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THE DATLY TIMES-GAZETTE, Saturday, August 8, 1908 18 Build, Repair or Remodel Your Home "HOUSE FOR GROWING FAMILY This four-bedroom, 1% storey house should provide the answer to the requirements of a growing family. The simple lines and unbroken roof surface of the design ensure minimum con- struction costs while the upstairs bedrooms could be left unfinished until they are required. compact kitchen arrangement | ate Basement Laundry Can Lighten Washing Tasks Monday morning and the week's accumulation of household laundry ilis always a sad prospect for any housewife. No matter how you look at it, the weekly wash is an unwelcome task. But in this, as in almost any other job, a great deal of the bur- den can be eased by good plan- ing and organization, plus the right equipment to carry it through. And the housewife today certainly has more ways and means to elimin- "'washday weariness" than woman has ever had in the eourse of history. Even so, many women are still 4 | putting up with drudgery on wash- < szoroom jefe ies" A | tampRap say. pom should appeal to the woman of the house. The exterior dimen- sions are 30 feet by 25 feet, four inches. The total floor area is 1,169 square feet and the cubic measurement is 16,680 cubic feet. Working drawings may be obtained from Central Mortgage and Housing Corpora- tion at minimum cost. Desert Rats On Test Lived Eight Weeks Without Water When it comes to getting along without water the desert rat makes the traditionally '"'dry" camel seem like a fish. The camel is popularly supposed to be able to go for a month without a drink. In contrast, the desert rat can get along with- out water for a lifetime according to the results of a study made ublic by Drs. Knut and Bodil Bchmidt- jelsen, a husband wife team of zoologists currently on the faculty of Duke University. The Schmidt-Nielsens, who hold a im fellowships for the study of water metalbolism in ca- mels, have specialized in the in- desert rat can s climates while ing on equally dry foods. sh desert rat," say, "thrives in the driest regions, even Pb the, bare sand dunes of Death alley' Water to drink, even dew, is rarely available in the desert rat's natural habitat. Its food con: « sists of seeds and other dry plant terial. In the daburatory will five with no other food dry "We found that the animal's wa- + ter content is always about the same, about 65 per cent of the weight of its body whether the season is rainy or dry--or if the rat is opt dry food in the la- boratory- weeks on end. During t covering an eight- riod in which the animals were 'on a diet of dry bar- ley, "total amount of water in their bodies shewed an increase. Furthermore, the specimens that were given watermelon as well as barley to eat showed no higher water percentage in their bodies at the end of the test period than animals maintained on a dry diet. Where do these mysterious crea- one week tures get their water? They manu- facture it, according t-o the Schmid Nielsens. Water, as everyone knows is H20--molecules composed of two atoms of hydrogen and one of: oxygen. All living things, plants as well as animals, are madeup largely of hydrocarbons, compound of hydrogen from the carbon in foods such as barley seed and then combining it in the correct pro- portion with oxygen drawn from the atmosphere, the result would be water. That, the Schmidt-Njel- sens discovered, is precisely what the ingenious digestive system of the desert rat does. For every ounce of water--even under the driest conditions. Under normal desert conditions a slight amount of moisture is present, of course, and some of this gets into the seeds. The desert rat does mot waste his precious supply of self-made water, His remarkable kidneys say the Schmidt-Nielsens, can handle relatively huge amounts of salts and the concentration of urea in his urine can rise as high as 24 per cent, whereas in man the maxi- mum is about 6 per cent. More- over, the desert rat does not spend his water supply for cooling his body by evaporation. A mammal such as man avoids overheating only by evaporating large quantities of water, 'but the desert rat cannot do this." Nor can it tolerate a body temperature much more than 100 degrees. It does not sweat or increase 'evap- oration by panting like a dog does. If it were exposed to the daytime heat in the desert, it would soon perish. The adaptions that permit it to thrive in the hot desert are its nocturnalhabits (it spends its daytime hours underground) and its' extraordinary facilities for wat- er conservation. Carved Ornaments Out Of Mammoths VICTORIA (CP)--Dick Diment works with ancient mastadon ivory, old and 'black diamonds" jewelry, but regards him- self as a machinist rather than a + jeweler. Most of his product is « sold in the Yukon, where he for- merly lived. ' He began teaching himself the 'unusual vocation when he was in charge of Dawson City's utilities in 1935. His hobby began paying and he opened