The Archive · 1940

What Eyes Have Never Seen

A rubber ball thrown on the ground becomes. first practically flat, before the thing happens with a soap it jy up again. But astonishingly,

gonad. soap bubble bursting in bubb Hu" it bursts on the the alf, is opened slowly at one spot, and then it is carved up, until only a half sphere is to be seen, and then it goes slowly to pieces.

'The splashing of a milk drop causes first' deep hole in the milk surface in the pot, then a most beautiful arises with lovely little milk round, and then the very drop jumps out again, a little white ball, emerging from the crown and going high up. You arè delighted with so much beauty.

And many other amazing pictures follow, A mosquito flies like an autogyro (now we know How this beast is able to stay on a spot in the air and. molests us poor human beings). You have heard a gurgle gurgling out of a bottle, but now you can see it and you can see the fra-france: of coffee, emerging from a coffee pot. You see the action of a snake's tongue and how a cat uses her tail to fall always on her feet, even if dropped from a height of only two feet.

The Humming-bird Lady We see many other interesting motions. Air flowing through the blades of a fan, smoke being used to make the whirls visible. The chatter action of a cutting tool, cutting steel and cast-iron, the plunge of a red hot poker into brine and others. Then we make a trip to New Hampshire to see Mrs. Webster, the humming-bird lady; ' The humming birds take the sweet sugar liquid from a little glass tube, which Mrs. Webster holds in her mouth and you are delighted to see how these beautiful little birds, are practically standing in the air on the same spot, owing to the ability of their wings to beat the air 50 times per second, so fast, that you normally see only a glittering whirl. The MILT. camera reveals the secrets of this motion.

The s. Shanghai Maru, T.K.K. express liner on the run between Nagasaki and Shanghai, is scheduled to arrive in harbour tomorrow from Japan early in the afternoon. She will dock at the company's Yangtszepoo Wharf. On September 30, Monday, she will get away at 9 o'clock in the morning, carrying passengers and rat The fast freighter s, Steel Voyager, which arrived in harbour on Thursday afternoon, is scheduled to sail from the Shanghai and Hongkew Wharf Company's Pootung Wharf on Monday morning. The vessel, owned by the Isthmian Steamship Company, arrived here with over 2,000 tons of iron and steel for discharge from New York, via Savannah and Manila.

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