When the new photographic method of measuring is adopted by the tailoring trade, a misfit should be a rarity. Low or round shoulders will be unerringly recorded by the infallible plate, and the cloth may be cut and joined in such a way that these, and other bodily peculiarities, may be masked or accentuated, whichever [...]
Instead of cleaning your comb, let the comb clean you – that is, your hair. Antonio di Salvio, of Washington, Pa., invented the hair-cleaning comb shown below. The comb is hollow, and has perforations above the teeth through which the dirt in your hair is sucked. A motor-driven fan causes the suction, after the fashion [...]
“Do you dance?” “No.” “Why not?” “Can’t.” Such conversations are heard time and time again. “Ah, but anyone can learn to dance,” says Max Rothkugel, of New York city, “if he uses my dancing chart.” The chart dissects each dance step into its individual foot movements, and matches them to the notes of the music. [...]
A garage in London, Eng., has a very novel and effective arrangement for preventing rash driving in and out of its building. There are two gates, marked “in” and “out” respectively, which can be raised and lowered, both being normally lowered. Every car wishing to enter or leave the garage is thus compelled to stop [...]
Lake Michigan has proved, in one instance at least, an economical highway for house moving. The owner of a house and lot at Fifty-fourth Street and Lake Avenue, Chicago, and a lot at Lake Avenue and Seventy-seventh Street, desired to move the house to the latter, some three miles distant, but found that the moving [...]
Beginning with the bungalow, Southern California home builders have become noted for the innovations they have made in dwelling-house architecture and built-in interior effects. The very latest of the latter is a bed which, at the will of the occupant, may be either in the room or outside in the open air, yet, paradoxical as [...]
Business men of Honolulu, Hawaii, are preparing to build a modern hotel on the reef off Diamond Head, where the naval station is located. The most interesting feature of the hotel will be a glass-walled shaft which will extend down into the sea, allowing the guesets to descend and observe the wonderful sea life in [...]
Boxing on horseback is a new sport novelty which was recently introduced in Germany by a German officer who was a pupil of the Anglo-American Boxing Club of Berlin. The men shown in the illustration are Joe Edwards, a former welterweight champion of England, and Bobby Dobbs, at one time a well-known colored fighter in [...]
An Up-to-Date “Strong-Man” Trick. The illustration shows a novel “strong-man” trick which interested many people in German cities where the performances were given. Two strong-men, lying on their backs, hold up upon the bottoms of their feet a runway over which a large automobile, in which five persons are riding, is driven. Image/Copy credit.
The working of a 12-in. gun, the most powerful weapon now in use on battleships, is clearly shown in this drawing of the interior of a 12-in. gun’s barbette on an English “Dreadnought.” Everything is complete from the shell magazine far down beneath the guns to the hoods on the top of the barbette through [...]
“I’ll see you in the woodshed after tea.” Thus spake the fathers of yesterday; and when the time came there was a brief application of switch or slipper. Now all is changed, or about to be, since the recent Electrical Show at Madison Square Garden in New York city. The modern formula of punishment will [...]
A German inventor has devised the little contrivance here shown to prevent infection from kissing. It is made of silk gauze, in an ivory or metal frame. The gauze is soaked in disinfectant, and to this is added the scent of roses, cloves or peppermint. It is more of a oke than a serious invention, [...]
If the railroad traveler has a section in a Pullman car he can be made comfortable no matter how long the journey, but if he is an ordinary traveler who cannot afford to ride in other than ordinary accommodation coaches, and such are in the makority, the trip, if a long one, is a period [...]
What would be your sensations while you awaited the awful, crushing blow that would end your existence? Would your courage be equal to the strain of such a terrifying ordeal? Graphically, and with blood-stirring vividness, the author of “The Big Bear of Lonesome Rock,” which was awarded first prize in the Big Game Series of [...]
An electric car, operating in a tube, which cannot collide with another car, which is run by electricity and yet contains no motor, and which may be derailed and practically wrecked without injury to the propelling member is in almost daily operation at an experimental plant in Paterson, New Jersey ca. 1913. The car does [...]
Every kind of a bath from a mud to an alcohol bath is being given by physicians in different parts of the world as the best cure for a multitude of troubles. Among these baths electricity in the form of electric rays is receiving recognition in the medical world. The accompanying illustration (Fig. 1) shows [...]
