Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1917 — THUNDER STORM INFORMATION [ARTICLE]

THUNDER STORM INFORMATION

Many People Are Needlessly Alarmed at Lightning. If you are out of doors., in a very severe electrical storm, the Electrical Experimenter offers the following rules for your protection: 1. Keep away from wire fehces. They may carry a dangerous electrical charge long distances. Cattle in pastures are frequently killed from the neglect of farmers to ground the wire of the fence. 2. Keep away from hedges, ponds and streams. 3. Keep away from isolated trees. Oak trees are frequently struck; beech are seldom struck. It is safe in a dense forest. 4. Keep away from herds of cattle and crowds of people. 5. po not hold an umbrella over you. 6. It is safer to sit or lie down in an open field than to stand. 7. Drivers should dismount and ‘ not stay close to their horses.

—sh —Du not work with any~large metal tool or implement. If you keep indoors: 1. Keep away from the Stove and chimney. The hot gases from the chimney may conduct the lightning to and down the chimney. 2. Do not take a position between two bodies of metal, as the stove and water pipe, for example. An exception to being near metals is the case of an iron bed. One of the safest places is on a mattress in an iron bed, provided you do not touch the metal. The metal surrounding you makes a safe cage which will prevent the lightning from reaching a person inside. 3. Do not stand on a wet floor qor draw water from the well or faucet. 4. Do not stand directly under a chandelier, near a radiator, nor on a register. 5. Do not use the telephone. The Philippine Islands are very productive of begonias and a California begonia expert is responsible for the statement that of late some sixty species and varieties never known to commerce have of late been found in our far eastern insular possessions. It is feared, however, that all of these need tropical temperatures and, therefore, are only subjects for greenhouse culture.

In Mexico, the hat is the symbol of a man’s standing in the community. The grandees of old Spain enjoyed the privilege of standing covered in the royal presence. The result was that they vied 4 with one another in the size and splendor of their hats; and the common people followed this example as best they might. In time, therefore, the hat became as distinctive on the heads men as the mantilla oa those of the women.