Handy Portable Auto Bath House

MOTORISTS driving out to the beach for a plunge need not worry in the least about bath house facilities, for a portable dress tent which can be erected alongside an auto in a jiffy has recently been put on the market. Designed especially for use with closed cars, the tent consists of only three parts—the canvas cover, the frame, and the bracket which attaches to the car to serve as a center pole.

A special arrangement of the frame assures complete privacy and when out of use the tent can be folded up and locked in car.

view additional pages

Costly JEWELS from Butterfly Wings

by Bennett Lincoln

Butterfly collecting is more than a hobby—it’s an exceedingly profitable business. A unique jewelry shop in New York deals exclusively in articles fabricated from butterfly wings, sold for as much as $5000. It’s the only one of its kind.

USUALLY mention of the word “jewelry” conjures up mental pictures of flashing diamonds, blood-red rubies, or velvety strings of pearls around the throats of beautiful women. But in New York City there is a unique jewelry shop which never deals in precious stones. Its stock in trade is expensive jewelry fabricated out of butterfly wings—lamp shades, watch cases, pendants, and other articles ornamented with insect wings splashed in gorgeous shades of color which no living artist has ever matched.
Read the rest of this entry »

SUPERIOR GRAPHICS HAVE COME DOWN TO EARTH

$1995 AND THE FIRST AFFORDABLE HIGH RESOLUTION COLOR GRAPHICS MACHINE 15 YOURS

VX128
• VERY HIGH RESOLUTION 672 by 480 pixels individually addressable.
• EIGHT COLORS PER PIXEL 3 bit planes of memory totalling 128K graphics RAM.
• ON-BOARD 16 BIT MICROCOMPUTER Intel 8088 microprocessor with additional PROM and RAM and built-in expansion capability. Read the rest of this entry »

Sounds like an early version of the hygiene hypothesis

Poor Kids More Immune to Germs

SURPRISING facts about the numbers of Canadian school children who get germ diseases such as measles and scarlet fever were reported to the Canadian Public Health Associations. Contrary to what might have been expected, children from the better districts of the city, a survey disclosed, were found to have had more cases of the germ diseases classed as communicable than children from poorer neighborhoods

I’m pretty amazed this got printed. I doubt it would have 10 years later.

GIRLS WADING, with sunlight playing on leaves and water, was posed by Photographer Yvonne Gregory at a private lake in Norfolk, England, and was shown in September in the 39th Annual Exhibition of the London Salon of Photography.

What do we think this is? My guess would be a UV lamp.

Bacteria-Killing Tube Sterilises Air

THROUGH the magic of a gas filled tube that emits invisible germicidal rays when an electric current is passed through it, scientists hope to save us billions of dollars on our annual meat and bread bill.

Dr. Robert F. James and Dr. Harvey C. Rentschler developed the tube in the research laboratories of the Westinghouse Lamp Co., after years of experimenting. The tube consists of a slender glass tube containing a special gas. When electricity passes through the gas it emits rays that will kill the microorganisms associated with food spoilage in packing plants and warehouses. Read the rest of this entry »

view additional pages

INVENTIONS of the Musical Comedy Edison

Long known as the “One Man Vaudeville Show,” Joe Cook, star of the musical comedy stage and screen, has given further proof of his inventive ability in his latest success —”Fine and Dandy.” Here he tells you of his nutty inventions which brighten the show.

by JOE COOK As told to Bennett Lincoln

WELL, sir, the days when a song and dance routine with a few gags strewn in between denoted that you were a comedian on the American stage have vanished.

You’ve now got to show the customers out yonder that you’re a smart guy. The way I get around that is to slam-bang them with a load of cuckoo and complicated inventions. First they are baffling but then you soon realize that it’s all in fun, as my partner, Dave Chasen, would say. Read the rest of this entry »