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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



LMay i. 1914. 



New Rubber Goods in the Market. 



RUBBER AS AN ARTFUL AID TO TEMPERANCE. 



WE Staid .\mericans arc rather fond of referring to the French 

 a.s frothy and frivolous, but a recent Parisian invention 

 shows that the French are not only exceedingly ingenious, 

 but are essentially Puritanical. This invention is nothing less than 

 a drinking cane, intended to come to the assistance of its owner 

 when too grievously tempted. It looks like any other plain 

 wood crook-handled walking stick, except 

 that a few inches below the crook there is a 

 little lever. But this is not the usual walk- 

 ing stick — far from it ; for it is hollow and 

 contains a rubber tube reaching from the 

 ferrule to the end of the crook, which is 

 open. By working the lever up and down 

 a few times a vacuum is formed, and the 

 stick is instantly converted into a siphon. 

 When a man is invited to drink and prefers 

 not to, or is urged after he feels that he lias 

 had all his temperament requires, he deftly inserts the end of the 

 crook into tlie seductive cocktail or the rejuvenating highball, or 

 whatever it may be, lowers the lever two or three times, and the 

 liquid glides smootlily and silently down into the stick. This can 

 be repeated as often as the glass is filled, the stick having capacity 

 for a number of drinks. When the stick becomes loaded it can 

 be carried quietly to some unobserved place, a screw removed 

 from the bottom, the contents released, and the cane instantly 

 sobered up again. 



The possibilities of this great invention are obvious; but. 

 singularly enough, careful examination of customs figures fails 

 to reveal any large importations into this country up to the 

 present time. 



SHIRTS AND SLEEVES OF RUBBER. 



Baseball players who at the opening of tlie season or in pre- 

 liminary practice are required to reduce weight, find. the rul)ber 



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price is reasonable. 



arriving at tlie desired slenderness. as 

 well as effective protection 

 against muscular colds, while 

 N, the use of rubber sleeves pre- 

 vents the arms from becoming 

 sore, as they otherwise so fre- 

 quently do in spring training. 

 These rubber shirts and sleeves 

 sliould be worn over under- 

 garments of worsted, which 

 absorb the perspiration. Com- 

 pared with the advantages 

 afforded by their use. their 

 .A.. J. Reach Co.. Philadelphia.] 



HEATING APPARATUS FOR WATER BOTTLES. 



A patent was recently issued on an invention, tlie use of which 

 in connection with the hot water bottle is bound to increase the 

 popularity of the latter article, being a heating apparatus capable 

 of regulation to keep the water at any desired temperature. It 

 consists of a flexible core wound with a heating coil and sur- 

 rounded by a flexible casing, which is inserted in the ordinary 

 rubber water bottle, this device having a threaded ring which en- 

 gages with the ring in the neck of the water bag in the usual 

 manner and being supplied with means for electrical connection. 

 The attachment for controlling the heat supply is at such 

 distance from the water bag that it can be readied without in- 

 convenience to the user or without any disarrangement of the 

 coverings. 



THE SANITARY ERASER. 



While the rubber eraser can scarcely be said to be a new in- 

 vention, the one liere illustrated has the novel feature of being 

 encased in a liolder which by pressing at the loop end feeds down 



clean rubber until 

 the supply is ex- 

 hausted. The sup- 

 port of the casing 

 permits of the use 

 of a strip of rubber 

 onl}' one-eighth of an inch thick, which will erase one letter with- 

 out injury to those on either side, as is liable to happen when 

 the ordinary thick rubber eraser is used. Two rubbers of best 

 quality are offered in this form, one for typewriter and ink and 

 the other for pencil. [The O. K. Manufacturing Co., Syracuse, 

 New York.l 



A RUNNING-BOARD FOOT-MAT, 



.A rubber foot-mat inserted in the running-board of an au- 

 tomobile seems to serve a logical purpose, and a Boston house 

 has recently been showing some running-boards thus equipped. 

 The mat consists of rubber strips about IJ^i inches deep, held 

 in upright position and kept at proper distances by corru- 

 gated aluminum separators. There are many occasions when, 

 as one enters a car, it is highly desirable that he should clean 

 the mud from his feet, and with this sort of running-board 

 he can do so ; and when there is no mud to clean from his 

 feet this mat serves as, a satisfactory non-slip tread. fLinscott 

 Supply Co., Boston. Massachusetts.] 



NEW GLOVE PUMPS, 



The India Rublicr Glove Manufacturing Co. has always been 

 famous for the appearance and quality of its footwear. It 

 has just added to its line two new pumps, with canvas uppers 



and rubber soles. -As will be seen by the accompanying cuts 

 these are trim looking shoes, and they are made still more at- 

 tractive in appearance by the ornamental bow across the vamp. 

 These pumps are made both in white and black, and in men's 

 sizes from 5 to II, in women's sizes from 1 to 8, both men's 

 and women's being- made in three widths. Formerly, in the 

 days of the decorous and orderly waltz, no one would have 

 thought of dancing on rubber soles, but times have changed, 

 and to do the current dances one requires a tenacious hold on 

 the floor, whicli is provided by shoes like these. But apart 

 from the Tango and the Maxixe, these shoes are serviceable in 

 yachting and boating and for dress-up seaside occasions gen- 

 eral! v. 



Should be on every rubber man's desk — Crude Rubber and 

 Compounding Ingredients : Rubber Country of the .Amazon : 

 Rubber Trade Directory of the World. 



