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��Here Is That One-Hand Cigarette Case You Want

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��were in the car, dying for a smoke, and the traffic so thick that you couldn't take your hands off the wheel for an instant? Of course you could carry your cigar- ettes in the packet in your vest pock- et, but they are crushed and they dry out. Here is a cigarette case de- signed to help you in just such emer- gencies.

You load the case when you start out by taking off the cover. After this you merely press down the cover with the thumb and push it back again. This causes a cigarette to be protruded about an inch so that it can be drawn out with the lips. A spring then pushes another cigar- ette into place ready for the operation to be repeated.

The magazine of this neat little device holds ten cigarettes of aver- age size. The case may be made plain or ornamental as in- dividual fancy may dictate.

���It's simple to get the cigarettes in and simpler to get them out — with one hand

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��On the left the cots are folded. On the right they are shown as they appear when used as beds

��Use Folding Bunks to Economize Space on Trip "Over There"

OWING to the lack of ships the trans- ports taking the American soldiers to France have to be loaded to their full capacity. In day time it is a comparatively easy matter so to dis- tribute the men that there is no overcrowding in any part of the ship. But at night the men have to sleep, and to be able to do that they must have sufficient room to lie down. The difficulty of providing sleeping room for the men on over- cro vded transports has stimulated in- vention. One of the simplest and best expedients adopted is shown in the ac- companying illustra- tion.

Hinged to upright posts are three tiers of folding frames, the free ends of which, when in a horizontal position, are supported by chains. Each tier has two of these frames, which serve as bunks. The elastic wire net- ting supported by the frames forms the mat- tresses. When the bunks are not in use they are folded up against the posts, an arrangement by which space is greatly econo- mized. Another ad- vantage of these bunks is that they are easily kept clean and sani- tary, and this is, of course, of the utmost importance where a large number of men are thrown together for several days in cramped quarters.

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