.Tune, 1922 



things, whether it be liuinan beings or car- 

 hinds of grain to feed the starving, some- 

 where, on this big earth of onrsV 



One of my hobbies in childhood was wind- 

 mills, to get hold of the wind and use it. A 

 little later on it was electricity. Praise the 

 Lord, it did get into my head that the two 

 could be linked together, when I was near 

 80 vears old; and it seems likely that the 

 third hobby of mine — the possibilities of 

 the outcome of bee culture— might link in 

 flying also, with the work of the honeybee. 



G Ij K A N T N G S IN B K E CULTURE 



403 



"Mend Your Own Tinware." 



I think that the flr&t time the name of A. 

 I. Eoot appeared in print was about 65 years 

 ago, when an advertisement appeared in the 

 Scientific American, then just newly start- 

 ed. This advertisement was headed, "Mend 

 Your Own Tinware"; and below you read, 

 "Amos I. Root & Co., Medina, O.," would 

 send the needed materials, with all direc- 

 tions, for 30 cents. If I remember correct- 

 ly mv apparatus for soldering gave at least 

 general satisfaction. I do not remember 

 any complaints, and I received quite a little 

 money. As I look back, however, I feel 

 pained to think of that "& Co." If I re- 

 member correctly, my good mother did re- 

 monstrate, but I told her that was the way 

 "all business men did." 



Well, in view of the above you may ima- 

 gine my surprise to see a man on the Mana- 

 tee County fairgrounds, in Florida, with an 

 announcement on the board over his head, 

 reading "Mend your own tinware." He had 

 a little lamp very similar to the one I used 

 years ago, and then he had sheets of differ- 

 ent kinds of metal, and old rusty tin, zinc, 

 galvanized iron, etc. He would punch holes 

 tn the various metals, then hold a piece over 

 the flame of his little lamp and apply a little 

 of the solder; and even rusty iron, tin, etc., 

 were mended in a twinkling. He did not 

 even scrape the rusty metal, and he did 

 not applv any flux or acid. Let me remark 

 right here that until quite recently we were 

 told that aluminum could not be soldered; 

 but this new alloy worked beautifully on a 

 sheet of aluminum. The price of the "sol- 

 derine" was 25 cents, or three outfits for 50 

 cents. The printed matter accompanying 

 read as follows: 



ALUMINUM MENDING SOLDER. 

 Guaranteed to mend any kind of metal without 

 the aid of soldering iron, acids, rosm, scraping or 

 cleaning. Mends radiators, copper boilers, galvan- 

 ized iron tubs, brass, iron, tin or zinc, water 

 pipes, gas pipes, lead pipes, bath fixtures, enamel, 

 granite and aluminum ware. 



SOLDERINE. 

 Directions for Using. 

 Place the article you wish to mend over some 

 kind of flame for about one-half minute (don t 

 overheat) ; take a stick of solder like a lead pen- 

 cil and rub a little in a circle around the hole 

 until you cannot see the fire underneath. Remove 

 and allow solder to become hard. Price 2 5 cents. 

 United Specialty Co., Atlanta, Ga. 



Just as soon as I saw how beautifully it 

 did the work I wrote to the address above, 



but niv h'tter was returned as "TTiicalled 

 for." Tlieu i soit it back with orders for 

 "special delivery"; but my letter came 

 back again saying no such place could be 

 found. Now, I hope this notice may be the 

 means of enabling me to learn where I can 

 buy more of this "solderine." 



The metal is very much lighter than com- 

 mon solder, and melts much easier. But to 

 show how it would stand the racket, the man 

 would double it up and pound it with a 

 hammer, and it acted exactly like metal 

 soldered with a soldering-iron. What sur- 

 prised me more was that it would stick al- 

 most as well to rusty enameled ware, even 

 if it did not get hold of the metal at all. 

 From what experience I have had in repair- 

 ing utensils, not only at home but in work- 

 ing with metals in different factories, it 

 seems to me the invention may be worth 

 millions of dollars to the world. The piece 

 of metal is about as large around as your 

 little finger, and there is a hole in the cen- 

 ter that probably contains some sort of acid 

 or flux; and the best of all is that it does 

 the icork. When I find out where it can be 

 purchased I will let you know. If any of 

 the readers of Gleanings can give me any 

 information in regard to the matter you may 

 be sure I shall be very glad to get it. I put 

 an advertisement in the Bradentown Herald 

 to find out if the man left it for sale in that 

 vicinity, but at present writing I have had. 

 no response. 



"Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread"— 

 Daily Bread for the Hungering World. 



I am praying that the Lord will let me 

 live long enough to see practically enough 

 food provided in some way so that there 

 may be no starving — at least in a wholesale 

 ^yay — on the face of this whole wide earth. 

 I am not worried so very much about the 

 men folks, -especially the men folks who 

 starve because they will not get to work and 

 "look out for a rainy day;" but I am an- 

 xious about the mothers and babies — espe- 

 cially the mothers who bore the babies. 

 Thes^e mothers, while they are doing the 

 work of bearing the babies and keeping 

 mankind on the face of the earth, should 

 be abundantly fed, and fed with the best 

 and most nourishing food. Well, in view of 

 the above just imagine Avith Avhat energy I 

 said "Praise the Lord!" when I read the 

 following in the Christian Herald: 



"Now comes confirmation of the welcome news 

 that 'America has broken the hack of the biggest 

 famine in the world's history!' The seemingly 

 impossible has been done, and done so thorough- 

 ly that a considerable proportion of the fund pro- 

 vided for Russian relief remains unexpended, bix- 

 tv-five cent of the famine areas are now sown with 

 grain. Not only has the famine been checked, but 

 American medical and hygienic skill has succeeded 

 in allaving the widespread outbreak of typhus and 

 other diseases in many localities. In a hospital 

 in Moscow, equipped by American gifts, the dead- 

 ly tvphus germ hps been discovered and isolated 

 bv a woman Russian scientnist. Dr. N. Kritch 

 This is regarded as one of the most important 

 medical discoveries in a century." 



"All hail," to the Russian iroman doctor. 



