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Popular Science Monthly 



Trilby, of Lincoln Park, Chicago, Gets Her Nails Trim- 

 med Only Once in Six Months, But That Is Enough, Ac- 

 cording to Her Manicurist, and Too Often for Trilby 



When Manicuring Nails Is a 

 Dangerous Job 



MANICrRLNG a lion's toi'-nails is a 

 man's job, especially when the 

 patron is a man-eating lioness with a 

 recent killing to her discredit. The illus- 

 tration shows Cy De Vry, head animal 

 man at Lincoln Park, Chicago, cutting 

 the toe-nails of Trilby. A week previous 

 to this Trilby was known as a docile 

 creature particularh- attached to her 

 keeper, Flmerson Dietrich. In one das- 

 her reputation changed from a lioness 

 with a kitten disposition to the most 

 ferocious creature in captivity. 



The transformation took place when 

 Trilby was alone in a bo.x-car with 

 Dietrich. With no apparent warning 

 the l)east became ugly and attacked the 

 man, tearing at him with such fury 

 that he was unable to beat her olY 

 Before he could summon help 

 the lioness had killed him and 

 had already started in to eat 

 up the car. When Trilby's 

 toe-nails were manicured she 

 raged and fought the men, 

 but a pike pole and a rope 

 soon reduced her to a sub- 

 missive state. 



c liine, churning:, mowinglawn, 

 running an emery wheel, saw- 

 ing, operating a cream separa- 

 tor and turning a fanning mill. 

 It can be apjilied to almost 

 any small task where a gas- 

 oline engine may be used. 

 Primarily, howe\er, the trac- 

 tor is designed for small crop 

 culti\ation, in which work it 

 is said to excel in e\ery 

 l)articular the former and 

 time-sanctioned method of 

 cultivation by horsepower. 



The operator of the machine walks 

 behind and steers it as one guides a 

 lawn-mower. 



There is no necessity,- for expenditure 

 of energy in handling the tractor as it 

 pulls itself along at the rate of frf)m one 

 to three miles an hour. The machine 

 is capable of two thousand two hun- 

 dred revolutions a minute when it is 

 attached to another machine by means 

 of the comiecting belting and pulley 

 attachment. It weighs four lumdrcti 

 and tiftN' pounds and is made especially 

 heavy to insure traction. 



The Old and New Methods of Harrowing in 

 the Cultivation of Garden and Truck Crops 



A Garden Tractor Which Does Every- 

 thing But Mind the Baby 



A(i.\RDIlN tractor designed to take 

 the place of horse and man-power 

 in the culti\'ation of garden and true 

 crops has been placed on the market by 

 a Minnea[)olis company. In addition to 

 its usefulness as a tractor, the maciiine 

 also serves as a portable engine. 



The machine can perform twelve 

 distinct and wi<lcly varying operations; 

 among them, running a washing nia- 



