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��Stopping That Draft from Ford Pedal Slots

ON a Ford auto- mobile, it is un- pleasant in the sum- mer to have the hot air from the engine blown up through the slots cut for the ped- als and the hand- brake, while in the winter, cold air com- ing up is uncomfort- able. To remedy this little defect, remove the iron plate around the outside of the slot and place pieces of live rubber taken from a worthless in- ner tire, between the plate and the foot- board, after which the plate is again screwed down tight- ly. Slots are then cut in the rubber.

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��modest roll of music. Not he! He brings with him a bass drum, a snare drum, a tambourine, a rattle, a tom-tom, a cow-bell, a steam-boat siren, a xylophone, sleigh bells, cymbals, bird calls, and various nameless but vocifer- ous instruments such as one which imitates the roar of a cataract, or of breaking waves. Then, using a talk- ing machine to add the notes of the piano and of the violin to the musical melange, Mr. Reeves gives his extraordinary one- man concert, during which he establishes a record for musical ambidexterity. Fire, flood and catastro- phe are mild ncise- producers compared with the agile Mr. Reeves.

��live rubber are placed be- plate and the footboard

��The Champion Single-Handed Noise Producer of the World

WHEN some PhiladelpTiia hostess in- vites Mr. Henry Eckert Reeves to come and entertain her guests, Mr. Reeves does not appear with only a

���Ears Rust Out More Quickly than They Wear Out

OUR recruiting officers have made an interesting discovery in gaging the relative fitness of city and country boys for service in the Army or Navy. City boys have better ears.

From the Washington records of the Marine Corps come the assertion that only one boy in five among those recruited in quiet neigh- borhoods has the acuteness of hearing possessed by the average dweller in a noisy town. The rejections on the ground of defective hearing were in the ratio of five to one in favor of "city ears." The surgeons and scien- tists assume that the quiet of country districts tends to weaken, through disuse, the nerves in the ear, while the constant clamor of the city, really keeps the aural nerves

��This musician manipulates the most remarkable collection

of instruments ever assembled for a one-man concert responsive

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