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Popular Science Monthly 



At Last the Breakfast Egg 

 Broken Into Art 



THE Nouveau Art 

 movement has 

 reached San Domingo. 

 There is a pine tree 

 in front of the thatched 

 domicile occupied by 

 the dusky family im- 

 mortahzed in the ac- 

 companying photo- 

 graph, but even its 

 own mother would not 

 recognize it now. In 

 an effort to express 

 their feeling for Art in 

 its relation to Life, 

 (observe that we use 

 the customary capi- 

 tals), these natives 

 have decorated the 

 pine needles with the 

 shells of the eggs which 

 they have eaten. The 

 family seems thor- 

 oughly satisfied with 

 the striking result. 



Has 



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No wonder there is an egg short- 

 age. San Domingo natives use 

 the shells for decorative purposes 



Work the Brake— Quick! Or 

 You'll Hit the Dummy 



"APPLY your brakes, man, or you'll 

 £\ hit the dowager crossing the 

 street." Remember when the automobile 

 instructor shouted that command? And 

 remember how you mistook the accelera- 

 tor for the brake and shot past the fat 

 lady at express train speed? 



Such an experience was unnecessary. 

 Study the ac- 

 companying 

 picture and 

 you'll be con- 

 vinced. You 

 could h ave 

 substituted a 

 dummy for the 

 fat lady and 

 with your auto- 

 mobile jacked 

 up on all four 



wheels, you A pulley draws the 



could safely dummy forward, 



have Struck her \^^ novice driver 



.J , , strives to stop the 



amidships. automobile before 



The apparatus the figure reaches it 



is the invention of John G. Torr, of Syd- 

 ney, New South Wales, Australia. 



In the car's jacked up position the 



front wheels may be 



turned at will and the 

 rear wheels may be re- 

 volved by the power of 

 the car engine just as if 

 they were running over 

 the road. A small 

 transverse shaft under- 

 neath the rear end of 

 the car is provided 

 with a pulley over 

 which the belt may 

 run and with two fric- 

 tion drums which may 

 be pushed into contact 

 with the sides of the 

 rear wheels to trans- 

 mit the power and 

 make the belt run. 

 This is done by means 

 of two small pedals, 

 one on each end of the 

 shaft. 



One of these pedals 

 is worked by the in- 

 structor so that the 

 belt is set in motion toward the front of 

 the car, carrying with it a life-sized figure 

 of a man by means of a small stop on the 

 belt. If the novice does not apply the 

 brakes in time to prevent the figure from 

 striking the car, by stopping the motion of 

 the belt, the instructor may stop it by 

 throwing the friction drums out of play 

 by releasing the pedal. 



If the skill of the novice is not sufficient 

 to prevent the figure from striking the car, 



the figure is 

 not broken but 

 is simply folded 

 down horizon- 

 tally on the 

 hinge on which 

 it is mounted so 

 that it can pass 

 on under the 

 car and travel 

 back to the 

 front of the con- 

 veyor, ready 

 for the next 

 trial of the 

 novice driver's 

 skill. 



