Put a Roof Over Your Head. For Less.
Interested in a complete log home package? Then you’ll be interested to know that of all major log home manufacturers, only Lincoln Logs includes a complete roof and truss system in all our basic packages. And Lincoln Log homes feature a lower total erected cost than any other major manufacturer’s comparable package. Read the rest of this entry »
A man’s best friend AFTER SHAVING
LISTERINE ends rawness, soothes and cools, attacks infection IF you’re one of those fellows with a hide like a rhino that defies any razor damages, this is not for you.
But if you have a sensitive skin, and most of us have, there are several grains of comfort in this statement: Listerine is great after shaving — your best friend in fact.
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dream cars you’ll never see
IN the January MI we showed you Tom McCahill’s dream car. And it really caught your fancy. We were swamped with letters, many of which longingly described pet dream cars. So, the editors asked artist Doug Rolfe to draw this set of cartoons to illustrate what might happen if Everyman would fit a car to his own personality.
SPORTSMAN’S MODEL: good on land and sea. It’s equipped with reds, pad’ dies, elephant guns, LaCrosse sticks, fencing masks and cricket bats. Read the rest of this entry »
Holder Protects Toothbrush
HOUSING four toothbrushes, this sanitary holder carefully guards the brushes during the time they are idle each day. The brushes are inserted through a flexible slot in the rubber bottom which closes tightly about the handle.
Each brush has its own dustless, ventilated compartment where it becomes dry. While in the guard, the brush is constantly being treated with a pleasant antiseptic aroma that kills germs. The glass dome is removable for cleaning purposes and for antiseptic renewal.
Golf Widows will be able to check up on their husbands now with this new application of the portable radio receiving set. The one being used here is a forerunner of the set to be manufactured.
A Talking Grandfather’s Clock
A GRANDFATHER clock that has gone modern with a vengeance, which” chimes and talks the hours, reminds you that it is eight o’clock — time to go to school, picks up broadcast music, plays the latest record hits—-which in fact seems to have everything but a soul, has recently been built by Joseph Pinto. The clock contains the usual clock machinery, a loud speaker, a radio receiving set, phonograph and records.
How Your Senses Fool You
by Sam Brown
YOUR senses do fool you! Almost any doctor would tell almost any man that his five major senses were in perfect working order. Yet, take that same man and his five senses—seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and feeling—and you will find that each of the senses, although usually pronounced perfectly sound, is subject to little quirks and twists that would seem to indicate that it is not the infallible indicator it is supposed to be. Read the rest of this entry »
ELECTRONIC POCKET TYPEWRITER
After the pocket calculator comes . . . the pocket typewriter.
Called the Microwriter, it’s a slimline battery-operated electronic gadget, measuring 8-1/2 inches long, 4 inches wide and 2-1/4 inches deep, and weighing 24 ounces.
You type on it with one hand, because it has just five keys on the board, plus a sixth control key at the side.
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SOUTH To Mexico
by Robert W. Gordon
A new highway lures the autoist “abroad,” to the land of bull fights and senoritas.
MEXICO’S horizons, pierced with cloud-clustered peaks, today offer a new lure to the romantic motorist. That once almost inaccessible land of bull fights, quaint and colorful villages, ancient Indian ruins and winter bathing in crystal seas is now easy to reach by auto over the first link of the Pan-American highway from Laredo, Texas, to Mexico City.
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Apples As Big As Your Head!
Scientists are working frantically to produce monster plants in order to feed the world. You can try their wonder drug in your own garden.
By Donald G. Cooley
HOW’D you like to step out into your backyard and pick a two-pound apple? Or a strawberry as large as a peach? Perhaps you’d prefer to grow roses the size of dahlias. Or, the prospect of biting into an exotic new fruit or vegetable—a pomato or a cucaloupe—might appeal to you.
There’s nothing fantastic about the creation of utterly new, bigger, more flavor-some and nutritious plant foods. Nature is creating them all the time. The trouble is that nature has all the time in the world and if she takes a few million years to turn out a new kind of peach tree it’s nothing to her. Read the rest of this entry »
DOG COTTAGE transports tiny chihuahua from kennel-to-kennel when she competes for top honors in English dogdom. The lady’s snootful name is Dalhabboch Emima-Maud.
New Game Uses Wooden Foils
A NEW fencing game uses foils made of wood with suction cups on the ends. Shields made of cardboard are worn with various sections of the body marked off. Face protecting masks made of cardboard and wire mesh also are included. Shown demonstrating the outfit are Rita Hart (left) of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Ethel E. Battner, of Jamaica, L. I., N. Y.
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