POCKET PROTECTOR.--This is an invention that should recommend itself as
much to girls as to boys.

It is a guard of rubber or other suitable material, which is laid inside
the pocket, and fitted with ribs and a spring which close the mouth of
the pocket at all times.

For the side pockets of coats it would seem to be a most desirable
invention, and for the pockets of skirts it seems the thing that we have
been looking for.

Every young girl knows how inconvenient it is to have no pocket in her
gown, and she also knows how strongly the dressmakers protest against
putting one in, because it is sure to gape open and look ugly.

With the self-closing protector the pocket would always be kept closed,
and if ladies can only persuade their dressmakers to use this new
invention, there is no reason why they should not once more have the
comfort and luxury of pockets in their gowns.


DEVICE FOR PLACING OR REMOVING PICTURE-HOOKS.

The spring-time, when half the world is moving, and the other half
house-cleaning, seems a very happy time for introducing the above
invention.

It is an arrangement attached to a long pole, and it is to be used to