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Inflicting Pain to Resuscitate Victims of Electric Shock

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When the supply of checkerboards ran out the Y. M. C. A. thought of using up old linoleum

Remember That Old Checkered Bedroom Linoleum?

WHEN the United States entered the war and hundreds of thousands of young men were drafted into the service of their country many questions arose which had to be solved. The problem of equipping, housing, arming and training the young soldiers and of feeding them in the camps and training quarters and later at the war front, de- volved upon the gov- ernment. Public spirit- ed citizens and patri- otic organizations un- dertook to provide the boys with entertain- ment and to supply small luxuries.

The Young Men's Christian Association decided to furnish checker boardsand men and employed a num- ber of women to pre- pare the games. As the supply of checker- boards, formerly im- ported from Germany, was soon exhausted, boards were made by mounting old-fash- ioned checkered lin- oleum on cardboard.

��the uninitiated, the treat- ment which a workman suffer- ing from an electric shock receives at the hands of his co-workers is inhuman and brutal. When a line- man, for instance, stringing primary wires, has received a shock, which caused him to lose his balance and fall to the ground apparently life- less, the first thing his working mates do is to take firm hold of the ankles of the limp body, raise it until the entire weight rests upon the back of the neck and then let it drop again. Next they will take a pair of connectors or any other heavy object and hammer the soles of the victim's feet without removing the shoes. While this is being done another comrade will pry open the mouth and yank for- ward the tongue, which is invariably swallowed in electric shock. By this time unless the man was instantly killed, he has recovered consciousness, the successive shocks of pain having in some way coun- terbalanced the effects of the electricity.

���How the new kind of "false teeth" would ajipear when in- serted in the mouth of a person

��We Shall Eat When We Grow Old and Lose Our Teeth

ROGRESS in dental science clearly indicates that we shall be enabled to masticate food in old age more readily than our fore- fathers could. Inventors are attacking the problem in various ways, and in some recent experiments the attempt is made to imitate nature by hing- ing the upper and lower mouth plates in the manner shown.

A coiled spring with- in the hinge separates the plates when the mouth is opened. Pro- . vision is made also for the side movement of the lower plate by em- ploying a horizontal hinge. This takes care of the usual grinding process in eating.

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