"BuUet-Proof Rooms, Two Dollars per Day'* 



For one dollar extra you can sleep in 

 peace in this hotel on the^Mexican border 



The rooms in the bullet-proof portion of the hotel have thick reinforced walls of adobe, the 

 Mexican unbumt, sun-dried brick, while the other portion is of frame construction 



HOTEL NAOO 



NA<-0. ARIZON 



A HOTEL in Naco, Arizona, advertises 

 its ability to protect its guests from 

 "stray" bullets from across the Mex- 

 ican border with the same pride that the 

 boniface of a t\venty-stor>' hostelry in a 

 big city calls attention to his high-speed 

 elevator service. The proprietor of this 

 hotel advertises 

 his "bullet-proof 

 rooms" on the 

 writing paper of 

 his establishment 

 and he is pre- 

 pared to back up 

 his guarantee. 

 Chipped places in 

 the adobe walls 

 of his building 

 give evidence of 

 bullets which 

 have lodged in 

 but have been 

 unable to pene- 

 trate the structure. 



Naco is a border town. Half of it is 

 within the United States and the other 

 in the State of Sonora, Mexico. One 

 pitched battle and several lesser engage- 

 ments have occurred during the past few 

 years when revolutionist forces have at- 

 tacked the Mexican portion of the town. 

 Many bullets which failed to take effect 

 on its citizens or their adobe houses found 

 their way across the line and lodged in the 

 hornes of Americans. The houses on the 

 United States side of the town are mostly 

 of frame construction and more than one 

 of the steel- jacketed bullets penetrated 

 their frail walls and injured the residents. 



Naco's one and onlv hotel is a two- 



Bullets taken out of the 

 proof rooms, which they 



Story structure of barn-like architecture. 

 One half of it, that closest to the Mexican 

 line, is of frame construction, but the main 

 portion is built of adobe and has thick 

 walls of sun-baked mud that are nearly 

 as hard as brick. A bullet may penetrate 

 the frame portion but the adobe walls form 



an impassable 

 barrier. 



Rooms in the 

 adobe portion 

 have been in de- 

 mand whenever 

 trouble has been 

 impending across 

 the border. Not 

 only transients 

 patronize them 

 but also residents 

 of the town whose 

 homes are not 

 bullet-proof. 



adobe walls of the bullet- 

 were unable to penetrate 



Taking Portraits against a Background 

 of Soap Bubbles 



PROFESSOR Boys, of England, 

 experimenting with bubbles, obtained 

 some very large ones, which in the sun- 

 shine changed colors so beautifully that 

 he conceived the idea of using them as 

 backgrounds for photographs. 



The large bubbles were blown with an 

 ordinary bellows. The soap solution was 

 heated and a large-mouthed funnel was 

 dipped into it. The bellows, connected 

 with the funnel, was then worked very 

 gently. Bubbles with as great a circum- 

 ference as two and a half feet were 

 easily obtained. 



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