The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-08-02

The charming Dean Nicholson
Of Smith College has turned from
her interest in English literature
to compose such stimulating es.
says as THE Microscope and the
Imagination" and "The Telescop,
and the Imagination"
Euclid Was Creative
There is, to those of US whit
have labored in the vineyards o.
science and the history of science
a certain condescension in the at
titude of the humanists. With 1
patronizing air of establishment
they realize that Euclid was quit
as creative as Shakespeare.
Apropos there is the reply Pro
fessor Cope made to the young
man who asked him what use the
putting together Of the skeleton
of the dinosaur was. Friend
replied the Quaker professor with
some asperity, "thee do not ask
the poet TO write bills of lading OF
the painter to whitewash fences
Do you expect the abstract scien.
fist to invent a patent churn?
The young man was outraged that
"a grubber among fossils shoulc
dare to put himself in the SAINT
class with George Moore and Rud
yard Kipling."
Aesthetic Fascination of Science
so science has its purely aes-
thetic fascination, too. l know a
man who is the student of a dis
ease which afflicts on the average
of one out of 100000 persons !;
furthermore, it is hereditary,
fatal and entirely beyond the
reach of treatment. He has seen
only three cases in his life, but
whenever he hears Of another one,
even if only a possibility, he packs
his kit and starts, his eyes, mean
while, filled with a holy light.
Another scientist, if you will,
long ago became obsessed to know
about the rites attending the OBJ
stetrics of whales. He recently re-
turned from the Antarctic and
gulled some reporter into an
nouncing as the valuable discov-
cry" Of the trip the revelation that
male whales were not monoga-
nous, that they had sweethearts
in every port. No! Science has
revelations which hold us only be-
cause, like the Cathedral of Or
veto or the songs in "Cymbeline,"
they are terribly beautiful and
utterly useless.
Vacation Diet for URderweight
The underweight is thin because
he usually has very little appetite.
He has to work just as hard to eat
without appetite as the overweight
has to work not to eat with an
appetite. Note that these meals
begin with an appetizer - fruit,
thin soup or beer, which here has
its place in the dietary if any
where.
Breakfast: Grapefruit; oatmeal
with cream and sugar; hot bis
cults with honey and butter; glass
half milk and half cream.
Midmorning: Cottage cheese;
toast.
Lunch: Bouillon; creamed chick
en- on toast; endive salad with
French dressing; chocolate custard
with whipped cream; 2 whole
wheat mullins with butter; glass
milk.
Mid-afternoon: Glass half milk
and half cream.
Dinner: Beer; Q poachcd eggs
on mashed potatoes; buttered lima
beans; lettuce salad with dress
ing; entire wheat bread with but
ter; apple tart; coffee with cream.
Evening: Eggnog.
Approximate value-4,OOo CAL
cries.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
R. S.: "In all of the advertise
ments of vitamins l have never
seen Vitamin C mentioned. l have
seen Vitamins A, B, G and d tab
let's, but not c. What is the reason
for this?"
Answer: Vitamin c does not 20
into tablet form well. 1t loses it.
potency when heated. That is
probably why it is not advertised
except by food product firms.