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��Light Up Both Roads When Your Automobile Turns a Corner

BECAUSE an automobile in which ho was riding one evening, went around corners so fast that it was dangerous, and because the front lamps were stationary and would not swing in the direction the car was going until it had turned completely, Frank E. Harvey of White Hall, Illinois, resolved that certain improvements in automobile headlights were necessary. Therefore, Frank E. pro- duced a very simple and commendable invention.

The idea is to makQ at least one head- light turn, and that at the moment the steering wheel is revolved. Thus one headlight shines up in the new direction while the other continues to light the old roadway. In this way light is provided in the two places most needed when rounding a corner. The connecting rod between the front wheels supplies the motive power which moves the lamps. Two pins are made fast to this rod near

���Ray from left lamp unchanged by left turn

��'■, Ray from right \lamp follows turn

���Steering rod

��each end, and the rod in its right-and-left movements causes one or the other of the pins to strike the arm of its bent rod leading up to the corresponding light. The illustrations show details. A

spring keeps the parts taut and ready to respond to all impulses from the pins and rod.

�� ��One light points straight ahead, the other in direction car is going. Steer- ing rod operates it

Below: Note how the light on left has turned with the wheels. Device

prevents accidents

��Two or three rolls will produce the warmest, brightest fire you ever kindled

Is Coal Scarce? Use the Newspaper Log.

'' I "*HE only virtue no one has ever

���no one denied a newspaper, is that it burns well. But as fuel as well as in news, it has always been short-lived. Hence the news- paper log! It burns from three quarters of an hour to an hour and a half in any fire- place or stove.

Spread five sheets of news- paper, folded once, on a table, with the folded ends toward you. Begin to roll them into a tight roll. Before the first section is completely rolled, in- sert another section, and continue until the "log" is from two to three inches in diameter. Saturate each roll thoroughly wdth kerosene.

Mr. F. H. Albee of Hyde Park, Mass. is the inventor of this economy.

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