The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-30
Beautiful Ornaments of Gold
Found in Andes.
American Finds He Has Illegally
Voted in England.
HOT ROOM is BAD
Impossible to Secure Pure Air
He Tells LOndOners.
Ideal Temperature Is 81 to 60
Degrees, He Says.

London, Dec. SO.-The gold relics re-
covered from Lake Guatavita, one of
the five sacred lakes of the ancient Inca
kingdom of Chibcha in the Colombian
Andes, have been sold here at an anti
quarian auction. The ornaments, whieh
We're thrown into the lake as offerings
to the divinities supposed to inhabit its
waters, are splendid specimens of the
craftsmanship of the ancient Peru
VANS The most valuable piece was q
breast-plate of pure beaten gold shaped
as a dried hide and embossed with
warriors head. One of the most beau
tifuI pieces was a coiled snake of gold
also contained a statute of the goddess
Chibcha in fine gold and two gold
drinking bowls.
American Votes in England.
Michael Hyams. an American citizen.
has voted for twelve years in England
and it was not until he was elected a
member of the Edmonton Board Of
Guardians that it was discovered that
he owned property in America and was
a naturalized citizen of the United
States. Hyams was born in London
but he spent ten years in America. On
his return to England twelve years ago
he became a householder and as such
has voted continuously since. When he
learned that in the eye of the law he
was still an American citizen he re-
signed from the board and applied for
readmission papers to this country
home office and Hyams will contest for
the vacancy which his resignation made
on the board.
Hot Air Is Not Pure.
DR.. Leonard Hill, who has just COM
pleted a series of remarkable expert
that still air in hot rooms cannot be
kept pure no matter what the system
of ventilation is.
Dr. Hill is a lecturer on physiology
at the London Hospital and for some
time he has devoted himself to the
study of the effect of subterranean
work on human beings. His work en-
phasized the danger of bringing divers
out of the water too quickly and his
suggestions have done much to make
their calling less hazardous
As the result of his most recent ex-
periments DR.. Hill contends that ven
tllatIon is not question of the chem
ical purity of the air, but that the evils
of ill-ventilated rooms arise almost
entirely from their excessive heat and
to certain extent from the offensive
smell.
The ideal temperature for a room in
which numb Der of people are gath
cred is from 81 to so degrees, he says. |
to the rules of the Home
Office only to per thousand of
carbonic acid should be allowed in a |
room. but DR.. Hill states that 20 to |
80 parts per thousand will do no harm |
if the air is kept cool.
Experiment on Students.
The experiments took place in a |
chamber eight feet high and four and /
one-half feet square. In this small |
space DR.. Hill crammed eight healthy |
medical students and sealed them in. /
They remained there half an hour until /
the chamber contained to per cent
Of carbOnic acid and 5 per cent of
oxygen The temperature rose to IS
degrees and as the air became satur- !
ated with moisture the students be-
,ame intensely hot and uncomfortable. I
When they were examined their pulse
showed an acceleratiOn beyond what
Houl1 be normally experienced in a /
cool place. The doctor then set
number of electric fans in the top of
he chamber in motion. The stud ents
n a short time were able to endure
he heat and even to work in COM
Oarative comfort in spite of the close
and the high percentage
IF carbOnic acid in the air. This was
because the air at IS degrees was
cooler than the bodies of the subjects
and while in brisk motion it was suf-
,icient to make them quite comfort
able.
DR.. Hill in his lecture on the result
Of the experiments declared that the |
age of heating houses and trains in |
winter was coddling the race and tend |
ing to break down the natural defen- |
sive mechanism of the body. rendering
it thereby more liable to illness. He
said:
cold air makes us more active to
warm ourselves, makes us do more
breathing and gives us a better ap-
petite. The system is toned up and
we take in more food and oxygen |
Hot dry air dries up the throat, and
makes people prone to infective dis
ease. In America, where they pump |
dry air into their schools, there is a |
very high rate of diphtheria. Instead |
of having artificial methods for kee D. |
ing our rooms hot we ought to have
means for keeping them COOL