The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

possess over wooden flooring. tan imDor-
tant advantage consists in the absence of
joints, whereby Accommodations of dust,
vermin and fungi dangerous 10 health are
done away with. The new paper floors
are bad conductors of heat and sound,
and, in spite of their hardness, have a
hnoleum-like soft feel to the foot. The
cost is considerably lower than that of
floors made of hard wood The paper mass
receives a small addition of cement as
binder, and is shipped in bags in powder
form. The mass is stirred into a stiff
paste. spread out on the floor, pressed
down by means of rollers and painted with
lakewood, nutwood or mahogany color,
after drying.
Switzerland offers an example in the
way of adjusting railroad fares that is
worthy of attention, says the New York
Post. BY a new arrangement, beginning
June !, tourists or commercial travellers
Tor others can now secure for an absurd
ly small sum what amounts practically to
a free pass over the Swiss railways and
steamboats,. Tickets good for fifteen days
cost $l2 first class, $40 second and $6
third, and allow holders to travel over any
or all of these routes as often as they
please. For thirty days the tickets cost
$40, $l4, or so for the different classes;
for three months $4S, $S4, and $24; for six
months $76 $54, and $3S; for one year $120,
S4, and $50 respectively. Mountain rail-
ways, are of course not included. Two
weeks suffice to get a glimpse of the prin-
cipal parts of Switzerland, and it can now
be done for Sc. Every ticket must have
the owners photograph on it.
The effect of the reflection powers of
various colors and characters of surfaces
is not sufficiently appreciated, says ]. c.
Thompson in paper prepared by him.
Where the lighting is of necessity eco
nomical it makes a great difference
whether the ceiling, walls and furni-
ture reflect 50 per cent. or whether they
reflect 10 per cent. of the light they re-
ceive. Offices, workshops, school rooms,
lecture halls, etc, therefore, should be
finished in the lighter and warmer colors
i'll order that a minimum of light may
DE necessary for their proper Illumination.
The following list of colors, with the re-
spective properties in percentage of incl
dent to reflected light, will make this point
clear: Black velvet, GA per cent; black
cloth, IL; deep chocolate, 40; black paper,
As; dark blue, 60 dark green, 1O.1; dark
brown, 1870; bright Fed, 1872; dirty yellow,
200; dark brown, 9 2; white, sandstone
30; blue paper, $50; yellow cardboard,
500; straw yellow, 34.4; yellow paper or
paint, 400; green paper, 46 5; yellow paper,
900; gray paper, 500; Hght-colored wood,
500; bright yellow paper, 500; light orange
paper, 4.8; white paper, 100; freshly-fall-
en- snow, $50: whitewashed ceiling so. 0;
dead white 500; white blotting paper,
$40; mirror, $50; white cardboard, 1913.
Some little while ago a sensational
item went the rounds in which it was as
serted that DR.. Schenk, director of the En-
theological Institute, Vienna had found
or thought he had found a means by
which the sex of a child could be deter
mir ar,A hot a1,,,
words, matron could come to know, more
or less certainly, whether her future prog
eny would be male or female, SAYS the st
Louis Globe-Democrat. DR.. Schenk has
now published book wherein the outcome
of genuine and careful scientific inquiry
extending over many years is set forth
While the experiments are given in detail
DR.. Schenk gives in a single sentence what
he regards as their actual teaching: IF
a woman die;ed according to a specific
method, she can reach a stage in which
she becomes sexualiy superior to a man,
and her offspring will then be made" At
the basis of the theory dwelt upon is the
generally admitted fact that sex is largely
determined by the nature of the aliment
enjoyed by the parents. and especially by
the female. Dr. Schenk's actual words
are: The result depends to a great ex-
tent both upon the diet chosen and upon
whether 1t mas been rightly chosen to suit
the organism" DR.. SChenk also states
as product OF his experience that when
there has been an excessive predominance
OF female offspring it has always been ac-
companied by a more or less large saccha-
rine element In the system. On the other
hand, in case where that clement has nv
strict dietary. been eliminated the off
spring has been male d.. Scbenk asserts
definitely that cit Is nossible undar cey-
tain circumstances. to procrra male nroq-
eny by means of the influence v1e have t1-
dicated," but lie adds: THE wish n ba1-a
female progeny is a desire for the oratie
cation of which Il is NOT at nrasent rassi
BILE to give any ,l;rcCtIors ;, Po7S'
FRANKLIN A. Young, in very SUCCESS
tive paper, seeks to show that some Of tho
modern war methods or, u,hf,,, ~. -
has been tanoht To Iol5 nc pubic
fdence have a coronara tia1, -, -
ara of ef+5c;ercIy sa,ls ~ c,t Nv o 70,
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