The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-12-26
To the Editor of The News:

as MAY OCCUR W IuC, WHICH, "OO'Au e'Ntu
4 to the usefulness or attractiveness
of your paper, | wish to call your
attention to and commend single
feature of the Sun-Sentinel, which
S published in your Office.
Each week the Sun Sentinel has
from four to dozen cuts illustrat-
ng some practicable idea which adds
to the convenience, attractlveness,
amusement, pleasure and value OF
the house, yard, garden or barn.
No issue has appealed to me more
on this point than last Thursdays
Issue. It contained six Illustrations,
each undo with outable.
The first was a life size cut of the
''Stinkplant'' which is non-indig-
nous growth and the article says the
best seeds are imported. This plant
has disagreeable odor, nothing
will eat it and it is not legume. The
presumption is that the pleasure de-
rived from its cultivation is the in
creased pleasure you will have IN
getting rid of it. In a foot note he
explains that by cutting In the dark
moon in August, burning and throw
ing the ashes in a horse pond for
twelve successive years, it can prac-
tically be eradicated. This is GER
tainly worth trial.
A~o4l,o,. Mt "a 90 In
ter" This instrument can be made
at home in a few weeks by any mem
Der of the family who has taste
for mechanics. 1t can be made of
parts Sof umbrellas, hat rack, an ink
stand and the four halves Of two
whole cocoanut shells (see CUT.
When properly made and coupled up,
it will rotate In proportion to the
velocity of the wind Furthermore
you can tell whether or not the wind
is blowing. When going round the
Wind is blowing, when standing still
it is not, provided there is nothing
the matter with the machine. Again
he states in substance when it is
4 "revoluting" $40 times minute the
wind is blowing faster than when it
turns less number of times, but
I should the cocoanut shells on the
point of the winding blades exceed
a speed limit of $4,000 revolutions
a minute, and the roofs on houses,
chimney tops and church steeples be
coming in your direction from wind
ward, it indicates strong wind.
/ One Of the catchiest illustrations
is the one showing how door can
be cut in some unused part of the
wall of the house and closed up by
lcarpenters, plasterers, wallpaper
hangers and afterward so hid by
drapery or piece of furniture that
no one will ever notice that it was
ever cut. This can be cut and every
semblance of it concealed at cost
of not exceeding sixty dollars.
The cutest thing is an attachment
for the front door. The cut shows
how, with aid of an electrician, you
can by connecting some wires with
the electric door bell shock every
person who comes about the house.
1t is very simple. You attach a wire
to the battery of the bell, run it over
and tie around the door knob, then
into basin containing water, and
wind around some table cutlery, then
turn the door knob at your peril. No
man who has any regard for the
pleasure of his family will be without
one of these attachments. 1t will
amuse the children to see the old
man (when he forgets to come
around the back way or the visitors
trying to let loose the door knob.
Another feature is double column
cut of a "Bull pen," estimated to
cost about fifteen hundred dollars.
The principal claim for this is that
you can't well get at the bulland that
he can't get at you, one of the com
forts in owning bull is that he
can't get at you. You can build this
at odd times, and there is no telling
when you may buy or inherit a bull.
Our relations with Mexico are get
ting closer and closer and in the
event you had a visiter from our sis
ter republic, you would have only to
open the door Of the bull pen and
let him, amuse himself.
For the garden he has design
that is entitled, Gan evener that
evens." Its purpose it to hitch four
horses to one pillow. Probably there
never was such an assemblage of
single trees, double trees, triple
trees, clivices, bolts, chains, as |
had borrowed from the neighbors. l
was so taken with the convenience
Iof the arrangement that the attach
ment was completed before it occur
red to me that | had but one horse
ands neither pillow or garden.
The last cut showed the French