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Make Yourself More Lovely

Some Things Every Woman Should Do for Beauty and Charm
By Carol Cameron

Personal Charm for YOU Are you popular? Have you personality? Do you possess that mysterious quality of magnetism that leads to romance and to social and business success?

The Charm Department is intended to meet the needs of the modern girl or woman who wants to be more lovely, more magnetic, more socially agreeable, yet lacks the proper knowledge of how to acquire these most desirable qualities.

Each month we are discussing some particular attribute of a woman’s charm. If you have a personal problem in this field, write to Miss Cameron, 1926 Broadway, New York City, and let her help you. Letters are held in strict confidence, and answered personally, if desired, provided a stamped self-addressed envelope is enclosed. We do not publish any names. The Charm Department is Your Department, and is conducted by CAROL CAMERON. Read the rest of this entry »

Did YOU Ever Dream of Being a Great Canal Builder – - like Goethals?

THE greatest men are the greatest dreamers. In youth they look years ahead and picture themselves doing the big things that later thrill the admiring world. As boys—they imagine themselves directing the boring of gigantic tunnels underneath towering mountain passes. They see mammoth transoceanic ships—like floating castles—Leviathans— all creatures of their own creative brain. They see great ship canals—channeling through trackless jungles in spite o£ a thousand obstacles that had threatened failure. Read the rest of this entry »

Try This One on your Manly Frame!

What a Union Suit for $1.00

See the new B.V.D.”Sports Model” today — the union suit that revived the dollar and restored its value self-respect. For when it buys the “Sports Model” your good old dollar gets back in its stride—becomes the shining silver pre-war cartwheel that purchased quality and plenty of it. Read the rest of this entry »

The Perfect Day

By Dr. Frank Crane

DR. EUGENE LYMAN FISK, Director of the Life Extension Institute, some time ago published a very interesting article in the daily papers in which he charted out a Perfect Day of Health.

As all of my readers may not have seen that article, I am taking the liberty of here passing on some of its main points and adding a few suggestions of my own.

For I find that people like to be told just exactly what to do rather than to be given a principle and required to work it out according to their own judgment.
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Radio Living Room of Tomorrow

Simple in arrangement, and soft in color because of television, the suggested “radio living room of tomorrow” at the New York World’s Fair is open to visitors, who are permitted to inspect the various sight, sound and facsimile facilities while they are in operation.

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air travel for everybody

By DEVON FRANCIS

IN A half-dozen plants converted to peacetime pursuits, riveting hammers are pounding out aircraft to bring transportation by air to thousands of American hamlets at a price almost any traveler will be able to afford.

Some of these air liners, built from design lessons learned during the war, will be able to cross the United States in less than seven hours. Some, engineered specifically for local flights on interurban schedules, will be only half that fast. All of them, for the first time in the history of the U.S. air transport , are being built for specific purposes. Read the rest of this entry »

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All-Weather Motorcycles Are Being Modernized

Above is shown a “weekend” motorcycle with side car and one track trailer, which was one of the most original vehicles exhibited at the Berlin international automobile show. The trailer is capable of accommodating a tent and poles, collapsible boat and camp equipment.
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Seaplanes Launched From Deck of Ship on Canvas Slide

MAIL-STEAMERS not equipped with expensive catapults for launching airplanes at sea will welcome the invention of the Kiwull watersail, so named after its inventor, which is shown in operation in the above drawing. The invention is simple, consisting of a length of canvas 100 feet long and 32 feet wide which is unrolled from the stern of the ship, as shown, to form an incline down which a seaplane can be lowered to the water. The canvas is held taut by water pulling against a “drogue” or net at the trailing end. Seaplanes can also return aboard deck by this means.

Streamline Shell PEPS UP Motorcycle

JOE SZAKACS, of Lincoln, Nebraska, has equipped his motorcycle with a 22 gauge aluminum shell which, besides improving the appearance of his machine, has increased the speed and reduced the weight by four pounds.

Only two pieces of strap steel, shaped to fit, were needed. Access to the engine is gained through three round snap-shut doors, each using a single hinge and a small arrangement comprising a steel coil spring which is connected to the door inside the shell. This spring rides in a rounded metal groove and prevents binding. Read the rest of this entry »

Origin of Post-Its?

Self-stick Note Paper

Adhesive-back notepaper sticks to almost any surface without staples, clips or tape. Bright yellow color attracts attention. When note has served its purpose, remove it with a gentle pull. In three sizes from 79c. 3M, 600 Third Ave., New York, N Y. 10016.

Tail-Prop Plane

A new style in tails has been shown recently to British fliers by Planet Aircraft, Ltd.

The plane, called the Satellite, has a tail prop, V-shaped stabilizers and an inverted fin. The engine, a Gipsy Queen, is mounted directly over the center of gravity and is linked to the prop by a magnesium shaft. Read the rest of this entry »

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Driftwood Pickup

Army engineers have contrived a twin-hulled vessel that ploughs right into harbor driftwood and carries it away.

UNCLE SAM’S Army engineers have devised a floating “hyacinth machine” and a “snag remover” to eradicate persistent evils in inland waters and now, facing the increasing menace of driftwood in New York’s harbor, they have contrived another marine contraption which, like a steam shovel’s bucket, ploughs right into its objective and carries it away. Read the rest of this entry »