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If You Don't Smell All Right in a 



Bee-Hive, You're Kicked Out 



ALL bees smell alike to average mor- 

 l\ tals, but Dr. N. E. Mclndoo, whose 

 book, "Recognition Among Insects," has 

 recently been published by the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, has trained his nose 

 until he can recognize the three castes of 

 bees — queens, drones and workers — merely 

 by smelling them. He can also dis- 

 tinguish several other odors peculiar to 

 bees and their hives. His experiments 

 show that the bees themselves recognize 

 one another by individual odors, and use 

 the sense of smell for as many purposes 

 as human beings use their eyes and ears. 

 "Worker bees returning to the hives from 

 the field pass the guard unmolested, be- 

 cause they carry the proper sign, although 

 the hive odor they carry is fainter than 

 when they left the hive, and it is also 

 partially masked by the odors from the 

 nectar and pollen carried by these bees." 



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A Noose Used Not for Hanging But 

 for Life-Saving 



JUST escaped, perhaps, from danger, 

 the half-dazed fire victim often finds 

 descent all but im- 

 possible. 



To make this de- 

 scent safer, Hulda E. 

 Astarita, of Brooklyn, 

 NewYork,haspateni;ed 

 a new device. It is a 

 simple, swinglike seat 

 with a footboard at- 

 tachment. The parts 

 are held together by 

 ropes, and an extra 

 loop of rope is at- 

 tached, noose fashion 

 to both sides of the 

 carrier about midway 

 between the seat and 

 the top. 



This loop of rope is 

 slipped over the head 

 and allowed to tighten 

 itself about the upper 

 part of the body. Any 

 pressure on the foot- 

 board serves to tighten 

 the rope more securely 

 about the body. 



This new self-holding fire escape 

 is a Brooklyn woman's invention 



this military coat can be 

 into a union suit if desired 



Coat Tails Into Trousers 

 Free Movement 



THE new coat shown 

 in our illustration 

 affords closer protection 

 for the legs, inasmuch as 

 it can be buttoned tightly 

 around them. This ar- 

 • rangement prevents the 

 flapping of the tails of the 

 coat and makes walking or 

 even running much easier. 

 The new model also per- 

 mits the wearer to crawl 

 without difficulty and thus 

 makes itself valuable in 

 the trench style of war- 

 fare. A further use of the 

 new coat is that it can be 

 made to fit comfortably 

 into the high rubber boots 

 worn in the trenches, thus 

 preventing it from slop- 

 ping in the mud. 



When the overcoat is 

 not buttoned about the 

 legs, it presents nothing 

 unusual in appearance, 

 closely resembling, in fact, 

 the ordinary models. 



