INDEX TO VOLUME 88 



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Ink Eracing Blotter 119 



An Electric Alarm Clock 119 



A Fuel Economizer 1 20 



Helping to Kindle Fire Wood 1 20 



A Remedy for Sagging Doors . I 20 



Pouiing from Lipless Jars 1 20 



Waste Heat Warms Water 120 



Hints on Running the Home Furnace 121 



Distilling Water for the Household 122 



Making an Electric Toaster 122 



A Home-made Paper Baler 122 



Serving Table Attached to Range 122 



HOME WORK-BENCH 



A Dustless Ash Sifter 311 



Avoiding Dangerous Stair Turns 311 



For the Amateur Painter 312 



An Outdoor Window Bed 312 



How to Make a Simple, Automatic Window Closing 



Device 313 



For Conserving Heat in Steam Pipes 314 



How to Make a Snow-Plow to Clean the Sidewalk . 315 



A Clock Light for Dark Mornings 313 



An Automatic Desk Lamp 315 



Making Use of Cupboard Space for Refrigerator. . 316 



Fastening Wood with Screws 316 



To Make a Mission Screen 317 



Seam Ripper from Old Safety Blade 317 



To Open a Molasses Jar 317 



A Simple Ruby Light 317 



A Combined Ice House and Cold Storage Room ... 318 

 Inclined Sidewalk for a Wheeled Invalid Chair . . 473 

 A Simple Method of Clearing a Clogged Waste 



Pipe 473 



A Book or Music Stand from Old Spools 474 



A Cheap Substitute for Linoleum 475 



Lengthening the Life of a Worn-Out Clock 475 



An Extension to a Kitchen 476 



Concealing the Spare Silver 478 



A Door Retainer 478 



A Flower-Pot Hanger 478 



A Garbage and Paper Burner 478 



Using a Suction Pump to Clear a Clogged Drain. . 478 



A Modern Sanitary Hog House 479 



A Hen-House Water Supply Which Will Not 



Freeze 480 



A Whole Tool Box in One Tool 632 



A Self-Rocking Developing-Tray 632 



How to Make a Kitchen Table Fit You 633 



Feeding Twenty Steers 633 



A Can of Paint and How to Use It 634 



Building a Bungalow 637 



A Handy Magazine-Shelf 666 



Combination Bedroom and Living Room 666 



An Improved Bottle Stopper 753 



Using a Hinge for a Vise 759 



How to Make a Distilling Apparatus 759 



A Pipette Attached to a Bottle 762 



A Wedge as a Burglar-Alarm 763 



An Improved Darkroom Lamp 764 



Boring a Hole in Glass . 769 



How to Build a Rabbit Hutch 791 



How to Make an Iceless Cooler 792 



A Vegetable Peeler Made from a Razor Blade. . , . 792 



Making a Cheap Grocery Set of Your Own 794 



How to Make a Glove-Box 794 



An Improved Match Striker . . : 795 



Building a Bungalow 796 



For Polishing Furniture 880 



How to Make an Accurate Sun-Dial 95 I 



How to Mix Stove Blacking 95 I 



A Waterproof Compound 95 I 



Clothes-Line Suggestions 952 



A Sanitary Kitchen Sink 952 



Broom Holder from Barrel Hoop 953 



How to Dry Unsightly Scrub-Rags 953 



How to Protect Sugar from Ants 953 



How to Use Old Mantel Supports 953 



A Milk-Warmer Made from a Lamp-Bulb 953 



Rejuvenating Your Pipe 953 



Making the Burglar Call the Police 954 



A Quick Creaser 954 



Automatic Feeding-Hopper Built for Twenty-five 



Cents 955 



A Cistern of Concrete 955 



Convenient Stairway 956 



How to Make Artificial Marble 956 



The Left-Handed Woman's Home Appliances .... 956 

