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���Can Yourself for the Night and Turn On the Heat

GOING to bed will soon be the most difficult and dreaded of the day's tasks if the inventors are allowed to have their way. One of them, James E. Hanger, of Washington, D. C, has evi- dently for- gotten all about the adage that a hard d a y's work will put feathers in any old bed. He has de- vised a queer contraption which for ex- terior appear- ances at least appears to be a cross be- tween a house- boat and a silo.

Imagine yourself lying in his bed, with your head un- der the house- like structure at one end and your feet under the ventilator at the other end. You are in the same position as a piece of canned asparagus. There is, however, at least a slight difference. Your head is literally cut off from the rest of your body by a cloth partition which prevents the air from reaching that part of the body below the shoulders. Dormer win- dows enable the sleeper to obtain as much air as he wishes through the house structure, but from the shoulders down, artificial heat is admitted into the can through a pipe joined to the foot.

The semi-cylindrical part of the bed can be moved back and forth as the occupant wishes. Instead of the ordinary mat- tress, cords are stretched be- tween pulleys made fast to the sides, so that the bed may sag as much as one wishes. The inventor says his device is particularly fitted for invalids.

��To sleep comfortably, emulate the ground hog and crawl into your can-bed. Dormer windows admit air

��Lifting a Rowboat Out of the Water by a Twist of a Lever

ORDINARILY, to raise a boat out of the water and place it upon a float, two men lift one end and drag the boat about half its length over the edge of the pier. Then, with the float serving

as a fulcrum ' and the boat

as a lever, the other end is raised and dragged up.

The one- man boat-rais- ing device which Harry Houghton of Seville, Ohio, invented, con- sists of a lever- acting frame, a portion of which extends below the wa- ter line and and under the boat. By means of a lever, ful- crumed to the frame, the boat is tilted up so that the water in it is dumped out as the boat is raised.

The operation of the lever is plainly shown in the accompanying photograph, in which a small boy is seen doing what formerly required the services of two men. The wear and tear on the boat have been eliminated.

���By means of this lever-acting frame, even a small boy can haul a heavy rowboat out of the water

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