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of the old machine's space, which works
by a tiny foot motor, and which can be
put up on the shelf when not in use. Its
electric motor is mounted permanently
on the machine head, and the cost of the
machine, motor and all, is less than that
of the ordinary high-class sewing machine
with its cumbersome cabinet. The
machine in its carrying cover is no
heavier than a suit case, and it can be
brought down and used on the diningroom
table, the window sill, and it can
even be tried on the piano. Any electriclight
socket will furnish the power.
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CREAM SEPARATOR FOR
THE HOME
•"PHE average family uses the cream
from the top of the bottle of milk.
It is a difficult matter to pour the cream
from the top of the bottle satisfactorily,
as with it comes a large portion of the
milk.
A little device, which is designed to
separate thoroughly the cream from the
HINTS FOR PRACTICAL PEOPLE 271
milk, is now on the market. The price is
but thirty cents for use in pint bottles,
and fifty cents for the quart size.
This device consists of a wire attached
to a rubber disc. The disc is a little less
in circumference than that of the inside
of the bottle at the bottom, and a little
larger than the circumference of the bottle
at the arch. The disc is inserted in
the neck of the bottle, folded, and gently
lowered until it reaches a level where it
the arch of the bottle, coming between
the cream and the milk. The cream then
is poured off readily.
LAWN CLOTHES PIN
THE sketch shows a simple clothes pin
recently devised for preventing the
Held Down Like This, Cloths Cannot Blow Away
blowing away of linens spread on the
lawn to bleach. It is made from a fiveinch
length of heavy wire. In use it is
pressed firmly into the sod.
NOVEL GARBAGE COLLECTOR
W/1LLIAM M. WALSH, highway
commissioner at Grand Rapids,
Michigan, employs a unique device, on
which he holds patents, in connection
spreads. Q It then is raised till it reaches
with his garbage collection system.
To any ordinary dump wagon a movable
crane is attached, mounted with bolts
and bars just behind the seat. A handle
controls the mechanism, easily operated
from the ground. From the handle a
set of gears communicates with a drum
wdiich governs a steel cable passing
through pulleys in the arm of a crane
and terminating in a yoke with two ironhooked
arms. These hooks fit over iron
nubs attached to specially constructed
cans. A second cable, terminating in a
crooked piece of steel, completes the
outfit.