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Popular Science Monthly 



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Teaching English Girls the Art 

 of Milking 



'■jJAT arc you doing, 

 my pretty maid 

 "I'm practicing milking 

 Sir," she said — or 

 at least that is 

 what the girl in the 

 pholograjjli might 

 answer if you put 

 the <|ueslion to her 

 ill that wa\-. Sin- 

 is (jne of a number 

 of would-be-dairy- 

 maids who are en- 

 deavoring to solve 

 the problem of the 

 labor-shcjrlage in 

 hlssex, England. 

 Tlie instruction 

 classes are under 

 the direction of the 

 \V omen's W a r 

 yXgricultural Association, 



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and many 

 women and girls, some of them less than 

 twelve years old, are learning the fine 

 points of tiie art of milking without in- 

 (onxeniencing the cow. 



Tlu- de\ice employed consists of a 

 frame supi)orting a rubber bag which re- 

 sembles the udiler of a cow. The milk 

 or substitute litjuid is poured into tiie 

 bag, from which it is coaxed by just the 

 right ])ressure applied in just the right 

 way. 



Doing the Family Washing in 

 Your Rocking- Chair 



U.NDOrBTKDLY the 

 washing - machine 

 las jjroved to be one of 

 I lie greatest friends 

 which the erstwhile 

 household drudge 

 has found, \\here 

 there is an electric 

 motor to run the 

 machine it has re- 

 duced the labor of 

 laundering to a 

 111 i n i 111 u m . But 

 tlicre is still a cer- 

 tain amount of te- 

 dious labor in con- 

 nection with the 

 OIK' which is run b> 

 hand-power. 



The illustration 

 below shows an in- 

 \-ention by A. \V. W'olfskill, of ."Xdams- 

 town. Pa., which uiiii/es for the purpose 

 the energy expended in rocking to anil 

 fro in a rocking-chair. Two springs 

 under the seat of the chair, one at the 

 front and the other at the back, are con- 

 nected with the machine in such a way 

 that the slightest nio\ement of the chair 

 is comimniicated to the tub. It is not 

 necessary to rock \io- 

 leiitK' in order to cause 

 the machine to whirl 

 its contents rapidly. 



What are you doiny, my pretty 

 "I'm practicing milking. Sir," she said 



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An Inventor Invents Because He 

 Can't Help It 



NI". thing stands out conspicuously: 

 llic race of contrivers and iiuent- 

 ors obeys an inborn and irresistible 

 impulse," stales K. W. Taussig, Pro- 

 fessor of liconomics in IIar\ard I'ni- 

 \ersity. ("Inventors and Moiie\-Mak- 

 crs." The Macmili.iii (Dnipany.) "Cart- 

 wright was in (.lilticullies almost all 

 his life; yet he never relaxed his in- 

 terest in any and every sort of mechan- 

 ical de\'icc. Mdison made forttmes and 

 losi ihem again; but throughout In- re- 

 mained the same ania/ing and pi-rsistent 

 conlrixer. .■\n<l it would seem that no 

 satisfaction from pecniiiarv' success or 

 worldly recognition equals the absorbed 

 inleresl of trial, experiment. momI prob- 

 lems, happy solutions." 



Two springs under the seal of the choir com- 

 municate the motion to the washing machine 



