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Use This Match-Box to Light Your Cigar in the Strongest Wind

NOW comes an invention, patented by George Frank Waugh, a private in the United States Army, which seems to solve the difficulty of lighting a match in a wind. The device is simple. A small, round hole is made near one end of the cover of an ordinary match-box. Some abras- ive material is pasted on the correspond- ing end of the tray itself.

In order to light your ci- gar, slide open the cov- er of the box until the hole is free, insert

your match in the hole and strike it on the abrasive material on the end of the box. The released end of the cover provides a small walled-in space, in the shelter of which the cigar can be quickly and conveniently lit.

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��Cook With Acetylene Gas on the . Farm

THE country housewife need no longer use an old-fashioned range, even if her home knows not gas or electricity. The home acetylene heating apparatus can be used, with ex- cellent results, for cooking. There is no odor from the flame. The food is just as untainted as if it were cooked over wood or coal.

Since the acetylene stove need be lit only when in actual use, there need be no superfluous heat in the kitchen during the greater part of the day. Burners are so constructed that any de- sired amount of heat is obtained without delay.

Some accessories for the house- hold are instantaneous water- heaters, flame spreaders for heat- ing flat-irons, broilers and a gas- heated flat-iron.

��Cultivating Nerve by the Rope Bridge Route

WARD W. BEAM, a Quaker City physical culturist (of course he is a "professor"), has his own ideas about the right way to make the body subservient to the will. First and foremost he culti- vates "nerve," by teaching his students to do seemingly im- possible feats.

He takes his pupils into the country, se- lects a suitable stream and builds a rope bridge across it. One rope is a hand support and the other a prec ar ious foot-bridge. He tells Ills pupils to cross the stream via the rope route. Once started, they have to keep going or get a bath. Both women and men are able to negotiate the crossing with compara- tive ease after they have once done it. As Professor Beam assures them, it is only a question of "nerve."

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����Ward Beam, a physical culture teacher, makes his pupils cross streams on a bridge which consists of two ropes, so that they may acquire "nerve"

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