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strips, and a trigger on the hammer
handle enables the operator to stop the
feeding of nails or tacks when he desjres
to strike more than one blow in driving,
or wishes to pound on something.
J*
SUBSTITUTE ALCOHOL LAMP
'X'FIE top of a Mason jar exactly fits
into the space allotted to the alcohol
lamp under the chafing dish. Some day
if you happen to be minus an alcohol
This Contrivance Will Be Found a Good Substitute
for the Alcohol Lamp
lamp get a Mason jar cover and twist
some wire, yes even a hairpin will do,
across the top so that it fits into the
grooves on either side. In the middle
of the cover attach some absorbent cotton
to the wire, and saturate it with wood
alcohol. When lighted it will prove to
be as good as any alcohol lamp ever
made. Outside of its use for the chafing
dish it is practical for emergency heating.
J*
NEW MASSAGE GLOVE
""THERE is a glove now on the market
for the masseur or masseuse wdiich
promises added comfort
to the victim being
massaged and less
work for the masseur.
The little circles
on the
fingers of the
glove are
small raised discs
of solid yet flexible
rubber. Between
these little
raised discs are smal
holes. The glove is
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first filled with the material to be massaged
into the skin, and the glove is
closed around the wrist of the wearer.
When the little round discs are worked
on the skin, the massaging fluid comes
out through the small holes. In this
way none of the fluid goes to waste, and
the temperature is more nearly body
heat than in the average rub.
J*
HOMEMADE CLOTHES DRYER
FOR OIL STOVE
A CLOTHES rack for drying clothes
^"^ over an oil stove can be made at
home from stiff wire by a person with
little skill. At the lower end each piece
of wire is bent into the form of a hook;
by means of sliding rings at the center
This Dryer Can
Be Made to Fit the
Top of Any Oil
Stove
and upper end a rack
is formed which can
be fitted to the stove
as shown in the illustration.
By sliding
the retaining rings
the wires may be disengaged
from the
stove, collapsed, and
stored in a small place.
RECORDS PHONE CALLS
A DEVICE for recording telephone
calls received when the telephone
owner is absent has been invented by
C. E. Bedeaux, an efficiency expert at
Grand Rapids, Michigan. It consists of
a steel shelf bolted to the battery box of
a telephone. At one end a clock works
is mounted which operates through the
medium of a cogged rod and a large cog
and a celluloid covered cylinder. On
this cylinder rests an ingeniously constructed
pencil which, through several
steel wires and a pinion, is connected to