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How Italian Sharpshooters Guard 

 Venice from Aerial Attack 



EVERY little while an Austrian air- 

 plane attempts to make a raid on 

 Venice. As soon as an enemy aircraft is 

 sighted the 

 sharpshooters 

 of the Italian 

 army sta- 

 tioned at 

 Venice are as- 

 sembled for a 

 concentrated 

 attack on the 

 airman. 



Pavilions 

 for the crack 

 shots have 

 been set up 

 at points of 

 vantage all 

 over the city. 

 These are pro- 

 vided with 

 beams which 

 are positioned 

 just over the 

 heads of the 



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Italian sharpshooters attacking the aerial invaders. 

 The best crack shots of the army are always employed 



A teaspoonful of this solution should 

 be added to every two gallons of the 

 water to be drunk. After being well 

 mixed in with the water, it should be 

 allowed to stand for about twenty minutes. 

 During this time, the lime will be giving 

 off its chlorine 

 and this 

 chlorine will 

 kill any germs 

 that may be 

 present. The 

 bottle of 

 sterilizing 

 solution will 

 keep its pur- 

 ifying quali- 

 ties for a 

 week. 



It is a good 

 plan to pre- 

 pare it in 

 rather small 

 quantities of 

 not more than 

 one week's 

 supply at a 

 time. 



men and serve as rifle rests which make 

 aiming much more certain than it would be 

 if the soldier simply rested his rifle against 

 his shoulder. 



Frequently as many as thirty of the 

 best shots in Venice are gathered together 

 in one of these little pavilions. The in- 

 vader invariably retreats or comes to grief. 



Prevent Typhoid. Sterilize Your 

 Drinking Water! 



PIPURE drinking water means typhoid. 

 It is therefore wise to sterilize all 

 water which may possibly be contam- 

 inated. Ordinary boiling will help, but 

 a much more certain treatment is the 

 following: Take a level teaspoonful of 

 pure chloride of lime and mix it with a 

 little of the water in a cup. When a 

 thin paste has been made, add another 

 teaspoonful of the lime, and thin that 

 down with water also. When nearly a 

 cupful of the lime and water has been 

 made, three more cupfuls of water should 

 be added slowly. After the paste has be- 

 come well mixed and no lumps are to be 

 found, the solution should be placed in 

 a dark bottle and tightly corked. 



A Homemade Hand Plow Built from 

 an Old Bicycle 



A FARMER out in California had no 

 hand plow so he proceeded to im- 

 provise one. The body of the plow he made 

 is an old bicycle frame. The bicycle handle- 

 bar was taken off, turned backward and 

 set solidly in the frame. The wheel was 

 taken from a large gate valve. The plow 

 share is attached to the frame by a U-bolt. 



The frame of an old bicycle with handlebars 

 turned backwards was used for this hand plow 



