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Improved Audio Amplifica-
tion Elevates Radio to
Higher Plane.
By JOHN F. RIDER
fn Radio World.
The cause of the objections volced
by musicians against radio as a medi-
um of musical entertainment has been
removed. Simultaneously, with the
same stroke, the goal of engineers in-
terested In the development of audio-
frequency amplification has been at-
talned. This step was accomplished
by one who has made many note-
worthy contributions to the science of
radio transmission and reception—
H. P. Donle, the eminent physicist and
engineer, His patents cover such
well-known {items as the alkaline
vapor tube, better known as the sodion
tube; the spiderweb coll, and many
gas content tubes used in radio. The
audio-frequency achievement is the
development of a new system of such
amplification known as truphonie,
utilizing new electrical principles of
operation. The electrical phenomena
utllized for the energy transfer be-
tween the circuits in this system is
not to be found in existing systems
and is the development of the In-
ventor.
Timbre Kept Constant.
The greatest objection voiced by
musicians against radio as a medium
of conveying music has been that the
reproduction was not natural; that is,
it was either low pitched or high
itched. Furthermore, that the rela-
tionship in amplitude of the funda-
mental and harmonic frequencies
when reproduced was not the same
as that of the signal when trans-
mitted into the microphone, A varl-
ance In this relationship changes the
timbre of the sound, and a soprano
sounds like a contralto and a violin
like a cello. They also claimed that
due consideration was not accorded
by the receiver engineers to the elec-
trical laws and physical laws pertain-
ing to the conversion of sound into
electrical energy, and the receptlon
of this electrical energy and its re-
conversion back into sound. Musl-
clans agreed that when these laws
are given consideration and the proper
relationship maintained between the
fundamental and the overtone fre-
quencies, the reproduction in the home
of the fan will be natural,
Impartial Amplification,
This new system fulfills the require-
ments and consequently nullifies the
objections. The frequency range of
the truphonic coupling units is from
37 to 10,000 cycles, with a practically
flat curve between 80 and 10,000 cy-
cles. This means that the amplitude
relationships between the frequencies
of a complex wave within this band
will be retained without any accentua-
tion or attentuation. In other words,
If a soprano sang.a 1,200-cycle note,
which contained for the sake of argu-
ment the third, fifth and seventh har-
monies with amplitude relationship of
respectively 30, 5 and 2 per cent of
the fundamental, they would be am-
plified uniformly and the amplitude of
the fundamental and the harmonics
would vary in the same proportion.
“This would make possible natural re-
production. If the fifth and seventh
harmonics were attentuated, the tim-
bre of the soprano’s volce would be
altered, and the reproduction would
not be natural.
Another salient feature of this new
system is the minimization of phase
angle distortion in the counling unit
and tube combinations. This form
of distortion is very seldom considered
design of the average audio-
frequency amplifier, and is extensively
present in many cases,
in the
How System Works.
The operating principle of this new
system of audie-frequency amplifica-
tion is the attainment of energy trans-
fer through a medium of balanced
electro-magnetic coupling and ecanaci-
tative coupling, a system dissimilar to
existing systems of aundio-frequency
amplification. The system 18 nonos-
cillating, and asaaptable to average
conditions without necessitating any
special equipment, The standard
tubes used for audio amplification are
satisfactory.
The design of the units comprising
an Individual coupling unit differ as
much physically from conventional
audlo-frequency coupling units as does
the principle of operation from any
conventional system. The balance
between the electro-magnetic coup-
ling and the capacitative coupling is
automatic within each unit, as to fre-
guency and the amcunt of power
passed into the system,
Rejuvenating Tubes
The success of rejuvenating tubes
depends upon the equipment used as
well as the ability of the operator to
use it properly, Many make a mis-
take In overloading the tube without
following it up with a gradual perlod
of overloading. In some cases just
the reverse is the situation, as, for in-
stance, where the operator decides to
glve the old tube a 20-minute period
of just moderate overloading, falling
to glve It a good shot of power at the
outset
! paired the buzzsawing that had an-
| noyed the radio fans disappeared.
|
Wave Trap Eliminates
Station Interference
A filter, or wave, trap which will
eliminate station Interference is shown
in the fllustration. Its construction
Is fairly simple, there being only
two parts, although the adjustment
of this filter Is somewhat complicated.