a shop Dawson with ;his wife, Margaret, as manager. "Ti the war came along and there was terrific activity," he said. I supplied service men with fouvenir of the far north." : t 'sought-after were brooches, garring and 'pendants carved from Canad 4 ivory. After setting up shop in Victoria he centred his business around the ivory and has many chunks of the heavy, ancient 'bone in his little factory. It is lestimated the ivory is at east 50,000 years old. It is cut from huge tusks of the extinct .mastodons, thrown up by gold dredges working the creeks and . rivers of the Yukon. "If I could get the tusks when dug up, I could take care of rly. When tusks are 'them . IONDON (CP) -- The chairman "of a British cement company, George Earle, suggested in a let- ter to a mewspaper that business 'devote 10 per cent of their welfare expenditure to raising the salaries ; of clergymen of all denominations. ONTARIO FLOOR SANDERS OLD FLOORS REFINISHED WALL AND FLOOR TILE SUPPLIED AND LAID DIAL 3.7251 Ee. allowed #0 dry normally, they crack." Also popular are Alaska black diamond items, actually tinstone or cassiterite, glittering like tiny black mirrors. days that could be greatly eased by concentrating their work into a properly planned and equipped laundry room. IDEAL LOCATION In houses. where there is base- ment plumbing, this is till the ideal location for the home laundry, out of the way of the rest of the house, normally within easy access of the garden and usually with space available for an indoor drying area. Modern psychology is just begin- ning to teach us how much our work is affected by the surround- ings in which it is carried out. As a result, we now know that work done in bright, cheerful surround- ings, plus rha little musical backgrond, is no longer as onerous as it once was. And so, in planning the base- ment laundry, make light and brightness a prime consideration. Basement windows are usu small, but even so try, if possible to locate the wash-tubs under one of them. Use bright paints for de- coration, and suspend a good light over the tubs. GOOD TUBS BASIC Good laundry tubs are basic equipment for the laundry room. Porcelain or vitreous enamel are both available in double or single tub models. They are easy to keep clean, and their gleaming white surfaces add to the bright, sani- tary appearance of the room. The double tub, fitted with a swivel tap and retractable rubber \hose and spray is an invaluable aid to an easy wash day. Tubs and washing machine are the main equipment of the room. A ries should include a table for sorting and damping down, shelving or a cupboard for soaps, cleansers etc., and, if room per- mits, lines or racks for drying. Some housewives prefer tg con- fine the entire operation to one room, in which case an ironing board must be added. When hav- ing the room set up, make ade- quate provision for electric outlets to take care of iron, washing ma- chine, dryer, portable radio and any similar appliances that may help lighten the washday tasks. HOT WATER SUPPLY Pehaps the most important ac- cessory of all, certainly the one on which the rest depend, is the hot water heater. Without a reli- able supply of really hot water, got laundering, is an impossibil- ty. Few people know what is ade- quate either in temperature or quantity when it comes to hot wat- er. But these figures from ' the Canadian Institute of Plumbing and Heating will give some idea of what you require in a water heater. 1 A temperature of 160 to 165 de- grees must be maintained at the water outlet of heater or tank to give water in the wash-tubs or washing machines hot enough to wash linens really clean, says the Institute. They point out also that the average washing machine uses some 12 gallons of hot water for washing and 6 gallons for rinsing per operation. Automatic laundry machines use even more, from 20 to 30 gallons of hot water in a per- jod of half an hour to one hour. So it's really essential to the suc- cess of the laundry room to install a good water heater, designed to take care of all these needs in ad- dition to jhe pormal hot water re- quir Once Mighty Oil Town Now Dusty, Empty Shell By FRED ZUSY ABADAN (AP)--It has been-two years since Iran started going it alone in the oil business. Grass doesn't grow in the streets of this oil capital. It's too hot and dry for grass to survive. But it's a ghost town, just the same. British oil men closed the last valve at the wells and shut down the world's largest refinery as the clock struck midnight July 31, 1951. A couple of 'months later, the staff of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. pulled out entirely, .unable to withstand the pressure from a na- tionalization-minded government. With. its departure, Abadan and its refinery wonderland of vats, stills and odd-shaped pipe coils turned into a lonely, quiet city. In the old days, the palm-lined Shatt-El-Arab river, where Tigris and Euphrates wed for the journey into the Persian gulf, was a busy noisy