 The Ideal Home for $5,000 957 



HOUSEKEEPING MADE EASY Page 



A Foot-controlled Sewing Machine 54 



Monday Mechanics 96 



A Tub Within a Tub for the Baby 106 



Preventing -the Clogging of the Sink 106 



A Saucepan Which Is Also a Strainer 106 



A Tea Kettle Which Does Not Burn 107 



A Gaibage Can Which Cannot Spill 107 



Combining a Brush and a Suction Pump in a 



Cleaner 107 



Simple Way to Clean Vegetables 107 



A Collapsible Wardrobe 107 



A Meat Chopper Which Opens Like a Book 108 



Ice Cannot Fall Out of This Water Pitcher 108 



A Can-Opener That Cannot Slip Ill 



Non-Rolling Nursing Bottle 112 



A Wisconsin Cook Invents a Doughnut-Drainer. . 259 



Door Parcels Receivers 263 



Cracking Nuts Three at a Time 264 



For Polishing Furniture 264 



Oil Mop Cleaner and Dustpan 266 



A Bunsen Burner Flat Iron 269 



A Hair-Drying Comb 269 



Tricks of the Short- Weight Tradesman 388 



A Safety Wringer-Guard 410 



A Stairway Which Is Also a Door 419 



A Folding Service-Wagon 420 



A Cheap Way of Preserving Eggs 493 



Lawn Leveling 497 



A Combined Electric Stove and Fireless Cooker. . 504 



This Lamp Shade Will Not Scorch 505 



This Chair Does Duty Twenty-tour Hours Every. 



Day. . 585 



Finger-Saving Nutmeg-Grater 585 



To Take Olives from a Bottle 585 



A Holder for Milk Bottles 585 



New Device Distills Water for the Home 586 



Making an Acetylene Gas Generator 629 



A Novel Window-Shelf 630 



A Siphon to Remove Cream From Bottles 630 



A Wash-Wringer Attachment 630 



Space and Time Savers for the Home 666 



An Improvised Hall-Tree 666 



Keeping Beverages Fresh 704 



A Bottle-Sealing Machine for the Home 736 



A Lace Curtain Protection 742 



No Corkscrew Needed 762 



How to Keep the Baby in His High Chair 763 



An Easy Way to Remove a Broken Chair Leg. 763 



The Luminous Bottle 772 



A Safe Swing for the Baby 795 



Floor Scrubber Propels Itself 813 



Cherry-Stoner Saves the Hands 821 



Efficiency in the Kitchen 82 I 



An Electric Gas-Lighter 82 I 



A Glue-Brush Like a Fountain Pen 82 I 



How to Avoid Burnt Fingers 82 I 



Two Cooking Vessels in One 82 I 



Try These 822 



A Vacuum Washing Machine Which Sucks Dirt 



Out of Fabrics 822 



A Convenient Milk and Butter Slide for Refrigera- 

 tors 823 



An Ice-Grip with Many Uses 823 



Another Way to Rejuvenate Eggs 823 



Killing Insects with Poisonous Gas 857 



An Electric Iron with a Headlight 863 



Sterilizing Water by Ultra-Violet Light 866 



What Blood Pressure Means and How It Is Meas- 

 ured 867 



Why a Featherduster Is Like a Fly 878 



Ice Making at Home 891 



An Improvised Flour Bin 902 



Doing Away with the Dish-Cloth 906 



It Saves the Cooks Hands 907 



Removing Waterproof India Ink Spots 925 



HOW THE WAR IS BEING FOUGHT 



The Destruction of the Emden 13 



Women in Europe's Machine Shops 17 



The Making of a Submarine Mine 21 



How Range Finders Find the Range 26 



The Pigeon Spy and His Work in War 30 



How the War Is Being Fought 33 50 



Shooting at Jupittr 66 



Piles of Walnut Logs for Gun Stocks 89 



A Pocki t Periscope 112 



Mining the Air Against Zeppelins 163 



Sweeping a Channel for Submarine Mines 164 



