The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-06-03
cHURCH-G0iNG MADE EASY.
A Woman Tnvents am Adjustable Pew
Head Rest-Approvcd by CIergymen.

A Woman Tnvents an Adjustable Pew
Head Rest-Approvcdb by CIergymen.
Miss Anna T. Sinclaire has invented a
pew rest. It is simple continuance, con-
sisting Of curved piece of wood, one
and one half inches wide and four inches
long, upholstered in velvet or cloth. This
cup shaped portion is fitted to springs
and at the bottom of these is a clamp
which fixes firmly on top of the pew-rail,
adjustable at any angle, SO that when the
head is bowed in prayer it affords COM
Portable support for the forehead which
does not come in contact with the hard
wood of the pew.
The inventor AYERS that this custom of
resting the head on the pew-rails is the
cause Of SO many people complaining OF
headaches after church. The position is
very trying TO any one subject to nervous
headaches, and though many persons BY
the placing OF prayer or hymn book or
handkerchiefs under the forehead, relieve
in measure the discomfort, these expe-
dents are tiresome and unsatisfactory.
especially 80 in the case of women, as they
play havoc with their coiffures and bon
nets. Miss Sinclaire proposes to obyiate
all this by her "prayer rest"
Models of the invention have been
shown to various prominent clergymen
in New York city, among them DR.. John
Hall, who says:
"The newly invented article for increas-
ing the comfort OF church pews has been
shown me, and can well understand it
might promote the comfort Of worship
pers."
DR.. John R. Paxton cordially indorses
the invention, and also Rev. Ensign Nc
Cleary, pastor of the Madison Avenue M.
E. Church; Rev. Thomas Gallaudet, rector
of st. AIMS Church, and Rev. DR.. G. q.
Eaton.
Z" Its use will contribute to greater rev.
erence in worship and to correspond
ingly greater convenience on the part of
the worshippers," is what Rev. DR.. R. 8.
Macarthur, pastor of Calvary Baptist
Church, on Fifty-seventh street, says of 1t.
Miss Sinclaire hopes to make her "rest,''
which is compact, portable and easily
adaptable, as important an adjunct to the
church-goer as the prayer or hymn book.
Search Lights Versus Torpedo Boats.
1t is stated that one OF the most effec-
tive means OF protecting ship in these
days OF torpedoes, the grouping together
of number of stationary search lights,
each Illuminating its own section so that
the ship is surrounded by an unbroken
circle OF light, is to be adopted in the
new American warships. This has been
suggested by very pronounced defect
in the usual search light practice.
In order to afford sufficient time
for careful examination Of the waters
surface at points removed from the ship,
the beam OF light must be revolved very
slowly, and hence during great portion
of the time any particular section of the
water is left in darkness. AS it takes only
five minutes for torpedo boat to run two
miles, it will be seen that the conditions
are all in favor of the attacking force.
Before the revolution of the search light
is completed there is plenty of time Tor
the torpedo boat to run up and discharge
her deadly weapons.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
An Ironclad Snake.
The Editor Of The Chesterton, Ind,
Tribune says that while gathering flowers
in the woods the other day he stirred up
a snake, which he attempted to kill with
a stone. Contact of the stone with the
snakes body gave back metallic sound,
and thereupon he hammered the reptile
upon the head until it was dead. He then
discovered that two thirds of the snakes
body was encased in section OF gas pipe
one inch in diameter. The theory is that
the snake got into the pipe when young,
and then grew SO large that it couldn't
get out.