However, once adjusted, It needs no
further handling or dial twisting.
The parts necessary for this wave
are as follows:
1 variable 001-mf. low-
loss type;
1 variable condenser, .0005-mf.
loss type;
1 variable resistance, 0-25,000 ohms;
2 bakelite tubes, 8 inches In diame-
ter, 4% inches long;
¥% pound No. 22 DSC wire.
condenser,
low-
L1 consists of 55 turns wound om
one of the tubes. L3 is 45 turns wound
on the remaining tube, L2 18 wound
on top of L3, but is separated from
it by a sheet of empire cloth, or waxed
paper, and has ten turns. C1 is the
.001-mf, variable condenser. The the-
ory of this wave trap is as follows:
The incoming signal flows through
coils L1 and L2, The circuit compris-
ing L1 and C1 is turned to the fre-
quency of the Interfering station, and
the condenser is then set at that posi-
tion. The circuit including C2 and C8
is what 1s commonly termed an absorp-
tion circuit. The condenser of this
circuit 1s rotated until the signal of
the interfering station is heard at a
minimum strength. The circuit, when
TO ANT. POST
ON SET.
L2
Ly
Efficient Wave Trap Which Can Be
Constructed at Low Cost.
In resonance with the Interfering sta-
tion, will absorb almost all of the en-
ergy recelved from that station. The
energy Is recelved from coil L2, which
Is closely coupled to L3, and is also
closely coupled to L1. In this way
signals of other stations will be al-
lowed to pass through, but that of the
interfering station 1s dissipated in the
absorption circult. The resistance
across L1 and C1 serves as a statle-
leak, and Is variable to obtaln the best
adjustment possible.—Radlo News.
Wire Skinning Device
Made From Battery Clip |
Zn using the popular rubber-covered
stranded hook-up wire, considerable
trouble was experienced in skinning
the ends Zor connections until the fol-
lowing simple tool was devised. It
consists of a large battery-connection
clamp, the teeth of which are filed |
smooth. A small notch In the jaws,
Ha)
LL HOLE
de
Insuiation Remover That Is Made
From a Battery Clip.
roughly the size of the skinned wire,
Is also made with a file, With this
little tool you can do a neater job in
a fraction of the time necessary to
skin this type of wire with a knife,
and there is no danger of cutting the
fine strands of the wire.—Radio News.
Leaky Transformer Put
All Sets to Humming
One of the most bothersome talngs
to an owner of a radio set is the loca-
tion of a leaky electric transformer in
his neighborhood.
Radio owners of Walterboro, 8. C,,
recently had so much trouble with
thelr sets that the sale of radies de-
creased considerably, A radlo dealer
put experts on the job, who spent a
whole day going over the city trying
to locate the trouble, but it was not
until evening, when the electric light-
ing lines were used, that they found
it. It all was centered in a leaky
transformer, As soon as it was re-
Positive Phone Cords
Head-phones, generally speaking,
operate the best when the positive
OMES now another thrill. into the
scheme of summer accessories,
both beautiful and fashionable—the
velvet hand bag. These chic envelope
purses and hand bags, styled of velvet
in all-black or in enchanting pastel
shades, lend an entrancing note to the
midsummer costume.
It was a stroke of genius on the
part of an artist-born creator of things
lovely, who one day in Paris set the
fashion of carrying a black velvet
hand bag with the summer beflowered
\
frock. And now there is every prom-
ise of a hue and clamor for velvet
hand bags throughout the fashion cen-
ters of the world—and the vogue is
only at its beginning.
Elegance is the keynote to the vel-
{ vet bag which has become a part of
the summer ensemble. These new en-
velope purses and hand bags are 100
| per cent exquisite even unto the slight-
est detail of their finely wrought
metal finishings. And their linings!
| To see within one of these soft-shirred
bags is like looking into the heart of a
flower so dainty is its colorings and
|
|
| all that goes toward achieving an
esthetic effect.
