INDEX TO VOLUME 88
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Ink Eracing Blotter 119
An Electric Alarm Clock 119
A Fuel Economizer 1 20
Helping to Kindle Fire Wood 1 20
A Remedy for Sagging Doors . I 20
Pouiing from Lipless Jars 1 20
Waste Heat Warms Water 120
Hints on Running the Home Furnace 121
Distilling Water for the Household 122
Making an Electric Toaster 122
A Home-made Paper Baler 122
Serving Table Attached to Range 122
HOME WORK-BENCH
A Dustless Ash Sifter 311
Avoiding Dangerous Stair Turns 311
For the Amateur Painter 312
An Outdoor Window Bed 312
How to Make a Simple, Automatic Window Closing
Device 313
For Conserving Heat in Steam Pipes 314
How to Make a Snow-Plow to Clean the Sidewalk . 315
A Clock Light for Dark Mornings 313
An Automatic Desk Lamp 315
Making Use of Cupboard Space for Refrigerator. . 316
Fastening Wood with Screws 316
To Make a Mission Screen 317
Seam Ripper from Old Safety Blade 317
To Open a Molasses Jar 317
A Simple Ruby Light 317
A Combined Ice House and Cold Storage Room ... 318 Inclined Sidewalk for a Wheeled Invalid Chair . . 473 A Simple Method of Clearing a Clogged Waste
Pipe 473
A Book or Music Stand from Old Spools 474
A Cheap Substitute for Linoleum 475
Lengthening the Life of a Worn-Out Clock 475
An Extension to a Kitchen 476
Concealing the Spare Silver 478
A Door Retainer 478
A Flower-Pot Hanger 478
A Garbage and Paper Burner 478
Using a Suction Pump to Clear a Clogged Drain. . 478
A Modern Sanitary Hog House 479
A Hen-House Water Supply Which Will Not
Freeze 480
A Whole Tool Box in One Tool 632
A Self-Rocking Developing-Tray 632
How to Make a Kitchen Table Fit You 633
Feeding Twenty Steers 633
A Can of Paint and How to Use It 634
Building a Bungalow 637
A Handy Magazine-Shelf 666
Combination Bedroom and Living Room 666
An Improved Bottle Stopper 753
Using a Hinge for a Vise 759
How to Make a Distilling Apparatus 759
A Pipette Attached to a Bottle 762
A Wedge as a Burglar-Alarm 763
An Improved Darkroom Lamp 764
Boring a Hole in Glass . 769
How to Build a Rabbit Hutch 791
How to Make an Iceless Cooler 792
A Vegetable Peeler Made from a Razor Blade. . , . 792
Making a Cheap Grocery Set of Your Own 794
How to Make a Glove-Box 794
An Improved Match Striker . . : 795
Building a Bungalow 796
For Polishing Furniture 880
How to Make an Accurate Sun-Dial 95 I
How to Mix Stove Blacking 95 I
A Waterproof Compound 95 I
Clothes-Line Suggestions 952
A Sanitary Kitchen Sink 952
Broom Holder from Barrel Hoop 953
How to Dry Unsightly Scrub-Rags 953
How to Protect Sugar from Ants 953
How to Use Old Mantel Supports 953
A Milk-Warmer Made from a Lamp-Bulb 953
Rejuvenating Your Pipe 953
Making the Burglar Call the Police 954
A Quick Creaser 954
Automatic Feeding-Hopper Built for Twenty-five
Cents 955
A Cistern of Concrete 955
Convenient Stairway 956
How to Make Artificial Marble 956
The Left-Handed Woman's Home Appliances .... 956 The Ideal Home for $5,000 957
��HOUSEKEEPING MADE EASY Page
A Foot-controlled Sewing Machine 54
Monday Mechanics 96
A Tub Within a Tub for the Baby 106
Preventing -the Clogging of the Sink 106
A Saucepan Which Is Also a Strainer 106
A Tea Kettle Which Does Not Burn 107
A Gaibage Can Which Cannot Spill 107
Combining a Brush and a Suction Pump in a
Cleaner 107
Simple Way to Clean Vegetables 107
A Collapsible Wardrobe 107
A Meat Chopper Which Opens Like a Book 108
Ice Cannot Fall Out of This Water Pitcher 108
A Can-Opener That Cannot Slip Ill
Non-Rolling Nursing Bottle 112
A Wisconsin Cook Invents a Doughnut-Drainer. . 259
Door Parcels Receivers 263
Cracking Nuts Three at a Time 264
For Polishing Furniture 264
Oil Mop Cleaner and Dustpan 266
A Bunsen Burner Flat Iron 269
A Hair-Drying Comb 269
Tricks of the Short- Weight Tradesman 388
A Safety Wringer-Guard 410
A Stairway Which Is Also a Door 419
A Folding Service-Wagon 420
A Cheap Way of Preserving Eggs 493
Lawn Leveling 497
A Combined Electric Stove and Fireless Cooker. . 504
This Lamp Shade Will Not Scorch 505
This Chair Does Duty Twenty-tour Hours Every.
Day. . 585
Finger-Saving Nutmeg-Grater 585
To Take Olives from a Bottle 585
A Holder for Milk Bottles 585
New Device Distills Water for the Home 586
Making an Acetylene Gas Generator 629
A Novel Window-Shelf 630
A Siphon to Remove Cream From Bottles 630
A Wash-Wringer Attachment 630
Space and Time Savers for the Home 666
An Improvised Hall-Tree 666
Keeping Beverages Fresh 704
A Bottle-Sealing Machine for the Home 736
A Lace Curtain Protection 742
No Corkscrew Needed 762
How to Keep the Baby in His High Chair 763
An Easy Way to Remove a Broken Chair Leg. 763
The Luminous Bottle 772
A Safe Swing for the Baby 795
Floor Scrubber Propels Itself 813
Cherry-Stoner Saves the Hands 821
Efficiency in the Kitchen 82 I
An Electric Gas-Lighter 82 I
A Glue-Brush Like a Fountain Pen 82 I
How to Avoid Burnt Fingers 82 I
Two Cooking Vessels in One 82 I
Try These 822
A Vacuum Washing Machine Which Sucks Dirt
Out of Fabrics 822
A Convenient Milk and Butter Slide for Refrigera- tors 823
An Ice-Grip with Many Uses 823
Another Way to Rejuvenate Eggs 823
Killing Insects with Poisonous Gas 857
An Electric Iron with a Headlight 863
Sterilizing Water by Ultra-Violet Light 866
What Blood Pressure Means and How It Is Meas- ured 867
Why a Featherduster Is Like a Fly 878
Ice Making at Home 891
An Improvised Flour Bin 902
Doing Away with the Dish-Cloth 906
It Saves the Cooks Hands 907
Removing Waterproof India Ink Spots 925
HOW THE WAR IS BEING FOUGHT
The Destruction of the Emden 13
Women in Europe's Machine Shops 17
The Making of a Submarine Mine 21
How Range Finders Find the Range 26
The Pigeon Spy and His Work in War 30
How the War Is Being Fought 33 50
Shooting at Jupittr 66
Piles of Walnut Logs for Gun Stocks 89
A Pocki t Periscope 112
Mining the Air Against Zeppelins 163
Sweeping a Channel for Submarine Mines 164
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