Steam-driven Wheels for Cars
AN AUTOMOBILE carrying motors in its wheels is being perfected in a Chicago laboratory. Each wheel contains a six-cylinder engine fed with steam through the hub, and mounted eccentrically to the wheel proper. The piston rods of the steam wheel descend one after another propelling the car ever forward. An automobile so equipped, inventors claim, could travel at a speed of 100 miles an hour and cover 2,000 miles without refueling. This would be a great advantage, especially to high-speed cross-country busses which waste time filling gas tanks en route.

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The Story of Soap

FROM JUNGLE TO HOME

By Ralph Baker

THE white meat of the cocoanut from tropical islands of the South Seas, oil from the cotton fields of the South, thyme and other herbs from shady gardens, soda and potash from desert mines, flowers from the flower-fields of Europe—these are the principal ingredients from which modem soap is made.

The origin of soap is lost in antiquity. Buried in the flaming lava of Vesuvius a soap maker of Pompeii met his death. Centuries later excavators found his shop with bars of soap in their original moulds. Even that is not the beginning. In 600 B. C. the Phoenicians made soap as a commercial product, and it was doubtless used long before that.
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Newest Recent Inventions Interesting From the Scientific and Mechanical Viewpoint

• EACH month, about five thousand patents are issued from the patent office at Washington, exclusive of trademarks, but including design patents. Of these, the largest proportion are intended for purely technical applications and as improvements on machinery previously in use, and are therefore of limited interest. On the other hand, many are novel in their utilization of known principles; and it is our endeavor to present here those of interest to any mechanically-inclined reader, whether or not they can be used by the public.
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MANHOOD- Make Your Face Show it
Every real man wants the clear, rugged, ruddy face of a real he-man; the healthy, clean skin and alert expression that comes from a vigorous life in the open air. All men want it— all women admire it. You can have it.

STAG – A Man’s Cream For a Man’s Face

—is a true facial invigorator and tonic prepared for men. Two minutes’ use brings the red blood tingling to the surface, removes that oily, sallow appearance and leaves the skin clean, clear, firm and with healthy color. It invigorates and hardens the facial muscles and promotes an alert, forceful expression. A sixty-day treatment—with money-back guarantee—will be sent to you for a dollar bill.
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Quickly Installed Air Cooler for Warm-Weather Driving
Installed or removed in a few minutes, the new-air cooler shown above fits any make of car. Filtering and purifying the air besides lowering its temperature by evaporating a supply of water, the device operates automatically while the car is in motion. A pair of enterprising operators discovered a way to make a tidy summer profit with a supply of the conditioners. One rented them to west-bound tourists at the Needles, Calif., gate of the Mohave Desert, while his partner collected and re-rented them to east-bound motorists at San Bernardino.

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President Gets New Convertible

THE man in the White House took delivery the other day of a specially built seven-passenger Lincoln convertible with disappearing steps on which Secret Service men ride like footmen. Last of 10 cars built for Mr. Truman, his family, and distinguished visitors, it has a 145-inch wheel-base compared with 125 on the Lincoln Cosmopolitan. It has an over-all length of 20 feet compared with the standard 18-1/2.
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BATHERS COAST DOWN DUNES
Coasting on sand dunes is the latest diversion to capture the fancy of thrill seekers at the seashore. The only equipment needed is a huge frying pan of the type used in hotel kitchens. The coaster carries this pan to the top of a hard-packed dune and gets in. A good shove sends him flying down the dune. The sport is particularly popular at Virginia Beach, Va., where it first appeared.

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JAPANESE get a capsule-size view of the U.S.A. at the America Fair, sponsored by newspapers in Nishinomiya. Covering 75 acres, the fair includes models of famed American buildings as well as such natural phenomena as Grand Canyon, in miniature, of course. New York City’s sky line is represented by a detailed scale model as are many of Washington’s impressive buildings. On the lighter side are exhibits of bingo games and slot machines! Even the famous sculptures on Mount Rushmore have been skillfully reproduced, with a strange Oriental look.

Typewriter Spaces Words To Fill Lines
Designed especially for use where correspondence or other typed material is to be reproduced, a new typewriter has an attachment which assures neat, perfectly aligned right-hand margins. The typewriter carriage is provided with a numbered metal bar and a sliding pointer. At the end of each line, the operator notes the number above the pointer. In retyping, at the beginning of each line a knob is set to correspond with the number marked for that line on the original. The attachment then automatically word-spaces the copy to make all lines of the same length.

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From Goggle Balls to Sun Glasses

THE craze for gayly colored sun glasses that swept the country last year and is booming again with even greater fervor as summer comes on again, has revived to full capacity one of the most remarkable and least – known branches of the glass-making industry. Although tens of thousands of the familiar “smoked” and amber glasses, for beach and sporting wear, had been made and sold regularly each year, the new fad sent the demand skyrocketing to millions, while lens glass of half a dozen new tints and colors had to be created almost overnight.
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TNT ON WHEELS
MORE “punch” than a motorcycle motor has ever had before—that’s what is shooting Harley-David-sons ahead to victory on track and hill the world over.

Wait till you feel the thrill of that surging power under you as you zoom up grades and flash down straightaways! There’s no ride like a Harley-Davidson ride—and never before has there been a Harley-Davidson to equal the 1934 models with their marvelous TNT motors.

Your nearby Harley-Davidson dealer will be glad to show you how quickly you can learn to ride a Twin or Single — and how easy they are to buy on his time-payment plans. See him soon — and mail the coupon.
Ride HARLEY-DAVIDSON

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Hair Mail Special

Baldness beating you down? Don’t lose your head—mail-order a scalp from Max Factor, movie makeup man—and brush your troubles away!

1. Bashful about that shining pate for years. Milton Jones gets mail kit to order hair.
2. Following Max Factor’s instruction booklet, Milton x-marks a spot for his new hairline.
3. Then he stretches a wire across his head to get the natural dimensions for a hairy top.
4. Not much business for the barber, but Jones still finds hair he can clip for a sample.
5. Milton’s mail order is put on a properly shaped hair block at Factor’s wig workshop.
6. The wig dresser combs out the toupee to see that every hair looks like the real thing.
7. The postman brings the toupee and Milton rushes to a mirror to try on his new hair.
8. That handsome head of hair puts Milton in “top” shape for big business at his office.