She sure seems happy to be handcuffed.

MITTEN HANDCUFFS SECURE CRIMINALS
Only the tips of fingers and thumbs protrude from handcuffs of a new style, invented by a former member of the Canadian Mounted Police, and shown above. Each of the metal gloves is hinged in two leaves equipped with locks. The mitten-shaped handcuffs were devised by the inventor in the belief that the ordinary type makes it possible for a desperate criminal, being transported overland, to attempt to grasp his captor’s gun or attack him with the hands.

What does this guy have against rats, and how does he know jelly fish share his opinion? I have arms and a backbone, yet I have no desire to slap a rat in the face. Also, why wouldn’t the jelly fish just sting the rat. Many of them are poisonous.

Later in the ad Mr. Ratslapper promises that “Your lungs will start pumping real oxygen into your blood”. To me this should be the headline. I mean, where did this fake oxygen come from? Is it a conspiratorial plot by the dioxy industrial complex? Should we be scared?

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If a Jelly Fish Could Slap a Rat in the Face

he would do it. But he can’t. He has no arms. Neither does he have a backbone. How much worse off is a man who was given a good backbone and a pair of arms— and won’t use them.

No Excuse

We excuse the jelly fish. He never had anything to work on. But there is no excuse for a flabby, round-shouldered and flat-chested specimen of a man. You were given a perfect framework for a body. You were meant to rule the world, but there is hardly an animal alive which does not show better sense than you do.
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Wow, and his teeth look so natural! This guy could get a second job as a lighthouse.

Smoker’s Teeth Bleached White New Safe Way

No need for dull, yellow, tobacco-stained teeth now. For a new safe treatment—Bleachodent Combination—bleaches away stains, and makes teeth flashing white—often in just three minutes! Treatment consists of a marvelous liquid, which curdles and softens the stains—and a new kind of paste which gently removes the softened stains and presents the formation of new stains. Safe and harmless, as its mild ingredients are especially combined to act only on surface stains —not on the enamel itself. Read the rest of this entry »

Apparently they had cellophane straws in 1934. Yet when my family went to Disney World in the early 80’s they were still using paper straws. I was impressed by them at first: “Cool they make straws out of paper!” then irritated when they got gummed up and stopped working. I remember thinking that Disney must have bought billions of paper straws in the 70’s and were still trying to use them all up even though everyone else had moved on to plastic.

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New Devices FOR THE Household

NEW AIR CONDITIONER. No larger than a radiator, the air conditioner shown above, is designed for the home and will be marketed at a price anyone can afford. Chilled water from a small refrigerating unit is used to cool the air. Steam warms it. Diagram, right, explains the system

PACKAGE HANDLE. A number of packages can be carried easily with this handle. Snaps clip to the strings

PORTABLE SHOWER This shower outfit can be attached quickly to any faucet and is held to tile wall by rubber suction cup

HOME CANNER. All the operations of canning are done with the machine shown here. It opens and seals tin cans
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Electric Wrist Watch

You never wind the mainspring of an amazing new wrist watch because it has none—it is powered by a tiny electric motor. No larger than a conventional wrist watch, the electric timepiece runs a year on a tiny battery which has less volume than a penny. The battery is designed so it can be replaced easily by a jeweler. Its power output is at such an even rate that the watch is said to keep better time than conventional watches using mainsprings. The subminiature electric motor (its coils are wound with 3000 turns of insulated copper wire only 1/6 the thickness of a human hair) develops 1/75,000,000 horsepower. Not yet in production, the watch was developed by Elgin National Watch Company.

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USING A MICROSCOPE FOR Polarized Light Experiments

By H. J. Sexton and O. M. Freeman

WITH apparatus costing less than two dollars to make, the amateur microscopist can now produce and observe polarized light. This opens up a field hitherto limited by the prohibitive cost of the required accessories. It enables the amateur to witness the most beautiful phenomena and conduct the most delicate investigations of which the microscope is capable.

Nowhere in nature are to be found more astonishing and magnificent displays of variegated color effects or more exact delineations than those produced by polarized light in its passage through a simple slide made from a strip of mica, or a thin section of horn or quill. No degree of magnification, however high, will so clearly resolve the limits and boundaries of a specimen composed of layers normally transparent to ordinary light.
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