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 WORKERS 



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Warming Army Tents With 

 Improvised Stoves 



BEFORE the United States Government 

 issued tent stoves to the Guardsmen 

 on the Border, there were many improvised 

 stoves or heaters to be seen in the various 

 tents. The stove shown in the upper left 

 corner of the illustration is the type known 

 as the Sibley tent stove, which is the one 

 issued by the Government to keep the boys 

 warm. There were some stoves made along 

 these lines and in use before the Federal 

 authorities 

 considered it 

 cold enough to 

 issue them to 

 the men. 

 These stoves 

 were roughly 

 shaped from 

 sheet iron and 

 riveted to- 

 gether. An- 

 other popular 

 stove, which is 

 made from a 5- 

 gal. kerosene 

 can or a 25-lb. 

 coffee can, is 

 shown in the 

 corner of the tent. Two small holes about 

 }/2 in. in diameter, are cut near the bottom 

 for air vents and a hole about 4 by 8 or 6 by 

 6 in. is cut in the front to allow the insertion 

 of fuel, another hole being cut to carry off 

 the smoke and allow for perfect draft. The 

 fire is regulated by placing a piece of tin 

 over the fuel or fire opening and another 

 over the air vents in the bottom. When 

 starting the fire the air vents are left open 

 and the fire opening is kept covered. When 

 the fire gets well started it may be checked 

 by opening the slide over the fire opening 

 or removing it altogether, or the vents at 

 the bottom may be closed and the slide on 

 the fire opening left closed or partially open. 



A very simple brick stove is shown in 

 the upper right corner of the illustration. 

 The bricks were laid up with mud for mortar, 

 the whole thing requiring less than 50 

 bricks. The stove served as a cooker as 

 well as a heater, for food could be readily 

 heated on top of the tin or iron cover. 



The worst problem of all was to get the 

 required amount of stovepipe, but in several 

 instances this difficulty was overcome by 

 using empty vegetable cans. These are 

 plentiful about a camp. The only trouble 

 with this style of stovepipe lies in the fact 

 that the cans 

 act on the 

 same principle 

 as a muffler on 

 on a gasoline 

 engine and 

 thereby fail to 

 accomplish the 

 desired results, 

 as the smoke 

 is held in check 

 and a slow 

 smoky fire 

 results. — 

 George M. 

 Petersen. 



Three types of roughly improvised stoves for heating 

 the tents of the guardsmen on the Mexican border 



Stropping a Razor on the Fleshy 

 Part Of the Hand 



THE finest strop for a razor is the 

 fleshy part of your hand below the 

 little finger. For eight years I have used 

 no other for razor blades. If it is a safety 

 razor blade grasp it between the thumb 

 and first finger of the right hand and 

 strike finger nail and blade at the same 

 time on the fleshy part of the left hand. 

 If you will do it slowly at first the mo- 

 tion becomes automatic. I put a little 

 vaseline on the cutting edge. This keeps 

 the blades constantly in first class con- 

 dition. — John W. Shank. 



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