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(By Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Oct. 26. — The fact thai
digitalis, or foxglove, grows wild it
the states of Oregon and Washington
needing only harvesting and collecting
to be of great assistance in war medi
cal work, is deemed of higjh import
ance by the national defense council
The possibility that the Boy Scout:
might be utilized in ^his importan
work adds to the importance of thi:
organization, and the usefulness o
which it has shown itself capable.
The national council of defense ha:
taken up the matter of informing citi
zens as to the importance of digital!!
and its harvesting in the followinf
statement:
Heretofore digitalis, or foxglove, hai
been imported chiefly from centra
Europe. Inasmuch as digitalis const!
tutes the most important heart drug
the curtailment of importations pcca
sioned by the war gives rise to :
threatened shortage which would bi
a tremendous calamity, inasmuch a:
cardio-vascular disease is the mos
prevalent that “flesh is heir to.”
Recent work has revealed the fact
that American or home grown digi
talis is as potent and valuable medi
cinally as any which we have hereto
fore imported. Although digitalis is
not cultivated in this country for com
mercial purposes, it has escaped from
gardens and is found growing luxur
iantly throughout Oregon and Wash
wtoe. xt i* imt)*'cs!bl0 to estimate
just what citetfl digitalis is growing
in these two states, but certain rough
estimates would seem to indicate that
there is sufficient to supply the en
tire need of this country. This being
the case,* obviously such digitalis
should be collected a®d placed at the
disposal of the government.
That the need is a great one is evi
denced by the fact that the National
Research Council has requested sev
eral of the northern universities, not
ably Minnesota, Wisconsin and 1111
nois, to cultivate as much digitalis as
possible. The universities through
■ their departments of pharmacy, are
responding to the best of their ability,
i but due to the request coming late in
; the season, and secondly, to the dearth
of seedlings it is unlikely that the
i emergency can be met in this way
l The National Research Council is
- therefore, calling the attention of the
. people of Oregon and Washington to
- this opportunity of contributing
: gratuitious service in the conservation
- of wild growing digitalis in those
> states.
- The plant yielding the drug digita
lis is known botantcally as Digitalis
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Purpurea, and Is commonly known as
foxglove. It is a biennial plant, pro
ducing a large rosette or basal leaves
during the first year's growth. The
flower stalk and fruit are produced
the second year. In Oregon and
Washington, where the plant has es
caped from cultivation, it Is found
growing rstt'pr abundantly.
The plant Is very characteristic, but
those who desire to co-operate with
the government in the conservation
of the native supply, should take sped
ments to local physicians or pharma
cists for identification, before pro
ceeding with the collection.
The leaves are used for the prepa
ration of the drug digitalis, and these
may be collected from either the first
or second year’s growth. Only fully
mature, green leaves should be col
lected. Leaves which have begun to
, turn yellow should be discarded. Any
adhering sand or other foreign matter
should be carefully removed by brush
ing with a small hand scrub brush.
The proper drying requires consider
able skill and experience. The leaves
should be spread out so that they are
not more than one layer deep, and the
drying conducted in the shade or in
any oven where the temperature does
not exceed 80 degrees Centigrade.
Difficulty will be met In attempting
to dry the leaves without artificial
heat during humid weather, as they,
readily take up moisture from the at
mosphere. The drying process should
be continued until the petioles or leaf
5talk break easily with a short frac
ture.
The leaves will lose from 75 to 80
per cent of their weight upon drying.
When quantities of not less than five
pounds of dried leaves have been col
lected, they should be carefully pa<5*ed
In clean paper or cloth sacks, or bet
ter still, in air tight tin cans. In case
paper or doth bags are used these
should be placed in strong wooden
boxes for shipment.
All packages should* be plainly
marked with the name of the sender
or collector and forwarded' by ex
press to either Dean Charles W. John
son, University of Washington, Seattle
Washington, or to Dean Adolph Ziefle,
College of Pharmacy, Oregon Agricul
tural College, Corvallis, Oregon, or to
the local Ited Cross headquarters for
shipment.
