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��Enjoy Your Snapshots Better by Enlarging Them

IF you are an amateur photographer with a hand camera for making only small pictures it will add a great deal

to your enjoyment

of them if you can enlarge them or, still simpler, look at them with an enlarging con- trivance like that shown in the pic- ture. The device is merely a five- inch concave- ground mirror set upright in such a manner that it re- flects the picture facing it.

The frame of the mirror is hinged to a board, which forms the base of the device when it is in use. Three slots, for obtaining three degrees of enlargement, are provided in the base and hold the picture to be en- larged. No focusing or adjusting is necessary.

Looking at snapshots with a lens is always interesting for it gives them "depth" and perspective. The camera being a one-eyed instrument, the photo- graphs lack this in the ordinary way. The lens-mirror remedies this. Frame and case are covered with black leather- ette, and the whole device folds up to a package one inch in thickness and six inches square. Amateur photographers who have used this contrivance have found it a valued part of their equipment.

��Grocery Store Has Combination Front and Awning

WHEN William Judd built his gro- cery store at Avalon, Santa Cata- lina Island, he had to have a front to the place, and he also

����This concave mirror enlarger gives "depth" to your snapshots without trouble or expense

��needed an awning. So, instead of go- ing to the expense of providing both, he combined the two.

Mr. Judd con- sidered that he didn't need a.\n awning when his store was closed, and when it was open he didn't need a front. So he set to work and built a rather substantial awning on a frame that works on hin- ges attached to the building. The awning is provided with hinged legs swung to the lower edge, which fold upward when it is lowered.

At the end of the day it is only neces- sary to fold up the legs, lower the awning, and lock it. When time to open the store in the morning, the front is unlocked, and raised into place to serve as an awning.

This arrangement is very neat and very convenient, but it appears to be only suitable for mild climates, and among strictly and universally honest communi- ties, as its rather flimsy construction would not keep either weather or persons out for long. So Mr. Judd's novel-groc- ery store front attests the confidence rhe has in Avalon folk. ;

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��Here is the latest thing in grocery store fronts, well adapted to warm climates. When the store is open it is a very effective sun-awning, and when the store is closed it forms the front wall

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