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Motion Study 
A Method for Increasing the 
Efficiency of the Workman 
By FRANK B. GILBRETH 
@ This is a scientific investigation of the conditions govern- 
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nationality, early training, nutrition, tools and appliances, 
have a bearing on the subject, and these various influences 
are discussed in the order of their importance. He shows | 
that the manner of supplying the workman with his raw 
material has an important bearing on the number of mo- 
tions made. Since fatigue will influence greatly the | 
methods of doing work, it is important that the raw ma- | 
terial be placed in a position which will require the least | 
} number of motions to transport it to its final position, thus 
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THE SQUIRREL 
HE squirrel is one of the most inno- 
| ieee and faithful of animals, and the 
husband of one wife even in Turkey, 
where he is found domesticated, as in 
China, Norway, Brazil, Siberia, on the 
banks of the Ganges, and in the Congo, 
according to a writer in Harper's Weekly. 
Nothing maternal can exceed the mother 
squirrel’s tenderness for her young. They 
will dance with her in the woods, and 
assist in the search for nuts. Frolicking 
at their task, mother and father lay in 
the Winter stores. Their larder is full 
of seeds, grain and nuts, and is situated 
in the hollow of a tree or under the 
snow in a mossy hollow. As long as there 
is anything to be found in the woods the 
careful parents shun the larder, and ow- 
ing to their prudence their provisions 
last until the woods again yield tribute. 
The squirrel is not satisfied with one 
hiding-place; he hides his provisions 
everywhere, and he is one of the best of 
foresters, for the nuts and seeds hidden 
by him and forgotten grow into trees. 
He is a skilful architect. The nest that 
he plaits with little twigs is well made. 
The entrance is perpendicular and nar- 
row and sheltered from the storms by a 
leafy cone. It is so nearly the color of 
the tree trunk that it is almost imper- 
ceptible. In some countries the squirrel’s 
nest is a burrow provided with five or six 
exits by which the tenant can escape from 
unwelcome visitors. The flying-squirrel 
is found chiefly in the forests of Norway 
and Lapland, but even there it is rare. It 
feeds on the buds of the pine and birch 
trees, and on wild seeds. Its “flying” 
members are two membranes which serve 
as a parachute at the moment of flying. 
ELIMINATING DISTURBING NOISES 
FROM THE TELEPHONE 
CCORDING to the German periodical 
Umschau, a Swedish engineer named 
Saxenberg has invented an effective device 
for eliminating, or at any rate greatly di- 
minishing, adventitious noises in telephone 
conversation. The device consists of a 
variable water-resistance. One such ap- 
paratus is provided near each of the trans- 
mitters, and the person speaking can, by 
adjusting the electrodes in the water re- 
sistance, regulate conditions to such effect 
that secondary noises are reduced to a 
minimum. 
POISON IVY 
HE Poison Ivy, Rhus toxicodendron, is 
the cause of much discomfort and suf- 
fering as everyone knows. Forest and 
Stream recommends the following treat- 
ment for its effects: 
“Since the fact has been established that 
ivy-pOisoning is mainly due to the oily sub- 
stance carried by the pollen of poison-oak, 
ivy and sumac, men of science have found 
a remedy. This is the judicious use of 
soap, water and alcohol. 
Dr. Thomas A. Berryhill, medical in- 
spector of the United States Navy, is 
authority for this statement. When the in- 
fection first appears, he says, the parts 
should be washed vigorously with hot water 
and soap, then dried. Some time after- 
ward, flushing with alcohol follows. That is 
the treatment, and he says it is very ef- 
fective. 
Many persons seem to be immune from 
ivy, oak and sumac poisoning, while others 
assert that they are often poisoned in pass- 
ing close to leeward of one of these plants. 
This is not only possible, but probable dur- 
ing the warm season, when the pores of the 
skin are open. The infinitesimal globules 
of oil from the plant, carried by the pollen 
through the air, adhere to the exposed 
cuticle of human beings, and even to their 
clothing, in the latter case possibly to be 
absorbed on contact. If the oil of the ivy, 
which is soluble in alcohol, is once re- 
moved, and the affected parts soothed and 
coated slightly with alcohol residue, heal- 
ing takes place rapidly. 
Frequently persons are poisoned through 
putting on a sweater or a pair of gloves 
that have some time previously been 
brought into contact with vine or shrub. 
Dr. Berryhill gives such an instance which 
is interesting. A lieutenant applied to him 
for treatment for a rash that appeared on 
his hands while on board ship far out at 
sea. The physician diagnosed it as Rhus- 
poisoning, improbable though that ap- 
peared to be. Finally the lieutenant re- 
membered that a few’ days before the rash 
appeared he had donned clothing which he 
had previously worn while ashore on a 
shooting excursion. The alcohol treatment 
removed the ailment, and so confirmed the 
doctor’s diagnosis. 
Among many persons the belief prevails 
that ivy-poisoning affects the blood, and 
that recurrences of the malady affect them 
annually. That is nonsense. The affection 
is nothing more than a rash, an irritation 
of the skin, but one which is extremely 
painful to those who are easily affected 
by it. Bathing the hands and face with 
alcohol is for these persons a possible re- 
lief from poisoning if they have exposed 
themselves to the influence of the plants. 
COOK-BOOKS AND LITERATURE 
HE woman who likes to read cook- 
books is held up to scorn in several re- 
cent novels as a prosaic person, who lacks 
taste, sentiment and ideas, and who is 
clearly unfitted for any high destiny,” says a 
writer in the Youth’s Companion. “But if 
a general census of feminine likings were 
taken, the chances are that nine out of every 
ten sensible women would be found to take 
pleasure in reading a well-arranged cook- 
book. What is more engaging than turn- 
ing over the pages of yellowed old family 
recipes, rich in promise of delicious things, 
and written in the flowing yet delicately 
precise hand that was characteristic of the 
gentle mid-Victorian ladies? What really 
womanly heart does not thrill at the chance 
of looking through the “Widdowe’s Treas- 
ure” and the “Accomplisht Cook,” both 
published in the earlv Seventeenth Century, 
or does not long for the opportunity of test- 
ing the receipts of Archestratus of Gela, 
who lived and ate and celebrated his eating 
in the time of the younger Dionysius?” 
Cook-books are not to be despised. AlI- 
though they are not literature themselves, 
they are not widely separated from it. 
Balzac and Brillat-Savarin were enthusias- 
tic readers of them; in Thackeray’s “Irish 
Sketch-Book” you can find an excellent 
rule for “hot lobster,” in other words, the 
American “lobster Newburg,” and in one 
of the plays of the younger Dumas, a recipe 
for a delicious and elaborate salad. Not 
every man can bestow the order of the 
cordon bleu, as Louis XV did, but any 
average husband will appreciate his wife’s 
culinary abilities and praise her becomingly. 
If “civilized man cannot live without 
cooks,” the thing to do is to read and try, 
and read and try again. Ruskin says that 
“Cookery means the knowledge of Medea 
and of Circe and of Helen and of the 
Queen of Sheba.” 
