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Show WHEN YOU HANG A HAMMOCK Its Height Should Be Carefully Determined Deter-mined Must Be Swung Low Enough for the Children. A delicate point in the hanging of a hammock is the height. It must be swung low enough that the children can get into it without falling out and breaking their worthless little necks. It must not be so low that father, who has to put two pennies into the slot machine to get weighed, will bump the ground in his swing. To get the height right involves the solution of the formula of the catenary, caten-ary, so that the lowest point in the curve shall not become tangent to the plane beneath whatever the weight and however it may be distributed. For it is embarrassing to find too lata that the hammock is not fixed to carry car-ry double. And if. on the other hand, you hang it with that contingency in view, he may not come at all that afternoon. aft-ernoon. The head of the hammock should be 15 degrees higher than the foot A clinometer may be used to determine deter-mine tha angle if necessary-. Within reach of the higher end place a chair with something cool to drink and a magazine or two. Select for this purpose pur-pose a magazine with a pretty girl on the front cover. Then it won't matter whether you read it or not. New J'ork Independent. |