health of plants to let them stand in a vessel that will permit them
to make their little reserve store if they wish to.

The new invention accomplishes all of these purposes.

It is a deep saucer, which gives room for an ample reservoir. Attached
to it are two uprights with hinged handles at the top.

These handles are to clasp the flower pot and attach it firmly to the
saucer.

The pot is placed in the saucer, and the uprights are bent toward the
plant until they touch it. Then the spring handles are turned down and
clasp the inside rim of the pot, making pot and saucer practically one
piece, giving all the advantages of the jardiniere, with the health
qualities of the earthen pot.

* * * * *

CLOTHES-PIN.--The old-fashioned clothes-pin is such a clumsy, unhandy
thing, that this new invention should be hailed with delight by
housekeepers.

Any one who has tried to hang out washing knows the trick that
clothes-pins have of standing on their heads just when they seem most
firmly gripping the rope--slipping off and letting the clothes fall to
the ground.

The new pin will allow no such pranks. It is a double affair, and can
grip the whole of a stocking or the shoulder of a garment, and hold it
with absolute security.

It is made of galvanized wire, so that it is quite smooth, and there are
none of the rough pieces and splinters which we sometimes find on
clothes-pins. As the pin is of galvanized wire, it does not rust.

G.H.R.

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