552 



Popular Science Monthly 



Inflicting Pain to Resuscitate 

 Victims of Electric Shock 



T' 



tG Western Newspaper Union 



When the supply of checkerboards ran out the 

 Y. M. C. A. thought of using up old linoleum 



Remember That Old Checkered 

 Bedroom Linoleum? 



WHEN the United States entered the 

 war and hundreds of thousands of 

 young men were drafted into the service 

 of their country many questions arose 

 which had to be solved. The problem of 

 equipping, housing, arming and training 

 the young soldiers and 

 of feeding them in the 

 camps and training 

 quarters and later at 

 the war front, de- 

 volved upon the gov- 

 ernment. Public spirit- 

 ed citizens and patri- 

 otic organizations un- 

 dertook to provide the 

 boys with entertain- 

 ment and to supply 

 small luxuries. 



The Young Men's 

 Christian Association 

 decided to furnish 

 checker boardsand men 

 and employed a num- 

 ber of women to pre- 

 pare the games. As the 

 supply of checker- 

 boards, formerly im- 

 ported from Germany, 

 was soon exhausted, 

 boards were made by 

 mounting old-fash- 

 ioned checkered lin- 

 oleum on cardboard. 



the uninitiated, the treat- 

 ment which a workman suffer- 

 ing from an electric shock receives 

 at the hands of his co-workers is 

 inhuman and brutal. When a line- 

 man, for instance, stringing primary 

 wires, has received a shock, which 

 caused him to lose his balance and 

 fall to the ground apparently life- 

 less, the first thing his working 

 mates do is to take firm hold of the 

 ankles of the limp body, raise it 

 until the entire weight rests upon 

 the back of the neck and then let it 

 drop again. Next they will take a 

 pair of connectors or any other heavy 

 object and hammer the soles of the 

 victim's feet without removing the shoes. 

 While this is being done another comrade 

 will pry open the mouth and yank for- 

 ward the tongue, which is invariably 

 swallowed in electric shock. By this time 

 unless the man was instantly killed, he has 

 recovered consciousness, the successive 

 shocks of pain having in some way coun- 

 terbalanced the effects of the electricity. 



How the new kind of "false 

 teeth" would ajipear when in- 

 serted in the mouth of a person 



We Shall Eat When We Grow 

 Old and Lose Our Teeth 



ROGRESS in dental science 

 clearly indicates that we shall 

 be enabled to masticate food in old 

 age more readily than our fore- 

 fathers could. Inventors are 

 attacking the problem in 

 various ways, and in some 

 recent experiments the 

 attempt is made to 

 imitate nature by hing- 

 ing the upper and lower 

 mouth plates in the 

 manner shown. 



A coiled spring with- 

 in the hinge separates 

 the plates when the 

 mouth is opened. Pro- 

 . vision is made also for 

 the side movement of 

 the lower plate by em- 

 ploying a horizontal 

 hinge. This takes care 

 of the usual grinding 

 process in eating. 



