ARE YOU A BORE?
by HELEN M. PETERSON and JEAN SULLIVAN
Have you ever felt that people find you less than fascinating? Do you sometimes feel that they are giving you only half an ear when you are talking to them? Do their eyes glaze or shift past you while you are still in the middle of a sentence? If so, you may have habits that label you a conversational bore and will banish you to the “uninvited” list for life. Read the rest of this entry »
Simple Tricks for April Fool Jokesters
Anything in the way of a joke is excusable on April Fool’s day, but your tricks have to be original if they are to bring a laugh. The main thing is to take your unsuspecting victim by surprise, and for that these simple stunts sure fill the bill. Not only will they do duty on April first, but they will also liven up any party when things get dull.
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It’s hard to imagine a group of people with more moral authority than the editors of Photoplay.
Spend your money and he’ll keep his job!
THIS YEAR the government will spend 5 billion less dollars than it did last year, because it doesn’t need so many guns, tanks, planes and other implements of war. This was your money paid to the government in taxes. Now the government’s letting you spend those 5 billions for yourself.
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Sculptor Gets Pose in Half-Minute
THOSE who wish to have their classic profiles excavated from the ruins a thousand years from now, may now secure a sculptured portrait of themselves without posing for hours on end. Only thirty seconds of sitting are now necessary to enable Artist William Fred Engleman to turn out a portrait bust in clay, marble or bronze.
Engleman, who combines science with his art, has invented a special camera which takes five hundred pictures of the model in thirty seconds. The photos are taken from such angles that every detail of the contour of the face and head are revealed.
Rough Riding Autos Injure Health
SCIENTIFIC support for the popular idea that traveling in a rough riding automobile may injure health was supplied in a recent scientific address. Long or frequently repeated automobile trips are likely to affect the kidneys by causing congestion of these organs with blood, often followed by actual bleeding, which is dangerous.
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Please, someone save this pony! He needs help oh so bad.
Quick! Lead Me Out!
And You May Have Me
“Help—I’m caught in these terrible stockyards. I’m hungry! Starving! I don’t know how to get to that big sack of oats on the outside. What boy or girl will lead me out?”
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Machine Knits Socks by the Yard
SOCKS by the yard for the English foot are being turned out by a new machine whose finished product is not unlike a length of link sausage.
Speedy in operation, the knitting machine turns out the hose in a continuous length. The socks only require cutting apart before being packaged and put on the market.
Bah, Cisco shmisco. I’ll bet you they don’t have hole-punch based routing tables!
CARDS FOR CONVERSATION
To find out how to route Long Distance calls a dial system needs lots of information—fast. To provide it Bell Laboratories engineers developed a new kind of card file—one that dial systems can read.
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EVERYDAY FOODS that Endanger Life
by MAXWELL REID GRANT
Poison death lurks in common table fruits and vegetables. Here is the story of how science battles to safeguard our foodstuffs.
ARMED with beakers and test tubes, scientists are waging a grim struggle against one of America’s most deadly enemies—the fatal poisons that lurk in common household foods.
The peril is not remote or imaginary—a scientific scare launched by some wild-eyed and overly enthusiastic laboratory worker. Read the rest of this entry »
Straw Hat Autos for Hot Climes
IN THE torrid Madeira Islands, automobiles have donned straw hats to provide the last word in comfort for motorists. Experimenters there have found that woven straw is much less heat absorbing than the customary metal cover, and so have equipped their cars with an overall sheathing of this airy material. Read the rest of this entry »
This inspired the very short-lived spin off magazine Suicide Illustrated.
Precaution for Would-be Suicides
IF YOU are figuring on committing suicide, be sure to take this precaution: Use new bullets. Old bullets are sure to be laden with germs, so that they might infect the wound, and cause you to die. If you use new bullets, you might recover from the attempted suicide.
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