Popular Science Monthly 



209 



All papier-mache heads look alike 

 when they come to Miss Stevens. 

 When they leave her they are 

 distinctive enough to be named 



Hats Are Made for Per- 

 sonalities — Not 

 for Heads 



AFTER all, hats are 

 , made for personal- 

 ities. If you want to be 

 convinced look at a col- 

 lection of bonnets in a 

 smart shop window. No- 

 tice how lonesome they 

 look hanging from hooks and 

 supported stiffly by iron rods 



Now picture to yourself how much 

 prettier they would look if there were 

 human heads in that window to wear 

 them, tilted at the proper angle- transmifter 



Of course shop owners have 

 known of this problem 



Here they are, just as fresh as if 

 they stepped out of Madame's 

 shop in Paris. The third one from 

 the right is not sleepy but demure 



Is 



of 



for years, but the\ 

 never thought seriously 

 of solving it — not until 

 Frances Simpson 

 Stevens came along 

 with her samples of 

 papier-mache heads 

 and showed them just 

 how different a hat 

 looks when it tops a 

 coy and demure, or a 

 chic and mischievous 

 face. The shop owners 

 who took time to 

 listen to her are 

 glad they did now. 

 For papier-mache 

 heads are all the 

 rage. 



Miss Stevens is 

 an American girl 

 who has studied art in 

 Italy and France. 

 The heads which she 

 rnakes are of as many 

 different kinds as there 

 are different tv^pes of 

 personalities. 



TUBES CONNECTING 

 DUMMY AND AS5I5TONT 



When little wooden Johnny is spoken to, 

 Ihe "ventriloquist's" assistant has no 

 trouble at all in hearing and answering 



This the Secret 



Some Vaudeville 



Ventriloquy? 



LITTLE wooden 

 / Johnny is an actor 

 who is frequently seen on 

 the vaudeville stage. 

 Haven't you often won- 

 dered how well he speaks? 

 He sits contentedly on the lap 

 of his sponser, and without 

 the least trace of bashfulness, 

 or hesitation he tells the audience 

 whatever they want to know. 



Let us look into the 

 secret of the talking dum- 

 my. Ventriloquism is one 

 explanation; but a simpler 

 one is to be found in a 

 patent which has re- 

 cently been granted to 

 Charles M. Price, of 

 Boston. From the 

 ventriloquists' point of 

 view, Mr. Price's idea is 

 distinctly an improve- 

 ment on the "regular" 

 way. A telephone receiver 

 is secured in the hollow 

 head of the dummy. 

 Connected with it 

 are ordinary 

 telephone wires 

 which lead to a 

 transmitter under 

 the stage and 

 speaking through 

 this is a man. 

 Placed in the dum- 

 my's stomach is a 

 telephone transmit- 

 ler, which is connected 

 with receivers on the 

 assistant's head, so that 

 he knows just when and 

 what to answer. 



