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For protection of polished table top against 
damage by hot dishes or moisture. 
Made of especially prepared asbestos covered 
with heavy double faced cotton flannel, soft 
and noiseless. 
Made for round, square or oval tables, Folds to con- 
venient size to be laid away. Special sizes to order. 
The best table pad manufactured. 
Better class of dealers sell our goods or can get them 
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Doily, Chafing-dish and Platter Mais, size 5 to 18 
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BRISTOL’S 
Recording Thermometers 
Continuously and automatically record indoor and 
outdoor temperatures. Useful and ornamental for 
country homes. 
Furnished, if desired, with sensitive bulb in weather 
protecting lattice box and flexible connecting tube so 
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Write for descriptive printed matter. 
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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
THE MEMORY OF THE ANT 
XPERIMENTS, says Harper's Weekly, 
are continually being made to test the 
memory of animals, such as the elephant, 
the dog, the bull; but it would seem a thank- 
less undertaking to ascertain whether the 
ant has a memory. Nevertheless, a scientist 
in South America thinks he has succeeded. 
Isolating two of the largest specimens of 
tropical ants he could find, he so arranged 
their receptacle that they could get no food 
without climbing over a circular slant into 
another compartment. Over this slant, 
when the food was not there, he placed a 
crimson cord, and the ants very soon learned 
to interpret the signal and never attempted 
to climb over it. Thinking, after a time, 
that there might be something in the color 
that repelled them automatically, as the bull 
is affected unpleasantly by red, he replaced 
the red cord by cords of varying colors, al- 
ways with the same result after the ants 
had made a few excursions over the slant 
and come back hungry. Then he tried plain 
cloth and even paper, but the result was 
invariably the same. After a number of 
trials the ants refused to climb the slant 
when there was any sort of “signal.” Fin- 
ally the scientist reversed the signal, hav- 
ing food beyond the slant only when it was 
visible; and after an infinite number of 
trials the ants accommodated themselves to 
the change. 
OME parts of the desert in California 
and Arizona which are suitable for the 
cultivation of the date palm have the one 
drawback, that the natural heat cannot be 
depended upon to bring the fruit to perfect 
ripeness. Some years will result in large 
marketable crops, while others will yield 
little because of insufficient heat. To elim- 
inate this uncertainty, Prof. George Free- 
man of the Agricultural Experiment Sta- 
tion, University of Arizona, has invented a 
device which will ripen the fruit artificially 
to perfection. It is exceedingly simple and 
inexpensive, a fact which makes it commer- 
cially available. In fact, it has been used 
already on a commercial scale, as 100 
pounds can be treated at one time in his 
laboratoy. The device consists of a metal 
oven, in which dates are placed, after being 
picked when they just begin to ripen. A 
preliminary washing is needful, after which 
they are kept in an even temperature of 
about 50 deg. Cent. (122 deg. Fahr.) for 
three days and in a moist atmosphere. This 
renders them as sweet and delicate in flavor 
as the naturally ripened fruit, and far su- 
perior as a table delicacy to the dried and 
pressed dates with which we are familiar. 
The process is also used to restore dates 
which have remained upon the tree until 
withered. The moisture brings back their 
plumpness and flavor, while their whole- 
some qualities are not impaired. 
Ripe dates treated in this way are boxed 
like choice confectionery. They will stand 
shipment to all parts of the United States 
and Europe, as experimental consignments 
have shown. The industry is growing rapid- 
ly in the southwest and promises to become 
of importance. 
COFFEE WITHOUT CAFFEIN 
HE American consul at Tamatave, 
Madagascar, has sent to the Bureau of 
Manufactures in Washington samples and 
photographs of a natural caffein-less cof- 
fee growing in that island. It is locally 
known as “mantaska” or café sauvage,” 
grows to a height of twelve to twenty feet, 
and resembles the ordinary coffee tree, but 
has smaller leaves and a yellowish berry. 
November, 1912 
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