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Popular Science Monthly 



Let the Sausage Balloon Speak 

 You on the Screen 



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SCENE: Palm Beach, Florida. 

 Artemus is observed employing 

 every known photo -play gesture to ex- 

 press his infatuation for Viola Devvdrop. 

 It's plain that he is desperately in love. 

 You know he 

 is talking, for 

 you can see his 

 lips move. 

 Viola Dewdrop 

 seems dramati- 

 cally happy. 



Do you want 

 this beautiful, 

 heart-gripping 

 picture of hu- 

 man interest 

 suddenly cut 

 off, and the 

 usual, cold, dis- 

 tracting, ex- 

 planatory type 

 matter flashed 

 in its place? 

 Certainly not! 

 So here is a 



The picture 



Upon the sausage-shaped balloons appear what these 

 motion-picture actors are supposed to be saying 



suggested improvement, 

 remains on the screen. 

 Suddenly Artie's cheeks puff out and he 

 blows squarely into Viola's face. If you 

 have never before witnessed this type of 

 photo-play you may think that Artie is 

 trying to blow the powder from Viola's 

 nose. That is not so. Somewhere in the 

 cavity of one of his teeth, Artie has been 

 concealing a rubber balloon. He has 

 suddenly grasped the open end of the 

 balloon between his lips and as he blows, 

 the balloon is inflated until it assumes the 

 form of an over-sized 

 sausage. Upon this bal- 

 loon appears in plain 

 words, exactly what 

 Artie is saying. Is this 

 not a marvelous idea? 

 The mystery is all 

 cleared up now. Artie 

 says "I adore 

 you." Now it is 

 Viola's turn to 

 blow. On her 



rubber sausage ap- 

 pears the words 

 "What will the 

 neighbors say?" 



Meanwhile Artie's inflated balloon shrivels 

 up. Another which was secreted in a 

 cavity in his wisdom tooth takes its 

 place. This one says, "We'll move to 

 Barren Island where there are no neigh- 

 bors," and so on. 



In order to produce a photo-play of this 

 type successfully, we believe it will be 



necessary to 

 employ players 

 with plenty of 

 teeth. Each 

 tooth will have 

 to be carefully 

 hollowed out 

 by an expert 

 dentist to pro- 

 vide for stor- 

 age of the vari- 

 ous visible 

 s p e e c h-b a 1- 

 loons. With a 

 little practice 

 and patience, 

 the player will 

 have no diffi- 

 culty in locat- 

 ing with his 

 tongue the particular balloon required. 

 Temperamental and impulsive artists, 

 must be careful lest they blow too hard 

 and burst their words. 



Last September, Charles F. Pidgin 

 proudly patented this inflatable speech- 

 sausage. Congratulations, Charles! 



The Original Model for All Baby 

 Carriages Comes from China 



A 



An anliqiif Chinese perambulator. A primi- 

 tive canopy shields the baby from the sun 



LITTLE Chinese baby, who has 

 been an ancestor now almost too 

 long for even a Chinese memory 

 to recollect him, may have been the 

 first infant to be roUed out in a real 

 perambulator. 



The design for the queer little 

 vehicle, shown in the illustration, 

 dates back into such a dim 

 past that Confucius himself 

 is credited with its 

 invention in a be- 

 nignant moment. 

 It's resemblance 

 to a N oak's Ark 

 also speaks for 

 its exceedingly 

 ancient origin. 



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