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...treatment for paresis, and that fever caused by scarlet fever, pneumonia or an abscess usually gave temporary relief to people suffering from asthma, Dr. Samuel Maurice Feinberg & associates of Chicago tried out artificial fevers on their asthmatic patients, got good results. Their method is to anoint the patient thoroughly, wrap him in blankets and electric heating pads, cook him for about eight hours at 104?...
...pictures on separate sheets of paper and fix his attention on each in turn. Meanwhile, at a safe distance, percipient Mrs. Sinclair would let her mind "go blank" until she felt knowledge stirring within her. Then she would draw what she felt her husband had drawn. Sometimes he would wrap his drawings in opaque green paper before he put them in envelopes. In such cases he would sit by Mrs. Sinclair while she felt the stuffed envelopes and perceived their contents clearly enough to draw a sketch...
...years replace canned foods in city kitchens. Machines have been perfected to bring this about, Charles Walter Thomas told a Manhattan assembly of mechanical engineers. The machines remove 90% or so of water from the foods (leaving them in a compact, dry condition), remove oxygen (which helps spoil foods), wrap and hermetically seal the dried products. When thus dehydrated, carrots or spinach are reduced to one-tenth of their volume weight, but when again watered cannot be detected from those taken fresh from the garden...
Feverish bustle, anxious conjecture filled Buckingham Palace on election day this week. Outside, London wallowed in a yellow pea-soup fog. Below stairs, Royal scullery, parlor and chamber maids made no secret of their voting intentions as they hustled into bonnet and wrap, groped in a body out the fogbound back gate. Two footmen, the Palace womenfolk considered, were the only possible waverers. They had expressed Socialist opinions at the height of a servants' ball last year, but not since. One of these very footmen brought to the Royal study the latest newspapers for which George V repeatedly buzzed...
...preparatory school art collection: Andover's Addison Gallery of American Art, now installed in its new Georgian building. In the nine sky-lit gallery rooms are some 100 U. S. paintings valued at $1,500,000. Among them: three Winslow Homers, George Wesley Bellows' Anne in Purple Wrap and Dempsey-Firpo Fight (lithograph). James Abbott McNeill Whistler's Battersea Bridge, works of Abbott Thayer, Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, Arthur B. Davies, Julian Alden Weir, John Singer Sargent, William Merritt Chase, Frank Weston Benson, and many another modern; Early American works by Gilbert Stuart, John Trumbull, Benjamin West...