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��Glasses That You Can Wear In Comfort

PERSONS who are compelled to wear eye glasses know that, as a rule, the frames are either too tight and make the nose sore or so loose that they will not stay on. A West- ern surgeon thinks he has invented a frame that will do away with pain and profanity at a stroke. Instead of suspending the specta- cles by the bridge of j'our nose only, he has arranged springed ex- tensions ending in small plates that catch the face just above the eye at a spot where they escape a vital nerve or blood vessel This little de\'ice holds the glasses firmly in place and relieves most of the pressure on the nose, and at the same time it allows the glasses to be removed easily with one hand.

��Coat Racks Display

Advertising When

Coats are Hung

ACOAT rack which turns up an ad- vertising card auto- matically whenever a hat or coat is hung on one of the hooks is now being marketed by a Western novelty con- cern. The advertis- ing cards fold down into a small box like structure whenever the weight is taken off the hooks. When a coat, hat, or other garment is hung on one of the hooks, the

���hook is pulled down about four inches, and the advertising card is turned up into view. Naturally the attention of the person hanging up his garment is attracted to the add. This adver- tising novelty is now being placed in numer- ous restaurants, and other pubic places.

��Simple and effective is this de- vice for giving a firm grip to eyeglasses without nose-pressure

���An "ad" pops up as the hook goes down by the weight of the coat or hat

��AlUes Restrict Use of GasoUne

IN all the belligerent countries of Europe there is a great scarcity of gasoline, and every- where the most string- ent laws for restricting its use for the running of automobiles have been passed. Touring for pleasure has prac- tically been stopped. In England, some success has been achieved in running cars by coal gas carried in bags on the roof of the cars, but in Italy, with coal at $200 a ton, this sub- stitute is impossible. The price of gasoline is $2 a gallon, when it can be obtained. Somewhat better are the conditions in France, where gasoline may be purchased at $1 a gallon.

Switzerland is feel- ing the gasoline famine even more seriously than the belligerent nations, stock being so low that all private use of automobiles has ceased. Reports regarding Germany, coming through S\\itzerland, are to the effect that there- is no gasoline shortage for army use, but the lack of rubber is causing serious trouble.

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