The evening world. Newspaper, May 7, 1919, Page 24

en ——— a te me ae Sate ee ert Aaa Ey ¥ fe _ How to Health Rules Compiled by Life Extension Experts. Travel and WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1919 These Inventions Will Speed Lower Its Cost SUN- ORIEN SHIP ipes. burned when worn once. producing area for at least half the world. Copyright, 1919, by The Prem Pabiiating Oo, (The Now York Evening Wor.) ONE forever is the God-gifted (@ genius who Invented one ald to to human progress and quit; come are the calculating, tedious in- ventors to whom research 1s a life profession; coming are marvels yet unthought of that shall give to hu- manity wider and keener enjoyment of all life. Sun-driven ships. One-rail railroads. Howschold cooking by chemical rec- Paper suits at $1.50 a suit, to be The Sahara desert as the power Inkless printing presses. These are some of the marvels the world will see—the result of stern day after day application to the sciences, Waldemar Kaempffert, editor of Popular Science Monthly, 80 predicts. Live--and How to LiveLong > NO. 2—OUT OF DOORS AND WINDOWS. By Zoe Beckley Co. (The New York Evening World), Copyright, 2919, by the Press Publishing OW shall we live the outdoor life in town? THAT, as Mr, Hamlet might have said, is the question. It can't be done, say you, being & sceptic. It can too, retorts the Life Extension Institute, devoting many pages of its book “How to Liv to che problem of ventilating not enly our houses and our clothes, but our lungs and our everyday lives. Indoor air, says the book—and any demobilized soldier just replanted from the trenches to the cement-walled cliff he calls home will corroborate it ts never as good as the honest air of outdoors. True, we cannot all own an Alp or an Adirondack. But we can get more of the free air of heaven (“tree” being used in the poetic, not the landlordic sense) than we do. against damp air. Like “night air,” While moderate dryness of atmos- phere is an advantage, ft is better to brave the dampest, foggiest, out- of-doors air than to live mewed up im the house. It is no longer a theory that open alr life leads to longevity, and that kiddies in outdoor and open-window schools are not only more healthy but Jearn more quickly than walled pupils. For grown-ups there are the obvious excursions to parks and beaches, the summer trolley trips, the week-ends at country inns, and the two weeks or more vacation at mountains or seashore. But better than that and less obvious are the excursions the victim of city life can take into the out-of-doors to sleep. I remember visiting a working sirl friend of mine who lives in one of those “model tenements” at East River and Seventy-Something Street. About dusk I noticed various long,! French windows opening and bed- heads emerging onto wide balccnies that adorn several floors, Shrouded forms were on these beds, which I noticed soon lay in the relaxe\ mo- tonlessness of perfect sleep. “The fresh-air brigade,” explained my friend. “They come out this time every night. In rainy weather they ‘rig up little tents, or cover themselves with ponchos. It's great. Fm going to get a window tent my- iM, no matter how the neighbors stare. Sleeping ‘out,’” she added, “is @ lot easier than people imagine.” The Life Extension Institute heartily backs her up. “In fact," it fmsists encouragingly, “few if any of the other cardinal rules of hygiene fare #0 easy to obey. Where a sloep- img porch is not available, a window tent can always be had, which puts the sleeper practically out of doors, @omplete directions for convenient eut-of-door sleeping will be fur- uished upon application to the Life Mxtension Institute, No, 25 West 4th New York.)” Bven the sleeping porch could be more prevalent than it is. From the ‘window of my apartment I can count ve of these in a single block, in Aran yards and on roofs. Two more fare being bullt by simple carpenter- Firet of all, the Life Extensionists urge, rid yourself of the prejudice its disadvantages are exaggerated, motes physical vigor, endurance and working power.” Do not fear malaria, The night air is often quoted by the superstitious 4s being laden with malaria germs. “To-day we know that malaria,” says the L. E. L, “is communicated by the bite of the anopheles mosquito and never by the air, The moral of this is to whut out the mosquito, not r. The experiment has beea made of sleeping out of doors in the most malarial of places in screened cages, and no artificial infection re- sulted though those