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Popular Science MontJily 



A newspaper holder that looks like a sword, made for 

 Army and Navy clubs 



Army and Navy Clubs 

 Please Notice 



A MAGAZINE and news- 

 paper holder made in 

 the form of a sword has been 

 created by a famous furni- 

 ture maker of New York. 

 A personal design of his own, 

 it is executed by hand, and 

 the blade is a knotted branch 

 split down the middle and 

 stained a French gray. The 

 handle, like a sword-hilt, is 

 made of woven willow and 

 fits the hand comfortably. 

 The whole contrivance is 

 singularly light and easily 

 handled, and the usual long 

 handle of such devices, 

 which makes it difficult to 

 use them comfortably, is 

 eliminated. The new news- 

 paper holder is in fact more 

 easily held than a paper 

 which is not so protected. 



The hilt is black, in at- 

 tractive contrast to the gray 

 of. the "blade." The device 

 has already found its way 

 •ititio many clubs. 



Music While You Work 



A DRY-CLEANING establishment in 

 Cincinnati has come to the con- 

 clusion that if its employes hear music at 

 frequent inter\-als while they 

 work it will not only make 

 them happier, more con- 

 tented and better workers, 

 but that they will accom- 

 plish more than if they were 

 without it. 



Working upon this theory, 

 there have been installed 

 throughout the big estab- 

 lishment enough phono- 

 graphs to keep lively music 

 playing most of the day. 



The records are selected 

 with care, lest a funeral 

 selection, a dreamy waltz, or 

 a Sextette from Lucia should 

 creep in. There are many 

 lively dance records and 

 popular songs. The work- 

 ers hum and sing to the 



lively music and the speed of the music 

 puts the speed into their w^ork. 



The music-while-they-work is said to 

 be a South American idea, where music 

 is recognized as a necessity of life. 



If the regimental band makes soldiers step lively, why 

 shouldn't this phonograph make ironing easier? 



