Popular Science Monthly 



The Laundry Keeps Pace with the 

 Fashions. It Irons Stockings 



THIS is the day of conspicuous and 

 elaborate hosiery. The laundering of 

 stockings and socks has had to keep up with 

 the fashion. Formerly it was necessary 

 only to smooth out the wrinkles, regardless 

 of any "shine" that might 

 be imparted by the iron. 

 In home laundries the 

 queen of the washtubs 

 often considered it un- 

 necessary to iron the 

 hosiery at all. 



Now, however, a fine 

 stocking can be laundered 

 in such a way that it will 

 look exactly as it did when 

 new. A stocking ironer 

 has been invented which 

 employs forms over which 

 the wet stockings are 

 drawn after they have 

 been washed «nd rinsed. 

 The steam heat is turned 

 on and the stockings are 

 dried and ironed at the 

 same time from the heat inside the forms. 

 In this way the original shape and luster of 

 the stocking is retained and any embroid- 

 ered design is brought out in relief. 



The ironer is intended principally for 

 use in large laundries having steam power, 

 although it can be adapted for the home 

 laundry. The forms are of all shapes and 

 sizes. They prevent shrinking of all-wool 

 stockings, also. 



Forms on which 

 stockings may 

 be dried and 

 ironed like new 

 at the same time 

 by steam heat 



Raising the window pushes in the 

 button, closing the alarm circuit 



An Alarming Alarm for the Burglar. 

 He Could Never Turn It Off 



AN entirely new burglar alarm which 

 prevents a burglar from opening your 

 window stealthily at night has been 

 patented by William Connoly, of New 

 York. Once the window is started upward, 

 the noise of the alarm 

 will upset the nerves of 

 the burglar himself. 



The alarm is extremely 

 simple. An automatically 

 locking push-button fits 

 into the window frame 

 just above the lower win- 

 dow. A flat-head bolt is 

 screwed in back of this 

 push-button and makes 

 contact with the iron 

 mounting in which it 

 slides. The bolt and the 

 button are normally 

 pushed in their outer- 

 most position by a spring 

 inside the mounting. 



Should Mr. Burglar 

 jimmy the window, the 

 button is pushed in as the window is being 

 raised. Immediately the head of the bolt 

 passes a contact finger. The bell circuit is 

 thus closed through the bolt and the finger. 

 Thereupon the righteously indignant land- 

 lord reaches for his gun. The iron finger 

 prevents the button from being brought 

 back. So if the burglar supposes he can 

 turn off the alarm before anyone inside 

 hears it, he will be horribly disillusioned. 



Only a person familiar with this alarm 

 can turn it off. The flat head of the bolt 

 contains a slight notch. By turning the 

 button in a certain position, the notch will 

 come opposite the finger, and the bolt-head 

 can slide through. Simple though this is, 

 the burglar would never think of 

 doing it; neither would he have 

 time enough to do it if it 

 should flash across his mind; 

 for there is nothing faint- 

 hearted about the 

 alarm. Its evident 

 intention is to arouse 

 not only the mem- 

 bers of the house- 

 hold but the police- 

 man on the beat and 

 all the neighbors on 

 the block or in the 

 vicinity. 



