Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-08-11
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From the New York Times.
There is an external remedy which is said TO
De sure cure Tor headache. This is the electric
brush. To all appearance il is like any ordi-
nary brush, but I'm its bristles is stored up an
nexhaustibie supply of electricity How this
electricity Is put into the bristles is not known
Perhaps they are soaked for twenty-four hours
in paiiful OF electricity, or perhaps electricity
is forced into them by heavy pressure. At any
rate the electricity is In them. and IL is practi-
cally inexhaustible.
As everybody knows. electricity is a specific
for headache, no matter from what cause the
headache may arise. Doctors have hitherto ad-
ministered electricity by the spoonful. or In the
shape of pills, but its unpleasant taste has rem
dered it unpopular with delicate patients The
electric harbrush supersedes electrical pills and
draughts. If you have headache all you have
to do is to induce some one to brush your hair
with an electric brush. You will neither taste
nor smell the electricity. but it will soak through
the scalp and skull. and on reaching the brain
will instantly cause the headache to cease. This
is surely better than swallowing nauseous doses
Of liquid or solid electricity, which delicate
stomachs often are unable to retain. There is
abundant testimony to prove that the electric
hairbrush is As beneficial and infallible in its
effects as are the liver. stomach. lung. kidney,
spine, shin and back-teeth pads that are i'm such
universal use, and the sneers of the doctors who
call themselves regular physicians" cannot
injure it in public estimation.
hair-brush did not perceive that an electric
clothes-brush would supply great popular
want. The clothes-brushes now in the market
are decisions and snares. The fiat clothes
brush retains whatever extraneous matter it
may gather from the human coat or trousers
only long enough to deposit it on some other
part of the garment, and the so-called whisk-
broom, instead of cleansing garment to which
it is applied. fills it with broken particles of
broom straw, so that its last condition is in
finitely worse than its first. We need an cleo
trio brush that will attract and retain every
particle of dust, hair or other foreign substance
with which it may be brought i'm contact Such
brush would be even more valuable to man.
kind than is the electric hair-brush of which
mention has just been made.
1t is in connection with unlawful and unde-
sirable hair that the electric clothes-brush would
be chiefly priced. There can be no question that
the hair of the feminine head has strong pro-
clvity for masculine coat collars. The most in
nocent husband is liable to carry home unknown
hairs on his collar and thereby imperil his do
nestle happiness. When We reflect that i'm this
country there are, at the lowest estimate
twelve millions of women who daily comb
their hair, We can understand that the atmos-
phere must be full of stray hairs. They may
be invisible SO long as they are floating in
the air, but when they come i'm contact with
coat collars their presence is instantly de-
tected by every intelligent wife. Ii is in vain
that the husband protests his innocence for hair
on the coat collar is held among wives to be the
strongest circumstantial evidence of misconduct
The domestic misery that arises from this cause
is enormous. There was young woman i'm an
Illinois town who was employed by lawyer to
secretly drop from her second-story window
upon the coats of respectable citizens on the
sidewalk specimens of hair taken from a cheap
"switch." and so successful was this diabolical
plot that in two months that wicked lawyer was
retained in seventy-eight divorce suits. This
was, OF course, an exceptional case. but it shows
what potent element of domestic unhappiness
is hair on the collar.
Now, if there were clothes-brush filled with
electricity which would infallibly attract every
hair i'm its neighbOrhood, what an immense ser
vice it would be to mankind. Every young
lady would have an electric clothes-brush hang
ing in the front hall, so that the young men
who might call upon her could use it on bidding
her good evening. and could thus return to
their boarding house without fear ofthe scrutin-
| fzing gaze of the landlady. Every married man
could carry small electric cOthes-brush in his
pocket, and by using it just before entering his
house could insure himself against any miscon-
struction of his conduct. and could make his
| account of the unexpected business which de-
tanned him at his Office until II pm. seem really
plausible. The man who invents the electric
| clothes-brush will have fortune i'm his pocket
within year after he begins to advertise it.
THE FAILURE OF SADLIER Co-Sadlier &
Co., Catholic book publishers of New York, who
suspended on Tuesday, say that an individual
who held small mortgage on the stereotype
plates pressed for payment, and that the firm
made an assignment for the protection of other
| creditors large number of outstanding &C
counts. extending from Maine to Minnesota,
California, Australia and New Zealand, await
settlement and it is impossible to say at present
| how much may be realized. No offer has vet
| been made to the creditors nor the amount OF
| liabilities ascertained.
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