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Where Smiles and Fresh Air Are Unknown 
A Family ‘‘Playground” in the New York Tenement District. 
"THOUSANDS of babies and nursing mothers are too sick to be taken to our fresh air homes, Sea Breeze, Junior Sea 
Breeze and Caroline Rest. We must therefore care for them at their tenement homes. 
$5.00 
will buy pure milk 
for a sick baby for 
a month. 
$10.00 
will restore a 
nursing mother 
to health. 
Hundreds 
of Babies 
have been Saved and Mothers Restored to Health by the A. I. C. P. 
Don’t ignore the generous impulse to 
HOW MANY WILL YOU HELP? give until it is too late. 
JIMMIE NEEDS NEW SHOES FOR SCHOOL 
He hasn’t been wearing any during vacation because the pair he wore to school last year are now soleless. Teacher 
won't allow him inside the school barefooted. Father earns hardly enough, after paying the rent for a few rooms, to buy the 
bare necessities of life for Jimmie’s brothers and sisters. “This distressing combination of circumstances threatens Jimmie’s educa- 
tion. How would you like to have your children go to school or work in Jimmie’s shoes? The A. I. C. P. knows of thou- 
sands of needy and deserving boys and girls who must have shoes for school. Last year it spent for shoes alone nearly $7,000. 
WON’ T YOU HELP JIMMIE? 
A SUGGESTION: 
As A. 1. C. P. Visitors FIND THEM 
As A.1.C. P. Nurses LEAVE THEM 
Have a lawn party or a children’s 
fair to help these poor families. 
Write for literature. 
Send gifts to 
R. S. MINTURN, Treasurer 
105 East 22nd Street 
NEW YORK 
United Charities Building 
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The Shoes that Jimmie Left and Those He Received. 
New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor 
R. FULTON CUTTING, PRESIDENT 
Monoplanes and Biplanes 
Their Design, Construction and Operation 
The Application of Aerodynamic Theory, with a Complete 
Description and Comparison of the Notable Types 
By Grover Cleveland Loening, B.Sc., A.M., C.E. 
nating subject has been handled largely, either in a very “ popular’’ and 
more or less incomplete manner, or in an atmosphere of mathematical 
theory that puzzles beginners, and is often of little value to aviators themselves. 
There is, consequently, a wide demand for a practical book on the subject-~ 
a book treating of the theory only on its direct relation to actual aeroplane 
design and completely setting forth and discussing the prevailing practices in the 
construction and operation of these machines. ‘‘ Monoplanes and Biplanes”’ 
is a new and authoritative work that deals with the subject in precisely this 
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It covers the entire subject of the aeroplane, its design, and the theory on which 
its design is based, and contains a detailed description and discussion of thirty- 
eight of the more highly successful types. 
12mo., (6x8™% inches) 340 pages, 278 illustrations. Atttractively bound in cloth. 
Price $2.50 net, postpaid 
An illustrated descriptive circular will be sent free on application. 
Munn & Co., Inc., Publishers 
361 Broadway, New York 
if the many books that have already been written on aviation, this fasci- 
October, 1911 
these feeders, giving grain by hand only 
once a day or less frequently. It is worth 
while for the amateur who has but little 
time to devote to his fowls to study the 
question of hopper feeding, although, on 
general principles, it is better to use a 
method which compels the poultry keeper 
to spend more time in the company of his 
fowls, so that the birds will become tame 
and friendly. 
It is an easy matter to make a self-feed- 
ing hopper from a soapbox. An examina- 
tion of such a feeder at one of the stores 
will be enough to make the principle plain. 
Whether hoppers are used for feeding grain 
or not, they are convenient receptacles for 
grit, oyster shells and beef scraps, which it 
is desirable to keep before the fowls at all 
times. Small hoppers with three compart- 
ments may be bought at small cost. 
Sometimes there is loss of, grain from 
the thievery of rats. In such cases it is 
well to use a kind of feeder which has a 
wire frame on top, the mesh being large 
enough so that the hens can get their bills 
through it without trouble. 
A simple but very satisfactory feeder 
may be made of an ordinary box, having a 
square of one-inch poultry netting cut to 
slide easily up and down inside the box. 
This square of poultry netting is placed on 
the grain, and follows it down to the bot- 
tom of the box as it is consumed. The 
fowls are able to eat freely, but cannot 
scratch the grain out of the box and so 
waste it. 
In order to provide as much floor space 
as possible, most of the furnishings of the 
poultry house should be out of the way. 
The water pan, for instance, may be set on 
a shelf about a foot above the floor. The 
dishes containing oyster shell, grit and 
charcoal, if the last is given, may be set 
on shelves, also. The hens will jump up on 
the shelves to get what they need) IJt%s 
best, however, to have the hoppers or boxes 
in which the grain is fed on the floor of the 
house, where they will be easily accessible. 
Altogether, the furnishings of the poul- 
try house should receive their full share of 
attention, when a new house is_ being 
planned or equipped, but complicated de- 
vices of all kinds should be shunned, and 
nothing employed which will interfere with 
the easy performance of the attendant’s 
duties and the frequent cleaning of the 
house in a most thorough way. 
CONCRETE WALL Forms. By A. A. Hough- 
ton. New York: The Norman W. 
Henley Publishing Company, 1910. 62 
pp.; illustrated. Price, 50 cents. 
This is No. 1 of a series of concrete 
workers’ reference books, and explains the 
construction of the various types of wall 
forms, clamps, separators, and spacers for 
reinforcement, treating also of founda- 
tions, retaining walls, the placing of floor 
joints, molding water tables and window 
ledges, and the molding of fireproof walls. 
The automatic wall clamp, which is clearly 
described and illustrated, permits of build- 
ing without difficulty monolithic walls with 
a continuous air chamber. As the general 
interest in concrete construction is increas- 
ing steadily any literature on the subject 
will be welcomed by the homemaker, 
