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���but a mere touch transforms it into a comb or into an envelope opener. All of it is made of alumi- num, except a small file of thin steel which serves as the nail-file. The inventor claims it would remind children to keep their hair combed and their finger nails cared for. And all this for two cents!

��The ram walks on the treadmill and operates the separator without being conscious of the indignity

Making a Ram Drive a Cream

Separator

A CREAM separator run by ram power is something of a novelty. The ram tries to walk out of the room, but as he is standing on a treadmill, all he does is to operate the machine for separating the cream from the milk. The proceeding is not only inhuman, but expensive in the long run.

��A Six-in-One Article— A Revelation in Usefulness

AP C K E T article about the size of a foun- tain pen, which, af- ter investigation, proves to be fully equipped to per- form all the ardu- ous duties of a comb, a ruler, a pencil-holder, a nail-file and an en- velope opener, has been invented by Mandius J. Mun- Hon, of Los Ange- les, California. In its simple dress, the article looks like a combined ruler and pencil,

���It's a comb, a ruler, a pencil-holder, a nail- file and an envelope opener all in one

��The Diseases for Which Man Blames the Beasts

ALTHOUGH animals are not L affected by the sicknesses and communicable diseases of man, yet, for some unexplainable reason, the scientists and phy- sicians declare that a whole host of oft-times fatal ailments of mankind are traceable to the beasts. The horse is blamed for spread- ing glanders, rabies, lockjaw and other diseases of five or more syllables. Dogs and cats are branded as the circulators of rabies, parasitic worms of different kinds, fleas and ticks. The cow is the worst offender. The list of diseases laid at her barn-door is headed with tuberculosis and grows constantly more blood curd- ling, until we wonder why physicians and scientists consent to the use of milk, butter and cheese which still lead the dietitians' list of nutritives.

Rats, squirrels and fleas spread the bubonic plague. We are prepared to believe that lice and bedbugs, flies and mosquitoes are the rapid trans- it lines for yellow fever and malaria. We are willing to forego the luscious oyster all the year round, if need be, to avoid typhoid fever. It will go hard with many of us, though, if the fish-day diet must be cut out on ac- count of the pos- sibility of tape- worm which the scientists say fish food carries.

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