By means
of two movable discs the calendar for the week appears in an opening cut
in the frame just above the monthly calendar, and lest even then a
person should be mystified about the date a broad black band can be
shifted daily to mark the actual day. The calendar would appear to be an
ideal one if only its owners remember to set it, but the trouble with
the shifting calendars is that so few people remember to adjust them.
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COMBINATION COT AND STEP-LADDER.--We have had lots of clever inventions
for saving room in small houses, but the most original is certainly this
combination of a bed and a step-ladder. It should prove a very useful
article where the occupant of the bed is a light sleeper and doesn't
mind having to get up when the step-ladder is needed. It might also be
useful in very large families where chairs were scarce. By day it could
be stood upright, and the children roosted on its various steps. By
night the little brood could come down from their perches, the steps be
laid lengthwise, and the family put to bed on the cot.
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