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Popular Science Monthly 



Caging the Bananas to Keep 

 Them Clean 



CHARLES P. ARTHUR, a grocer in 

 Iowa Falls, Iowa, was impressed by 

 the great need of a 

 method of keeping ba- 

 nanas clean. He saw 

 that flies and other in- 

 sects crawled all over 

 the bunch of bananas 

 in the store. 



After thinking the 

 matter over he de- 

 signed a case which 

 will keep bananas fresh 

 and clean and at the 

 same time within easy 

 reach of the grocer. 

 This has been patent- 

 ed recently. The case 

 stands a little higher 

 than a man's head, so 

 that the bananas sus- 

 pended within it are in 

 such a position that 

 they can be cut off 

 easily. The case is 

 made of a metal frame 

 covered with wire net- 

 ting. This keeps in- 

 sects away from the 

 and admits air. 



fruit 



A new method of keeping bananas 

 clean. The wire case is of fine mesh 

 and keeps flies and other insects away 



Even the Price of Monkeys 

 Is Soaring 



WHO would think that the European 

 war would have anything to do 

 with the price of monkeys ? Well, it does, 

 and a great deal, too. The price of monkeys 

 has gone up with food, paper, shoes, etc., 

 to the despair of the pathologist and 

 to the sorrow of the hurdy-gurdy man. 

 The causes for the sudden "corner" in 

 monkeys is the closing of the world's 

 principal wild animal market at Ham- 

 burg, Germany, and the lack of shipping 

 facilities. 



Not long ago the pathologists of the 

 National Public Health Service at Wash- 

 ington, D. C, wanted a dozen South 

 American monkeys for experimental pur- 

 poses. They appealed to every wild 

 animal dealer in this country, to the zoos, 

 and to the sailors in port, and finally 

 purchased six at $18.00 each. 



Keeping the Shampooing Soap Suds 

 Out of Your Eyes 



IF Mr. Jones wishes a really comfortable 

 shampoo at the barber's, or Mrs. Smith 

 at her hair-dresser's, 

 let them ask for one of 

 the new types of special 

 shampoo basins shown 

 in the accompanying 

 illustration. The ba- 

 sins are of the ordinary 

 kind, but they have 

 a special horizontal 

 cup-shaped projection 

 at the front in which 

 the head may rest 

 while Mr. Jones or 

 Mrs. Smith leans back 

 in a special chair set 

 about half a foot in 

 front of the basin. 

 The water and soap 

 used in the shampoo- 

 ing operation thus 

 drains off from the 

 hair directly into the 

 basin without running 

 into the eyes. 



The upright portion 

 of the device above the 

 top of the basin proper 

 is made into a tank to 

 hold two gallons of 

 soap lotion. This is heated by gas and 

 is drawn out through the faucet. . 



The special shampooing basin has a cup-shaped 

 projection in front in which the head rests 



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