KITCT IDE
(United Press, by Margaret Mason)
The new cooks had the kitchen done,
With blue it's motive note.
Because it matches up, you see,
Patrolman Casey’s coat.
NEW YOKK, Oct. 26. — When the
busy little 1917 decorator got through
with the library by hanking it in cloth
»f gold and carelessly tossing a black
velvet cushion with gold tassels on
the black and white marble floor, and
defying anybody to find a book in the
place, he called it a day and felt he
had beautifully acquitted himself of
a perfect home.
He had overlooked, however the
most vital of all in these days of the
servant famine. A spot where the lady
of the manor must needs spend most
of her hours or erstwhile ease — the
kitchen.
A kitchen specialist was at once
called in and when he had finished
with the spot one simply had to plead
with the lady of the manor to come
out of the kitchen before she would
tear herself away from the fascinating
place.
It is time the kitchen was taken in
a decorative hand. Even if you are tor-,
tuaate enough to have a little servant
in your home it makes the odds better
for your keeping her If you have a
color scheme that matches her aura
or a conventional pattern linoleum
that appeals to her conventional soul.
If you have your own house then
your super-kitchen has tiled walls, of
course, and red tile floor, but-even if
you must struggle along in an apart
ment with plaster wails and floors of
wood, do not despair. Take your cour
age and paint brush well in hand, and
when your walls have been done a
ceruealean hue and the woodwork
white enamel, then put blue and white
linoleum on the floor and proceed to
make sash curtains for the windows
of bright blue and white check .ging
ham. with the checks of half-inch di
mensions. A pink geranium in a blue
and white flower pot on the window
ledge, a collection of white mixing
bowls with bright blue , band, pots,
pans and saucepans of bright blue
enamel, blue and white scalloped oil
cloth on the shelves the same pattern
as the linoleum, an oval braided blue
and white rag rug on the floor and a
Windsor chair, white enameled, and
you have a blue and white kitchen de
lux that would tempt most any cook
to stay and break your blue and white
crockery. Even a blue Monday would
fade to insignificance in such fasci
natingly blue and white confines.
On the other hand, a yellow and
white kitchen will bring the sunshine
into the darkest Harlem flat. Paint
the walls in sunshine yellow with the
woodwork white, but then go a bit
farther with your ochre tints and paint
the stepladder chair, the table, the
kitchen cabinet all in a golden glow,
short only of the stove and sink.
Yellow and white Japanese toweling
makes quaint and appropriate sash
curtains for the windows of the yel
low kitchen and as a final finishing
touch-^ither a canary in a willow cage I
may swing in the window or a tortoise !
shell cat bask in the sunshiny glow j
of the table and chairs. Don't, how
ever, feel you must go the limit and
have both, as there would undoubted
ly be a clash and a jarring note. Ulti-’
mately, however, there is no doubt
but that both cat and bird would blend
beautifully together.
For the floor of the yellow kitchen
linoleum to stimulate a hard wood
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parquet floor is best, although yellow
and white patterned linoleum Is also
good. Don't throw out your perfectly
good aluminum or enamel kitchen
utensils, because they clash with your
sunshine color scheme, but If you do
have to buy new ones anyway, either
copper or brass pots and sauce pans
like they use "over there” will fit in
shiningly.
Either the blue and white, the yel
low and white, or the all white kitchen
is a winning trio to choose from. Of
course there may be a few- aesthetic
souls who are forced to wrestle with
the pots and pans in these present
days of stress who would prefer to do
so in an atmosphere of mauve or re
seda. Let them go as far and as
mauve as they like. If it helps them
to scour out pots In a purple sink or
fry flapjacks on a nile green stove,
who is there to draw the color line?
Unless, of course, they should be able
to snare a husky Bridget after they
got it all mauved up. She'd probably
proceed to paint it red for them, or
at least quit the job and then paint
the place black to all other applicants.
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