Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1915 — A PORTABLE DESK. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A PORTABLE DESK.

Can Be Folded Up and Carried About ae a Suit Caae. If the Illinois man who Invented the portable deak la not a traveling man he 'is a good friend of the family. Also he has added to the comfort of flat dwellers. Closed, the desk is about the size and shape of a dress suit ease, which it closely resembles. Open, it is a substantial desk, equipped with drawers and pigeonholes after the moat approved fashion of a big roll top. Metal legs, of the lasy-tong principle, unfold to fora a support, and a supporting rod holds what might bo termed the lid in the position of a writing table. To the top is attached a handle, by which the whole may be carried. For salesmen who have much writing to do the portable desk is of Inestimable value, as it enables them to carry a supply of all sorts of stationery and to carry on correspondence at any place. Instead of writing their le'ttera and filling out contracts in the public writing room of their hotels, thay have simply to open their own desk in their own room. If the

whole space in the desk Is not needed for paper It can be used for samples, or on short trips to carry the clean linen required.— Washington Star.