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Here's the Way to Acquire Pickford Curls

FEMININE hair is usually curled by "kid" curlers. That designation has no refer- ence to the age of the young lady but to a type of con- struction involving kid leather wrapped about and sewn upon thin flexible metal rods. The leather rods are wrapped about strands of hair at night. In the morning the rods are re- moved. Curls have grown about them overnight. But at what sacrifice to the youth- ful wearer! Kid curlers form hard lumps about the head, and hard lumps are painful. Sleeping with one's hair done up in such barbaric fashion is comparable to reposing upon a pillow covered with small hard rocks, which is not conducive to sleep.

But along comes Miss Ella M. Pickard, of Oklahoma, who has found a way to ob- tain the Mary Pickford curl without the discomfort. Miss Pickard has applied for patent rights upon a hair curler which, to our first horrified masculine glance, ap- peared to be a fat Havana cigar dangling from a young lady's scalp. Closer in- spection brings to light a roll of soft cloth, having at either end narrow cloth straps.

The young lady who is about to enhance her crowning glory simply gathers the strands of her hair together, wrap ping them snugly about the soft cloth rolls. The narrow straps are then brought togeth- er at either end of the rod, serving to hold the curl in place. When sufficient curls have thus been set in process of manufac- ture, she retires. The softness of the rolls prevents sleeplessness. And in the morning Mary Pickford has an- other rival. Painless

dentistry has nothing on Mary Pickford curls are

painless hair-curlers. produced by this curler

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���This fountain is a by-product of saving the trees from destruction by building an "island" around them

��Los Angeles Values Her Trees and Conserves Them

WHEN the city of Los Angeles recent- ly cut North Broadway through Holgate Square there was a clump of fine old pepper trees directly in the path of the grading. So the city, rather than cut the trees down, built an "island" around them. An unusual feature of the island is an ornamental drinking fountain which was built for the purpose of supply- ing thirsty motorists and pedestrians with a re- freshing draught of Adam's ale. The water is piped to the fountain from a street main.

���The Life of an Air- plane Is Short

THE number of German air- planes destroyed by the French aviators and the members of the Lafayette es- cadrille for the ten months ending October, 1917, was one hundred and twenty over the French lines, and three hundred and ninety- seven over the German lines — all total wrecks.

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