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" State Without Written Laws Fascinating to D. C. Scientist People of Andorra Are Y Living by Customs of Middle Ages. Each Family Sufficient to Itself, Says M. W. Stirling. © M. W. Stirling. aid in the division 6f ethnology. National Museum. has Gompleted a study of the inhabitants af the semi-independent state of An- @orra, Burope's most primitive people. The Washington scientist found the 4, territory of gr value to the eth- nologist, because there the customs and usages of the middle ages still function almost without change. The difficulty of access to these mountain peoples hitherto has kept them out of the range of American scientific explorers. Although Mr. Stirling’s trip was primarily for the purpose of studying remains of paleo- lithic man in Fiance and Spain. he found his attention diverted in Andorra to the living people rather than to their long-dead predecessors in the land No Written Laws. The state has no written laws. T I government is vested in twe 1s. one nominated by F e and e other Ly the bishop of Urgel in Serious crimes and important in dis are brought before for trial. Their decisions are according to the con i Mr. Stirling found the wation of a country where sufficient unto itself. its own produce. al and makes own clothing. The rmi Kousehold implements are pract the as those used in the of Charlemagne government by fami- is divided into six with a local council heads of the promi- them nd cally in days parishes, each chosen from the he study of southern France sibflities. Mr pales man fers boundle irling found Way Found to Gas Poi northern | MATHEW W. STIRLE of the stone age—miles rock rich in deposits which been touched previously To Study Indian Graves. With the completion of this study Mr. Stirling will leave Washington in a few days for South Dakota. where a number of graves of early have been reported to the will make an intensive study ¥ o Washinzton had not « number of tifie have been dire the Indian rem n the middle and southwest. the Dakota deposils ceived little attention Efforts will magde to trace, from the scattered bones and relics the South Dakota Indians 1o the tribes which known to have in- habited other of the conti- nent at approximately the same period and thus throw further light an migrations and of the Indian people | " aie” Stivling's explorations are di- recied by Dr. Walter Hough, the department sections Dia 1gnose tsomn g at Once Scientists of Bureau of| Mines Solve Hard Problem. Pigment Standards Used to Tell Condition of Patient. A new aneous diagnosis, quantitative, o poisoning has b R. R. Yant, of min Its against error the means of future. where would be fa The em s w0 des physician, (ho far re laboratory, can or fifteen’ minutes whether or not a patient exhibiting the symptoms of ¢ bon monoxide poisoning is really fering from this cause, and if S whaf extent the gas has gained acee to his blood Chemical lahoratories taining no with water, treated with for almost both qualitative carbon worked ou and W |,|.,»m method stan- and monoxide |u Sayers, chief surgeo assistant ¢ of the Almost pre n may be s in the urac the many nd syst viny ned that a from a ne within ten well that car monoxide one twenty, will, when « solution of tannic acid, produce @ brownish gray suspension. When. however, carbon monoxide fs present, the suspension will be a car- yine red shade of red varles ording to the quantity of gas pres- ent and is a definite shade for a defi- nite per cent « By preparing standard spe ns wing various percentages of saturat . Tabor; can quickly determine the condition of a sufferer's blood by comparison with a sample drawn from his veins. Work Out Plgments, Dr, Savers and Mr. realizin the-need for some method which could he used by any physiclan and whic would be always ready for his instant caM; have worked out a series of pig- ments of the proper shade and gradua- labeled as to per cent of carbon saturation, and these, with known in blood co diluted tests, dis long EGGS OF GIANT SIZE. Hens From Manchuria, Crossed ‘With Leghorns, Lay Them. From the New York World Hens' eggs averaging mearly twice the ordinary size are now produced by xome queer-looking chickens on the ranch of William Stubbs. in Washing- ton state. pe of hig egg pro- ducers has