who were un- protected, and consequently bitten, contracted the sickness as usual. Night air, ewpecially in cities, is dis- tinctly purer than day air, there be- ing less traffic and wind to stir up dust. “It is important that any sleeping balcony or shack be protected from the wind on two sides—in very windy places on three sides, But if there is too much protection the outdoor sleeping loses its efficiency. “In cold weather a thick mattress or two mattresses should be used. It is not only what is over the sleeper but under that keeps him warm. The body should be warmly clad, the head and neck protected by a helmet or hood. Early awakening by the light may be prevented by touching the eyelids with burnt cork.” In Brockton, where the shoe fac- tories are, and workmen spending eight to ten hours daily in unsani- tary shops are more or less seriously threatened with tuberculoisis, Dr. Millet, of that oity, began some years ago to prescribe outdoor sleeping for the sufferers, “In spite of their continued toil in unsanitary work-places," says “How to Live," “these toilers often con- quered the disease in a few months, It was largely this experience which led to the general adoption, irrespec- tive of climate, of outdoor sleeping for the treatment of tuberculosis, “It might be well to mention that after you have built your shack on your rooftop, or thrown together your sleeping porch, or bought your window tent, you must also learn to fmm 1 wonder that every one who @ beck yard or a private root book. simple, deep-breathing exerqises sys- Plain ordinary breathing—the un- conscious kind—will not do. You must breathe DEEP. “A Russian author suffering a ner- vous breakdown,” (no one wonders at that, in these days of dictatorship by the proletariat, do they?) “tried every other ald without success,” says the “He then retired for several months to the mountains, practising tematically every day, and was per- manently cured in a few months, “Deep breathing is a prime resource to all who are strut indoors most of the day. If they will seize the chance whenever it offers to step into the street, or upon the roof, or even lean from a window and take a dozen deep breaths, it will work wonders, “In ordinary breathing only about 10 per cent. of the lung contents is changed at each breath, In deep breathing a much larger percentage is changed, the whole lung is forced into action and the circulation of the blood in the abdomen is more effi- ciently maintained, equalizing the cir- culation throughout the entire body. “The mode of breathing is closely related to the mental condition; either influences the other, Agitation makes us catch our breath. Sadness makes us sigh. Conversely, slow, even breathing calms mental agitation and stabilizes the entire organism.” In America’s W onderlands. iE narrowest width of the Rocky Mountains, from base to base, is about three hundred Lake Superior, the greatest body of fresh water in the wortd, is so large that the whole of Scotland could easily be sunk in its translucent depths. ‘The Yellowstone National Park, the crowning wonder of America's won- derlands, has within its area of 3,312 square miles, several high mountain ranges, three large rivers with their tributaries, thirty-six lakes and twen- ty-five waterfails, ‘The Rock of Gibraltar towers to a height of 1,200 feet; its massive coun- terpart in the Yosemite National Park, El Capitan, is three times as high. The Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in Northern Arizona is 219 miles long, twelve to thirteen miles wide and more than a mile deep, tin Ciao bec ANSWER TO GOING BY ELE- PHANT PUZZLE. The traveller must have been 24 miles from Calcutta; and if it was then mann, he would arrive at 4 olelnek if his camel walked at the rate of breathe. All the good, free-in-a-man- ner-of-speaking air of Manhatian, six miles an hour and, the boat would have, left at 3 o'clock. It he trotted Brooklyn, Bronx, Richmond and|at the rate of 12 miles an hour he He sees with far-seeing eyes; he is impatient at the waste of to-day, the waste of human energy, the waste of materials, the waste in the pr duction of ali things mankind needs and uses datly. Houses are ill-fash- loned, cooking is dependent upon a “pinch of this and a pinch of that” and the chef's own digestion, rail- roads have scorned invention and re- mained practically inert so far as real progress is concerned, these are some of the complainta of this youngish man who sits and dreams of what man’s brain may conceive and his