The vogue for matching the bag to
some detail of the costume and espe-
cially to millinery is charmingly inter-
preted with velvet as the medium.
With the sheer midsummer frock
there is nothing prettier than the pic-
turesque pastel-colored crin capelines
{ banded with velvet ribbon of the same
PARIS SAYS VELVET HANDBAGS;
FROCKS OF ALL-OVER LACE
ed for, this almost unprecedented pop
ularity of lace, when we remember
that the present-day trend in the fash.
fonable world is frankly toward a
more feminine styling than has ex
Isted for many a season. So there we
have it—Ilace and the eternal femining
—which is ever and for all time a
truism of the mode,
Between many laces, choose the love-
liest, this is the complex confronting
fashion's followers today. It requires
a fine gift of discrimination to be able
A MESSAGE FROM PARIS
to select one from among a galaxy of
lace gowns, each of which seems pret-
tier than the other. There are the
modish all-black lace transparencies
which pose so alluringly over pink
silken slips, competing with delicate
beige lace frocks, filmy as a fleeting
summer cloud, and—glory of lace
glories—those pastel-tinted lace
gowns, which have just recently en-
tered the list,
The fashioning of the lace gown is
about as varied as are the types of
lace from which to choose, A model
which is as practical as it is charm-
ing, follows the redingote silhouette.
The beauty of this version of the lace
dress is that it can be worn over any
colored slip, being detachable and an
entirely separate proposition. See the
winsomeness of this style in the pic-
ture to the right. Such a garment
made of ecru or beige chantilly lace
is effective over either a self-colored
underfrock or over one of pale pink.
slde of the phones Is connected to the
postive lead of the “B" battery. Some
phone cords are marked with a red
stripe to indicate the positive cord of
the phones. But if the phone cord
tips are not marked try them connect-
ed one way and then reverse these con-
nections. The positive side will be in-
dicated by the connection that gives
the clearest and loudest signals.
Make New Radio Tube
Production of a radio tube which
embodies the elements of three ordi-
nary tubes together, with two stages
of amplification, Is reported to have
been accomplished fn Germany, This
tube is only slightly more expensive
than other types, It 1s sald, and radio
development 1s expected to be mate-
rially advanced by this invention. At
present crystal and one-tube sets pre-
dominate in that country,
color, the velvet hand bag repeating
the identical shade.
A combination extremely flattering
to the lace or chiffon frock is that of
| the velvet hand bag matched to the
| velvet shoulder flower. Other clever
| accessory sets include a velvet sleeve-
{less jacket with a velvet-banded hat.
| Recently narrow pastel velvet belts
{ have made their appearance,
| The Importance of velvet as a sum-
| mer item is very apparent, Accord-
ing to the prophecy of fashicn seers,
its present favor Is but a prologue to
| the prominent pari which it will play
| in autumn styles,
The mode Is reveling In lace. It is
lace for the frock, and lace for the
blouse, wraps all of lace, hats of lace,
too, and if you please, lace parasols
for this summer, It 8 easily account.
TWO PRETTY AFTERNOON FROCKS
In fact it may be worn to advantage
over any pastel shade. Note the wide
insertion of lace embellishing the
parasol.
The frock to the left demonstrates
the beauty of a summer frock which
adds a wrap of self-toned chiffon with
lace in a delicate tan. To many the
lace-trimmed chiffon frock is of more
alluring appeal than the dress all of
lace. An interesting style item in con-
nection with this model is the flowing
sleeve achieved by sewing on a wide
flare of the lace. Skirts which accent
wide lace flouncing as here pictured
are also in favor with the mode.
In millinery a smart item is the felt
hat with insets of self-colored or con-
trasting lace. Also the eyebrow veil
of dainty lace Is in fashion,
JULIA BOTTOMLEY.
(@. 1917. by Western Newspaper .Ualon.)
