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Popular Science Monthly 



An Umbrella with an Electric Fan 



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IS an 

 umbrella 

 with an electric 

 fan to keep you 

 cool on a hot day. 

 Within the hollow 

 handle of the um- 

 brella are con- 

 cealed both a dry 

 battery and a 

 motor. A shaft 

 extends through the umbrella casing 

 from the motor to the axis of the fan, 

 which is so constructed that the blades 

 open and close with the umbrella. By 

 pressing a small push-button at the side 

 of the handle, the fan blades are made 

 to revolve as long as pressure on the 

 button is maintained. 



Convenient Holder for Toilet Articles 



A CLAMP, fas- 

 tened to a 

 wall, has a 

 notched lug for 

 gripping a tooth- 

 brush, shaving- 

 brush, and other 

 toilet article. A 

 glass, placed over 

 the top to keep 

 the dust oflf, is readily removed at any 

 time. In the hollow of the arm back of 

 the glass a shaving stick may be de- 

 posited, thus making the whole a 

 compact and convenient fitting for 

 crowded bathrooms. 



The Mechanical Fly Swatter 



TWO mesh 

 screens such 

 asareusedonordi- 

 nary fly killers are 

 pivoted so that 

 when a trigger is 

 pulled, a spring 

 causes the two 

 screens to come to- 

 gether like the 

 jaws of a trap, thus catching the fly 

 between the two screens and crushing it. 

 The handle of the device is shaped like 

 a pistol stock, and the spring mechanism 

 is actuated by a trigger, as in a pistol. 

 If desired, the two screens may be locked 

 together, and the device used as an 

 ordinary fly "swatter." 



Two Kitchen-Forks in One 



AD O U B L E 

 kitchen fork 

 that meets one of 

 the housewife's 

 troublesome 

 problems is 

 shown in the cut. 

 In taking vege- 

 tables, tender 

 meats, and other 

 similar foods from the pan it is custom- 

 ary to use two forks, one in each hand, 

 in order to prevent breaking the food 

 into small pieces. The double fork 

 enables one to make the transfer with 

 only one hand, leaving the other hand 

 free for handling the utensils and for 

 other purposes. 



Cord Reel Is Telephone Convenience 



TO take up 

 loose tele- 

 phone cord and 

 prevent it from 

 getting entangled 

 with desk materi- 

 als, a reel is actu- 

 ated by a spring, 

 having just 

 enough tension to 

 keep the cord wound up but not sufficient 

 to move the telephone. The attachment 

 will fit any ordinary desk-telephone. The 

 spring is the lowest of the three coils 

 shown in the illustraticjn, the cord being 

 the others. 



A Sanitary Butter Dish 



A SANITARY 

 butter dish 

 protects the butter 

 from dirt, dust, and 

 flies, and at the 

 same time keeps it 

 cool and solid. The 

 butter is contained 

 in the tray of crys- 

 tal glass; beneath _ 

 is an ice chamber in which ice may be 

 placed in warm weather. The cover is 

 turned over the butter to protect it 

 when the dish is not in use; when the 

 butter is needed the cover easily swings in- 

 to place underneath the glass. This dish 

 is not only convenient and useful, but 

 ornamental as well. 



