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...spread the savor of the food through the air and follow it to the tables. No knives, spoons or forks will be required and the food may be taken with the fingers or simply aspired with the breath. Special radiating lamps will hang over the tables to radiate with ultraviolet rays the color of the food and excite the appetite. When all this has been accomplished the human race will be happy in the enjoyment of food, old age will become unknown and men and women will live again as long as Methuselah...
...wall. Where irritating noises cannot be controlled by insulation, they will be neutralized by other noises (TIME, Dec. 15). Workmen will hear only enough sound to prevent them from being distracted by complete silence. They will be illuminated by constant artificial daylight containing a small percent of healthy ultraviolet, will breathe air which has been washed, heated, humidified. The ten million cubic feet of air will be changed every ten minutes. Contaminating gases and machine dirt are to be drawn out through hoods into an underground exhaust system...
...newborn's foot prints is not very reliable, because foot prints are not distinctive for some time after birth. Newborn children clench their fists so tightly that finger prints cannot be made. Dr. Kegel last week suggested a novel idea: stencil the infant's foot in suntan from an ultraviolet lamp...
Nest egg of the foundation is Professor Harry Steenbock's patents on irradiated foods. At the university he discovered a cheap method of developing vitamin D, which protects babies against rickets, in food by treating the comestibles with ultraviolet light. A dozen U. S. food manufacturers now use his process, and pay - because he refused to let business hamper his research work-royalties to the research foundation...
...abbreviated dress may be utilized. In order that the health-giving rays of the lamp may energize workers, is it unreasonable to assume that, in our centres of in- dustry, men and women will wear fewer clothes, will expose more of their bodies to the stimulating effect of the ultraviolet radiation...