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Nye Jewelry, «Music and Radio Shop Tel 123-J -- West McHenry The aigfcth gMfc rseeatly took a trip te CMwn where fiagr toured the Museam ef Science and Indastry. Following is an account of the trip made by one of the students upon her return. * We got ready to leave and we found that six of the people weren't there. We had just got in the bus when Margaret came along- She fot in and we left. On the way we sang songs and looked at the scenery which was very goad at times. We passed Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium and Soldiers Field on the way to Hie Moseipn of Science and Industry. When we arrived at the museum we had fifteen minutes before our guide came to show us around. In the medical division was an iron lung. Our guide showed us how it worked. We soon found out that it works on the order of a bellows. There were small glass windows in the side and we could look into it. There were also small doors which he allowea us to open. Inside there was a small opening in a piece ef sponge rubber. It was made that, way so that if the Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Hansen werejdocU>r w*"ted to find out something guests at a seven o'clock dinner «t the home of Mr. and Mrv. Louis Volpe at Lake Forest last Wednesday evening, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dowell and daughter, Dolores, visited at the home °f Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Harris near Woodstock last Saturday evening. Mrs. M. VanFV-usen returned to the hdtnp of Mr. and Mrs. Marlett Henry Sunday evening after spending the .past two weeks with friends in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Detrich of Jackson, Mich., were dinner and afternoon guests last Friday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Brooks. Miss , Frances Davis and Martin Bauer spent last Sunday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Converse. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Downs of McHenry spent last Saturday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Brooks. Mr. and Mrs. Emil Mentser, Highland Park, and Albert Dehney, Northbrook. were guests last Friday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Hansen. Mrs. Arthur Wagner and daughter, Joan, were callers at Waukegan last Friday morning. Chesney Brooks attended the wedding of Kenneth Granger and Miss Frieda Klabunde at the Community church at Richmond last Saturday afternoon a 4:30 o'clock. He attended about the patient he could without leaving out the pressure which kept the patient breathing. We then went to the tooth hall. The teeth were very large so we could get a good idea of the construction of them. There was a small room in which was an old-fashioned dentist's office and a modern office. The difference was very great since the old one was worn looking and had a very unsanitary look about it, while the modern one was very sanitary and modern. We thought we had seen enough of the medical division, so we went to see the electricity display. We saw 100,- 000 volts of electricity. Our guide made the bolt of electricity jump about eight feet. The noise made by it was louder than thunder. Our guide set a two by four up and made the electrictiy hit it and smash it to bits. Then we went to see the "home." There were five scenes portrayed. The first was a scene about in the year 1897. It showed how one room looked at that time. The story revolves around a rocking chair which the couple bought when they were first married. The second scene was in the year 1912. That was the year people believed in putting many pictures on the walls and making the rooms look cluttered up in general. The old rocking chair was still there and two chil_ ,.„v « nwvR. ne tmenaea dren w"werve added two tvh..ev. family. T•>h«e the reception at their home on Main i third scene was made from the year street in Richmond. I 1918 or thereabouts. It showed the Lyle Matthews spent the weekend! father reading his newspaper and the wii+thk lM/nr. and IMff rs. nElim er nEs p.in g at - Starks Station. Mr. and Mia. Harry Barkwill and grandson of Chicago were guests on Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dowell. Mrs. Arthur Wagtier and Mrs. Catherine Wagner attended the bridal shower for Miss Gladys Vasey at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Vasey, at Waukegan last Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Hansen were among the guests entertained at a party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh O'Brien at Roseville last Saturday evening. The_other guests were Mr. and Mrs. Allen and Mrs. Allen, Sr., of Springfield, Ohio, Mr. and Mrs Dryer and Mr. Nodeau of Island Lake, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Passfield of Volo and Mr. and Mrs. Leening of Glenview. Mr and Mrs. Arthur Wagner and daughter, Joan, attended the party honoring the thirtieth wedding anniversary ©f Mr. and Mrs. Peter M Schaefer. near McHenry. last Saturday evening. Mrs. Schaefer is a sister of Mrs. Arthur Wagner. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Anderson and •on of Cary spent last Friday evening at the home erf Mr. and Mrs. Joha Blomgren. Dorr Crenin of Lake Villa was a visitor at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthews last Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthews, Wil2 lard Darrell, Mr. and Mrs. Kay Dow. ell, Mr. and Mrs. Marlett Henry and son, Mariett, and Chesney Brooas at* tended toe installation oi officers of Mayflower chapter, O. E.S., at Wan. conda Monday evening. Mrs. aiat* caev».» was installed as secretary, jtlra* <*enry as c.stner and Air. Oarreii a* wtu uer. Mr. Matthews served as an escort for the evening. jir. and Mrs. J. Lindgren of Wan conda enjoyed dinner at the home oi- Mr. and jars. Charles Kod^ne last xhurstlay at their tiome at Mylith Park. Air. and Mrs. A. V. Mason and* Susie of Chicago were visitors laat, Friday evening at the home of Mr* and Mia. J. Pan teles at Mylith Park* Mr. and Mrs. A. Eisner of Myliti| Park wer# callers Sunday at the homi oi Mr. and Mrs. C. Franz at Dea Plaines. • a°d Mrs. Charles Rodene and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kummerow of Mylith Park were Saturday evening guests at the home of Mr. and Mrsy E. A. Held near Wauconda. daughter getting ready to go for a ride in an automobile. The automobile was parked outside the door and looked very old-fashioned. The old rocking chair is still in use. The fourth scene was from the year 1927 and it showed the girl grown up and two children of her own playing on the floor. The old rocking chair was still there with the grandmother sitting in it. What we thought was the best of all was a '41 lounge. Whenever we got tired of walking we went up to the lounge and aat down. Was it swell I We then went down the coal mine. We bought our tickets and climbed up on a platform and waited for the engineer to get ready to take ua down. He tried to make us think we were going down, very fast. I don't believe we went more than twenty feet, if that far. When we got out, he showed us the method used in dumping coal. The top of the mine was so low we could reach the top of it. Some of us tapped the top which sounded quite hollow to me. We then went up a flight of stairs, walked a short distance, and got into two cars _ . Jmpt te d»- •eribe it. After leaking *t the cotter we went Into Unetfcst *o4x where we saw the Idhdtr. It loelntt like a large shovel with anna. Uma we went into the room where a man explained how they made tests to see if there was gas in the mine. The man took a lamp which looked very asoch like an ordinary kerosene lamp except that it had a wire screen around tL We soon learned that this screen was very necessary. He held a-screen like the one around the lamp over the fire. The flame wouldn't penetrate it. Then he showed us how he could lift the flame on the wire screen, fire cannot penetrate this screen but gas could get in. Gas makes fire blue but if fire strikes gas it would blow up. So if the miner? * !amP ,ik® this down in the mine with them they will find out if there is gas in the mine without blowing themselves up. It was dinner time eo we decided to have lunch. We aent a few^of the boys to the bus to get oar lunches. After lunch we went to see some machinery, mostly farm machinery. tWe were portrayed there many scenes from farming. It also showed the McCormick reapers from the very first to the very last. From there we went to see the means of transportation. Compared to our means of transportation the old ones look sickly. There were some airplanes suspended from the ceiling by means of a slender cord. I thought that they looked ready to fall but nothing happened. Then Agnes wanted to see more of how they operated on people so we went to the top floor. I think it was very interesting. Since Agnes and I intend to become nurses, we liked it very much. We went down to die first floor and went into the medical science gallery. There were pictures there showing an appndectomy which was very interesting. The process looked simple but I wouldn't like to try it. The doctor slit the skin, pulled it open, clamped it down, slit another layer of flesh, clamped it down and took the first clamp off. He did this for three more layers of flesh. He then came to the appendix. He brought it to the surface and clamped it. He then cut it off the large intestine and sewed it with cat gut, put it back in and took the layers of skin one at a time and sewed it back in place. By the time he had finished you coukT hardly tell there had been an operation. It was sewed up as well as any professional sewer could do. We walked along, the corridor and came to a place where we saw pictures of a carbuncle. There was a picture of a person who had a carouncle