Popular Science Monthly 



273 



Holding the Whetstone Where 

 It Is Needed 



FOR unnumbered ages — perhaps ever 

 since knives were invented — women 

 and housemaids have sharpened 

 those used in the kitchen on 

 the edges of stone crocks or 

 on the sandstone slab under 

 the kitchen range, simply 

 because the whetstone or 

 corrugated steel for the 

 purpose was not at hand 

 at the moment when 

 it was needed. 



Now Arthur L. 

 Walker, of Hoopeston, 

 111., comes forward with 

 a little contrivance which 

 can be fastened to the wall 

 or to any upright, at a con- 

 venient angle so that it wi 

 always hold the whetstone 

 in the correct position for 

 use and in the most acces- 

 sible spot. 



The devise consists merely 



The whetstone is held at a con- 

 venient angle and height in a 

 frame nailed to the kitchen wall 



amining physician of Harvard, found that 

 596 of 746 members of the 1916 freshman 

 class stood in a manner that indicated "a 

 potentiality for sickness," and that 476 of 

 the 596 students had feet and legs so 

 imperfect that they were in- 

 eligible for military duty! 

 Lack of leg exercise is 

 supposed to be the cause 

 of this condition. Mr. 

 Vaile says that the 

 American • woman has 

 neglected herself for so 

 long that her" legs "and; 

 feet are suffering mal- 

 formations. There is no 

 longer in her leg the 

 beauty of the classic 

 line. We dare not con- 

 tradict Mr. Vaile on this 

 phase of the subject". It 

 may be that the specimens 

 seen on the beaches' and 

 'neath the modish skirts 

 of the season are not what 

 he calls representative^ 



of a piece of sheet metal so shaped that the 

 whetstone fits into it securely and is held in 

 place by the up-curved ends. The outer 

 edges of the upper end are flattened out as 

 shown in the illustration to receive screws 

 which fasten it to the wall. 



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What's the Matter with American 

 Feet and Legs? 



AMERICA'S physical foundation — the 

 l\ feet and legs of her citizens — is un- 

 sound, if we are to believe P. A. Vaile, 

 who has made a study of feet. If we do 

 not discard the 

 present mon- 

 strosities in 

 footgear and 

 get into the 

 habit of walk- 

 ing, using our 

 legs and feet 

 instead of the 

 auto mobile 

 and street car, 

 he says we will 

 become human 

 penguins. He 

 call& attention 

 to the fact that 

 Dr. Lloyd 

 Brown, the ex- 



The picker plucks the fruit and lets it drop. It hits the net 

 and rolls down through a spout into a barrel or basket 



The Stationary Fruit Net— The Fruit- 

 Picker's Dream Come True 



,N ingenious method of gathering fruit 

 which reduces the fruit-picker's work 

 to a minimum, makes use of a large net 

 suspended above the ground directly under 

 a tree and does away with the usual fruit- 

 picking harness, buckets, pails and baskets. 

 The fruit is dropped from the tree by the 

 picker and it falls into the net and rolls 

 down through a cone-shaped canvas spout 

 into a barrel or fruit box. The net is held 

 taut by a framework supported by iron 

 posts driven in the ground. In addition 

 to giving the 

 picker the free 

 use of both 

 arms, the sus- 

 pended net 

 catches all fruit 

 which may fall 

 overnight or 

 which may be 

 shaken down 

 by the wind. 

 Furthermore, 

 the only time, 

 the picker need 

 come to the 

 ground is when 

 the fruit box 

 is full. 