resulted in the successful crossing of the well known Leghorn b with imported fowls from South | Manchuria A species of hen and Manchuria was Tnited States consul capabie of laving eggs of which five 1o six weighed a pound. The largest Ameri- can eggs average more than seven to a pound, the ordinary nine and the common about ten The Manchurian hens brought to Washington state last summer were mated with pure blooded Leghorn roosters and the resulting esgs hatched. The imported hens ave black and the Leghorn is white, and some of the chicks have Llack feathers. First to Use Wall Papers. {From the New York Sm. Although wall papers are of Chinese origin, the Chinese them- selves never used them as wall papers and only Jduring recent years began, iike the Hindoos, to imitate a fashion set by Europeans. The origin of the Suropean wall papers is found in the Chinese paintings on paper taken to Europe in large quantities in the seventeenth century. There paintings are mounted by the Chinese on- long Follers and hung around the walls of a room as temporary but never as permanent decorations. 4 P*Wall paper is & European develop- ment _of the elghteenth century tarted by the vogue of Chinese paper paintings. When the Europeans Degan 'to attach papers permanently {0 walls, and use them as all-over decorations, and to have papers paint. ed to order in China and block printed fn Europe, wallpaper had been in- vented. Before that wallpapers did not exist. Previously the papers used to decorate walls were separate pic- tures, not uniike the American water color drawings, engravings and prints of today. ' in by the A Few Years Hence. From the Birmingham Age-Herald. The business man, detained in Can- +fon, China, radios his wife in Ala- ba won't be home until £:30 o'clock.” “All right,” says she, “bring home & bucket of chop suey’ and then we can drive up to the north pole in the cool of the evening.” la 1 - China | white and { | | i | i > | | | DR. R. Chief Surgeon, simple almo R. SAYERS, Bureau of Mines. apparatus, can be worked mechanically, requiring merely an ability to distinguish bet ween shades A physician suspecting the poisoning in a patient, need only draw a tenth of # cubic centimeter of blood -from the fingertlp of his patient, dilute it with water and treal it with a prepared mixture of tannic and pyrogallic aclds, tand then a few minutes wai while the precipitation is taking place, | compare with the sample, and his | diagnosts is sure and accurate. i Poisoning Frequen i ditions -caus carbon &, such combus- Ition in gas engines, incomplete co bustion in stoves, furnaces, and in con- flagraiions in mines, forests. buildin [in fact. anywhere that carbon-contain- {ing substances may burn in the ab- sence of a supply of oxygen sufficient to make on complete, it is evi- dent poisoning may be more or less frequent With sure knowledge of poisoning a physician would be enabled to proceed with the proper treatment and effect cures where delays of several hours pending & laboratory test would be fatal. So many " monoxide poison as The printed crepe dress sketched-is a copy of new French Model. $56 Priced at ... Incorporated 1747 Rhode sislani Avenue and miles of Indians museum. | of late have the relationship of developments | head of THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, JUNE 3, 1923—PART. 2. ERECTION OF NEW JEWISH HOME AND HOSPITAL The mew Hebrew Home for th Aged. and Hosptial, ¢ afternoon, June 10, at 3 o'clock. at Spring road between 10th and 13th streets. With the laying of the corner stone of the new Hebrew Home for the | Aged, and Hospital, which is to take place at 2:30 o'clock next Sunday at Spring road between 10th and 13th | streets, a number of local Jews have | seen crowned with success the ef-| forts that they have been continually making since 1914, The home and hospital buildings will be erected on a four-and-a-half- {acre tract and every effort is being made to make them medels of their |kind. One hundred and seventy-six thousand dollars was raised as the result of a drive conducted last year under the leadership of Mrs. Charles | A mith, and with this sum as a nucleus the building project will be | undertaken at an early date The | two buildings will each be three sto- | |ries high and connected by an closed gallery. They will