Popular Science Monthly 



585 



Rag-Time Music as an Adjunct to the 



Operating Table ^ 



E\'EX surgeons have a sense of 

 humor. A patient was rushed to the 

 Columbus Hospital of Chicago, not long 

 ago, in a critical condition. The excitement 

 of getting him there so jarred on his 

 nerves that when it came to administering 

 the anesthetic, he refused absolutely to 

 accept it. After every augument failed, 

 the surgeons thought of trying to soothe 

 him by playing a phonograph that was in 

 the building. When finally a popular air 

 was put on, the patient began to see the 

 humor of the situation, and without further 

 trouble he took the anesthetic. His 

 appendix could then be removed without 

 further musical accompaniment. 



The club makes 

 an extension 

 barrel for the 

 revolver giving 

 it greater range 



Shave Yourself with a Buzz Saw — 

 That's the Newest in Razors 



HERE is the most decided departure 

 from the ordinary safety razor which 

 we have seen. It is a compact little con- 

 trivance of the press-the-button variety, 

 with the blade fully protected by a 

 safety guard so that there is no 

 danger of cutting the fingers or of 

 scratching the face. The blade 

 operates with continuous ro- 

 tary motion like that of a 

 circular saw. 



First you wind up 

 the mechanism, just 

 as you would a 



watch or a clock; 



then you ^£^5=X<*-*oi * 



apply it 

 to your 

 well-lath- 

 ered face 

 and press 

 the but- 

 ton at the 

 side. Ac- 

 cording to 

 the inven- 

 tor, C. B. 

 Collins, of 

 Des Moines, 

 j Iowa, you 

 should have 

 a perfectly 

 beauti f ul 

 shave without a scratch or the slightest 

 abrasion of the skin, in almost less time 

 than it takes to tell it and without a particle 

 of annoyance from dull blades. 



Pl^te 



Blade 



Guard 



Gears 



Start and Stop 



Press the button at the side of the razor, 

 and Presto! You have a perfect shave 



How a Policeman Can Use His Club 

 to Change His Pistol into a Rifle 



THE ordinary- hardwood club which the 

 policeman swings so jauntily as he 

 makes his rounds, looks formidable enough 

 to the wrong-doer. But it may prove to 

 be even more deadly than it looks. Sheriff 

 Frank Barnet. of Oakland, California, has 

 devised a plan for combining the club and 

 revolver in one weapon, thus 

 increasing the range and accur- 

 acy" of the revolver. The com- 

 bination is made in a moment's 

 time and may be unlocked as 

 readily as it is put together, so 

 that it is either one article or 

 two, as desired. 



The sheriff's club is fourteen 

 inches long and through its 

 center a hole is bored for 

 a barrel. This is made 

 to join the barrel of the 

 revolver by means of 

 a special locking de- 

 vice. With its addi- 

 tional fourteen 

 inches of barrel the 

 revolver is thus con- 

 verted into a rifle with three 

 times the range which it had 

 before. 



It is also claimed that the 

 aim is so much improved 

 by this arrangement that 

 the burglar or other human 

 nuisance has absolutely no 

 chance to get away after he 

 has been sighted. 



The club is not materially 

 altered in weight by the boring away of 

 a portion of its central interior, so that it 

 can still perform eflfectual service in its 

 own way. 



