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Here's the Way to Acquire 

 Pickford Curls 



FEMININE hair is usually 

 curled by "kid" curlers. 

 That designation has no refer- 

 ence to the age of the young 

 lady but to a type of con- 

 struction involving kid leather 

 wrapped about and sewn upon 

 thin flexible metal rods. The 

 leather rods are wrapped about 

 strands of hair at night. In 

 the morning the rods are re- 

 moved. Curls have grown 

 about them overnight. But 

 at what sacrifice to the youth- 

 ful wearer! Kid curlers form 

 hard lumps about the head, 

 and hard lumps are painful. 

 Sleeping with one's hair done up in such 

 barbaric fashion is comparable to reposing 

 upon a pillow covered with small hard 

 rocks, which is not conducive to sleep. 



But along comes Miss Ella M. Pickard, 

 of Oklahoma, who has found a way to ob- 

 tain the Mary Pickford curl without the 

 discomfort. Miss Pickard has applied for 

 patent rights upon a hair curler which, to 

 our first horrified masculine glance, ap- 

 peared to be a fat Havana cigar dangling 

 from a young lady's scalp. Closer in- 

 spection brings to light a roll of soft 

 cloth, having at either end narrow 

 cloth straps. 



The young lady who is about 

 to enhance her crowning glory 

 simply gathers the strands 

 of her hair together, wrap 

 ping them snugly about 

 the soft cloth rolls. 

 The narrow straps are 

 then brought togeth- 

 er at either end of 

 the rod, serving to 

 hold the curl in place. 

 When sufficient curls 

 have thus been set in 

 process of manufac- 

 ture, she retires. The 

 softness of the rolls 

 prevents sleeplessness. 

 And in the morning 

 Mary Pickford has an- 

 other rival. Painless 



dentistry has nothing on Mary Pickford curls are 



painless hair-curlers. produced by this curler 



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This fountain is a by-product of saving the trees from 

 destruction by building an "island" around them 



Los Angeles Values Her Trees 

 and Conserves Them 



WHEN the city of Los Angeles recent- 

 ly cut North Broadway through 

 Holgate Square there was a clump of fine 

 old pepper trees directly in the path of the 

 grading. So the city, rather than cut the 

 trees down, built an "island" around them. 

 An unusual feature of the island is an 

 ornamental drinking 

 fountain which was built 

 for the purpose of supply- 

 ing thirsty motorists and 

 pedestrians with a re- 

 freshing draught of 

 Adam's ale. The water 

 is piped to the fountain 

 from a street main. 



The Life of an Air- 

 plane Is Short 



THE number of 

 German air- 

 planes destroyed by 

 the French aviators 

 and the members 

 of the Lafayette es- 

 cadrille for the ten 

 months ending October, 

 1917, was one hundred 

 and twenty over the 

 French lines, and three 

 hundred and ninety- 

 seven over the German 

 lines — all total wrecks. 



