by strengthening the ligaments and putting them to work. This is ex- actly what Dr. Braaf did. He stretched the neck with a pulley apparatus applied at the back of the head and under the chin for a few minutes. There was no pain. Large doses of vitamin B-1 were also injected to counteract the neu- ritis. Of patients whose neck were stretched at least three times a week for one to two months, 85 per cent reported relief tliat lasted. The results were evaluated on the basis of the frequency, intensity and dur- ation of the attacks liefore and after trcatuieiit. THRIFT New and Useful . . Too . . "Two cents of bicarbonate of scda for indigestion at this time of night." cried the infuriated drug- gist, wlio had been aroused at 2 a.m., "when a glass of hot water would have done just as well!" "Weel, weel," returned McDoug- al. "I thank ye for the advice, and I'll no bother ye after all. Good night!" PSYCHOLOGISTS. studying gorillas at the i!ronx Xoo, found tliem suffering from melancholia and rect>ianu*ndcd that keepers should force themselves to act jolly and so deceive the apes into a state of li.-ippines-^. Brush Handles Handles of new paint brushes won't cake, roughen or blister fing- ers, is claim. Of plastic, handles have chisel tips to remove pits, blisters, holes for stringing. • * • Mows Edges New gasoline-power "Sensa- tion" mower which runs along fences, foundations for close cut- ting, eliminating hand work, says maker. This made possible by switching wheels to forward posi- tion. Front of chassis also folds to expose blades for weed, brush cut- ting. Has 20-inch blade, uses 1.9- h.p. engine, or larger. King Clothespins New circular clothespins fasten clothes to line by finger pressure on "trigger" inside pin. King de- sign enables housewife to clip sev- eral pins on fingers for easy carry- ing, say smaker. Of celanese plastic. « « • Swinging Girl Clock New clocks have girl on swing for pendulum forward and back rather than sideways. Set in re- cess with colored garden. Said to fit into most room interiors; self- starting electric movement; indi- rect lighting. Mantel, wall models. • • ♦ Scientific Boomerang New plastic boomerani; can be thrown by anyone strong enough to throw ball, claims manufacturer. Leading edges beveled to work like ailerons of airplane; flies out al- most horizontally, veers left, re- turns, does a spiral like nutog>'ro while landing. Measures 24 inches, goes up to 100 yards, is bright red for finding if lost; special reversed aileron models for southpaws. King Took Actress To Supper, Then Couldn't Pay Bill How would the famous beauties, the most celebrated actresses of the past, strike us if we could meet them to-day? Would Mrs. Siddons after some coacliing in modern technique, make the same vivid impression on us that sh^ did on her contempor- aries? One who would be, if anything, more of a success to-day than she was in her own time is Nell Gwya. For she was a cockney of cockneys, and the true cockney does not change. Her verve and vitality, quick tongue, devastating honesty, generosity, even her extravagances, would win London's heart to-day m completely as in Restoration times, writes Charles Solomon in 'TitBits' Did She Sell Oamges Next to nothing is known of hei' early life. Even the story that she sold oranges at Drury Lane is pro- bably untrue. Her father may have been a tradesman in Hereford or a soldier in Wales. The first hard fact comes from Nell herself, who admitted in the course of a quarrel with another actress that she had first made her living in somewhat questionable surroundings. Nell v.as contrasting her own faithful- ness to one man with her rival's collection of three or fourâ€" "though I was brought up to fill strong water to the gentlemen and you, a Fresbyter's praying daughter." Nell never pulled lier punches, even in the presence of Royalty. She was once enjoying a busman's I'.oliday, watching a play with an admirer, when they discovered that King Charles himself was in the next bo.x. Charles had already seen Nell on tlie stage. This closer view so enchated him that he in- sisted on taking the couple to sup- per, bringing with him his brother James, Duke of York (afterwards James IIV When the bill for the supper liad to be paid, neither Charles or James had any money and Nell's unhappy admirer had to settle. "OJsfish," cried Nell, "but this is the poorest companj' that ever I was in before at a tavern." It may liave ben her gift for re- partee that so endeared her to Charles â€" himself a very prettj' wit who did not object to being the source of wit in others. Certainly he enjoyed the duels between Nell and her cliief rivel, Laui^j de Kerouaille, the Duchess of Ports- mouth. At one time, when it seemed as if the lovely Duchess of Mazarin might carry off Charles under Louise's nose Nell went into mourning for, as she explained, at the top of her voice, the Duchess of Portsmoutli's ruined hopes. Another of her japes at her rival's expense, wliich also concerned the wearing of niourniug is quoted by Kenehii Foss in his book "Unwed- ded Bliss" â€" a vivid and entertain- ing collection of short biographies vi people who did not marry. It was when Lady Portsmouth, thinking to add to her social stature, put on deep mourning for the death 0*. a princely personage in France to whom she was in no way related. Nell lost no time in exhibiting her- self in public in unrelieved black, burlesquely weeping, explaining to enquirers that she was inconsolable over the passing of the Cham of Tartary. Best of a Queer Bunch Nell was generally a winner in a contest of this sort. But she was no match for Louise in getting what she wanted out of Charles â€" probab- ly because she was not very inter- ested in money for its own sake. She was extravagant but almost recklessly generous. And of all the harpies who surrounded the King she seems to have been the cnly one who was genuinely fond of him. Stopped the Show Nell's reputation as an actress rests chiefly on the diary of Pepys, an enthusiastic and highly critical playgoer. He adored her as a woman and as a comedienne, but was very definite that she could not tackle tragedy. He speaks of "a great and serious part which she does most basely" in the "Indian Emperor." But in "Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen," he says: "Tliere is a comical part done by Nell tliat I can never hooc ever to see the like done again by man or woman." In this play Nell had a dance in boy's clothing that "stopped the show" and set a new fashion â€" all the Court ladies took to wearing male attire. Found Food for Convicts Even if there is no truth in the tradition that Nell was largely re- sponsible for the founding of Chel- sea Hospital, there can be little doubt of her many charities. Highly practical they were, too. Among her other activities, she specialized in providing convicts with food. And very necessary this was, in an age when jailers were responsible only for seeing that their prisoners did not es- cape and not for keeping ti.em fed. Charles must have worried over his NeiJ's lack pf money senjje. For as he lay dying he s4ld to his brother: "Let not poor Nelly- starve." The request was loyally- carried out: but Nell sur^-ived him by only two years more. Even allowing for those rollick- ing days of laxer morals. Nell Gwyn cannot but be called a good woman. But she was a warm- hearted, generous creature, as be- loved by her public as by her Roya! master. Self-control â€" The facial expressioi: of "Tiger," is that of a cat who didn't eat a canary Tiger exercises almost perfect will power as three pet canaries stroll by uiader his nose. He wouldn't touch one of them for the world, but can't quite resist licking his chops. New Mosquito Boats on the way â€" Those liard-hitting, fastdodgiug PT boats of World War II are growing up. Here is a sketch of the new all-metal torpedo boats to join the fleet late this year Much larger than current PTs, the new boats will have greater operating- range, more fire-power and bet ter stability in rough seri.s. BOUFORD