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HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION
Inventions and Appliances
AIDS FRUIT PICKING.
AN ORDINARY ladder may bo con
verted into s great help to fruit
picKers. Two pieces-of 8x4 Um
ber, about seven feet long, are bolted to
the bottom of the ladder, to rest flat on
the ground Two other pieces, properly
notched at one end to fit the rungs, are
extended to the ladder from the rear.
These may be moved aa desired, raising
Or lowering the ladder.
BUILDINGS MOVE.
ALL tall buildings are moved by the
rays of the sun and the wind. The
rays are strong enough to move
the immense dome of the Capitol at
Washington, D. C, six inches every day.
The movement was proved by suspend
ing a twenty-five pound lead plumb
from the top of the dome, a pencil
touching a piece of paper being attached
to the weight. In the morning the sun
Itaused the west side of the building to
expand. As the rays reached the other
ides of the dome, the expansion moved
rith them and at the end of the day
ihe pencil had traced an ellipse six
Joshes long.
GLOVE HAS A POCKET.
A MASSACHUSETTS woman has in
vented a glove with a pocket in
its palm and is preparing to put it
Da the market during the coming winter.
The woman who likes a handy place to
tuck away her carefare, latchkey, pow
der puff or small change will be de
lighted with the glove and its locking
flap.
CRTJSLER HOME SHIP FOB SUMMER
SAILING.
AN interesting typo of water craft is
that designed as a "home boat"
by a Detroit naval architect, com
prising a cruising capacity adapted for
any summer vacation period, with ex
ceptional accommodations for the party.
The boat is 34 feet long and 11 feet
beam. A state room, 71 feet by 6 feet,
contains a double, bed, with ample lock
er room, and connects with the main
eabin, a room 9 by 10 feet in size, "n
one side, and with a toilet room, 4 by
6 feet, on the other. The gallery or
kitchen is 5J by 6 feet, equipped with
alcohol range and every convenience)
for cooking, and has a large hatch in
the deck above for ventilation and
light. These rooms have 6 feet headway,
and every men o space is utilized. The
main deck is 19 feet long and is well
protected by a railing, and may be cov
ered with a canvas awning if desired.
The engine room is amidships, within
easy reach, the engine compartment be
ing entirely separate and well venti
lated. It is arranged for the installa
tion of a 20 to 30-horsepower 4-cylinder
engine, which will drive the boat at a
speed of about 10 miles an hour.
RACE TOLD BY THE HAIR.
QCIENTISTS are able, by the use of
O the microscope, to tell from a single
haman hair to what great racial
division the original wearer belonged.
If a cross section of the hair is ellipti
cat the man was black; if round, the
man was yellow or red; while the white
man's hair is oval.
The Australian native has hair with
the least diameter, the bushman of
Africa the next, then the American In
dian, the Chinese, the white races of
Europe, and lastly, the Japanese, the
coarsest of all.
The beard of a white man is 50 per
cent thieker than his hair, and is almost
identically the size of the hair of the
chimpanzee. The strength of human
hair is, as a rule, in direct proportion
to its thickness.
TRIPLE SCREW DRIVER.
p OR use when it is necessary to get
extra pressure, a screw driver with
a couple of auxiliary handles has
been invented. The extra handles are
detachable, being intended for use only
when it is desired to move a screw
which has been rusted in place or is
held by an accumulation of grime or
grease. The handles permit of greatly
increased force.
North Bank Booklet
I IGHT great productive counties of
la Washington are traversed by the
North Bank road. These divisions
and their respective communities, their
industries, products and agricultural de
velopment are noted in an attractive
36-page booklet just published by the
Traffic Department of the Spokane,
Portland & Seattle Railway.
The sub-title, "Prosperity Counties
Along the North Bank Road," defines
the character of the text and the illus
trations which are numerous. Every
section has representation and the
varied resources are enumerated in de
tail. Looking through the pages the
most casual reader cannot fail to be im
pressed with the remarkable diversity
of the districts of Southern and East
ern Washington lying east and west of
the Cascades.
"The North Bank counties," says
the introduction under the title of "A
Progressive Country,'' "have every'
thing that makes for permanent wealth,
Along the slopes of the Columbia are
sunny plateaus, rolling hill lands, wood
ed lands, mountain, valley, bench, river,
moadow and lowlands. Home
makers have accomplished within a few
years equally wonderful results on irri
gated and non-irrigated lands.
The soundest foreword that can be of
fered the prospctcive home-locator or H
vostor is: Take the time to investi
gate these districts; talk with others
who have made and are making good."
After describing each of the counties
and their geographical divisions, the
subject of markets is torched npon, in
a chapter entitled, "Market Outlets and
Cities."
The purpose of the publication is to
attract the attention of the intelligent
agriculturists of the East to the splen
did possibilities of the southern border
counties of Washington. Different sec
tions offer almost unlimited possibilities
in many lines. The chances for capital
and labor, it is pointed out, are excel
lent A very useful map is inserted in
the booklet in anticipation of coast
wise travel during the coming autumn.
Large distribution of the booklet will
bo made through local commercial clubs,
the state immigration department and
by immigration agents of the railway
system throughout the Eastern states.
THE MICROBE MENACE.
OTJR wide general information, in
this day of the Sunday newspaper,
- tells us that the real danger of the
timo is the quiet microbe. We could
even wish that microbes clankod chains,
and then we would know they were
about and speed for the prophylactic.
The innumerable devils of the Middle
Ages, invisiblo but always somewhere
in the neigrborhood, have been neatly
replaced by the discoveries of bac
teriology; and if we hadn't got used
to them, living would bo an almost im
possibly anxious performance. Tho va
cationist, reading the warning issued
by his government against the bacterial
dangers of simple country living, would
stay hopelessly in the city and then,
learning of the bacterial dangers of
summer life in town, would eventually
be driven to siucide by drowning as
the coolest way out of his troubles.
Microbes, microbes everywhere,
In the water, in the airf "
Kicking up a deadly row,
In the product of the cow.
You can almost hear them mutter
In the milk and in the butter.
Most fruit juices used in soda foun
tain trade have been artificial. Plans
are now on foot to utilize prunes and
other fruit that generally goes to waste
for the making of syrup for this pur
pose. The first factory is planned for
Olympia, Washington.
Many a case of illness conies from a
cellar that is not kept in a sanitary
condition. How is the one under your
house! ,
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ia applied twice a month.
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