handg tool out. Progress in five great classes of human needs is demanded of the in- ventor: In food. In shelter. In transportation. In labor saving machinery. Whole World’s Inventive Genius Centres on Twelve Big Problems 1—Sun Driven Ships 2—150-Mile-an-Hour Monorailroads 3—24-Hour Transatlantic Airships 4—A Substitute for the Egg 5—Automatic Bricklaying Machines 6—Refrigerating Plant for Householders 7—Paper Suits at $1.50 Each 8—Voice-Driven Typewriters 9—Inkless Printing Presses 10—Cooking by Chemical Recipes 11—World Power Plant in the Sahara 12—Wasteless Power Transportation An Interview With WALDEMAR KAEMPFFERT, Editor of Popular Science Monthly | Most likely those will be of a diri- gible type, because comfort, sleeping apartments, promenades are neces- sary to make the flight of practical service. The airplane, to become the machine of immediate commer- clal value, must be able to rise directly from its position on the ground. The helicopter is a step toward that, ‘ut it 1s not perfected; in fact, outside of the toys with which children play in the streets the lifting screw has failed. But we need something which will lift in a straight-up from a roof. “Invention is a problem of e@co- nomics. As people need, so inven- tions are accomplished, Germany had a great labor supply; she bad practically no raw materials; s0 German inventors centred them- selves upon discoveries that wou'd save waste in raw materials. Amer- ica, on the contrary, is prodigal in In power generation, “No one bas ever perceived a sub- stitute for an egg,” he told an Eve- ning World reporter. “Efforts have been made but #o far there have been assembled in the laboratories no substitute for proteins and al- bumens. The Germans, however, during the war, prepared wood pulp, ran it through @ protein solution and gave it to its people to eat. In all probability it was good for them. We do not eat enough roughage; we need brooms to sweep our insides clean, “This is the tin ean epoch of Amer- lean cookery, And it points to bet- terment in foods. The great can- ning factories, food-producing plants of the United States, know the value of chemical research in the prep- aration of foodstuffs. They are send- ing into the homes of America every @ay recipes written and based upon actual chemical research. The American housewife is learning to use them. It is well that she does. She will learn much, for food prep- aration is essentially a problem in chemistry. “Why should not your mayonnaise taste exactly the same ten years from now as it does to-day? It should if that recipe was founded upon chemical facts and not permit- ted to depend upon the artistic whims of the chef. Every hotel should have a chemist to do its cook- ing. I eat an Irish stew to-day; it ts splendid. I order the same dish a week from now and it is unpalat- able. Lack of chemical foundations. “Tee, one of the greatest neces- sities of present-day life—waste, waste, waste. Great buildings must be erected to store it; transporta- tion must be provided; it is placed in your dumbwaiter and there melts, dripping waste, waste, waste, waste. Some one must produce a refrigerat- ing plant that will be available to every householder, “The modern home is si Architects seem to think that the home is merely a place of shelter from the rain, Not so; it is the workshop of a man as well shelter, Two-thirds of the aver- age man's life is spent in his home; yet they continue to be fashioned in a way that permits not half of the home's potential facilities to be at the home own- er’s disposal. That is not strictly a@ problem for the inventor; but the building of the home is. Bricklaying, for instance—a m chine should lay the brick: level moved, a row of bricks laid. That will come, “Rallroad transportation is at a standstill, Do you know that Ste- venson got 60 miles an hour out of his locomotive in 1825 and that not since 1854 has there been any marked increase in railway speeds? True. The railroad companies conduct no speed research, They do nothing to discover ways of reducing head-on resistance, As for new inventions— they ignore them. ‘The monorail railroad will increase speed up to 125 and 150 miles an hour. Not a sing’e company has undertaken to put it into practice, Yet it is the result of a skilled engineer's earnest study and ix not a dream but @ real- ity. “The ‘hop’ across the Atlantic of these airmen in airplanes is of in- terest; but those machines are or oe Rr material, but lacks labor; so Amer- ica has led all nations in