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Popular Science Monthly 



The upper tray slides on the sustaining rods 

 so that it extends over the bed to just the 

 desired location. The lower one is stationery 



A Double-Decked Serving Tray 

 for the Sick Room 



ANEW wheeled serving-tray has been 

 devised by John J. Moore, of Batavia, 

 New York, for dining-room and hospital 

 service. It is especially useful in the sick 

 room, as the upper tray member may be 

 extended to one side over the bed 

 on which the patient who is to be fed 

 from it is reclining. 



In hospital service the superposed 

 trays are especially useful for segre- 

 gating medicinal preparations and 

 the like from surgical instruments, 

 bandages, etc., and thus reducing 

 time and labor incident to many 

 separate operations. Moreover, 

 the supporting frame of the 

 trays may be quickly ele- 

 vated or partially collapsed 

 whenever desired. 



Although one's first 

 thought is of the sick and 

 convalescent when an in- 

 vention like this is brought 

 to the attention, it must 

 be admitted that there 

 are times when the well 

 an/d hearty are appre- 

 ciative of a breakfast 

 served in bed. The 

 serving tray could be 

 "laid" attractively and 

 the coffee pot and cover- 

 ed dishes kept piping hot on the tray below. 



Truth Crushed to Earth Will Rise Again 

 But a Lie Can't Be Crushed At All 



IF you have noticed the big wooden 

 clocks that are hung as shingles outside 

 jewelers' windows, you will have noticed 

 that they point generally to 8:i8. The 

 story has often been told that the patri- 

 otic sign painters paint the hands in this 

 position for the purpose of commemorating 

 the time ot President Lincoln's assassin- 

 ation. But — as the Three Wise Men 

 would say — don't believe everything you 

 hear. This has recently been investigated 

 by some interested men with the result 

 that the story, patriotic though it is, 

 could not possibly be true. In the first 

 place, Abraham Lincoln was shot over 

 an hour later than 8:i8. But more than 

 this, jewelers' clocks were pointing out 

 8:i8 twenty-five years before that un- 

 fortunate night in April, 1865. They were 

 placed in that position to give the greatest 

 possible space for the jewelers' names and 

 for their advertisements. Finally it was 

 found out that the story itself was merely 

 a "frame up" by two newspaper men who 

 thought they would test a pet theory of 

 theirs — that a plausible lie, when once in 

 circulation, will continue to go on forever. 



The yolks are in one bowl; the whites 

 in the other. Turn the crank and 

 you beat both at once in record time 



Beating the Yolks and Whites 

 at the Same Time 



A DOUBLE egg-beater has been 

 devised by a Seattle man — 

 Nicholas Condogeorge — by means 

 of which the whites and yolks of 

 eggs, in two separate bowls, may 

 be beaten simultaneously. This 

 saves a great deal of time, and 

 is an advantage which is of 

 special importance to cooks 

 in hotels and restaurant 

 kitchens. 



The two beaters are sup- 

 ported from a frame having 

 a U-shaped handle which 

 may be grasped by the left 

 hand, while the beating 

 handle is rotated with the 

 right hand. The beating 

 handle or crank is at- 

 tached to a vertical 

 gear wheel that meshes 

 with a gear attached to 

 one of the beaters. 

 This gear in turn meshes 

 with other gears that 

 drive the companion beater simultaneously. 



