Popular Science Monthly 



437 



Strap Your Purse to Your Thumb. 

 No One Can Steal It Then 



PSYCHOLOGISTS and criminologists 

 have asserted that the carelessness 

 with which people 

 handle their purses 

 and expose their val- 

 uables on the street 

 or in public places 

 is responsible for a 

 great majority of 

 thefts. The temp- 

 tation to steal is 

 thrust under the 

 very noses of those 

 who are not inclined 

 to resist. 



The wearer of the 

 purse in the accom- 

 panying illustration 

 need not face such 

 an accusation, for it 

 is provided with a 

 strap which holds it 

 securely and leaves 

 no opportunity open 

 for a thief or pick- 

 pocket to make off 

 with it. Not only 

 does it embrace the 

 hand, but the strap 

 also passes over the thumb, so that the 

 purse can not slip from the hand even 

 when the fingers are relaxed. By this ar- 

 rangement the weight of the purse rests on 

 the palm, just as though the purse 

 were held in the hand in the ordinary man- 

 ner. Yet the hand and fingers are perfectly 

 free to be used for other purposes. 



The purse itself is two-fold and has com- 

 partments for bills, cards, change, a mirror 

 and the inevitable powder and puff. The 

 handkerchief may be tucked under the 

 thumb-strap, for safe-keeping. 



The strap 

 passes around 

 the hand, 

 fastening over 

 the thumb 



some sort of make-believe nipple to attach 

 to the milk pail — a nipple that may not 

 work as efficiently as the hungry calf might 

 wish, but which will answer the purpose 

 nevertheless. 



It looks as though Charles E. 

 Johnson, of Fond Du Lac, Wis- 

 consin, had come nearest to the 

 real nipple with the suckling de- 

 vice illustrated. The automatic 

 nipple he has constructed is at- 

 tached to an ordinary milk-pail. 

 In operating it the young animal 

 grips the forward end of the 

 nipple in his mouth and closes the 

 front sections upon each other, 

 thus releasing a tube at 

 the rear end of the nipple 

 to permit the milk or 

 water to flow freely. 

 \\'henever pressure is 

 released on the for- 

 ward ends of the 

 sections of the nip- 

 ple the supply is 

 checked automatic- 

 ally by the action of 

 a bow-spring. The 

 liquid flows out of the 

 nipple only during the 

 time the animal is suckling 

 or pulling it. An oil heater is placed 

 under the milk container inside the pail, 

 as shown at the upper left of the picture, 

 to keep the milk warm. 



Nursing Orphaned Animals with 

 a Tin-Can Mother 



THE old saying that you can lead a 

 horse to water but you can't make 

 him drink isn't any more truthful than the 

 statement that you can lead a hungry 

 colt or a calf to a pail of warm milk, 

 but you can't make it drink. Not 

 because the youngsters are stubborn, 

 however. They are willing enough 

 to drink the milk, but they don't 

 know how. That is one reason why 

 inventors have been busy devising 



Her mother is a tin-can 

 hung from a nail in a post 



