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��Armless — But Able to Paint Pictures and Signs for All That

IN the little town of Chailey, in England, is a picturesque institution for cripples, known as the Heritage School of Arts and Crafts. Here for many years crippled boys and girls have had a chance to gain health and strength in the open air so that ultimately they could earn their own livelihood.

During the last two years, the school has extended its usefulness by taking in soldiers and sailors disabled in the present war, and re-educating them side by side wath the crippled boys. The example of the lads has proven a great inspiration to men handicapped, according to their own conception, beyond hope of ever again being useful.

In one of the accompanying pictures is shown an armless, crippled youth at the Heritage School of Arts and Crafts, paint- ing a tombstone for a favorite pet, buried in the Institution's animal cemetery. The boy holds the brush between his toes which have become almost as agile as fingers and is able to do very creditable work. The second picture shows this same youth teaching an armless child to paint with his feet.

����He holds the brush between his toes and is able to produce very creditable signs and pictures

At right: The armless master teaches an armless youngster how to paint with the feet

��The monorail car is held on the rail by the ore which it carries in bins on either side

Shipping Ore by Monorail Over a Two-Mile Gap

WITH a gasoline engine furnishing the motive power, a monorail loco- motive has been constructed in the Cceur d'Alene mining district of Idaho, to trans- port ore concentrates to the railroad. It is handling ore at twelve and one-half cents a ton per mile, whereas the old sys- tem cost four dollars a ton.

The car, with two double- flanged wheels, runs on a thirty- pound rail, spiked to the top of a heavy beam, while guide wheels on either side help to maintain the equilibrium. The bins hang low on the sides and each one holds a ton and a half of ore. One man constitutes the train crew. The bins are loaded from chutes and are dumped by levers. According to the in- ventor, H. W. Shepherd of Se- attle, Washing- ton, a car similar to that shown, equip- ped with a converted Ford engine, can be built for $600. The track costs about $2,500 a mile.

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