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Popular Science Monthly 



© Newman Traveltalks and Brown and Dawson 



Every bit of wood in the little house has its story or legend. The images are the figureheads taken 

 from the bows of vessels. They are very lifelike and peer uncannily from unexpected places 



The Graveyard of Ships that Passed 

 in the Night 



MONNSANTO is the name of a man 

 remarkable not only in character 

 but in occupation. His home is the Island 

 of St. Thomas, recently bought from Den- 

 mark by the United States. A visitor 

 to St. Thomas cannot fail to hear about 

 him, and should not miss the opportunity 

 of seeing him. 



He lives on Krum Bay, a crooked arm of 

 the blue Caribbean, almost landlocked by 

 the hills that surround it on three 

 sides. It has been the graveyard 

 of many a ship. In this little 

 haven the vessels were disman- 

 tled; the shore-line is 

 strewn with their re- 

 mains. The home of 

 Monnsanto is con- 

 structed entirely from 

 the wood of these 

 ships. Every beam 

 and plank has its story 

 or legend. Wood is 

 wood and iron may be 

 iron, but when it is put 

 into the form of ships, it becomes a thing of 

 life anofeeach plank shares the ship's history. 



The cells of this pencil-pen are 

 filled with ink which is liber- 

 ated as the wax interior melts 



What Is It— Pencil or Pen ? It Has 

 Neither Wood nor Graphite 



A WRITING implement composed of a 

 mixture of wax and finely-ground 

 pumice stone containing particles of ink, 

 has been invented by William C. Geer, of 

 Akron, Ohio, to take the place of ordinary 

 and fountain pens, pencils, crayons and 

 all other writing implements. As the body 

 of the new writing device is composed of a 

 mixture of wax and pumice stone, which is 

 easily worn. away when rubbed against a 

 paper surface, the inventor claims 

 that the cells of ink intermixed 

 with the wax and 

 pumice stone will also 

 be liberated, giving a 

 uniform supply of ink. 

 The device is made 

 by mixing the wax, 

 pumice stone and ink 

 together. When it is 

 heated to the proper 

 temperature it is sud- 

 denly immersed in cold 

 water. This chills and 

 solidifies the wax mix- 

 ture, producing a body having a cellular 

 structure, each cell being filled with ink. 