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© McClure Newspaper Syndicate
“GO ON, SADIE, GO AS FAR AS YOU LIKE. HAVE TWO OF 'EM!"
If you were busy being glad,
And cheering people who are bad,
Although your heart might ache a bit
You'd soon forget to notice it.
—Rebecca Foresman.
THE IMPORTANT GARNISH
T WAS a little New York city school
girl who raised her hand in the
cooking class when the teacher asked,
“What is a garnish?” and all the rest
of the class looked dumbfounded.
“I know, teacher,” piped Yetta.
“It's parsley.”
There are a good many women like
Yetta, who think that parsley is all
there is to the entire subject of gar-
nishing foods to make them more at-
tractive.
Parsley and lemon are the house-
wife's stand-bys for garnishes, because
they are always obtainable, twelve
months out of the twelve. The house-
wife who has not access to large mar-
kets can grow her own parsley in a
pot on the kitchen window sill. Of
course, lemons are always to be found
in every well-stocked kitchen, and
there is scarcely a day when it is not
needed for something. Fish, whether
canned or fresh, is one meat which
. With other decorative foods as well,
seems to demand a few drops of lem-
on juice to bring out its flavor, and
for such garnishes the lemon should
be cut into sections lengthwise, six
sections from one lemon. These long
sections are much easier to use than
slices are, though slices are decorative.
Cold meats look very tempting when
carefully arranged on a large platter
garnished not only with parsley, but
such as slices of firm red tomato, each
with a slice of olive in its center,
disks of carrot or cucumber, rings of
Sweet green pepper or onion, or tiny
disks of sliced sweet gerkins. Tiny
red radishes, either plain or cut into
buds, and whole olives are always
good looking, either on a platter of
cold meats or decorating a salad.
In garnishing salads and desserts,
nut meats and candied or maraschino
cherries are a pretty garnish. Stiff
Jelly may be cut into tiny cubes with
a sharp knife, or scooped into balls
with a vegetable scoop. This little
tool Is very useful, in making balls
of apple, banana, watermelon, beet,
ete, to rim up various dishes. Ca-
pers and tiny pickled onions are also
piquant as well as attractive gar-
nishes.
Voreo Inte,
(©. 1927, by Western Newspaper Union.)
)—
‘T HE YOUNG LADY
ACROSS THE WAY
The young lady across the way says
the man who first said variety is the
splce of life dide't know his philoso
phy would be applied to matrimony.
(@ by McClure Newspaper Syndieste.)
SOMETHING TO
THINK ABOUT
By F. A. WALKER
FIGHTING — RETREATING
GOOD many battles have been
lost because the commanding
general in learning how to fight, neg-
lected to learn how to retreat.
In the battle of life it is quite as
necessary to know how to extricate
yourself from a difficulty as it is to
know the principles of getting ahead.
The man who continues to attempt
what has proved impossible of accom-
plishment may have admirable cour-
age but very poor judgment.
The one thing that a good general
does when he is retreating is to KEEP
FIGHTING.
If you keep fighting hard enough
the retreat itself may be the means
of eventual victory.
A young man who has chosen the
wrong occupation, who has under-
taken a job for which he is not fitted,
will gain in the end if he retreats and
gets into a new and better position.
Most of us are best fitted for one
thing.
If ave try to be more than that or
other than that we sacrifice results,
and results are the only things that
count.
There are very few Michaelan-
gelos who can be equal successes as
sculptors and painters and architects.
It is only once in ages that there
is a man like Leonardo Da Vinel, who
was perhaps the wisest man that ever
lived. He attained eminence as an
artist whose masterpieces “The Last
Supper” and “Mona Lisa,” have been
reproduced more than any other two
pictures ever painted.
He was a great engineer, a wonder-
ful inventor, a musician of merit, a
botanist, a chemist, an astronomer, a
geologist, an explorer and geographer
and on all of these subjects he was
a voluminous and entertaining writer.
He was one general in a million—
he never had occasion to retreat.
Conduct your retreat in an orderly
manner.
