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Popular Science Montlily 



London's perambulators are now equip- 

 ped with sidelights to avoid danger in the 

 darkened streets 



London War Affects Baby Carriages 



LONDON has passed an unusual law 

 J which requires that baby carriages 

 shall be equipped with sidelights. While 

 no adequate explanation is given, it is 

 believed that the new ruling was put 

 into effect because of the darkness into 

 which the streets are plunged because 

 of the fear of Zeppelin raids. Baby 

 carriages, while not dangerous objects, 

 are objects of danger, and the fact that 

 they are compelled by law to be equipped 

 with a lamp to light their way, lessens 

 the possibilities of collisions. The law 

 requires that the light shall show white 

 in front and red in the rear. 



How War Mobilizes the Non- 

 Combatant 



ONE of the impressions of war 

 received by Dr. George W. Crile, 

 who served with the American Ambu- 

 lance at the front, was that a civil 

 community is terrorized when it is first 



under fire, but that in time this terror 

 wears away and life under the sound of 

 shells goes on quite normally. ("A 

 Mechanistic View of War and Peace," 

 The Macmillan Company). 



"I observed that from Furnes to Ypres the 

 farmers were quietly tilling the soil under active 

 shell fire. In one instance just at the outskirts 

 of Ypres I saw a fresh excavation made by a shell 

 which had fallen on a newly-made furrow. The 

 farmer was working at one end of the furrow and 

 the German artillery at the other end. The 

 farmer seemed no more disturbed than the 

 artillery. An aeroplane fight high above our 

 heads called forth the rapt attention of everyone 

 in the fields, on the roads and in the houses, but 

 even so the excitement was less than one usually 

 sees at a baseball game. 



"In Ypres, so long under bombardment, and 

 so extensively battered, some of the citizens had 

 stolen back in spite of shells and resumed their 

 daily routine. I recall a little plaster house at 

 the edge of the town, in the doorway of which 

 two women were pleasantly gossiping and two 

 little girls were playing with dolls. The nearer 

 the front one goes, the more quiet and serious 

 every one seems. It is the solemn atmosphere of 

 the consecration of human life." 



Adjustable Footrest 



AN ingenious German named Stickler 

 L has invented a support for the leg 

 below the knee and the foot, which can 

 be easily adjusted to any form of chair 

 or bench and afterwards removed with- 

 out trouble when the need for its use is 

 over. Thus, one of these footrests can 

 serve a number of seats. 



It has always been one of the draw- 

 backs even to the most comfortable of 

 ordinary chairs that while the upper 

 part of the body is well supported, the 

 feet, when they fail to touch the ground, 



A comfortable foot and leg rest which 

 can be used with any chair 



lack a rest. This enables one to work in 

 a comfortable sitting position. 



