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Popular Science Monfhli/ 



Turning Your Racket-Press 

 Into a Camp Stool 



A CASE or press for a tennis racket 

 that may be turned into a seat or 

 stool at the discretion of the player is 

 the invention of an Illinois man. The 

 idea is to utilize the press as a seat in 

 addition to its 



being used as a 

 frame for the 

 racket to hold the 

 latter in the profxjr 

 position to prevent 

 it from warping. 



Eight bars 

 depending from the 

 press are the legs 

 for the stool device 

 and when spread 

 they afford a seat 

 strong enough for 

 the heaviest man. 

 The apparatus is 

 so arranged that 

 the legs can act as 

 supporting posts 

 for the racket when 

 it is held in an 

 upright position on 



Where Freckles Come From 

 and Why They Stay 



A BEAUTIFUL face is a silent recom- 

 mendation and an index to your 

 slate of happiness and health. Even the 

 most peach-like skin proves to be a 

 pleasing background for a dainty brown 

 mole or "beauty- 



The press may hold the racket or be 

 spread out as a seat for the tennis player 



the ground 



An Old Lamp Used by Rubber 

 Gatherers in Brazilian Jungles 



THE Brazilian rubber gatherer, far 

 from civilization on the tributaries 

 of the upper Amazon, is often compelled 

 to use his Ingenuity to improvise sub- 

 stitutes for the articles which 

 he cannot obtain. This 

 lamp was constructed out 

 of an old gunpowder flask, 

 cutting the handle and re- 

 flector from an empty 

 kerosene can. The wick 

 is made from a piece of 

 gunny sack. With this 

 crude de\ice the native 

 lights his path through the 

 jungle when making his 

 nightly rounds to collect 

 the milk from the rubber 

 trees he is tapping. When 

 he desires a light for his 

 hut, whicli is upon rare oc- 

 casions, he uses the old 

 powder flask lamp, l)urniiig 

 it sparingly. 



spot." But there 

 are blemishes and 

 blemishes. 



What is usually 

 spoken of as frec- 

 kles are spots of 

 yellowish -brown 

 color. Especially 

 after the skin has 

 been exposed to the 

 sun for a long while 

 do freckles make 

 their unhappy ap- 

 pearance. They are 

 as unwelcome as 

 weeds, and as stub- 

 born as the mule 

 Maud. The face, 

 neck, and hands 

 are molested most- 

 ly, for they are much exposed to the sun 

 and are unprotected by clothes. Some 

 people are much more liable than others 

 to suffer these blemishes, and in some 

 they disappear cjuito quickly, while in 

 others they last a long time. 



However, in most instances, freckles 

 are the result of the action of the sun on 

 certain cells of the skin, which causes 

 these cells to produce color- 

 ing matter, or pigment, 

 which remains there for a 

 long time. Sometimes frec- 

 kles do not appear to be 

 caused by \er\- hot sunshine 

 orexiMisuro. but just seem to 

 come naturally, just as the 

 color of the skin is either 

 fair or dark, according to 

 the tendency inherited by 

 the indixidual. 



No matter how the .gorge- 

 ous iUuminations of a toilet- 

 articles counter ma>' appeal 

 to \()ii, or how the delicate 

 perfumes of read\--made 

 toilet lotions and freckle- 

 A lamp made from removers lure \'ou, the best 



an old powder flask advice is to shuii them. 



