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Popular Science Monthly 



for a 



An Automobile Dressing-Room 

 Motion Picture Actress 



MISS BESSIE EYTON, a popular 

 motion picture star now stationed 

 in Los Angeles, objected to going about 

 in the costumes she 

 had to wear while 

 being filmed. She 

 devised away toturn 

 her automobile in- 

 to a dressing-room. 



A small automobile was converted 

 into a dressing-room, with pipes 

 for heat and hot water. It is now 

 used as a dressing-room by a 

 motion picture actress 



genuity over space. She has taken her 

 small car and so carefully calculated 

 every inch of volume that she has made a 

 commodious dressing-room out of it. 

 She has a place to make-up and a place 

 for the costumes that will be needed 

 during one day's work. The dressing- 

 room is curtained, so that it is as private 

 as the dressing-room of any theater. 



But best of all she can have hot water 

 and heat. A pipe with a drum and plate 

 is connected with the exhaust-pipe, 

 which runs through the car. Whenever 

 she wants hot water or heat she has only 

 to turn a \alve and start the engine. 

 This throws the exhaust through the 

 drum, and in less than a minute the car 

 is warm. 



Did You Know That Flour Explodes? 



DURING the last ten years, about 

 twenty explosions have occurred in 

 cereal, flour and feed mills, with the loss 

 of two million dollars' worth of property, 



as well as the killing or injuring of over 

 two hundred^employees. Investigations 

 regarding the causes of these explosions 

 and subsequent fires have not proved 

 conclusively what are the difficulties 

 to be avoided. In 

 eight cases, the ex- 

 plosions are be- 

 lie\'ed to have orig- 

 inated from the 

 sparks produced in 

 the machines dur- 

 ing the grinding 

 process. Tiny par- 

 ticles of gravel or 

 metallicsubstances 

 coming into con- 

 tact with the plates 

 of the machine may 

 produce enough 

 sparks to ignite 

 the dust within the 

 machine. 



Another possible 

 cause for cereal dust explosions sug- 

 gested is the use of naked flames. 



Sea- Scouts as Lamp-Lighters 



EN the 

 men of a 

 country have to 

 go to war, their 

 responsibilities 

 must be assumed 

 by the women and 

 children. The sea- 

 scouts of England 

 are boys who came 

 promptly forward 

 Avith their services 

 in any capacity 

 which might be 

 required. In the 

 illustration may 

 be observed a sea- 

 scout performing 

 the useful task of 

 lighting the street- 

 lamps. Equipped 

 v.ith a bicycle and 

 lamp-lighter, he 

 makes his circuit 

 in short time and 



does it as well, we England is using 

 , some of her boy 



dare say, as any sea-scouts to light 

 full-grown man. street lanterns 