include the last word in home and hospital plan- {ning and construction Will Have Fifty Rooms. The Home for the Aged will con- |tain Afty rooms, each large and airy: refectories. sun parlors and a larg synagogue and assembly hall with a seating capacity The hospital will contain fift and, while connected in management with the Hebrew. Home for the Aged, will be | rictly non-sectarian All possible means will be taken w0l ‘mdkg the hospital modern in ever. {way." Ample oporating room. labora- |tories, diet kitchen. a completely { equipped emergency ard and all {other facilities will be provided. The plans for construction and equip- Gol in- | Smithsonian Man Brings Many Varieties Never Few Can Be Transplanted In U. S.. Says Scientist Who Found Them. more than 2,000 many not previously known to science—have been brought back to Washington by Paul G Standley, who has returned from an expedition into the jungles of Salva- dor. undertaken under the direction of the National Herbarium of the Smithsonian Tnstitution. Mr. Stand- ley spent five months in Salvador and one month in Nicaragua. During this time he ventured into considerable almost inaccessible territory in his researches 1 The majority of these plants, Mr. Standlay says. can have no economic | significance outside of Salvador itself, | since they are practically untrans- plantable, but the collection i& one of the most considerable additions to science yet received in this depart- | ment, which operates in co-operation with the United States Department of Agriculture. Brings Tmabora Tree. { Among the most interesting speci- mens brought back was the tmabora tree. From the seeds of this species is derived an oil which is used by the people of that country extensively both for {lluminating and cooking. Another was the Salvadoran balsam. Specimens of va- rieties of plants AN exceedi with the accurate and monuments, Washington. Replete with excellently | THE INMATES OF THE PRESENT ment have been compiled under the upervision of Dr. Harry Lewis. who been appointed chief of staff of hospital Site of Present Home. The present home Is at 415 M street northwest. whére there are nineteen whose ages average seventy It was purchased in 1914 a movement was started by Bernard Danzansky to estabiish such a home. Mr. Danzansky, together with Milton Leinson. Simon’ Atlas. Rabbi Silverstone. Marcus Korman, lssac Weisenberg. S. Kaitlin. M. Relchgut, ssac Miller. Reuben Rosenberg and Harry Cohen. met and plans were formulated which were approved at a mass mee some time later, the Ladies” Auxil Society joining in the movement Ruilding Rented. The building the ry 2 ,000 Plant Specimens Brought To D. C F rom Salvador J ungles PAUL G. STANDLEY. known in early history as the balsam of Peru. Its product formerly con- stituted one of the chief exports of the little Central American republic— being highly valued both for medicl- nal and religious purposes. It is used as the oil with which foreheads of worshippers are anointed in Catho- e church services—a special bull of the Pope having been issued at one time to make its emplovment by clergy of the western hemisphere legal Mr. Standley's collection includes a large number of orchids, with which the jungles of Salvador abound These constitute the most interesting feature of the entire lot from the scientific po'nt of view, because few of them havs aver been introduced in the United States. They can grown only In hothouses here ENTS ngly handsome volume published thought of presenting in an artistic. interesting manner the prominent memorials and public buildings of double-tone sepia printed pictures from selected photographs by Harris & Ewing, suitable for framing. The pictyres of the Presidents, with the exception of those of Mr. Wilson graphs made from of House. and Mr. Harding, are from photo- il paintings that hang in the White From cover to cover, a carefully executed and highly desirable souvenir that will be treasured alike by visitor and friends at the home. Price, boxed for mailing, $3.00. Boxed and Mailed to Any Address in the United States Without Charge R. P. Andrews Paper Co. 727-731 Thirteenth St. N.W. (Between G and H Streets) be | HOME, THEY WIL rented and six inmates were ad- mitted. their ages ranging between seventy and ninety-one. Three these first inmates are