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 Outdoors Yet Indoors

��IN an effort to solve the fresh-air prob- lem for city babies several enterprising inventors have devised arrangements whereby youthful Americans can be given all the fresh air they need and given it in perfect safety, at the same time allowing their busy young moth- ers plenty of time to do housework. As a result, manu- facturers have al- ready produced for the market tiny sleeping- porches which can be placed outside any window.

An iron brace capable of sustain- ing a weight of five hundred pounds pre- vents the porch from falling. Moreover,

��stout braces anchor the cage to the side walls in such a way that the strong- est of winds are robbed of all danger. Another feature of the miniature sleep-

����One hundred feet in the air — a sleeping-porch for babies

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