Popular Science Monf/il// 



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Here Is That One-Hand Cigarette 

 Case You Want 



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were in the car, dying for a smoke, 

 and the traffic so 

 thick that you 

 couldn't take your 

 hands off the wheel 

 for an instant? Of 

 course you could 

 carry your cigar- 

 ettes in the packet 

 in your vest pock- 

 et, but they are 

 crushed and they 

 dry out. Here is a 

 cigarette case de- 

 signed to help you 

 in just such emer- 

 gencies. 



You load the case when you start out 

 by taking off the cover. After this you 

 merely press down the cover with the 

 thumb and push it back again. This 

 causes a cigarette to be protruded about 

 an inch so that it can 

 be drawn out with the 

 lips. A spring then 

 pushes another cigar- 

 ette into place ready 

 for the operation to be 

 repeated. 



The magazine of this 

 neat little device holds 

 ten cigarettes of aver- 

 age size. The case 

 may be made plain or 

 ornamental as in- 

 dividual fancy may 

 dictate. 



It's simple to get the cigarettes in and 

 simpler to get them out — with one hand 



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On the left the cots are folded. On the right 

 they are shown as they appear when used as beds 



Use Folding Bunks to Economize 

 Space on Trip "Over There" 



OWING to the lack of ships the trans- 

 ports taking the American soldiers 

 to France have to 

 be loaded to their 

 full capacity. In 

 day time it is a 

 comparatively easy 

 matter so to dis- 

 tribute the men 

 that there is no 

 overcrowding in 

 any part of the 

 ship. But at night 

 the men have to 

 sleep, and to be 

 able to do that 

 they must have 

 sufficient room to 

 lie down. The difficulty of providing 

 sleeping room for the men on over- 

 cro vded transports has stimulated in- 

 vention. One of the simplest and best 

 expedients adopted is shown in the ac- 

 companying illustra- 

 tion. 



Hinged to upright 

 posts are three tiers of 

 folding frames, the free 

 ends of which, when in 

 a horizontal position, 

 are supported by 

 chains. Each tier has 

 two of these frames, 

 which serve as bunks. 

 The elastic wire net- 

 ting supported by the 

 frames forms the mat- 

 tresses. When the 

 bunks are not in use 

 they are folded up 

 against the posts, an 

 arrangement by which 

 space is greatly econo- 

 mized. Another ad- 

 vantage of these bunks 

 is that they are easily 

 kept clean and sani- 

 tary, and this is, of 

 course, of the utmost 

 importance where a 

 large number of men 

 are thrown together 

 for several days in 

 cramped quarters. 



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