roadstead for tankers carrying oil all over the world. They pulled alongside the jetties at a rate of six or seven a day, carrying away each year about 32, 000,000 tons of gasoline and oil. The traffic stopped in a day, after Iran demanded that tanker the | industry limping along. When the stacks, with tongues of flame lick- ing at the sky, making fuel for the world. British engineers huilt Abadan from a swamp to a city of 250,000 during 40 years of operation. It hasn't changed much on the sur- face. The nationalized oil company sees that lawns, hedges and palm trees are watered. It also goes through a maintenance routine for refinery equipment. There are still 30,000 laborers on the payroll, the same as under British management. But there is work for less than a third. Thou- sands more in the oil fields have nothing to do, but they also get paid. Today, reliable informants say, it costs Iran about $1,500,000 a month to keep its nationalized oil British company was runni things, Iran received about $7,000 000 a month in royalties and other benefits. NEW SIRENS FOR PEG WINNIPEG (CP)--Installation of 20 new air raid sirens in Greater Winnipeg within the next fortnight Al Cresta's eyebrows go up as he puts a ruler on the kingsize mushroom he found growing in a Philadelphia park. The big fungus measured 22 inches across and weighed 40 pounds. If Mr. WHAT, OUT OF EARTH, IS IT? Cresta looks slightly woebegone, it may be that he's merely pin- ing for a steak to match his mushroom--a record, at least until someone produces one larg- Central Press Canadian Life On Farm Unsullied By Any Politics PETERBOROUGH (CP) -- It's enough to bring tears to the eyes of a campaign-hardened politico. And after all that money spent on electioneering, too. Here's the story vouched for by Johnny James, Liberal candidate in Dur- ham. He stopped in a remote section of his riding and handed a farmer his printed card containing the Lib- eral slogan, but not his name or pawl. farmer looked at the card. "And what's your party my good man," he said. "The Liberal party," said the candidate. . "Liberal, eh?" said the farmer. "Well, you know, all my life I've voted Conservative but this time I think I'll switch to the Liberals." "That's fine," said the candidate. "Yup," continued the farmer, "I'm going to vote Liberal this time. Those dang Conservatives have been in too long." PLANE CRASHES, PILOT OK CENTRALIA (CP)--A Harvard training plane from RCAF station, Centralia, on a routine training flight, made a forced landing Thursday five miles south of Cen- tralia just off No. 4 Highway. Cause was engine failure. Fit.-Lt. K. R. Stacey, the pilot, walked away uninjured. AJAX HICKORY ST. is expected to provide the city captains sign receipts pr payment to the National Iranian Oil Company instead of Anglo- Iranian. For about a week there was confusion. Nearly 50 tankers piled up. Then one day they all left--empty. The Shatt-El-Arab became a shimmery, empty ribbon of water under a baking sun. Ships now are scarce indeed, In 23 months since nationalization, less than 100,000 tons of oil has been delivered to small Italian tankers and to a Japanese tanker which made two trips. That's all. At night, you can see the lone flare of waste gas burning over the sprawling refinery. Iran is running the equipment at about five per cent of capacity, just enough to fill its own needs. Once the re- finery was a forest of belching with an air attack warning system comparable to that of any Cana dian city of similar size, civil de- fence officials said Thursday. LUMBER co. WHITBY Russian Thistle (Salsola kali), also known as Russian Tumble- weed and Russian Cactus, is a week that has probably migrated from Russia to the prairie prov- inces of Canada and is now- continu- ing its travels eastward through Ontari > 0. This weed which looks like a cactus and has spines like a thistle, also breaks off at its base and blows about like a tumble- weed. Hence the various names by which it is known. The plant is bushy, dark green in color with narrow, spine-tipped leaves which drop off in July or August as the plant and seed ma- tures. One plant will produce hun- dreds of seeds but they are only dislodged when the plant breaks off and is blown about by the wind. Western farmers with their large fields find Russian Thistle a real menace. Ontario, with its small MISTREATED PET DOG OAKVILLE (CP)--Mrs. Marjorie Taylor, 45, was convicted Thursday of cruelty to animals and remanded a week for sentence after witnes- ses told of seeing her try to strangle her small dog, throw it against a tree several times and finally dash it to the ground. The dog suffered severe shock, but no broken bones or internal injuries. Russian Thistle A Troublesome Invader. fields, numerous fences and lack of high winds, has not provided the weed with too much encour- agement. However, it manages to increase a bit each year and is steadily becoming a problem to farmers. 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