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��The Camera-Gun. Photograph Your Bird Before You Shoot Ilim

rHE expression, "take a snap-shot," becomes very real to the photog- rapher who uses a new camera support recently invented by George Lansis. The support is made in the form of a gun. The camera is attached to the barrel in such a manner that in sighting the object to be photographed, just £3 a target is sighted with a rifle, the exposure is made by pulling a trigger.

The camera may be attached to a real gun instead of to the support which looks like one. This arrangement will enable a hunter to photograph any bird or animal just before it falls a victim to his gun. Or, if the camera is equipped with a quick- action lens, the bird might be photographed at the instant it is shot, to test the hunter's ac- curacy.

With this device na- turalists could obtain a photograph of the ani- mal and the animal it- self within the space of a few seconds.

��sufficiently fine they curl and fluff out like wool.

The product is now marketed in three

forms — glass cotton, glass wool, and in

sheets about one-half inch thick which

resemble white felt pads. In the last

form mentioned, it may be used

to make sep-

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��The camera may be attached to a real or dummy gun

��The Wigs of the Future May Be Made of Glass

IN Venice they are spinning glass for commercial uses, converting it into glass cotton and glass wool pressed into sheets or pads. Although the principal use of the product at present, is for insu- lation, we have the word of the Italian makers, that it serves ad- mirably for making artificial hair, wigs, perukes, doll's hair, Santa Claus beards and other hirsute adornments. The processes of manufacture are simple. Solid glass rods, made of pure American soda that contains no adultera- tion of lead or other metal, are worked into fhifT under a Bunsen burner and blowpi[)e. A bicycle wheel, minus the tire, winds up the threads. If the threads are

��arators for accumulators of electricity.

��The Slacker Hen— She

Lays Curious but

Uneatable Eggs

THERE is only one thing to do for the hen who lays such eggs as the freak formation shown in the accompanying photograph. It is a case for the application of the verdict ren- dered in the old college song, "Chop Her Head Off^Short!" The freak has two decided curves and at first glance looks almost like a snail. It was laid in the same nest in which a dozen or more small eggs, like birds* eggs, had been found during the spring and summer. These tiny eggs contained no yolks at all. It is probable that the curiously formed egg shown here is also yolkless. There are two reasons for passing the death sentence upon the hen that laid the egg. One is that slackers in the poultry yard during war-time are not to be tolerated under any circumstances; the other is that the hen is unhealthy and is probably suffering from some internal disturbance.

���The freak crk phictd beside an egg of natural size and shape for the sake of comparison

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