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���Toronto watched and laughed while a big monster of a tank ran over 7-1 automobile. You can see the result

��Butchering an Automobile to Make a Tank Holiday

WE have been hearing for months of the terrible destructive power of those new Goliath's of war, the British tanks. In motion pic- t u r e s we have seen them amble along in and out of great shell holes, crawling over trees and barbed-. wire entan- glements and crushing everything beneath them. It

would seem as if we were a tankwise people. Not

so, however, with the Canadians. Like the Missourians, the Canadians had to be "shown" to be convinced. In other words, the army authorities in Toronto, Canada, had to run a tank over a per- fectly good automobile to prove that it was capable of destroying something.

The accompanying illustration shows that the tank did its work well. The

automobile — a lim- ousine — was placed

in the street on a

thin sprinkling of

earth. The tank

approached, crushed

the rear part of the

machine to bits and

then returned and

ran over the front

portion. Even the

tires, which appear

to be new ones, were

not spared in the

general wreck. We

have several friends

who would have

taken good care of

that poor, helpless

automobile.

��They Can Always Borrow a Few Fine Names from the Patent Medicines

FINDING names for newly discovered asteroids, or minor planets, is getting to be as difficult a problem as naming the

Pullman cars. The names of heathen di- V i n i t i e s ware all used up long ago. Among the more out-

I a n d i s h names now found on the list are: Ot- t e g e b e , Dudu, Jue- wa, Abnoba, L i b u s s a ,

I I m a t a r , Aaltje and S i e g e n a.

���With a pillow strapped to her back and this guard on her head, the young lady should be ready for all bumps

��Can the Little Lady Now Bump Her Head ? She Cannot

A LITTLE girl, sixteen months old, just learning to walk, toddled to the edge of her home porch one day — unseen. She dived from the veranda to the con- crete pavemen^ which was six feet below. Her father, hoping to prevent similar accidents, invented the protective hel- met here shown. The total weight is only six ounces in the small size. A cloth inner cap and a padded band make it so comfortable that a child forgets in five minutes that it is wearing any- thing unusual.

Larger sizes and different patterns are made to meet the requirements of in- dustrial workers who need head guards.

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