504 Popular Science Monthly 



Seen from Above, This Picture Would We Are Presenting Germany with 

 Look Different Two Hundred Aviators a Year 



AS C E N E like 

 the above, 

 wherein two Vita- 

 graph comedians 

 leap fifteen feet 

 across an alley, can- 

 not fail to give us a 

 slight gasp. Well, 

 how do they do it? 

 Listen. 



If you were up 

 above the explana- 

 tion would stare you 

 in the face. For 

 these laughable gen- 

 tlemen would not 

 be half so laugh- 

 able if they were 

 making the jump 

 with nothing but 

 their own two legs. 

 As a matter of fact 

 they are working 

 under ideal condi- 

 tions, precisely as 

 if they were in a gymnasium. On one side 

 is a springboard; on the other a spring 

 mattress. It's a cheap thrill at only 

 fifteen feet! 



THE Germans 

 claim to have 

 brought down a 

 thousand Allied 

 airplanes during 

 the past twelve 

 months. It is esti- 

 mated that with 

 lietter physical 

 training a fifth 

 of these need not 

 have been lost. As 

 the training and 

 equipment of 

 these men would 

 cost about $3,500,- 

 000, according to 

 Alan R. Hawley, 

 President of the 

 Aero Club of 

 America, apart 

 from the inestima- 

 ble value of the men 

 themselves, it 

 would seem that we 

 are paying rather dear for lack of atten- 

 tion to physical fitness. The men will never" 

 admit "staleness" though, for any reason. 



Those daredevil 

 movie actors — 

 with a mattress 

 and springboard 



Whale's Tail-Bones i.Iade Into 

 an Attractive Sign 



THE Coronado Islands, off the coast 

 of Lower California, not far from 

 San Diego, have always attracted tour- 

 ists because of the great numbers of 

 whales, sea elephants, sea lions, and other 

 large aquatic creatures, that disport 

 themselves off the rocky shores. Taking 

 advantage of these natural conditions, a 

 a boat company of San Diego attracts the 

 attention of tourists to its docks by means 

 of a sign painted on the great tail-bones 

 of a defunct whale. 



The broad flat bone forming the end of 

 the tail makes the sign board, while the 

 three other vertebrae form a convenient 

 stand to support it. 



It is doubtful if any sign more instantly 

 commands the attention. The bones 

 were brought in by one of the company's 

 boats from the surrounding beaches. 





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This curious advertising sign is made from 

 the tail-bones of a whale. Compare the glove 



