324 



Popular Science Monthly 



Toronto watched and laughed while a big monster of 

 a tank ran over 7-1 automobile. You can see the result 



Butchering an Automobile to Make 

 a Tank Holiday 



WE have been hearing for months of 

 the terrible destructive power of 

 those new Goliath's of war, the British 

 tanks. In 

 motion pic- 

 t u r e s we 

 have seen 

 them amble 

 along in and 

 out of great 

 shell holes, 

 crawling 

 over trees 

 and barbed- . 

 wire entan- 

 glements 

 and crushing 

 everything 

 beneath 

 them. It 



would seem 

 as if we were 

 a tankwise 

 people. Not 



so, however, with the Canadians. Like 

 the Missourians, the Canadians had to 

 be "shown" to be convinced. In other 

 words, the army authorities in Toronto, 

 Canada, had to run a tank over a per- 

 fectly good automobile to prove that it 

 was capable of destroying something. 



The accompanying illustration shows 

 that the tank did 

 its work well. The 



automobile — a lim- 

 ousine — was placed 



in the street on a 



thin sprinkling of 



earth. The tank 



approached, crushed 



the rear part of the 



machine to bits and 



then returned and 



ran over the front 



portion. Even the 



tires, which appear 



to be new ones, were 



not spared in the 



general wreck. We 



have several friends 



who would have 



taken good care of 



that poor, helpless 



automobile. 



They Can Always Borrow a Few Fine 

 Names from the Patent Medicines 



FINDING names for newly discovered 

 asteroids, or minor planets, is getting 

 to be as difficult a problem as naming the 



Pullman 

 cars. The 

 names of 

 heathen di- 

 V i n i t i e s 

 ware all used 

 up long ago. 

 Among the 

 more out- 



I a n d i s h 

 names now 

 found on the 

 list are: Ot- 

 t e g e b e , 

 Dudu, Jue- 

 wa, Abnoba, 

 L i b u s s a , 



I I m a t a r , 

 Aaltje and 

 S i e g e n a . 



With a pillow strapped to her back 

 and this guard on her head, the young 

 lady should be ready for all bumps 



Can the Little Lady Now Bump Her 

 Head ? She Cannot 



A LITTLE girl, sixteen months old, 

 just learning to walk, toddled to the 

 edge of her home porch one day — unseen. 

 She dived from the veranda to the con- 

 crete pavemen^ which was six feet below. 

 Her father, hoping 

 to prevent similar 

 accidents, invented 

 the protective hel- 

 met here shown. 

 The total weight is 

 only six ounces in 

 the small size. A 

 cloth inner cap and a 

 padded band make 

 it so comfortable 

 that a child forgets 

 in five minutes that 

 it is wearing any- 

 thing unusual. 



Larger sizes and 

 different patterns are 

 made to meet the 

 requirements of in- 

 dustrial workers 

 who need head 

 guards. 



