Popular Science Monthly 



When the Star-Spangled Banner Is 

 Played Wave Your Cane Flag 



THE question of what to do with your 

 cane when the orchestra strikes up 

 the Star-Spangled Banner has been solved 

 by Charles T. Fernandez, of Roxbury, 

 Massachusetts. If 



you have one of his 

 new canes you raise 

 it above your head, 

 turn a knob until an 

 American flag con- 

 cealed in theinterior 

 comes out through 

 the slot, and then 

 wave the flag as long 

 as the music lasts. 

 In a word, his de- 

 vice is nothing more 

 than a flag wound 

 round a roller inside 

 the cane. The knob 

 or head of the cane 

 is connected with 

 the roller so that the 

 flag may be wound 

 or unwound at will, 

 appearing and disappearing through a slot. 

 When the flag is inserted the flag-stick fits 

 into the cane, and the flag into the slot. 



Turn the knob and the flag will come out 

 through a slot from the interior of the cane 



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fifteen and one-half packages. In 1916 we 

 exported 718,000 pounds — say 11,129,000 

 packages. We shall soon see that this is a 

 mere bagatelle. The total amount of 

 chicle imported, manufactured and con- 

 sumed in the United States in 1916 was 

 7,031,000 pounds, equivalent to 28,- 

 124,000 pounds of 

 chewing gum. This 

 represents a per cap- 

 ita consumption in 

 the United States 

 of about three and 

 a half pounds, or 

 fifty-five packages 

 per annum. Every 

 man and woman, 

 old and young, boy 

 and girl and infant 

 in arms represented 

 a consumption of 

 fifty-five packages 

 of gum last year! 

 Great is the power 

 of the American jaw ! 

 No wonder we are 

 a race of orators. — 

 Ellwood Hendrick. 



Fifty-Five Packages of Chewing Gum 

 for Everybody! 



AT the Kansas City meeting of the 

 > American Chemical Society, Dr. Fred- 

 eric Dannerth, of the Re- 

 search Department 

 of the Rubber Trade 

 Laboratory, present- 

 ed in detail the meth- 

 ods for determining 

 the content and val- 

 ue of block chicle, of 

 which chewing gum 

 is made. These are 

 of interest only to 

 chemists, but the 

 statistics that Dr. 

 Dannerth gave are 

 enough to drive us 

 silent from sheer jaw 

 weariness at the mere 

 thought of them! One 

 pound of chicle makes 

 four pounds of chewing 

 gum and one pound 

 of gum produces over 



A portable nail sorter which will arrange 

 nails and tacks according to their size 



A Portable Nail Distributor Saves 

 the Carpenter's Hands and His Time 



A BOON to the traveling carpenter, in 

 the form of a portable nail distributor 

 has been invented by Robert B. Holland, of 

 North Yakima, Washington. With it the 

 carpenter or other workman can separate 

 small nails from large ones by simply 

 dropping them into a hopper. The 

 various parts of the device are 

 easily collapsed into a com- 

 pact package of a convenient 

 size for carrying. 



To distribute the 

 nails according to 

 their several sizes, 

 the nails are first 

 placed in the hop- 

 per and fed down- 

 ward to the chute 

 by jarring the casing. The 

 nails strike the partitions 

 and are deflected out through 

 the openings in the bottom 

 into the guideways. Here 

 they collect, according to 

 their size, and the operator 

 grasps them by the thumb 

 and forefinger. 



