Tárogató, 1938-1939 (1. évfolyam, 1-10. szám)
1938-07-01 / 1-2. szám
TÁROGATÓ 15 ant-eater attacking an eight-foot ant hill, ripping his great claws into the tunnel and feasting on the ants; an ant-eater lying dead from the bite of a snake; a giant Jiburu stork killing a ten-foot snake and a huntsman bringing down a wing-spread Jiburu stork, spiralling majestically overhead, with a well-aimed puff of a slender poisoned arrow. And there have been men lying dead from the attack of perai fish, and perai fish eating other perai fish. The fight for life goes on and on, with each victor being killed by other foes.—Ex. Gold-Covered Mirrors A method of depositing gold upon glass and other surfaces has been discovered by Prof. Chas. Gibson, of Guy’s Hospital, London, Eng. Of the films deposited the heaviest was only 0.0004 millimetre thick, and the amount of gold to cover a convex mirror six inches in diameter cost only one-fourth of a cent. But in reflected light the mirrors appear like massive gold. The thickness of the film can be varied to suit the need. A Blind Boy Sees A very wonderful operation has been performed at the Royal Waterloo Hospital in London, Eng. Five years ago little boy was bom blind, with closed lids. If he had lived only a generation ago he would have spent his whole life in darkness, but this is an age of surgical marvels and he can now see. A piece of muscle was taken from the boy’s thigh and grafted to the side of the right eye. The doctors had found that he had been bom without the muscles which lift the eyelids. They transferred these muscles, and then the question arose, Would the eye beneath prove normal and healthy? Anxiously everyone waited for the removal of the bandages. Yes, all was well. The child could see. The operation has been successfully repeated on the other eye, and now a perfectly normal little fellow has started to go to school. We wonder who is happiest, the boy, looking out at this lovely earth, or his mother who has sorrowed for his darkness, or the surgeon who gave him sight? Youth and Missions Do we read the life-stories of such men, as, Kagawa, Livingstone, Schweitzer, Grenfell and Stanley Jones? As they know more about the needs of the field and the results of missionary work are the young people of our church concerned about sharing Christ with other young people? At a youth conference recently held in Cleveland a young Japanese student stood before a group of 500 young people and convincingly assured them that he was a product of Christian missions, declaring that when he was baptized he made up his mind to share Christ with his countrymen. The young people of the conference were most enthusiastic in their applause when he concluded by saying: “We don’t want your bombing planes; we don’t want your bomb-shells, but we want Christ.” Those, who know about missions and how relief is brought to meet real needsspiritually, physically and socially—are the ones who are concerned about a Christian world-brotherhood. —From “Youth”, by Ruth Heinmiller. World’s Smallest Book The smallest book in the world, and on the other extreme, the second largest, are both in the Congressional Library at Washington, D.C. The little one would not cover your fingernail. It is % of an inch long, % wide, and % of an inch thick. It is a copy of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Letters in this book, even those on the title page, are so small that they can be read only with the aid of a very powerful magnifying glass. The book’s forty-eight pages of thin Japan paper are stitched daintily together and bound in green paper. The minuteness was made possible by photographic reduction of a larger copy of the Rubaiyat. The miniature was acquired by the Congressional Library in 1900. It is displayed, under glass, in the front of the library’s second floor. —From “Youth”, by L. E. Eubanks.
