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Popular Science Monihly 



Playing Ball with a Revolving Fan 

 as a Target 



ANEW game has been invented which 

 makes it cxtremeh- (iifficuit for an 

 I'xporiencod hall-thrower to disj^Iay his 

 ability. Inched, huk \ies eciiially with 

 marksmanship in running up a score. 

 For instance, the player throws a ball at 

 the target, which is made up of paddles 

 or fingers held yieldingly in cither active 

 or inacti\'e position. If the ball passes 

 through and does not touch the paddles 

 it rolls genth- down the alley and into 

 one of the high-score openings, generally 

 one on the outsiile. On the othi-r hand, 

 if the ball hits the paddles it is deilected 

 against the wire cage with such force 

 that it rolls with considerable speed 

 down the alley and thus into one of the 

 low-score openings. Howev'er, there is 

 nothing to prewnt a [joor shot from 

 scoring high, which means that the in- 

 experienced ball-thrower has an equal 

 chance with the experienced. A no\el 

 feature of the device is that the score is 

 constantly before the eyes and that the 

 balls are returned to the thrower as fast 

 as they are thrown. Of course, a person 

 who can throw a ball with considerable 

 force has a better chance of running up 

 a high score than the pjcrson who cannot 

 tiirow hard. The ball has to be thrown 



rather than 



tossed at the 

 revolving fan, 

 to make a score. 



Where the Linen Collar Started 

 and Who Started It 



TH1-: wife of a Troy, X. ^'., Ijlack- 

 smith is said to ha\e been the first 

 pt-rson to have made separate collars for 

 men's shirts. This hajipened in 1X25 

 and men have been suffering e\'er since. 

 Outside of inventing the separate collar 

 this woman did the family washing. 



Accordingly she set herself to work 

 making separate collars for her husband's 

 shirts and then made enough to sell 

 outside the home. This innoxation 

 attracted the attention of the Re\-. 

 I-^benezer Brown, a retired Methodist 

 minister, and he, with the aid of the 

 women of his famil>-, went about selling 

 collars. This was in 1829. 



All the work on these earh- cellars 

 was done by hand, for the sewing 

 machine had not yet been invented. In 

 those days not more than a dozen collars 

 a day were sold. Their name — "string 

 collars" — was especially ai)propriate, for 

 they were tied around the neck with a 

 string of tape attached to each end of 

 the collar. Except the bands, the first 

 separate collars were generally all linen 

 and of two thicknes.ses, although some 

 were faced with cotton cloth. They 

 were slightly stiffened and had higli 

 points extending alio\e the chin on 

 either side. 



The sewing machine was introduced 

 nto the collar industry in 1852, and 

 steam power was first used in 1855. 



The target is a fan composed of paddles and the object of the game is to throw a ball 

 through the openings between them while the fan is revolving, without toudiing them 



