ST^ Popular Science Monthhj 



Increasing the Decorative Value of Portieres 



Wooden Balls Attached to Metal 

 Hooks Which Receive the Curtain 

 Rings Slide in a Hidden Groove 

 with the Movement of the Curtain 



PROPERTY owners have learned 

 from experience that the putting up 

 and taking down of portiere poles is 

 likely to result in more or less damaged 

 woodwork. 



They will be interested, therefore, in a 

 new device which does away with these 

 poles entirely, but without dispensing 

 with portieres or curtains. In fact, the 

 design increases the decorative value of 

 the portieres. 



This device looks like a moulding, but 

 there is a large opening through the 

 center and a slit in the bottom. Wooden 

 balls slide back and forth inside the 

 moulding, and metal rings attached to 

 them extend through the slit to receive 

 the hooks fastened to the curtains. The 

 moulding is put up and made a perma- 

 nent part of the standing finish, being 

 painted or stained in any color or 

 finish desired. Once in i^lacc, any set of 

 curtains may be attached and rem()\e(l 

 at will and in a moment of time without 

 injuring the woodwork. 



The moulding is fastened to the top of 

 the door o]Dening, of course, and if tiie 

 curtains or jKjrliercs are jiinned high 

 enough, there will be practically no 

 space for drafts to enter. 



The Latest Answer to 

 _ "What Is a Cold?" 



^=^TTM| ALTHOUGH you 

 — — ^^^1 1\. liave been told that 

 ^ ^^^1 "colds" are caught from 

 H I^^H others by the transfer of 



■ ^Pl bacilli of several ditTer- 

 I H^J ^^^ varieties from one 

 I I^^H person's nose, eyes and 



■ ' 'I J throat to another's, a 



■ : I I startling and rcvolution- 

 H' I I ary discovery just made 

 it- I I by a U. S. Army Officer, 



Dr.George B.Fos- 

 ter, Captain in the 

 Medical Corps, 

 shows that this 

 medical teaching 

 is almost certain- 

 ly wrong. 



From his elab- 

 orate experiments 

 and unexpected 

 results, it appears 

 that common 

 colds are caused 

 by a virus, present 

 in tile tears and nasal fluids of those 

 affected, so small that the most powerful 

 ultra-microscope fails to bring them to 

 view. They will easily pass through 

 porcelain filters, which successfully hold 

 back the bacteria of all known infectious 

 diseases, except such as hydrophobia, 

 nteasles, foot and mouth disease, infan- 

 tile paralysis, and yellow fever. These, 

 too, are ultra-microscopic. 



While the precise type of ultra-microbe 

 present in the virus of running noses, 

 sneezes, and tears has not yet been 

 identified, experiments thus tar prove 

 that the porcelain-filtered product will 

 firoduce colds in healthy people, and 

 that the mucus taken from the nose of 

 those who suffer with colds, and weak- 

 ened with water 90,000 times, still 

 retains this living virus. 



Tests of this lluid were made on 

 eleven physically sound soldiers and 

 five drojis of it were squeezed into each 

 nostril of each of the men. 



The discovery followed that colds 

 could develop from eight hours to two 

 days after exposure to the infection. All 

 of the men "caught cold" within this 

 l)eriod, though sonu' threw olT the effects 

 of the cold \irus williiii a few Imurs. 



