INDEX TO VOLUME 92 



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Beware of Poultry Which Comes Packed in Barrels 195 

 How the Pueblo Indians Celebrate Their Thanks- 

 giving 197 



A Floating Match-Safe Made from a Shaving-Stick 



Container 205 



Fake Messages from the Spirit World 206 



The Champion Single-Handed Noise Producer. ... 219 

 Don't Light a Match. Read Your Clock in the Dark 22 I 



A Mammoth Sun Dial 222 



A Peculiar Mandolin 225 



A Huge Panorama of Toys 228 



Fighting Fires with Searchlights 240 



Dogs Eat a Church 253 



Armless — But Able to Paint Pictures 257 



Viewing a Thermometer Through a Periscope. . . . 262 



If Coal Is Too Expensive, Burn Sawdust 262 



Your Watch — a Perfect Private Secretary 263 



An Anti-Check-Forging Device 265 



Use Your Ladder Properly and Avoid an Accident 267 



Setting President Wilson's Portrait in Type 269 



A Lawyer's Brief Case Is the Engineer's Knapsack 275 

 The Blind Have a Deck of Cards Al! Their Own. . 276 



A Sandpaper Label for the Poison Bottle 278 



To Make Your Shoes Last Longer — Oil Them 278 



"Ninety Degrees " Says the Regulator 279 



A Six-in-One Article — A Revelation in Usefulness . 280 



Sound Advice on Coal Saving 297 



The Original Model for all Baby Carriages Comes 



from China 326 



Have You a Little Cactus Candy in Your Home? . . 345 

 Coat Racks Display Advertising When Coats Are 



Hung 351 



Open Grate Fires Are Wasteful 357 



Fire-Ejttinguishing Apparatus for Individuals 358 



Display Device 414 



He Rides to Town on His Ox 425 



Novel Tea-Table Made from a Mill Stone 437 



Utati Kills F^our Thousand Rabbits at a Time. . . . 484 

 She Weighs One Hundred and Twenty-six Pounds, 



but the Paper Held Her 486 



The Masked Sign Girl 505 



An Automatic Window Closer 506 



Chicago Elks Install a Bronze Memorial Book. ... 517 



Talking to Yourself to Make a Sale 527 



Our Annual Coal Drama 530 



A Noose Used Not for Hanging but for Life-Saving 537 



Office Appliances 543 



Are You a Superman? If So, You Can Define 



These Words 553 



Carry a Stove in Your Pocket and Keep Warm .... 560 

 Helping to Make Los Angeles a Spotless Town .... 569 



The Orange Tree that Made Riverside Rich 583 



Woodpile That Is Three Hundred Feet High and 



Contains Seventy-five Thousand Cords 585 



The Metal Hose Man and How He Was Made . . 585 

 Whale's Tail-Bones Made Into an Attractive Sign 594 

 Have Your Collar Stiffened Once for All and Eat 



the Starch You Save 597 



A Floral Tank Struck a Warlike Note at the 



Pasadena Carnival 597 



Page 

 How Finger Prints Are Studied with a Handy 



Portable Desk 600 



The Smallest Portraits in the World 645 



Geological Map of Wooden Pegs and Strings 647 



Bicycle Short Cut in an Irrigation Ditch 664 



Freak Telegraph Key 665 



To Lock Ends of Belt, Slip a Pin Through Holes . . 667 



Ripening Bananas by Cold 668 



Trapping Salmon in the Far North 675 



Food That Goes Up I n Smoke 694 



An Expert Map Maker 712 



Shaving Your Own Neck 712 



An Underfeed Pipe 713 



Forest Fires Due to Carelessness 717 



Chimney Crashes Through Three Floors 720 



Ringing Out the Victory of Cambrai from the 



Great Bells of St. Paul's 726 



How Many Cubic Feet in a Ton of Coal? 730 



New Hats May Be Datigerous 730 



Cutting the Top off a Tree 733 



Los Angeles Values Her Trees and Conserves Them 749 



Transporting Oil Tanks Intact 752 



One Man Handles Collapsible Form 760 



Marking a Point on the Continental Divide. . . . 760 



Lighting Up East India 804 



You've Probably Escaped This Way of Being 



"Blown Up" 805 



Shoes for Mud Walkers 806 



Raising a Ghost to Prevent Waste of Commodities 806 



A Breath-Guard 807 



Hanging Flower-Gardens in Old Gas-Lamps 807 



Artificial Birds in the Flower Bed 825 



How a Floral Urn Was Made from a Boulder. . . . 825 

 Use this Detachable Handle to Protect Your Grip. 832 

 Over Fifty Different Woods Are Sold as Mahogany 834 

 Giant Granite Ball Tells Time with Great Accuracy 837 



Red Cross Knitters and Sewers. Use a Cane 848 



A Soap Bubble Can be Made to Last for Months . . 849 

 Fold Up the Propeller When You Want to Row . . 863 

 This Isn't the Only War With High Prices .... 863 

 This Submarine Raises Money Instead of Killing. 865 

 He Outswims the Ducks in His New Diving Dress 869 

 The Service Stamp Is the Latest Patriotic Device 869 



Worse Than Civil War Shinplasters 872 



A Tiny Rival of the Wrist Watch 873 



Knitting Is Not Confined to the Ladies 893 



Here Is That One-Hand Cigarette Case You Want 895 

 Making Things Harder for the Forger of Checks. 899 



What Makes the Rumble of Thunder? 903 



Half Million Words in English Use 903 



This Device Will Take Care of Your Street 



Clothes at the Theater 906 



A First Aid to the Singing- Teacher 908 



Canned Ostrich Eggs for London 909 



Looking Through Your Hand 91 I 



What the Twenty-Dollar Gold Piece Has Seen. . . 913 

 A Band of Brigands Were the First "Chauffeurs" . . 916 

 A Package Handle That Saves Your Time and Cord 91 7 



