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Air Raiders Don't Like These Lights

DLTRING their recent rr.ids on Paris the German aviators were greatly disconcerted by rockets which the French sent up and which discharged, betore dropping, parachutes .vith bright- ly burning fuses. These para- chutes dropped slowly and their fuses cast a brilliant glare upon the hostile airplanes, making them a good target for the anti-aircraft guns. It is a safe guess that the free fireworks were n t enjoyed by the Germans.

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���The ground pine seems to grow naturally right out of the boulder and the effect is very attractive

��Artificial Birds Give a Realistic Appearance to the Flower Bed

BIRDS are sociable creatures. If one finds a pleasant spot and seems to stay around it, his presence will do more than anything else to attract others. For this reason the use of artificial birds in garden plots and as props on which to train growing vines has found favor.

The birds are pivoted on stakes of varying heights so that they may be used in beds of dwarf plants or tall ones. The effect is very pleasing to the eye.

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��Artificial birds mounted on sticks are ornamental in the garden and attract other birds to the spot

��How a Floral Urn Was Made From a Boulder

A LARGE granite boulder hollowed out as a receptable for a potted plant is the ornament which adorns the porch at the home of Paul Brochier, on West Adams Street, Los Angeles.

The rock is practically round, except that it is slightly flattened on the base to give it a firm setting. With an ordinary rock-drill the inside of the stone was hollowed out so that a large flower pot would fit in exactly. A small drainage hole was drilled through to the bottom and a ground pine was planted in the flower pot.

��Old Tin Cans Figure in Milady's Costume

FEW women who are proud of the fact that they wear hosiery, un- derwear and dresses made of silk, realize that old tin cans contribute from twenty to three hundred per cent, in weight to the glossy silks worn by them. The price of silk has increased enormously and to enable them to sell heavy silks at a price that will yield a reasonable profit and yet be within the means of the average purchasers, the manufac- turers resort to the practice of weighting the silk with tin tetra- chloride, derived from old tin cans. Five thousand tons of tin were used for that purpose in 1917. Don't throw away the empty tomato cans!

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