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Shops, factories and offices should not 

 have exactly the opposite effect— by de- 

 priving the employees of the opportunity 

 they previously enjoyed of working in 

 their gardens before 

 beginning their reg- 

 ular occupations. 



Apparently the 

 procedure of setting 

 the clock forward 

 and backward has 

 not caused much 

 trouble on European 

 railways. Whether, 

 with our much lar- 

 ger proportion of 

 single - track lines, 

 we can follow the 

 same plan with im- 

 punity is still un- 

 certain. 



Obviously daylight-saving has much 

 to commend it. What can be said against 

 it? Many arguments urged by its op- 

 ponents are fallacious and frivolous. It 

 has been called unscientific, but it is 

 purely a practical mea- 

 sure, with which sci- 

 ence has little to do; 

 it has been looked 

 upon as immoral, be- 

 cause a certain amount 

 of "deception" is sup- 

 posed to be involved 

 in it — as if there could 

 be any deception in a 

 mere change in con- 

 ventional time-keep- 

 keeping publicly esta- 

 blished by law! 



The real argument 

 against the daylight- 

 saving scheme is that 

 civilized humanity has 

 a strong liking for 

 artificial light — even 

 though it costs money. 

 Many — ^perhaps most 

 — of us have no desire 

 to go to the bed with 

 the chickens, and it is 

 a plausible hypothesis 

 that the daily alterna- 

 tion of natural and 

 artificial light has a 

 beneficial effect upon 

 health, analogous to 



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U Diameter of base of co[\e 2,500 ft 



t\ear|y Vi mile 



England saved 300,000 tons of coal in one 

 year. The diagram shows the size of the 

 heap. It is equal to a 215-foot cube 



that which we derive from the change- 

 able "cyclonic" weather of middle lati- 

 tudes, constituting the most stimulating of 

 all climates, though it is hardly parallel. 

 That thrifty old 

 soul, Benjamin 

 Franklin, was an 

 enthusiastic day- 

 light-saver, and one 

 of the first to formu- 

 late an opinion on 

 the subject. In a 

 much-quoted essay 

 he took the people 

 of Paris to task for 

 lying abed hours af- 

 ter sun-up — a prac- 

 tice resulting in 

 needless expendi- 

 tures for candles. 



This little machine winds thousands 

 of bandages a day for our soldiers 



Electricity Makes the Winding 

 of Bandages Easier 



IT is only fit that electricity, which is so 

 widely used as an aid in the destruc- 

 tive work of the war 

 should also contribute 

 its share to the efforts 

 of healing the wounds 

 caused by the war. 

 An electrical contri- 

 vance shown in the 

 picture, is now used in 

 the workshops of the 

 Red Cross for expedi- 

 ting the formerly slow 

 and laborious work of 

 winding bandages. It 

 is a reel of simple con- 

 struction, driven by a 

 small electric motor 

 supplied with power 

 from any household 

 lighting circuit. 



This contrivance ob- 

 viates much handling 

 of the bandages and 

 so prevents, to a great 

 extent, their contami- 

 nation. The greatest 

 advantage, however, is 

 its speed, which is a 

 boon when requisitions 

 for many thousands of 

 these bandages have 

 to be rapidly filled. 



