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Popular Science Monthly 



Carrying the Cook- Stove on the 

 Automobile Trip 



ITH the ad- 



w 



The tiny gasoline 

 stove folds up into 

 a box after the 

 meal is cooked 



vent of the 

 summer season the 

 automobile assumes 

 a still greater im- 

 portance in the life 

 of the possessor, and 

 its equipment re- 

 quires expansion. 

 Nature fairly shouts 

 imperative calls to 

 far-away places. 

 Unfortunately, 

 when the calls are 

 obeyed the obedient 

 ones often find their 

 hunger for the vast 



out-of-doors appeased at the expense of 

 their more material appetites. Sandwiches, 

 however attractively made up, are not 

 continually satisfying. The truly wise will 

 provide a small stove, on the order of the 

 one illustrated, on which really appetizing 

 little meals may be prepared. 



The one shown is nine by nine by four 

 inches and weighs only eight pounds. ^ It 

 has one burner and a tiny oven. Gasoline 

 is used for fuel. The tank is protected from 

 the flame by means of a jacket, double air 

 chamber and a partition. It holds enough 

 gasoline for one and one-half hour's con- 

 tinuous use, and may be replenished from 

 the tank of the car. 



without being over-strained and nourished 

 without being overfed, in order that they 

 may be able to resist 

 the attacks of micro- 

 scopic enemies 

 which cause disease 

 and decay. Under 

 favorable conditions 

 these cells will live 

 indefinitely without 

 showing signs of age 

 or loss of vitality. 

 Therefore the con-, 

 elusion is reached 

 that the "three score 

 years and ten" are 

 not fixed by any 

 natural law but 

 rather by the con- 

 ditions under which 

 men live and by 

 their personal 

 habits. The athletic 

 champion, then, who 

 lives under the best 

 hygienic conditions and observes the law 

 of temperance in all things and at all times, 

 should be able to "sit tight" on his pedestal 

 so long as he desires. 



At What Age Does the Athlete 

 Begin to Lose Form? 



" 'T^HREE score years and ten," 

 X tradition says, is the span of a 

 human life. This must be divided 

 into three periods to include prepara- 

 tion, efificiency and decay, each 

 period lasting nearly twenty-five 

 years. With the athlete, it is still 

 more severe. Few men at thirty-five, 

 it is said, have the reserve vitality 

 and endurance that they had at 

 twenty-five. Therefore the edict 

 has gone forth that at thirty-five 

 the athlete must let up in violent 

 competitive work and gradually back 

 out of the front ranks. 



But there is no scientific evidence 

 to show that this is necessary. The 

 human body is simply an assemblage 

 of cells, which must be kept active 



A Novel Bicycle Exerciser for the 

 Wounded Soldiers 



THE accompanying photograph shows 

 two soldiers sufficiently convalescent 

 from leg wounds to be in need of exercise. 

 On this novel bicycle they are afforded 

 companionship as well as exercise. 



Two bicycles minus their front wheels and supported by 

 iron braces enable two men to exercise at the same time 