now living. | buzaar was held at the grounds the home later i 1916 the building through a campaign In 1917, on retire zansky. Morris Garfinkle became | president of the organization having {ihe affairs of the home in Its hands. | After “consideration. a committee headed by Mr. Danzansky and sup- | ported by Mr. Garfinkle. Mr. Hayman Mr. Reichgut and & number of Jew ish doctors reported a growing senti- { ment in favor of the establishment o | a Jewish home and hospital in Wash { ington was purchased ent of Mr Present Site Purchased. Under the presidenc: in the spring of 1922, & num- were called upon lo assist in deter- mining the advisability of the pur- chase of ground for the erection of the proposed home The plot at Spring road was then purchased at & ,500. The undertaking re- ceived from the start a hearty co- | operation from all the Jews in \Wash- ington. A carnival was held on the grounds. as & result of which $10,000 was raised A drive for the proposed home and hospital was undertaken in October of 1 Under the chairmanship of | Mrs. arles Goldsmith the campaign committee inaugurated the _driv with a_mass meeting at the Eighth Street Temple, at which $80,000 was | pledged. After a campaign of four | weeks an additional $96.000 was se- loured, making the total $176.000. Among those who took an active part in the drive were Dr. Abram Simon, Mrs. Charles Goldsmith, Alexander Wolf, Maurice Rosenberg and Dr. G. Silverstone. - Ceremony Sunday. Rudolph Behrend is chairman of the building committee. The corner stone ceremony, which will take place next Sunday at 3:30, will be under the direction of the corner stone laying committee. which is composed of Alexander Wolf. chairman: Harry For more than thirty —and today all Was Dealing. One Beautiful Blue - white Diamond, a brilliant_and accu- rately cut stone, weighing just T 3 One Exceptionally Brilliant Blue-white Diamond, beauti- fully cut, weighing 1 and 5-100 carats, or 5 points more than one full carat. 495 Adoiph Kahn, Pres. | |8 of | the vear and in|William Le Dan- | | treasurer; | trustee; Charle: of Harry, !D. | man. 31 Years at 935 F St BUILDINGS SCHEDULED TO BEGIN NEXT SUNDAY Maurice Rosenberg, Simon Dr. Harry Lewis, Mrs. \dsmith, Mortimer King. 8yd. M. Garfinkle, Bernard Lansburgh and Mrs. herby, Hirshman, Charles € jey Sellinger, Danzansky. The the me are: rfinkle. tein, se | third" vice and directors of Sherby, president: M. vice ~president. M. president; A. Stern, fdent: M. Relchgut A. Shefferman, finan- Mra. J. aminsky. Charles Goldsmith, 8. Frank, trustee; trustee: Jack M. Goldsmith, officers H f nd v pr Rev secretary; hairman: L. Raboy, publicity Board of directors are: Three-vear term. Dr. H. Lewis, Mrs. C. Gold- mith. A. Wolf, Mrs. Joseph King. Dr. A. Simon, Sol. Lansburgh, Mrs. R. B. H yon, M. King, Charles hwartz. M .. Levy: two-year rm. Jack M ldsmith, §. Gans, M Rosenberg. A. Backenheimer., A. Kahn, H. Schrott. R. B. Behren, Danzansky, S. M. Selinger, | uels: one-year term. M. Sacks. M. Mazo, B. Hayvman, Mrs. M. H. Fried- M. 8. Cohen. 8. V. Gusack, 1 Kirkstein, G. Levy, Mrs. G. P. Stein Board members chosen from Social Club, S. Galblum, Minnie Hutt, R Truff: Ladies' Auxiliary, Mrs. H. Sherby, Mrs. Oxenburg, Mrs. Silver- berg Same Leisure Class. From the American Legion Weekly The Nuriches had made fortune out of the war and. anxious (o do every- thing that the rest of the millionaires did. bought a country place on Long Island and set up an aristocratic chicken farm. A woman friend who was visiting them one day exclaimed in_delight “Goodness. ens What beautiful chick- * agreed the hostess haughtily, “all_prize birds." “Wonderful! and do they lay every day?" “They could, diloquently, necessary of course. but. n_our position it for them to do ®o gran- isn't Specialists In Diamond Values -one years we have been con- sistent in offering DIAMOND VALUES to Washington hington knows that the name of A. Kahn Inc., stands for Values in Diamonds and Reliable One Exceptionally Brilliant Diamond, weighing 74-100 carat, or 1 point less than 34 carat. Of fine color, and proportion- One Beautiful Blue - white Diamond, a most brilliant stone, beautifully cut, weighing 3 and 80-100 carats, or 20 points less than 4 full carats. An excep- tional value. 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