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but a mere touch transforms it 

 into a comb or into an envelope 

 opener. All of it is made of alumi- 

 num, except a small file of thin 

 steel which serves as the nail-file. 

 The inventor claims it would 

 remind children to keep their hair 

 combed and their finger nails cared 

 for. And all this for two cents! 



The ram walks on the treadmill and operates the 

 separator without being conscious of the indignity 



Making a Ram Drive a Cream 



Separator 



A CREAM separator run by ram 

 power is something of a novelty. 

 The ram tries to walk out of the room, 

 but as he is standing on a treadmill, all 

 he does is to operate the machine for 

 separating the cream from the milk. 

 The proceeding is not only inhuman, but 

 expensive in the long run. 



A Six-in-One Article— A Revelation 

 in Usefulness 



AP C K E T 

 article about 

 the size of a foun- 

 tain pen, which, af- 

 ter investigation, 

 proves to be fully 

 equipped to per- 

 form all the ardu- 

 ous duties of a 

 comb, a ruler, 

 a pencil-holder, a 

 nail-file and an en- 

 velope opener, has 

 been invented by 

 Mandius J. Mun- 

 Hon, of Los Ange- 

 les, California. In 

 its simple dress, 

 the article looks 

 like a combined 

 ruler and pencil, 



It's a comb, a ruler, a pencil-holder, a nail- 

 file and an envelope opener all in one 



The Diseases for Which Man 

 Blames the Beasts 



ALTHOUGH animals are not 

 L affected by the sicknesses 

 and communicable diseases of 

 man, yet, for some unexplainable 

 reason, the scientists and phy- 

 sicians declare that a whole host 

 of oft-times fatal ailments of 

 mankind are traceable to the 

 beasts. The horse is blamed for spread- 

 ing glanders, rabies, lockjaw and other 

 diseases of five or more syllables. Dogs 

 and cats are branded as the circulators of 

 rabies, parasitic worms of different kinds, 

 fleas and ticks. The cow is the worst 

 offender. The list of diseases laid at her 

 barn-door is headed with tuberculosis 

 and grows constantly more blood curd- 

 ling, until we wonder why physicians 

 and scientists consent to the use of milk, 

 butter and cheese which still lead the 

 dietitians' list of nutritives. 



Rats, squirrels and fleas spread the 

 bubonic plague. We are prepared to 

 believe that lice 

 and bedbugs, flies 

 and mosquitoes 

 are the rapid trans- 

 it lines for yellow 

 fever and malaria. 

 We are willing to 

 forego the luscious 

 oyster all the year 

 round, if need be, 

 to avoid typhoid 

 fever. It will go 

 hard with many of 

 us, though, if the 

 fish-day diet must 

 be cut out on ac- 

 count of the pos- 

 sibility of tape- 

 worm which the 

 scientists say fish 

 food carries. 



