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This glorified meter index enables Cincinnati children 

 to fathom the mysteries of gas and electric meters 



Teaching High School Pupils How 

 to Read the Meters 



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^HE indicators of gas and electric 

 meters are no longer mysteries to 

 pupils attending the Woodward High 

 School in Cincinnati. 



Pupils of the school have constructed 

 large duplicates of the gas and electric 

 meter dials. By the aid of strings at- 

 tached to the mechanism of the dials, 

 gas and electric consumption readings 

 are indicated at the will of the teacher. 



Safety Bottle in Which 

 to Keep Poisons 



QUICK, a little 

 medicine, sister 

 has fainted!" Many a 

 time at night the cry 

 has thrown the whole 

 household into confu- 

 sion and e.xcitement. 

 Some member of the 

 family rushes to Iho 

 medicine cupboard, 

 seizes the bottle stand- 

 ing in the place that had 

 always been re.served 

 for the medicinal brandy 

 and takes it to the sick- 

 room. The bottle seized 

 in the excitement of the 



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To pour liquid from 

 this bottle it must be 

 laid flat with the outlet 

 pointing straight up. 



moment does not con- 

 tain brandy, but car- 

 bolic acid and only the 

 timely discovery of the 

 mistake can save the 

 sick girl. 



The poison bottle in- 

 vented by Lee Howde- 

 shell and shown in the 

 accompanying picture 

 would greatly diminish 

 the possibility of such 

 fatal mistakes. The 

 neck of the bottle is not 

 at the top as in ordinary 

 bottles, but at one side. 

 Below the outlet is an 

 arrangement of walls 

 which makes it impossi- 

 ble to pour out even a 

 small part of the liquid 

 in the bottle without 

 careful manipulation. 

 The bottle must be inclined to fill the 

 narrow space between the walls of the 

 partition and then back, to allow the 

 small quantity of liquid to drain into 

 the upper compartment which communi- 

 cates with the neck. In view of the 

 attention required to extract the con- 

 tents, it would be almost impossible not 

 to notice what they were. 



We Are Now Growing Our Own 

 Camphor in Florida 



THE first and only 

 bearing camphor 

 plantation of any size 

 in this country is located 

 at Satsuma, Fla. It 

 contains over 2,000 acres 

 of camphor trees which 

 last year yielded over 

 10,000 pounds of crude 

 camphor. This year it 

 is expected that the 

 yield will be many times 

 this amount. Florida 

 has several other 

 plantations, which 

 will soon come into 

 1) e a r i n g . Ma n y 

 more trees are being 

 planted, and cam- 

 phor may soon be- 

 come profitable. 



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