Cyrus the Great, who won many
victories to have his head cut off by
the woman, Queen Tomyris, to whom
he lost the last battle he fought, said
of retreating: “Wher an army must
retreat, let the retreat be managed in
the safest manner and not in the
quickest.”
Don’t be in a hurry about changing
your work.
Don’t be impetuous and throwing
down your tools, or your books or
whatever you work with, walk out
with a “to h—I] with that job.”
Conduct your retreat in a safe, sane
way, fighting as you go, fighting to
find the right thing and the right place
where you will be worth most to your-
self and therefore most to everybody
else,
The one thing Is to be sure you are
doing something. Either go ahead or
retreat.
Don’t try to be a stand-still soldier.
There is often quoted a truism that
a rolling stone gathers no moss. But
moss is not a very valuable asset and
nobody need count himself a great
fatlure if he dies without ever having
possessed any.
A well-polished diamond is the most
valuable of the mineral family, and
the value comes to that only after a
good deal of rough contact with
things harder than itself which shape
and brighten it,
Go ahead all the time if you can.
But If you cannot go any further
ahead on the line you have chosen
don’t be afraid to “back up” and try
another road to success.
(@® by McClure Newsra per Syndicate.)
The Pity of It
“My objection to real life,” says the
heroine of a Scutch novel, “is that it
Isn't true to the moving pictures,”
ey UMANS : ji
: w Ine Me fa NE : You
By EVELYN GAGE BROWNE
HERE’S nothing to fear—you're
as good as the best,
As strong as the mightiest, too;
You can win in every battle or test—
For there's no one JUST LIKH
YOU!
There's only one YOU in the world
today,
So nobody else, you see,
Can do your work in as fine a way,
You're the only YOU there'll bel
So face the world and all life 1s yours
To conquer and love and live,
And you'll find the happiness that ea-
dures,
In just the measure you give.
There's nothing too good for you to
possess,
Nor heights where you cannot go;
Your power is more than belief or
guess—
It is something you have to KNOW!
There’s nothing to fear—YOU CAN
AND WILL
For you're the invincible YOU!
So set your feet on the highest hill—
THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN-
NOT DO!
(Copyright.)
mmr Jorn
WHEN I WAS
TWENTY-ONE
BY JOSEPH KAYE
At 21—Tom Masson Was a Travel-
ing Salesman,
T ABOUT this time I was a trav-
ing salesman, and I believe, one
of the worst salesmen that ever hap-
pened,
I was always ambitious to edit a hu-
morous paper and I particularly want-
ed to edit Life, but I did not take any
aggressive action, I contributed very
frequently to the paper when it was
started by Mr. Mitchell and it hap-
pened that occasionally some of my
items were misplaced, or something
else would happen, and then they
would send for me to come to the of-
fice to straighten things out.
One day, after such a visit, Mr.
Mitchell asked me to edit the paper.
I asked why he had thought to offer
me the position when I had not asked
for it and he replied that J had shown
such a readiness to locate the little
troubles regarding manuscripts, and
such ability to get things right that
he decided I had the type of mind to
keep the office going smoothly. —
Thomas L., Masson,
TODAY: Mr. Masson bears the ea-
viable reputation of being America’s
premier jokesmith, having written lit-
erally thousands of jokes. He was
the editor of Life for over a quarter
of a century and has produced many
books on humor. As a creator of the
jokes you read In newspapers and
magazines he has few peers in the
world.
(© by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
—(
SAWS
By Viola Brothers Shore
FOR THE GOOSE—
THINK you oughta learn kids from
the beginning to speak up for their
rights and pipe down about thelr
wrongs,
Doin’ little things yourself ain't no
savin’ if you could be usin’ the time
for big ones,
If there wasn’t no bad friends, there
wouldn't be no good ones,
FOR THE GANDER—
Women don’t like coaversation, Tt
gets in the way of thelr talkin’ about
themselves.
A silent woman might not keep the
conversational ball rollin’, but at least
she won't swaller it and start off In a
rubber of solitaire.
(Copyright.)
—C)
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