on the back of his head. It seems to me the person must have died from it because it looked as though it had eaten to the brain. Another picture showed a carbuncle on a woman's back. From looking at those two pictures I now have an ambition to find a cure for them. We weren't interested in the heart and ear so much because we had just studied it in health class and we thought we knew enough about them. We wandered around a little more and then we went to a room where there were a lot of telephones ranging from the very finest and crudest model to the last and most modern telephone. Since there were other people talking ovef the phone we didnt' wait. We wanted to see some scientific devices so we finally found our way to the rooms where we saw all sorts of mechanical apparatus. One which I thought most interesting was a group of mirrors put together on a turning axis. These mirrors would reflect the light msking a pattern of lines on the wall. We looked through some glass at cellophane. The light made the cellophane look like beautiful stones. We weren't scientifically concerned at the time so we did not After wandering around trying to find something which we hadn't seen, we heard the man calling for tin fire show, so we dntided to go in and see it. It seems to ma that fire is 'more dangerous than it is worth. WeO, almoet! The man showed us how turning on all the lights in the house be dangerous. When a home has all its electricity turned on the wire conducting the electricty becomes very hot. It melts the top of the fuse and the fuse blows out. Never put a penny in the fuse box because the penny would not melt. The fire would then start because the wire couldn't take all the electricity and it starts the house on fire. He demonstrated this by using a toy house to represent a big house. The people in this house were giving a party that evening so about all the electricity in the house was turned on. The fuse blew out and that was a warning to turn off some electricity. Instead of taking this warning the owner put a penny in the fuse box. The lights went on s© everybody thought everything was all right when Suddenly the house burst into flames. Hie reason was the wires couldn't stand so much electricity so they burned, causing the house to burn also. Explosions are also another thing where fire is the Cause of destruction. For example, even a housewife can blow herself to bits by sifting fltour into a pot on top of the stoVe. The flour mixing with the oxygen of the air, forms a combustible substance. When fire strikes, it will blow up, therefore blowing the housewife too. This also happens in feed mills and granaries. The most interesting tiding I saw that day was the scene called' "the doctor." made up of plastic figures. It showed a doctor sitting beside a small child whose parents were in the background. The story about the picture is true. Queen Elizabeth was visiting the poor people when she found this family living in a poor shack. Their daughter had diphtheria and they didn't have money enough to get a doctor, so the queen sent her doctor to help the child. Later the queen had an artist paint a picture about it. I think that scene is the best in the whole museum. Leaving the Museum of Science and Industry we went to the Field Museum. Most of us were so tired from walking through the former that we didn't care to walk around much in the latter, although it is a very interesting place. First, we went down to see thf mummies because some hsd never seen them before. We expected something quite different from what sht saw. We didn't exactly like the mummies because they look kind of dried up. We then went to the jewel room* where we saw replicas of stones worth millions of dollars. We then took a ouick look at the Chinese section o< the building, but it wasn't so very interesting to us at the time. We thon saw the ornaments made out of valuable green and pink jade. We ther went to the ground floor and looked at the Indian costumes. Then everybody was ready to go home. We had a eoo^ time going and coming and I think everyone enjoyed himself immensely. LOIS VOELTZ. FORMER RESIDENT IS NOW AT FORT WARREN The Plaind*»aler has received the address of another young man who was a former McHenry resident and t* now in the service. He attended the McHenry Communitv Hi*h school several years ago and thoueh he has been away from this city for some time he would b»» glad to hear from any of his old friends. The younr soldier is Private Jack Steilen. Q. M R. T. C. Barrack 1st Regt.. C<>. K. Fort Warren, Wyoming. ' Private Steilen is a nephew of Mrs. F. J. Aicher of McHenry. * * - „ j. • I rn: * % ^ * v $I.OO Urtbe&evabia valnal , Easy s t e e r i a f . Smooth siulioqi STEEL COASTER „nc»- • s*i # f1 WAGONS $3.98 [MmI fw bey« ««d firitl Stosdf COMPLETE KB .IV* for only »"1". 98 TOOL KIT . ..' « toM am. 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