Popular Science Monthly 



A Billiard Table that Folds Up to Be 

 Stored Away When Not in Use 



A GREAT many persons would like to 

 play billiards at home but have no 

 space for so large an article of furniture as 

 a billiard table. A table has been devised 

 which will allow 

 such billiard 

 lovers to gratify 

 their desire for a 

 game whenever 

 they please. 



The table is de- 

 mountable and 

 can be folded up 

 and put in a 

 closet when not 

 in use. It is light 

 enough to be 

 handled with ease 

 and may be set 

 up ready for a 

 game at a mo- 

 ment's notice. 



The best fea- 

 ture of this new 

 billiard table is 

 that it has the 

 necessary rigidity 

 for scientific bil- 

 liards. It has ac- 

 curate angles, 

 fast level beds 

 and quick acting 

 cushions. When 



the legs are unfolded in order to set the 

 table up, they lock automatically so that 

 there is no danger of the table wobbling 

 when the game begins to grow exciting. 

 Except that they are stronger and heavier, 

 these legs resemble those of an ordinaiy 

 folding sewing table. 



A recruit being photographed by the X-ray for 

 indications of tuberculosis or lesion of the lungs 



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Examining Recruits for Tuberculosis 



and Avoiding the Mistake France Made 



AN American physician, Dr. Hermann 

 l\ M. Biggs, was sent to France by the 

 Rockefeller Foundation to study health 

 conditions among the soldiers. He found 

 that France is a 

 hot-bed of tuber- 

 culosis. When 

 the war broke out 

 there were in all 

 France, only 

 iooo sanitorium 

 beds for the treat- 

 ment of tubercu- 

 losis, and no tu- 

 berculosis dispen- 

 saries at all. 

 When France 

 mobilized her 

 great army she 

 sent thousands of 

 tubercular men 

 into her trenches. 

 The United 

 States Army offi- 

 cers are anxious 

 not to make that 

 mistake. They 

 are, therefore, 

 very particular 

 about the exam- 

 ination of the re- 

 cruits. 



Sausage Made from Cottonseed- 

 Economical Tidbit 



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THE United States 

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A demountable billiard table folded up. It may be 

 set up for a game as easily as a checker board 



is certainly the 

 land of cotton." Nowhere else in 

 the world is cotton grown in such abun- 

 dance, and put to such a variety of 

 uses. The fiber, of course, is made 

 into cloth; the oil from the seeds is 

 used as a good substitute for olive 

 oil and as a basis for lard, and now 

 the seeds themselves are being ground 

 into flour and used for food purposes. 

 Gingersnaps and jumbles are made 

 from it, and it is mixed with finely 

 chopped meat and tied in sausage links. 

 To make the cottonseed sausage, 

 three pounds of sausage meat is mixed 

 with one pound of cottonseed, flour. 

 This flour is said to contain as much 

 nutrition as the meat which it takes 

 the place of, and to effect a consider- 

 able saving on each pound of sausage. 