labor-sav- ing machinery, The great factories of this country are now employing inventors and research men by the year. i: “The typewriter is crude. ,That girl there wastes muscular energy in every letter she writes. Power should drive that typewriter. The electrical typewriter has engaged the attention of inventors; but it is not yet commercially practical; but that is not the end; a voice-driven ma- chine is a possibility; but in our English language with its confusing spelling, such as ‘tough’ and ‘stuff,’ it is a difficult one to overcome. Phonetic symbols must be resorted to. “And also there is the need of power and more power. Coal is al- ready a problem. Tho supply of an- thracite will not last more than a hundred years; in fve hundred years there will probably be no coal in America. It is possible that the at- mosphere is a great pool of electric- ity; we must tap it. The sun pours down on each acre 6,000 horse power, That power is now a waste. It must be utilized; we must cap- ture and husband it. Sun-driven ships are not too fanciful to be thought of. The Sahara desert might become the power plant of southern Europe, whose coal is searce and sunshine plentiful. “Power must be transported in a less wasteful manner. Tesla has already experimented. He has succeeded in lighting lamps without wires—by wireless transmitted energy. How far can that be developed? There is no limit. “Inkless printing presses are to WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1919 Genius Will Solve These Problems in Near Futu iM AUTOMATIC come, There is no need of there be- ing any ink on the rollers of the press; it is mussy, it is expensive Paper wid be impregnated with a chemical solution, As the type touches the paper chemical reactions will take place. The characters will appear without ink. Something like that is done now. It is transmitting photographs by wire. The pen traces the picture on the sensitized paper; a directed current produces the desired chemical changes. “There is no limit to invention; but to procure all of the wonderful bene- fits of the future, the government should do the work. A man should be able to present his probiem to the government and have the gov- ernment solve it for him. Spend two or three millions of dollars on a single problem; wonderful results will come. “The one God-given idea that made the genius of yesterday is go! it is the practical test man, the man of the laboratory and shops who ends his life at it, who makes the discoveries that better the living con- dition of the world.” The Story of New York Squar Gramercy Park, Once a Crooked Little Swamp, Now City’s Most Unique Inclosure. By Eleanor Clapp. who had not long before married the daughter of Robert Livingstone of it, 1919, The Publidhing Co, r- Onprright, 1919, py The Prem Putting Livingstone Manor, bought from Ge ardus Stuyvesant, a descendant of the RAMERCY PARK fs in MARY | famous Dutch governor of that name, ways the most unique square|ro4, acres of land lying between in New York, for it has in the/ Broadway, Fourth Avenue, 19th and centre a private inclosure that be- 20th Streets, where he built a fine longs to the owners of the houses im-|hous9 which he called “Gramercy | mediately surrounding it and that 18|ceat» 4 uttle later he added to the maintained by them for their exclu-/estate ten more acres which took in| ve: uses the “crooked Little swamp” after Because this square Was laid out in which his home was named. This imitation of Russell Square in Lon-|was the same Duane who was Mayor | don we are apt to think that the of New York and after whom Duane name it bears is of English origin. | Street was named. Gramercy has a fine old Elizabethgn sound that smacks of aristocracy. But sounds, especially ward sounds, a: > even more deceptive than appear- ances, and Gramercy is simply @ cor- ruption of the old Dutch word “Krommoersje” or “Krommessie”—in the old records it is spelled both ways —which some authorities say means fa crooked little swamp and others a cobbler’s curved knife. This name was given by the early settlers to 9 little stream that rose in this neigh- borhood and flowed southeast until it entered the East River at 18th Street, Now in 1761 or thereabouts James Duane, a rich young man of the day, PAPER Suits ar 8/50 and the only way to get full for it was to keep the whole together, so he accordingly al! of it. In the hope of persuading of means and social position to as far uptown as Twentieth Mr. Ruggles, as a special induct set aside forty-two lots “for th Pose of an ornamental sq' park” which he presented owners of the sixty surroundin According to the deed they place an iron railing around with ornamental gates, to lay grounds and plant trees. h ants thus benefited were to) keys to the gate and access times on payment of $10 a year, was to be used for the upke lttle park is still maintainec surrounding property owne: ‘by the inclosure in the centre ‘pleasant day in spring and you the keyholdere—or more o! children—enjoying the grass flowers and the few trees th survived, just as they did in Ruggles'’s day. Among the well known have lived in the square are Greeley, Stuyvesant Fish, Jan Pinchot, John Bigelow, Jam After Mr. Duane's death in 1797 hs estate was divided among his five children in even slices, running from what is now the east side of Broad- way to the eastern boundary between Second and Third Avenues,'and thi land remained in the family for more than thirty-five years until Samuel Bulkley Ruggles, a prominent lawyer and financier, began to speculate in el estate, He realized that when cets were cut through this prop- erty in accordance with the City Plan of 1807 the shares of the different heirs would be In such small plots that they would be worth very little MABLE’S LOVE LETTERS TO HER ROOKIE By Florence El Illustrations by Natalie Stokes. DRE BILL: D their awful loud, Theres are. Min things tho with just a little touch of red and yellow your mother gave me Most of em look itke that coat you read about that Moses had on in the bull rushes, I made mine in three days but its too hot to wear The avenue girls wear theres Their pride keeps them cool I reckon, but you know I never N it. just the same. me, Bill, I aint proud. love in you Bill, Your perservative. Im doin all the cookin, Aunt Mira died and ma. went to the funeral. ye a would a promised to marry you if| meditate though. Blessed is he that} _ | without wading, The Tilden ba I had a been, but I never care|eet on a tack, I reckon, for he shall|"IVE BEEN RNIN ae Oa now the National Arts Club, what people say long as I know a|rise again. Bow b mast Ih He he tenious. Plager good thing when I see it, An not] Maggie Sams thinks shes so smart Re ee ntl he decen ; fl nis home ath in many fellos have your looks or| jyst pecause she took a year of High his name would be mud an anybody money either, or are as close about keepin it, Thats a unusual trait I Gerard, Robert Minturn, Albert { tin, H. C. Oakley and James Sc! who laid the cable to South The old Roosevelt house where! dore Roosevelt was born was in 20th Street. At Nos. 14 and the handsome residence of Samuel Tilden, who was nomini the Presidency in 1876 and more votes than did his oppone lost the election because the vo some of the States were disput the Electoral Commission, h izabeth Summers a majority of Republican I know {ts been a week since I wrote but Ive been knittin me @ pe eee bagi ate ; o Hayes. Gov. rainbow sweater, All the girls up on the avenue are makin em an time as much trouble wit! es made out of the scraps from your little stream from which the is named as he ever did with litical foes, ! This brook had of course bee! in when the place was laid ¢ had long ago dixappeared from but one wet spring it forced upon the attention of the dwell the south side of the park by denly rising and soaking its w They dont know what was the mat- ter with her, just took a dose of Dr. Lufords medicine an died. Dr. Lu- fords the best doctor in town now. If you ever get sick Ill send for Lim. Kill or cure—thats his motto, Cookins hard now cause pa’s diet calls for soup an they wont let us their cellars and setting evel ave it now cause Nellie’s sick next afloat. Tilden is sald to have door an they want everything kept over $20,000 in vain attempts to out the water and his nel wasted almost as much, It w: until a new sewer was built to the swamp that the servants in houses could put coal on the fi quiet. Pa eats soup awful loud, At dinner I was that wore out that I set down on the woodbox an cried. A tack didnt give me much time to Young Mr. Duane, when he by the land hereabouts for 4 about $2 was considered higf could pronounce that, Thats right toa, eh BIL? Must close on this line, School. She was askin me the other day why I didnt learn to pronounce the Kaiser's name an I told her it his plead, pal: it, which As ever those days, but now the propei yous it le nesters with a Lobeighond MABLE cluded within the confines of h Chem nemen ont | (cosnge. 1919, 1 a estate, Gramercy Seat, is