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Use This Match-Box to Light Your 

 Cigar in the Strongest Wind 



NOW comes an invention, patented by 

 George Frank Waugh, a private in 

 the United States Army, which seems to 

 solve the difficulty of lighting a match in 

 a wind. The device is simple. A small, 

 round hole is made near one end of the 

 cover of an 

 ordinary 

 match-box. 

 Some abras- 

 ive material is 

 pasted on the 

 correspond- 

 ing end of the 

 tray itself. 



In order to 

 light your ci- 

 gar , slide 

 open the cov- 

 er of the box 

 until the hole 

 is free, insert 



your match in the hole and strike it on 

 the abrasive material on the end of the 

 box. The released end of the cover 

 provides a small walled-in space, in the 

 shelter of which the cigar can be quickly 

 and conveniently lit. 



Popular Science Monthly 



This match-box provides 

 a small protected space in 

 which a match can easily 

 be lit in spite of drafts 



Cook With Acetylene Gas on the 

 . Farm 



THE country housewife need no longer 

 use an old-fashioned range, even if 

 her home knows not gas or electricity. 

 The home acetylene heating 

 apparatus can be used, with ex- 

 cellent results, for cooking. 

 There is no odor from the flame. 

 The food is just as untainted as if 

 it were cooked over wood or coal. 



Since the acetylene stove need 

 be lit only when in actual use, 

 there need be no superfluous 

 heat in the kitchen during the 

 greater part of the day. Burners 

 are so constructed that any de- 

 sired amount of heat is obtained 

 without delay. 



Some accessories for the house- 

 hold are instantaneous water- 

 heaters, flame spreaders for heat- 

 ing flat-irons, broilers and a gas- 

 heated flat-iron. 



Cultivating Nerve by the Rope 

 Bridge Route 



WARD W. BEAM, a Quaker City 

 physical culturist (of course he is a 

 "professor"), has his own ideas about the 

 right way to make the body subservient 

 to the will. First and foremost he culti- 

 vates "nerve," by 

 teaching his students 

 to do seemingly im- 

 possible feats. 



He takes his pupils 

 into the country, se- 

 lects a suitable 

 stream and builds a 

 rope bridge 

 across it. One 

 rope is a hand 

 support and 

 the other a 

 prec ar ious 

 foot-bridge. 

 He tells Ills 

 pupils to cross 

 the stream 

 via the rope 

 route. Once 

 started, they 

 have to keep 

 going or get a 

 bath. Both 

 women and 

 men are able 

 to negotiate the crossing with compara- 

 tive ease after they have once done it. 

 As Professor Beam assures them, it is 

 only a question of "nerve." 



Striking Surface 



Protected 

 Chamber"~^^ 



Match 



Inserted 



Here 



Ward Beam, a physical culture teacher, makes his 

 pupils cross streams on a bridge which consists 

 of two ropes, so that they may acquire "nerve" 



