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Popular Science MontJihj 



The Camera-Gun. Photograph Your 

 Bird Before You Shoot Ilim 



rHE expression, "take a snap-shot," 

 becomes very real to the photog- 

 rapher who uses a new camera support 

 recently invented by George 

 Lansis. The support is made in 

 the form of a gun. The camera 

 is attached to the barrel in such 

 a manner that in sighting the 

 object to be photographed, just 

 £3 a target is sighted with a rifle, 

 the exposure is made by pulling 

 a trigger. 



The camera may be attached 

 to a real gun instead of to the 

 support which looks like one. 

 This arrangement will enable a 

 hunter to photograph any bird 

 or animal just before it falls a 

 victim to his gun. Or, if the 

 camera is equipped with a quick- 

 action lens, the bird might be 

 photographed at the 

 instant it is shot, to 

 test the hunter's ac- 

 curacy. 



With this device na- 

 turalists could obtain a 

 photograph of the ani- 

 mal and the animal it- 

 self within the space of 

 a few seconds. 



sufficiently fine they curl and fluff out 

 like wool. 



The product is now marketed in three 



forms — glass cotton, glass wool, and in 



sheets about one-half inch thick which 



resemble white felt pads. In the last 



form mentioned, it may be used 



to make sep- 



ivnr 



The camera may be attached 

 to a real or dummy gun 



The Wigs of the Future May Be 

 Made of Glass 



IN Venice they are spinning glass for 

 commercial uses, converting it into 

 glass cotton and glass wool pressed into 

 sheets or pads. Although the principal 

 use of the product at present, is for insu- 

 lation, we have the word of the 

 Italian makers, that it serves ad- 

 mirably for making artificial hair, 

 wigs, perukes, doll's hair, Santa 

 Claus beards and other hirsute 

 adornments. The processes of 

 manufacture are simple. Solid 

 glass rods, made of pure American 

 soda that contains no adultera- 

 tion of lead or other metal, are 

 worked into fhifT under a Bunsen 

 burner and blowpi[)e. A bicycle 

 wheel, minus the tire, winds up 

 the threads. If the threads are 



arators for 

 accumulators 

 of electricity. 



The Slacker Hen— She 



Lays Curious but 



Uneatable Eggs 



THERE is only one thing to 

 do for the hen who lays 

 such eggs as the freak formation 

 shown in the accompanying 

 photograph. It is a case for the 

 application of the verdict ren- 

 dered in the old college song, 

 "Chop Her Head Off^Short!" 

 The freak has two decided 

 curves and at first glance looks 

 almost like a snail. It was laid 

 in the same nest in which a 

 dozen or more small eggs, like 

 birds* eggs, had been found 

 during the spring and summer. 

 These tiny eggs contained no 

 yolks at all. It is probable that 

 the curiously formed egg shown 

 here is also yolkless. 

 There are two reasons for passing the 

 death sentence upon the hen that laid 

 the egg. One is that slackers in the 

 poultry yard during war-time are not 

 to be tolerated under any circumstances; 

 the other is that the hen is unhealthy 

 and is probably suffering from some 

 internal disturbance. 



The freak crk phictd beside an egg of natural 

 size and shape for the sake of comparison 



