Popular Science Monthly 



219 



Stopping That Draft from Ford 

 Pedal Slots 



ON a Ford auto- 

 mobile, it is un- 

 pleasant in the sum- 

 mer to have the hot 

 air from the engine 

 blown up through the 

 slots cut for the ped- 

 als and the hand- 

 brake, while in the 

 winter, cold air com- 

 ing up is uncomfort- 

 able. To remedy this 

 little defect, remove 

 the iron plate around 

 the outside of the 

 slot and place pieces 

 of live rubber taken 

 from a worthless in- 

 ner tire, between the 

 plate and the foot- 

 board, after which 

 the plate is again 

 screwed down tight- 

 ly. Slots are then 

 cut in the rubber. 



Pieces of 

 tween the 



modest roll of music. Not he! He brings 

 with him a bass drum, a snare drum, a 

 tambourine, a rattle, a tom-tom, a cow-bell, 

 a steam-boat siren, a 

 xylophone, sleigh 

 bells, cymbals, bird 

 calls, and various 

 nameless but vocifer- 

 ous instruments such 

 as one which imitates 

 the roar of a cataract, 

 or of breaking waves. 

 Then, using a talk- 

 ing machine to add 

 the notes of the piano 

 and of the violin to 

 the musical melange, 

 Mr. Reeves gives his 

 extraordinary one- 

 man concert, during 

 which he establishes 

 a record for musical 

 ambidexterity. Fire, 

 flood and catastro- 

 phe are mild ncise- 

 producers compared 

 with the agile Mr. 

 Reeves. 



live rubber are placed be- 

 plate and the footboard 



The Champion Single-Handed Noise 

 Producer of the World 



WHEN some PhiladelpTiia hostess in- 

 vites Mr. Henry Eckert Reeves to 

 come and entertain her guests, Mr. 

 Reeves does not appear with only a 



Ears Rust Out More Quickly than 

 They Wear Out 



OUR recruiting officers have made an 

 interesting discovery in gaging the 

 relative fitness of city and country boys 

 for service in the Army or Navy. City 

 boys have better ears. 



From the Washington 

 records of the Marine Corps 

 come the assertion that only 

 one boy in five among those 

 recruited in quiet neigh- 

 borhoods has the acuteness 

 of hearing possessed by the 

 average dweller in a noisy 

 town. The rejections on the 

 ground of defective hearing 

 were in the ratio of five to 

 one in favor of "city ears." 

 The surgeons and scien- 

 tists assume that the quiet 

 of country districts tends to 

 weaken, through disuse, the 

 nerves in the ear, while the 

 constant clamor of the city, 

 really keeps the aural nerves 



This musician manipulates the most remarkable collection 



of instruments ever assembled for a one-man concert responsive 



