Eye Stoppers

BIGGEST CUCKOO comes out of the world’s biggest cuckoo clock every hall hour in Wiesbaden, the famous German health resort.

HEAVIEST CHESSMEN are moved by five-ton crane directed by a tape recorder “brain” in recent automation exhibition in London.

LOVABLE LOBSTER, pet of New York chef Ted Miller, on his morning stroll. Name Oscar is painted on right claw.

LIVE MAGICIAN George Grimmond is in minority; six others have died trying to snap up bullets fired at them on stage.

TRICK JOOLS are lights with tiny GE salt water-activated batteries. They burn one hour after a very quick salt bath.

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NEW in SCIENCE

MECHANICAL RUG CLEANER designed by a carpet cleaning company in West Berlin, Germany, is a popular innovation in the trade. Device beats the dust and dirt from the rugs, then vacuum-cleans them—right on the street where customers can watch job being done. Housewives can also phone for service and company will oblige them.

DURABLE DENTURES invented by Doctor Irving L. Cook of Suring, Wis., were designed to cut and shear food the same as a meat grinder. The molars and the bicuspids in the lower plate have holes in the tops and two channels down the outside where the food is forced through. Chap using them might be said to have an iron bite, eh?
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PIPE FOR FALSE TEETH SMOKERS

PIPE smokers who wear false teeth can now enjoy the use of a pipe with a specially designed mouthpiece which enables it to be held easily in the mouth. The photograph clearly shows the semi-circular projection extending from the pipe stem. This mouthpiece rests along the top of the false teeth and helps to support the pipe in the mouth. It is the invention of an Englishman who designed it originally for his own use and then decided to market his idea when he found how popular and practical the pipe was. The photo was taken at the International Inventions Exhibition recently held at London, where new inventions from all corners of the globe were exhibited.

Everything in this Meat Market is Made of Candy
ONE of the most unique candy stores in America is the “Candy Meat Market” which is run by Jim Crowe in the loop, Chicago. Here Mr. Crowe is seen posing for a photo in the midst of his candy meats.

Everything in the store, except the actual fixtures, is made of candy. So well are all the meats imitated that the hams smell of that salty tang that is so familiar to all of us. Read the rest of this entry »

Artificial Silk Made From Air

PROF. Harold Hibbert, of McGill University, Montreal, has completed successful experiments whereby he is able to spin out artificial silk from the atmosphere. The constitutents in the air with which he dealt were water and carbon dioxide. With this new method, artificial silk, cotton and paper can be manufactured without the use of the cotton plant or the spruce tree.
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New Egg Processing Machine
A NEW machine, original in design and operation, for the processing of eggs for preservation in cold storage for as long as a year has been developed by a San Francisco machine works. The machine consists of a number of trays moving over rollers which convey the eggs to a hot oil bath, processing an average of 76 cases of eggs per hour, and keeping three operators busy.

Art – By Gum!

MRS. Faye Garriott of Gardena, California, has chewing gum all over her walls but she doesn’t mind. She put it there herself. She makes gum pictures.

She began using gum some 25 years ago to patch furniture and picture frames by molding it to fill chipped surfaces. Then she began making pictures themselves. Read the rest of this entry »

No Callouses From These Tools

TOOL handles with cup-like depressions in the sides are now available to workmen. It is claimed that the depressions form a vacuum when the hand presses against them, helping to maintain a firm grip on the tool without grasping the handle so firmly as to cause callouses.

Smoking Now No Effort at All—Dispenser Gives You Lighted Cigarette

SMOKING is coming to be such a convenient matter that it is a wonder any of us can resist becoming insatiable cigarette fiends. The latest device to ease the labor of lighting up a fag is an electric desk dispenser which delivers one cigarette at a time, fully lighted and ready to smoke.
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Learn While You Sleep

By Lester David

The small voice under the pillow can teach you anything from self-confidence to college math.

HELEN McGRATH was fast asleep. At her bedside was a tape recorder, quietly repeating words into her subconscious mind. You’d never mistake the scene for a classroom, yet it was exactly that. Because Helen McGrath was learning Spanish while she snoozed!

For six and a half hours that night, one lesson was played over and over again, words and phrases burrowing deep into her mind. On waking, Helen played the lesson through once again.
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Eight Hands For the Typist

Insurance company increases its policy-writing production by 400 percent with addition of automatic typing equipment.

Three banks of automatic typing equipment, installed in the underwriting section of the Combined Insurance Co. of America, Chicago, have increased the company’s policy-writing output 400 percent.

One typist operating each bank of four units can produce as many policies in a day as four girls were able to produce typing policies, identification cards, company records and welcoming letters individually.
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Eye Stoppers

EYES ICE Cutter studies big $2,500,000 rock in New York shop of jeweler Harry Winston.

HEAP’S CHEAP Florida man’s 85-hp homebuilt cost $200 for motor, parts.

CREEPS DEEP In new suit Italian diver can go down to a record 820—foot depth.

WEARS WARES; London vendor sells his plants from novel pick-a-back planter-carrier.

TAPES SHAPE Petite brunette, 12 inches tall, displays truly trim and chic hip measurement.