The record-union., 1896-07-14
MORE INVENTIONS NEEDED.
The Possibilities of the Brain Are
Richer Than Gold Mines.

Richer Than Gold Mines.
If one should learn the location of a
hidden treasure he would steal out at
midnight, working hard and fast to Sc
cure it before its whereabouts became
known to another, says an exchange.
But one is absolutely Indifferent to the
great wealth that lies beneath ones
very nose, as it were, in the need of in
ventions.
This is not only progressive age, but
it is an age that likes to be amused, if
the amusement is tinctured with mod
icum of appeal to what we call astute-
ness. When the inventor of Pigs in
Glover" patented his clever little scheme
of inducing the wiseacres, as well as the
foolish, to a trial of nerve, he had no
idea that his happy thought would net
500, 200. Yet such is the fact The
wooden return ball that has delighted
every child earned $4,000 for the in
ventor in one year. The little tube in
serted in rubber toys which, when
pressed, gives forth sound supposed
to represent the cry of an animal in
whose body it is lodged yields thou
sands of dollars yearly
There isn't man who sees one of
these simple inventions who doesn't
feel an inner consciousness that he
could have donesthe thing himself and
he scolds himself mentally because he
was not the first one to think the happy
thought.
By no means has everything been in
vented. The need of happy thoughts
increases as the world advances. Thou
sands of dollars lie in wait for the man
or woman who will invent an improve
ment on the bicycle. Each manufact-
ucer of the silent steed stands with open
purse to welcome the inventor of the
least betterment that he may outrank
his rivals. An invention that will dead
en- the noise of the typewriter will bring
with it a large fortune. If any man can
conceive a method of making a bottle
which can not be refilled when emptied
he can soon rank with the millionaires.
The largest paper house in the world is
begging for machine to place mourn
ing border on stationery. Every woman
in the land is crying out for a cheap,
handy scissors sharpener and a cheap
device to help teach young children to
walk would be hailed with delight by
| thousands of tired mothers. A self
| locking hat pin and a good folding baby
carriage are other inventions sure to
| find ready purchasers among women.
These are simple things but it is really
! the simple things that yield the large
| incomes.
| A woman was dressing in hurry for
| the theater. AS fast as she hooked one
part of her waist the other part un-
hooked. The words with which she gave
vent to her annoyance were of the class
| that appeal rather to the ear than to the
| eye. Her husband looked up in sur
prise. 'Humph." he mildly calculated.
You would do better to hump these
| hooks, exclaimed the eXasperated
woman. The hump was put on the hook
and the simple invention not only netted
an immense revenue, but has proved
blessing in the home.
| The bent wire by which the cork is
/ held in place in the soda water bottle is
a most simple invention, but it was a
lucky man who thought of it and pat
| ented it and thereby received princely
| income.
| There are other needed inventions that
would require something more than
merely inventive genius. For example,
| bicycle that will turn around in about
its own length; an attachment for en-
| broidering machines, permitting the
| needle to take the thread directly from
| the spool-one of the largest lace-man-
ufacturing houses is asking for this; an
| apparatus for utilizing wave power; a
| cheap guard attachable to and detach
able from freight cars to keep brakemen
| from falling off the roof-a5 there are
thousands of accidents yearly from this
cause the inventor would not only make
| his fortune, but would be instrumental
| in saving the life and limb of his fellow
| man. A means to make kerosene odor-
| less would be of practical use and would
| appeal at once to manufacturer and
| buyer. The list might be extended in
definitely, but if some one will invent
| collar button, or any means to fasten a
| collar that will dispense with the sad
loss of patience of the average man
struggling with freshly laundried linen
and a refractory button, or if he will in
vent a toothbrush the bristles of which
| will not come out, or a shoe lace fastener
| or a smokers pipe that will not become
foul he will erect for himself, like the
| poet of old, a monument more lasting
| than brass.
Why not think happy thought"
| Countless numbers Of them are await
ing the moment of their summoning.
Some of them will be coaxed out after
much expenditure of gray matter.
Others will flash forth like sparks from
an anvil Then think.-Chicago Record