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Popular Science Monthly 



Even the Horses Must Have Their 

 Individual Drinking Cups 



WHATEVER may be the future 

 of the horse in the com- 

 mercial world, and however 



soon he may be displaced 



on the city streets by the - 



ubiquitous automobile, 



his claim to good care 



and kindly attention 



will always be strong. 



Hence the individual 



drinking cups at the 



public fountains for 



horses are a 



natural se- 

 quence of the 



fight against 



germs which 



has abolished 



the common 



drinking glass for 



people in public 



places. 



The ordinary 



drinking trough is a 



breeding place and 



distributing center 



for all kinds of horse- 

 breeding germs. In 



many cases the fountains have been shut 

 off, and a man has been stationed at each 

 hydrant to give the horses water from a 

 pail, which he cleans out with a disinfectant 

 after each drink. 



The arrangement in the photograph is 

 the latest and most satisfactory plan. The 

 individual drinking cups are placed far 

 enough apart to prevent the horses from 

 touching each other as they drink. The 

 water comes up through the bottom of the 

 cups and keeps them constantly full and 

 overflowing. The overflow is carried at 

 once to the sewer through the openings in 

 the large basin surrounding the cups. 

 The constant flow prevents the 

 water from freezing during cold 

 weather and keeps it cool 

 during the summer. 



In some places wooden covers 

 are provided to fit over the large basin. 

 This is easily pushed aside and readjusted 

 by the driver and serves to still further 

 protect the cups and keep the water cool 

 and pure. 



The cups, the surrounding basin and the 

 standard' are all of concrete construction. 

 There are no metal parts to need special 

 attention. 



Water comes up through the bottom of the cups 

 and keeps them constantly full and overflowing 



Here's a New Hat Style 

 from Mexico! 



HE influences of our 

 "scrimmages" with 

 Mexico can be traced 

 in many things, 

 one of which seems 

 to be a new idea 

 about the way 

 our army at the 

 "border" 

 might be hat- 

 ted. A well- 

 meaning Can- 

 adian pro- 

 poses a new 

 style of hat 

 which, so he 

 presumes, can 

 be used as well 

 in a Mexican 

 desert as in a 

 parade on Fifth 

 Avenue. In the one 

 case, the hat is open- 

 ed so that it forms a 

 continuous covering 

 over a soldier's head, 

 while in the other 

 case, it is merely 

 closed up so that it is converted into the 

 more conventional brim-hat of parade 

 dress. The beauty of the hat when it is so 

 collapsed is, however, somewhat ques- 

 tionable. 



The manner in which the conversion is 

 made is nevertheless clever. When the hat 

 is fully opened, the continuous covering is 

 held in place by an aluminum framework 

 which fits upon the head. When it is to be 

 re-modeled, the ribs of the covering are 

 merely collapsed inwardly at the hinges 

 near their centers. Then the lower parts of 

 the ribs are made to pro- 

 ject to form the brim. 



A convertible 

 army hat in the 

 shape that is 

 proposed for the 

 tropics, and how 

 it looks when re- 

 modeled for 

 " parade 

 dress" 



