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Popular Science Monthly 



The combination croquet-pool game. Except for the pockets on the corners and sides no special 

 apparatus is used when the game is played outdoors. For indoor play lighter balls are desirable 



Combining Two Favorite Sports — 

 Croquet and Pool 



CROQUET enthusiasts and devotees 

 of the pool table may enjoy the new 

 game, shown in the accompanying illus- 

 tration. It may be played either out- 

 doors or indoors. 



Pockets are fastened in place on the 

 ground exactly as on a pool table, one 

 at each corner and on each of the longer 

 sides. By numbering the balls combina- 

 tions such as lend fascination and excite- 

 ment to pool may be obtained. Except 

 for the pockets no special apparatus is 

 necessary. The regulation croquet balls 

 and mallets answer the purpose; but for 

 indoor use lighter balls may be found 

 more desirable and less noisy. 



Water-filled Roller Combines 

 Scraper and Handle -Lock 



A MANUFACTURER of 

 Berea,'Ohio, has recently 

 placed on the market a com- 

 bination handle-lock and rol- 

 ler-scraper for use with lawn 

 rollers weighted with water. 

 This device holds the handle 

 upright when it is not used, 

 thus making it unnecessary 

 to counterweight the handle. 

 The scraper may be lowered 

 for cleaning the roller surface. 

 The weight may be regulated 

 by the volume of water. 



Wlicn roller is not 

 in use the lock 

 holds up handle 



Over Fifty Different Woods Are 

 Sold as Mahogany 



THE name "mahogany" is applied 

 commercially to more than fifty dif- 

 ferent woods. Perhaps half the lumber 

 now sold under that name is not true 

 mahogany, for the demand greatly ex- 

 ceeds the supply. 



The tree is only native to the limited 

 area between southern Florida and north- 

 ern South America. Nowhere else does 

 it really flourish. But the public will 

 have mahogany. Women want it for 

 furniture, business men prefer it for 

 office fixtures, and teak and mahogany 

 are rivals in the affections of ship-builders. 

 Therefore substitutes flourish. 



It is not surprising that the 

 real wood is so expensive when it 

 is learned that it takes from 

 one hundred to one hundred and 

 fifty years for a mahogany tree to 

 reach merchantable size. 



Most of the substitutes 

 bear little more than a general 

 resemblance to the genuine 

 wood, but skillful finishing 

 makes them very much alike. 

 Experts can usually distin- 

 guish between them by the 

 aid of an ordinary pocket 

 lens. The efforts of the super- 

 ficial, however, to judge the 

 wood by its appearance, 

 weight, grain, and color often 

 lead them astray. 



