Popular Science Monthly 



Sun-Glasses — A Sure Antidote for 

 the Baseball Muffer 



MANY a baseball 

 game has been lost 

 because an outfielder muf- 

 fed a fly ball when the sun 

 got in his eyes; and many 

 a baseball player has had 

 to bear up under sharp 

 criticism at the hands of 

 angry spectators when the 

 sun should have been 

 blamed. Catching a ball 

 against a blinding sun is not 

 only a difficult thing to do, 

 but it is extremely in- 

 jurious to the eyes. 



If they live up to the 

 claims of their inventor, 

 who is none other than 

 Fred Clarke, veteran 

 Pirate manager, the 

 glasses illustrated will 

 enable the player to 

 catch flies in the face 

 of the strongest sun. 

 The glasses are riveted 

 to the peak of the cap and 

 work on a hinge. When 

 not needed to shield the 

 eyes, they rest against the 

 cap. 



When a ball is hit the fielder simply 

 touches the rim of the glasses and they fall 

 down in front of the eyes in just the proper 

 position so that he has a chance to see the 

 approaching ball even though he is looking 

 directly at the sun. The glasses can not 

 fall off, and they can be shifted out of the 

 way with the quickest kind of a move- 

 ment when not wanted — two advantages 

 which make them far su- 

 perior to the old style of 

 "specks." 



As they are not in- 

 tended to fit the 

 bridge of the nose, 

 they should be so 

 arranged on each 

 wearer's cap that 

 when needed 

 they will fall 

 exactly i n 

 f ron t of ^ 

 theeyes.The 

 peak of any 

 lightweight cap 

 is strong enough 

 to hold them. 



487 



The Book Theater. Open It and 

 You Have Actors and a Stage 



THERE are not many au- 

 thors whose books are 

 played upon the stage. 

 But one authoress, Chris- 

 tina Catrevas of Brook- 

 lyn, New York, will 

 not be one of them. 

 She has developed a 

 book which is itself a 

 stage while the con- 

 tents of the book form 

 the actors. 



She explains that when 

 the book is placed on 

 sale, it is folded up so as to 

 condense in it both the 

 stage and the actors. On 

 the front cover the 

 title of the play is 

 printed, just as on 

 other books. When 

 the book is brought 

 home it is opened 

 up, and after a few 

 alterations are made a 

 miniature stage is 

 lormed as shown in the 

 illustration. The actors 

 are then made like or- 

 dinary cut-outs, for the contents of the 

 original book consisted of gayly colored fig- 

 ures printed on its light cardboard "pages." 

 These cut-out figures represent the various 

 characters of the play that is written on 

 the cover of the original book; and when 

 they are read}', the play may proceed in 

 whatever way the imagination of the 

 child dictates. 



The cut-outs may be made to imper- 

 sonate the characters and the scenery in 

 other story-play, also. 



With the new glasses to shield his eyes, the 

 outfielder can "pull" a fly down from the 

 clouds directly in the face of a blinding sun 



A clever new game is this. The book 

 is made so that a child can unfold it 

 into a miniature stage with actors 



