Cleaning a Bowling Ball Quickly 

 Without Injuring Its Surface 



IT often requires much time and pa- 

 tience to keep the surfaces of bowling 

 balls clean and round and smooth. One 

 alley manager found this cleaning ex- 



Place the steel wool in the cup, then turn 

 the ball on it until the surface is clean 



pense amounted to a considerable sum, 

 so to reduce the time cost he devised 

 the cleaning stand shown. It is not 

 necessary to have such an elaborate stand 

 as the one pictured, since the only re- 

 quirement is a concave or semi-spherical 

 depression turned in the end of a post or 

 of a piece of wood, which is large enough 

 to hold the balls securely and with a little 

 larger circumference than that of the balls 

 to be cleaned. Into the depression place 

 a pad of steel wool of sufficient fineness 

 to clean the balls without marring the 

 surface. A ball placed in this and given 

 a whirl or a few turns, will be quickly 

 cleaned. Afterwards it should be rubbed 

 with an old towel. 



Almost every alley will have an old 

 post used to set a ball in for the players. 

 Such a post is just the thing, but if it is 

 not available, one can be turned for the 

 purpose. In turning a post be sure that 

 the concave correctly fits the surface of 

 the ball.— S. E. Burkktt. 



A Primer for Carrying in a Motor- 

 cycle Tool Box 



PRIMING devices are not always at 

 hand for the motorcyclist, and on a 

 cold morning trouble follows if a rich 

 mixture cannot be drawn into the cylin- 

 der. While my method may be a very 

 crude one, it has helped me in many in- 

 stances. I procured a small vial or bottle 

 of sufficient size for one charge. This, I 

 used to catch the gasoline from the drip 

 cock and to transfer it to the cylinder 

 through a spark-plug hole. I keep the 

 glass vial in a piece of pipe which is care- 

 fully corked on both ends to prevent 

 possible breakage — Le Conte Talley. 



How to Make a Flashlight of 

 Dazzling Brilliancy 



AN excellent flash powder which pro- 

 i. duces a light of dazzling brilliancy, 

 may be made by mixing equal quantities 

 of magnesium dust and powdered chlorate 

 of potash. Place the mixture on a piece 

 of asbestos paper, and ignite it with a long 

 wax taper. In a darkened room the sud- 

 denness and extreme brilliancy of the 

 flash will dazzle everyone and produce a 

 startling effect. 



Supplying a Rib-Holding Piece to 

 an Umbrella 



AN umbrella-mender being without the 

 Xjl proper fitting to replace the upper 

 rib-holding por- 

 tion, marked A 

 in the illustration, 

 searched through 

 his kit until he 

 found a lower sec- 

 tio.n, B, that 

 would fit the 

 shank. As the 

 portion of the 

 shank under the 

 upper rib-holding 

 piece was rusty 

 and somewhat 

 thin, with a punch 

 he easily drove a 

 hole through it 



and the fitting at the same time. A nail 

 was inserted and clinched. When the 

 ribs were assembled the umbrella worked 

 as well as usual.— James M. Kane. 



Noil or 

 bred 



Changing umbrella parts 

 to make necessary repairs 



