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Popular Science Monthly 



The ''Little Church of the Flowers" 

 and How It Got Its Name 



THE latest thing in churches is to be 

 found in a southern California 

 town, in the 

 way of grow- 

 ing plants. 



Two rows of 

 seats and a 

 center aisle 

 comprise the 

 middle of the 

 building. On 

 each side be- 

 yond these 

 seats are beau- 

 tiful arches, 

 from which 

 large fern bas- 

 kets are sus- 

 pended, and 

 beyond these 

 arches, on both 

 sides of the 

 building, is a sloping roof of sky lights. 



A cement walk extends between two 

 rows of ferns, shrubs and flowering plants. 

 In the columns are little pockets where 

 choice begonias bloom. A similar church 

 will be built in Los Angeles. 



This Device Will Take Care of Your 

 Street Clothes at the Theater 



DID you ever, dear reader, have the 

 misfortune to reserve seats at the 

 theater and not arrive there until after 

 the performance had started? Do you 

 remember taking your coat off in the lobby 

 and carrying it on your arm 

 down to your seat? And then 

 the wild scramble past all the ^ 

 other people in the 

 row, with the result- 

 ing frenzied grab- 

 bing of hats and 

 coats and wraps so 

 that you would not 

 accumulate them in 

 your career as a 

 snowball grows as it 

 rolls down a hill? 

 Do you remember 

 the .scowls and the 

 bitten-off hasty 

 expressions that 



Growing plants and flowers give a peculiar charm 

 to this little church in a southern California town 



you left in your destructive wake? If 

 this harrowing experience has ever been 

 yours you are going to give the inventor 

 of a new little wardrobe your heartiest 

 and most unqualified support. Here it is: 



To accom- 

 modate the hat 

 there is a sli- 

 ding rack un- 

 der the seat 

 w^hich extends 

 and folds up 

 on the lazy 

 tongs prin- 

 ciple. For the 

 coat there is a 

 hanger at- 

 tached to the 

 back of the seat 

 and the coat is 

 protected by a 

 light frame- 

 w'ork, to which, 

 in turn, is at- 

 tached a long 

 cylindrical receptacle for the cane or 

 umbrella. The whole forms a remarkably 

 compact and complete wardrobe that will 

 accommodate all one's street clothes with- 

 out the bother and inconvenience of the 

 checkroom, with its crush and scramble 

 and long line of waiting patrons, and, 

 last but not least, there is no tip. 



Owners of theaters might find it good 

 policy to introduce this device in their 

 houses, partly as an advertising novelty 

 and partly as something contributing to 

 the comfort of their pa- 

 trons. It will, no doybt, coat hanger. 

 pay in added good-will. \ protecting 



■ FdAME 



Imagine yourself in that 

 man's place and you will 

 sympathize with him 



Like a modern trunk this 

 d'.'vice will hold your hat, 

 overcoat and umbrella 



JPRING 



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