William Murdock was a Scotsman whose memory will be commemorate fed by engineers at meetings and Teetures all over the "country this We are introduced to still more i ventions, the latest being'. sta Fesisting' linen. Not knowing who 1s responsible for this, a most remarkable invention of modern times, one cannot ask women to pass another hearty vote of thanks to him—or het, Just consider, however, the joy of having a table cloth on which a cup of tea can safely be upset. The cloth Is not soaked through or harmed in any. way. In a second it Is ready for use again, AIL that it is necessary: to do is to shake the cloth 30. that the tea, or water, or whatever the quid is, falls off. 'The secret is that the cloth has' been vela-proofed, which renders it repellent to water, te, and. stain-resisting, Articles {treated in this way can be laundered or dry cleaned Salient Points Probably we shall never know just what characteristic of America and the Americans struck the King and Queen most forcibly. Americans on Visits to England usually. plump for "your British policeman," although tone, in response to a question of this sort, hailed a taxi, took his questioner to "Hyde Park, and pointed the flower beds near "the Row, He wished to know it his friend had been to America and, if $0, what was his favourite. memory, "What most impressed mo in New York," said the Englishman, "was soeing cop on Fifth Aventio directing the frame and peeling and. eating a banana at the same' time, What impressed the tate Karet Capek most about England was the custom of walking across the fields Instead of upon footpaths. "We Cone tinental people." wrote Capek, "do not venture to walk except on the roads and paved paths this certainly has a huge influence on the devel ment of our minds..... At last even ventured to make my way straight cross the grass 10 an old oak. Never have T hada feeling of such unrestricted Mbeyty at in that moment." Which. was" one of "the nicest things Capek ever said about the Britishond he was very come plimentary, on the whole, week. For William Murdock, who died one hundred years ago, was the Best man to realize the commercial possibilities of gas and to visualize a Jday when every housewife sin every town would have gas stoves, fires and geysers to lighten her work, Women in particular owe a hearty vote of thanks to this man and so seems fitting that it should have been a woman's thimble which, or so the story goes, helped him towards his great discovery. While Murdock was looking after a pumping engine ina Cornish tin mine, he began ex: erimenting, distilling picees of wood, eat and coal.
From a home-made retort he fixed has flat tapered ends—ves protection without bulk—without showing.
Kotex has a special Center Strip that pipe so that it projected into his kitchen, where, by applying a match, the had' an illuminant. Instead of tap, a lump of wet clay stuffed into the' end of the pipe served to put Jout the flame. But one night he lost ithe clay and used his wife's thimble. The thimble was perforated with scores of holes caused by" pressure Jon the needle. The gas, forcing its fay out, burned with greater intensity. So, the first gascburner had been bora.
Kotex has Wonder-soft edges cushioned in cotton to prevent chal In three siges:
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