20£ Popular Science Monthly 



How Would You Like to Hold a Chinese A Wire Hood for Protection Against 

 Printer's Job? Bees or Mosquitoes 



/^HINESE characters do not express ALL too often, the best fishing and out- 



V_x sounds although the pitch of the voice 



is significant. Their letters are ideo 



graphs, or writings of ideas or 



things. Hence the Chinese 



have no alphabet, strictly 



speaking. 



For this reason the 

 Chinese must employ an 

 astounding number of 

 characters. It takes 

 about ten thousand 

 characters to print a 

 book in the Chinese 

 language; yet some- 

 times an entire thought 

 or a whole sentence is 

 represented by one char- 

 acter ! The word 

 "black" is one character, 

 and so is "mother," "dead," 

 "yes," "yellow," and a 

 great many other words. 

 With such a conglomera- 

 tion, is it any wonder that 

 the American printer won- 

 ders how it is possible to 

 print anything in Chinese? 



The illustration shows a 

 frame containing one complete font (a font 

 is an assortment of type of one size and 

 style) of seven thousand Chinese characters. 

 It required a month's time to arrange the 

 type in place. The frame is sixteen feet 

 long and five feet high. 



This hood can safely be used 

 through the thickest woods since 

 neither the strong wire netting 

 nor the heavy cloth beneath 

 it can be torn by the bushes 



ing grounds are to be found where the 

 mosquitoes and the wood pests are 

 thickest. F. L. Rhodes, a 

 fisherman of Michigan, at 

 least found this the rule in 

 his State. Notwithstand- 

 ing the regular hoods of 

 cloth mosquito -netting 

 which he would use, 

 the insects would final- 

 ly get at him; the 

 netting would catch 

 in the bushes. He 

 decided to devise a 

 mosquito-proof hood 

 which would overcome 

 the difficulty. 

 Unlike cloth-net 

 hoods, Rhodes' protector 

 is made of fine brass wire 

 which will not tear. A 

 piece of non-breakable 

 transparent mica enables 

 the wearer to see, while 

 a slide-covered mouth open- 

 ing is provided to accommo- 

 date a pipe. To the ends 

 of the wire netting two 

 pieces of durable cloth are attached, the 

 top cloth being used to secure the netting 

 to the hat by means of a string. The 

 bottom cloth of this hood is meant to be 

 tucked under the coat. Such a hood is 

 also useful when robbing bee-hives. 



A frame of Chinese type containing one complete font of approximately seven thousand characters. 

 The frame is sixteen feet long and five feet high. It took a month to distribute the type 



