528 



Popular Science Monthly 



This blanket protects the man, the horse and the vegetables 



are not confined to 

 camping. It is a 



A Blanket with Many Uses 



WHAT is believed to be the most 

 ingenious and practical camping 

 blanket devised to date is the invention 

 of J. L. Wright, of Revere. Mass. As 

 a warm, rain-proof traveling-coat, or 

 storm-cape, it cannot be equaled. It is 

 long and fits snugly about the neck. 

 Owing to its size 

 and rectangular 

 shape, it can be 

 readily converted 

 into a tent- 

 covering. As 

 a sleeping-bag, it 

 is closed at the 

 side and bottom. 

 The uses of this 

 handv accessorv 



better horse-cover 

 than an ordinary 

 blanket, since it 

 has all the blanket's 

 good points, but is 

 not so heavv on 



Sleep in the open, warm and dry 



Two blankets make a shelter tent 



No chance for 

 rain to enter 



the horse's back. 



It does good 

 service as a wagon- 

 cover, fitting neatly over 

 the sides and buckling at 

 the corners. 



Why Legs Are Called 

 "Cork" 



THE first artificial leg, 

 other than the ordina- 

 ry wooden pegs, is said to 

 have been made in London 

 by a man named Cork in 

 the earh^ part of the nine- 

 teenth century. Hence the 

 name " Cork leg," no mat- 

 ter what the material. 



