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Show AIDS CHILDREN IN HOPPING Pennsylvania Woman Has Put Forward For-ward Ingenious Device Which She Calls Grasshopper Feet. Adult human botngs nro rarely seen to skip nud hop. It Is, however, n form of exercise ln which children uro wont much to Indulge, to the grout benefit of tholr pbyslcnl devel. opmcut. Encouragement of this form of oxcrclso is offered by tho novel Invention In-vention of n woman, May 0. South-gate South-gate of Now York. It Is a pair of mechanical grasshoppers, of giant size, put on Uko n pnlr of shoes nnd fustencd by Btrnps nnd buckles to tho child's feet. Thoy hnvo legs ot spring steel, terminating in rings whlth hold rubber feet. A child equipped with these grasshoppers can hop, skip or jump much inoro actively, nnd can get over ground quicker, while- tho rubber rub-ber feet lessen the shock of alighting alight-ing nnd give n delightful senso of lightness, Philadelphia Ledger. |