To prevent heating the bowl of a percolator and burning the handle, as often happens when it is placed on a stove, use an ordinary asbestos pad with a hole cut in the center as shown, just large enough to admit the foot of the percolator. - Contributed by Mrs. G. W. Coplin, Bay City, Mich.

If a motorcycle engine is raced while on the stand, the cylinder will heat, often with the result that it is ruined.