The Savannah morning news., 1901-08-22
Inventions of George.

II was telln' you awhile ago." said
old Mr.. Husselman, in the Chicago
Record Herald, about the way my son
George, ever since he come out of col
lege seems to think it's up to him to
invent something that'll make his
name go rattlin' along the corridors of
time like a fat lady tumblin' down
stairs. Well. he come to me the other
day with new idea an says:
y night thinkin.'
"'George, 1 told him, I'm sorry to
hear that you lost any sleep, but yet
I'm glad you done the thinkin'. It's
good practice says l, and 1 hope
you'll keep at it. You can catch up on
sleep all right at odd time, SO don't
worry. That's where too many people
make a mistake. never seen fool yit
that had the insomnia. It's only the
man with brains that gets it.
THAT seemed to encourage the boy,
and so he went on telling about his
invention.
1T seems to me- he says, that
what the people of the twentieth CEN
fury need more than almost anything
else is an invention to keep from get
tin hurt when the automobile runs
away and they can't stop it. Every
few days you hear about somebody
bolt breaks somewhere, or some
thing else happens to fix it so they
can't turn off the current. If the way
is all clear ahead a person can keep
a ridin' till the unholy thing runs
down, but the trouble is that it doesn't
often happen that way. There's the
danger of runnin' into something or
gettin' tipped over, you know. Now
I've thought the thing all out, and as
nc Qaf invention nat
ented everybody with an automobile
will have to get one.
Good says /; If we can make 1t
for so cents and sell it for 81 we ought
to do right well with the thing, for
at least one person out of every 1861, 0O0
through our broad land must own an
| automobile now days, and anyone can
see right off that If you've got the
right thing the demand'li he almost
| terrible
George seemed to more than hall
| believe that / wasn't enterin' into il
with all my heart and soul, but he
went on, sayin':
"'You see, we'll get up a balloon thai
| can be attached to every automobile
| for use in case of accidents. 1t can be
folded up and put under the seat. Their
you see when person finds out thai
| his automobiles runnin' away, in
stead of jumpin' and breakin' his mech
or stayin' with the thing to get smash
| ed all to pieces, he can pull his balloon
out and sail away, lettin' the auto
| mobile zipp till the powers used up OIL
she strikes deep sand or something
else happens to bring her to a stop.
ct s'pose,' says, that you've fig
ured out how you're goin' to fill your
balloon with gas in about two minutes
and a half with one hand while you're
| Ctnnrin' fhn aIIfnr11nhil0 with tho nfhar
have your
! well, no. he answered, but guess
that can be worked out all right. W.
might use the motor to generate the
| gas, and that would help to make the
| blame concern run down quicker, 81
my invention would serve a double
| purpose. Anybody can see that M
automobile would be complete without
| our balloon attachment, and it's easy
to figure out big profit right from
the start
Yes 1 says, hatin' to discourage
| him. It's always easy to figure out bis
profits before you commence gettin
'em, but it seems to me there's on'
pretty important thing you ain
thought Of
What's that? George asked, look
in kind of cocky, as though he wal
| dead sure he'd be able to furnish thu
missin' link right off.
You amt figured on how the peo
pie are goin' to get down from the bal
looms without leavin' their children or
| phans,' says 1.
George put his hands in his peck
cts then and started away, lookin' mad
to work on a scheme he has in minC
for washin' soda water straws so PEG
pie can go on usin' 'em till they weal
out. I amt heard anything about thu
details yet, though"