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Popular Science Monthly 



The weight of the bag tightens the fit of the strap 

 around the wrist so that the bag cannot slip off 



It Is Almost Impossible for You to 

 Lose This Hand -Bag 



ANEW YORK man has invented a sim- 

 ple device which should be a boon to 

 careless women, as it prevents. the loss of 

 the hand-bag. The leather handle is fitted 

 with two metal slides on one end of which 

 is a roller. These slides are fitted to the 

 handle straps and are connected by a short 

 piece of leather of the same width as the 

 handle. 



When the handle is slipped 

 over the arm, the metal 

 slides are pulled up 

 b^'- the weight of 

 the bag so that 

 the handle fits 

 close around the 

 wrist and makes 

 it impossible for 

 the handle to slide 

 over the hand. 



This is only one 

 of many devices 

 which have been invented and placed on 

 the market recently for the purpose of 

 helping women to hold .on to their purses, 

 which are so easily lost in crowds. 



The av-erage man is doubtless more inter- 

 ested in probable means of persuading 

 them (at least those of his own immediate 

 family) to keep possession of the contents 

 of the purses a little longer. 



Consider the Cow. She Helps Make 

 Buttons and Shoe Polish 



WITH no apparent effort the cow 

 goes through her span of years 

 yielding her full quota of milk and look- 

 ing always as if she could impart great 

 secrets to the world if she had the gift 

 of speech. She is an industrial asset, 

 not a mere purveyor of baby food. It 

 has been proven that casein, which forms 

 over three per cent of the total weight 

 of cow's milk, is an important commercial 

 product and may be profitably employed 

 in the manufacture of glue, combs, but- 

 tons, linoleum, hair-pins, toys, paints 

 and even shoe polish. 



In the preparation of casein for com- 

 mercial purposes, about seven hundred 

 gallons of skimmed milk are put into a 

 great vat and heated to about one hun- 

 dred and thirty-five degrees, Fahrenheit. 

 Then very dilute sulphuric acid is added 

 to precipitate the casein or curd. The 

 whey is drawn off and the curd is drained 

 and cut into chunks, after which streams 

 of cold water are played on it to wash 

 out the acid. The curd is then dried 

 with rotary fans and ground into powder, 

 in which form it is placed on the market. 

 One hundred pounds of skimmed milk 

 will yield about three and one-half 

 pounds of casein powder. 



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Saved by the Bullet Intended 

 to Kill Him 

 T is better to be born lucky than rich, 

 they say, and no doubt a certain 

 policeman of Alton, 111., will 

 sanction the sentiment. He 

 was one of a squad sent 

 recently to arrest 

 two desperate 



The first bullet which was 

 effectually blocking the 



fired rammed in the barrel, 

 path of the second bvillet 



criminals who had 

 been located hid- 

 ing in a boarding 

 house. When cor- 

 nered, one of the 

 men at bay press- 

 ed the muzzle of 

 h is revolver 

 against the policeman's abdomen and 

 pulled the trigger twice in rapid succession. 

 , The first bullet rammed in the barrel 

 about an inch from the cylinder. This 

 effectively barred the pathway of the 

 second shot, the force of which tore a strip 

 from the barrel an inch long through which 

 the bullet escaped, thus destroying the 

 usefulness of the weapon. 



