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Popular Science Monti ily 



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Roof Is an • 

 open Nursery 

 Rnyme Book 



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 ,li^yme 



Scene projected by 

 automatic stereopticor 



This colorful display of mechanical toys filled the whole side of the court of a depart- 

 ment store. It held crowds of delighted children spell-bound each day for weeks 



Mother Goose, John Potter, and All 

 the Rest Attended Toy Town Show 



WHERE is the 

 mysterious 

 land from which all 

 toys come? New 

 York caildren re- 

 cently had an op- 

 portunity to look 

 at it. A large de- 

 partment store put 

 on a display show- 

 ing all the charac- 

 ters childhood 

 knows well, actual- 

 ly at work. Balls 

 revolved, heads 

 bobbed, "teeter- 

 totters" see-sawed, 

 a goose flapped its 

 wings; everywhere 

 was action enough 

 to catch and hold 

 the entire attention 

 of the crowds of 

 delighted children. 

 The panorama was 

 designed by W. F. 

 Larkin of the store's 

 force, and nearly four months' work 

 was involved in its production. All the 

 figures were mechanically operated by 

 a four-horsepower electric motor. 



A New Cure for the Capers of 

 Hot-Air Furnaces 



FREDERICK 

 E. JENKS of 

 New Haven reme- 

 dies the ills of the 

 hot air furnace by 

 placing a large tank 

 of sand inside its 

 top, and by using 

 an ordinary coal 

 stove for producing 

 heat. The sand ab- 

 sorbs heat when the 

 stove is hot and 

 then radiates it uni- 

 formly after the fire 

 in the stove has died 

 down and the heat 

 is needed. 



Here the invent- 

 or has placei a 

 parlor stove in- 

 side the shell of 

 a furnace. The 

 idea seems to 

 work well. The 

 sand is just as 

 useful in an 

 ordinary furnace 



Using stove ii.iiK.^^, .. l.ud 1)1 Loal keeps cot- 

 tage warm twelve hours in zero weathex 



