Popular Science Monthly 



559 



Shelter-Top for London's 'Bus Riders 



1 OX DON rains and London fogs 

 ^ will before long have no terrors for 

 that portion of the populace that pre- 

 fers to ride atop 'busses in 

 order to gain the benefits 

 from the ou-tdoor air. 

 Weatherproof coverings or 

 tops are being installed on 

 all of London's 'busses, and 

 their construction is such 

 that they can be put up or 

 taken down in two minutes. 

 In the photograph, which 

 shows the new rain-proof 

 'bus-top, can incidentally be 

 seen rows upon rows of 

 posters, one way of advertis- 

 ing which the British army is 

 employing. Evidently pro- 

 ceeding along the theory 

 that repetition is the best 

 way to advertise for any- 

 thing, the same poster is 

 used over and over again, 

 in the hope of driving home 

 a lesson to the reluctant 

 Briton. 



that is, baked in a shallow clay oven, 

 fired by charcoal, as the bread of 

 our southwestern Indians, the bread of 

 the Bolivian Incas, and the Argentine 



Londoners no longer have to ride on their beloved 'bus- 

 tops in the rain. Here is one of several designs of 

 detachable tops now being installed 



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Better Than the Bread 

 Mother Baked 



THAT civilized person to whom has cholos, is baked — has never really tasted 

 never come the pleasure of tasting bread as it was intended to taste. It 

 bread as it is baked in the open — is a little coarser, perhaps, than the 



snow-white bakers' bread of 

 the large cities, but it has 

 nourishment and flavor that 

 are unmatched. 



In South America the 

 oven is very simple in struc- 

 ture, consisting merely of 

 a hollowed-out clay or mud 

 mound, sometimes supported 

 on a wooden framework, as 

 is illustrated here, but usual- 

 ly by a rock pile. 



Repair for Cracked 

 Window 



A WINDOW that is 

 cracked can be repaired 

 temporarily by bolting two 

 roofing nail-caps where the 

 cracks meet. Roofing nail- 

 caps are large tin washers 

 with small holes which must 

 be reamed out to accommo- 

 date a machine screw. 



The brick ovens of our ancestors baked good bread. 



The bread from the clay ovens of Bolivia is said to be 



even more nourishing and delicious 



