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A Millinery Store on Water 



A RETIRED milliner of Atlantic 

 City, who spends his winters in 

 Elorida, bought a boat at Daytona and 

 converted it into a millinery store. The 

 exigencies of the situation made this 

 original store desirable, for buildings are 

 not allowed on the shore side of the 



Bonnets for sale on water 



street along the beach, and therefore 

 rents are very high on the other side of 

 the street. With his boat scheme he 

 combined home comforts w^ith a fine 

 business location. His boat is seventy feet 

 in length and twenty feet -wide, and is 

 lighted inside and out with electricity. 



Popular Science Monthly 



An Automobile Show Case 



ONE of the latest features of the 

 business world of Monrovia, Calif., 

 is the delivery outfit devised by the pro- 

 prietor of a dyeing and cleaning estab- 

 lishment. It has been termed the "show 

 case" delivery outfit. It is built like the 

 ordinary delivery case, but its two sides 

 and back are of glass, 

 so that the suits or 

 cloaks inside may be 

 plainly seen by pedes- 

 trians upon the side- 

 walk or the occupants 

 of passing machines. 

 The coat hangers are 

 hooked over screw- 

 hooks fastened to the 

 roof of the case. 



The owner removed 

 the rear seat of his five- 

 passenger car and in its 

 place located the case. 

 Both the case and the 

 rear seat are "quick de- 

 tachable" and one may 

 be changed for the other 

 in a very few moments. 

 The floor of the case is four feet square, 

 while it is four and a half feet high. 

 As an advertising medium this case 

 shows the people of Monrovia the kind 

 of work turned out by this cleaning es- 

 tablishment, a plan w^hich fits in nicely 

 with this "show me" age. 



A Sandstorm to Order 



ANEW use for the aer- 

 oplane has been re- 

 cently discovered. A prom- 

 inent moving picture director 

 was searching for the best 

 method of reproducing a 

 sandstorm on the scenery, 

 and took his company to 

 the government aviation 

 school. The scenery w^as set 

 up on the sandy grounds 

 surrounding the school, and 

 one of the aeroplanes was 

 held fast and the motor 

 started. When the motor 

 was turned to full speed, 

 the back-wash from the pro- 

 peller stirred up a real 

 sandstorm over the out- 

 door stage. 



A California dyer displays his work in a glass delivery 

 wagon. He took off the rear seat of his five-passenger car 

 and in its place located the glass case in which was dis- 

 played his work on its way home to the customer 



