Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-27

CUP COIl ee-nO CIedIIl vi sugar..
be unhealthy since plant inspira-
ton was the opposite OF ours
and the plants gave of oxygen
and took in carbon dioxide while
we took in oxygen and gave off
carbon dioxide.
I STAND corrected by the
L courtesy OF Miss Jane Baker
Of the science class at the
Gabriel Richard School, Crosse
Pointe, Mich.
She writes me:
"Your answer didn't make
clear that during sunlight hours
green plants use carbon dioxide
and sunlight to make their food
or chIorophyII: this process be-
ing photosynthesis.
However, at night plants
carry on respiration using OK
ygen and exhaling carbon dioxide
as we do.
isn't this the important rea-
son for taking out plants from
patients rooms:
1T seems to me, IL the plants
presented allergic stimuli. they
would be kept out of the room
permanently"
Miss Baker is entirely right
and | am very grateful TO her.
/ confess l did not know this
fact about the day and night
inspiration OF plants at all.
/ feel very much as did Doc
tor johnson when somebody
asked him why he made a boner
in one Of the definitions in his
dictionary.
He replied:
Ignorance, Madam. pure ig-
nOrance."
THE following question was
Il sent by a reader:
II have read of a man who IL
able voluntarily to make the
small hairs on his arms stand
up. Ia this possible ?"
Each hair has a small muscle
attached 10 il in such a fashion
that when the muscle contracts
the hair stands up. In common
parlance, goose flesh.
The action is involuntary and
the muscle is of the kind that is
called involuntary or not under
the control of the will.
Still. in certain animals the
action is voluntary--for instance,
the cockatoo can raise the feath-
ers on top of its head. and the
mechanism is the same.
One actual case in man is
recorded. DR.. Donald d. Lindsay
showed a motion picture before
the American Psychological As
ISOLATION which showed a man
who could raise the hair on his
arms whenever he wanted 10.
Not only that. he can get into
a cold shower and keep the
goose flesh from coming up. He
discovered he could do this when
he was 10 years old.
I IKE most people who discover
~ they have some peculiar
ability when they are young. he
probably constantly practiced it.
We all have the rudiments of
little muscles that could po-
tentially move the ears.
In the lower animals these
are, of course, well developed
but in most of us they are COM
pletely atrophied.
But every once in a while YOU
find some one who has devel-
oped them.
The Empress Maria Louise
could move her ears at will and
even fold them up.
II was one OF the great dis
fractions at court and Napoleon
would hasten TO the salon when
ever the Empress felt in the
mood TO give an exhibition.
QUESTIONS, ANSWERS
A. FL have been told that
I have Vitamin X deficiency.
What foods contain Vitamin K?
1 have been taking Kayquinone
tablets. How much Vitamin X
should one take?
Answer-It is generally be-
lieved that the artificial, syn
thetic chemical products such as
Kayquinone tablets which con-
tain Vitamin X are better than
the natural foods which contain
il, such as the grasses and green
vegetables.
The amount OF Vitamin X
which is needed depends upon
the level of prothrombin in the
blood and this can only be deter
mined by laboratory test. so
1t is unwise 10 take ii except
4 Under a doCtor'e cara