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Drying the Family Wash- 

 ing around the Stove 



'Popular Science Monthly 



The cage is placed around the stove but far 

 enough away to prevent scorching the articles 

 draped upon it to dry. The clothes dry quickly 



WHEN the weather prophet or the 

 almanac predicts storms or bad 

 weather, the up-to-date housewife does not 

 postpone her washing. Neither does she 

 order the clothesline strung up in the 

 kitchen where it is an eyesore and in every- 

 body's way, nor outdoors where the 

 clothes might flop dejectedly for days 

 in the rain. 



Instead she sets up — if she is 

 fortunate enough to have one — the 

 clothes-drying apparatus which 

 Benjamin Gallsworthy, of Port 

 Arthur, Texas, recently invent- 

 ed. This is in the form of a 

 latticed frame joined together in 

 sections, upon which the clothes 

 are hung. The ends of the 

 vertical rods of the frame con- 

 verge at the top forming a 

 kind of cage. This cage is 

 placed around a stove. 



The heat from the stove 

 dries the clothes quickly and 

 makes it possible for the laun- 

 dress or housewife to finish up 

 the work regardless of the 

 weather. 



The sections of the cage 

 are disconnected simply by 

 removing the pins which join 

 them, so that it is an easy 

 matter to set it up or take it 

 down. It can be easily stored 

 away until needed. 



A Machine Which Takes the Backache 

 Out of Carpet- Beating 



HOW would you like to beat your 

 carpets with the same ease with 

 which you push the lawn-mower over your 

 grass or the baby carriage on the sidewalk? 

 You can do it. You don't need to bend 

 over until your back seems to be breaking 

 in two, and your carpet will be cleaned just 

 as , thoroughly as if you pounded it with 

 beaters in your own hands. 



All this is possible with a new carpet- 

 beater devised by Edward Smith, of 

 Newark, New Jersey. Its operation resem- 

 bles that of the lawn-mower. You run it 

 back and forth over the carpet, which 

 motion actuates a number of paddles that 

 strike the carpet. The paddles are operated 

 by teeth on a drum or cylinder which 

 moves with the wheels of the apparatus. 



The paddles extend in front of the 

 machine and their upward movement is 

 . opposed by springs, these springs producing 

 the beating movement. As the machine is 

 moved forward the drum revolves, and its 

 teeth come in contact with the paddles, 

 lifting them up about four inches above 

 the carpet when the springs force them to 

 descend. This is the beating motion. The 

 faster the machine is moved the faster the 

 paddles hit the carpet. 



Running the device over th© carpet operates a number of 

 paddles connected with the wheels. The faster the machine 

 is moved the faster and harder the paddles beat the carpet 



