October 1, 1914. 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



37 



SIX NEW TENNIS SHOES. 



\\ lion tennis shoes were worn almost exclusively in playing 

 tennis and other sports, or at least were confined in their use 

 very largely to Slimmer outings, they wire made altogether 

 without heels, this form being best adapted for wear in outdoor 

 games. But recently these light rubber-soled shoes have become 

 so popular for general wear thai there has arisen a demand for 

 similar shoes with heels, and in consequence the new tennis 

 price list issued by the United States Rubbei > o shows six 

 new shoes which have not appear d in any of their previous pub- 



AN OPEN WORK PENHOLDER. 



A new penholder has recently come on the market, made of 

 hard rubber, differing from hard rubber penholders previously 

 offered for sale in being hollow and having two long slits on 

 opposite sides running half the length of the holder and two sets 

 of short cross slits opposite each other between the two long 

 openings. This slitted open effect makes the penholder light 

 and somewhat elastic, so as not to tire the fingei i ven 



rasps his pen with unnecessary energy. [Tower Manufac- 

 turing & 1 Xew York.] 



Colonial Pump. 



Emjo Lot r 



Parade I 



Week End Oxfi i;n. 



Quarter Deck Bal. 



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lications, five of these shoes having heels. I be accompanying 

 cuts show their general app< :ai .nice. 



All of these shoes have rubber soles and heels, with duck 

 uppers. The "Quarter Deck" and the "Colonial Pump" are 

 made of buff or pure while palmetto duck with lining to match. 

 The "Regatta" and "Week End Oxford" are made of white or 

 brown duck, the former having a white rubber sole, the latter 

 a gray rubber sole. The "Parade Pump" is made in black or 

 white duck, with rubber soles and heels to match; while thi 

 "Emnrj Lou Pump," evidently intended for young girls and 

 children, is made of wdiite duck with white soles or golden 

 glow duck with red soles. As these duck shoes with rubber 

 soles and heels are so much lighter and more comfortable — to 

 saj nothing of being so much less expensive — than leather shoes, 

 they are likely in the future to be very extensively worn through 

 the summer months. 



PNEUMATIC TIRES FOR THE BABY'S HEAD. 



A humane woman of Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love — 

 including the extremely young brothers — has thought out a 

 simple apparatus for keeping infants from bumping their heads 

 on the floor or the wall. It consists of a pneumatic tube which 

 goes around the forehead and the back of the head, with two 

 similar tubes crossing over the top This pneumatic harness is 

 fastened on the head just like a hat, with a strap going under 

 the chin. Equipped with this resilient accoutrement, the youngster 

 can knock his head in any direction and extract only amuse 

 ment from the process. It is probable that for sick children, 

 who are very liable to tumble on slight provocation, this would 

 prove a useful device, but for the ordinary youngster a certain 

 number of bumps are a good thing, serving as a valuable prepara- 

 tion for the bumps of later life. 



EBONITE MOLDING. 



Ebonite molding for automobile bodies is now being turned 

 out in a variety of designs. This molding, while more especially 

 suitable for black finished vehicles and considerably more ex- 

 pensive than wood, retains its finish without much care and is 

 said to hold its shape, being easily bent to almost any curve. 



RUBBER COVERED TEMPLES FOR GLASSES. 



A good many people who wear spectacles chronically have 

 experienced the disagreeable sensation of having thi temples 

 (the nanu given to the wires that go over the ears I cut into 

 the Mesh, or at least chafe it. This i- particularly likely to 

 happen in hot weather, and i- especially liable to occur where 

 people are engaged in active exerci i Fo avoid this 

 culty the F. W. King Optical Co.. of Cleveland, Ohio, manu- 

 facturers of sportsmen's glasses, make a great many gla--c 

 in which a small, delicate rubber tube is pushed over the 

 temples so that the wire does not com, i | with the 



ear or the bead. This rubber covering not only teni 

 prevent chafing but holds the glasses firmly in place, a 

 dition much to be desired by men who are in pursuit of game 

 and therefore need the most accurate sight possible. 



VACUUM CLEANERS FOR PULLMAN PORTERS. 



That prophet of uplift and seer of visions. Elbert Hubbard, 

 recently contributed to the magazine sections, which form 

 a very readable part of many of the metropolitan dailies, an 

 article on the unsanitary phases of the Pullman car, and he 

 called particular attention to tin- industrious porter, who, 

 jusf before the arrival of the train at it- destination, grabs 

 the helpless passenger and with his whisk broom removes 

 the dust from his clothing on to that of his neighbors, and 

 then, after receiving his tip, proceeds to remove the dust from 

 the neighbors back on to the helpless traveler. Mr. Hub- 

 bard suggests, in place of this whisk broom, that simply 

 moves the dust from one place to another to move it back 

 again, that the porter be equipped with a vacuum cleaner — 

 -upplied of course with the proper length of rubber tubing — 

 with which ho can go over the person of the traveler, remov- 

 ing the dust in such a way that it would fly out into the outer 

 air. This is a most excejlent suggestion, and if the suction 

 wire made strong enough so that, after the cleaner ha 

 moved all the dust from the traveler's clothing, it would seize 

 upon the porter and carry him also out into the outer air. its 

 popularity would know no bounds. 



