The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-03-22
Demonstration i'm our Gro
Gerry Department. Saturday, 3
to 5 p. m. Jaffa, Prayer & Co.
BIG FORTUNES WON

EOSNT IDGASs
Whenever a new patent comes out,
especially some little thing that any
body might have made, you will al
ways hear the remark: ''Why could
MT l have thought of that - For
tunes are made from even the most
trivial contrivances. A man walked
from Philadelphia to Washington to
patent the gimlet pointed screw, and
the simple idea eventually earned him
more than a million dollars. Rubber
tip on the end of lead pencils made
its inventor rich. The metal point
on the end of your snoe string made
a fortune for the woman who thought
of 1T. and the copper cap that SO long
adorned the toes of childrea's shoes
earned $4,000, 900 for the lucky per-
son who patented it.
Many valuable inventions were slit
upon in most accidental way. The
art of making sugar white was diScov-
cred by a harmless old speckled hen.
This feathered matron one day went
for walk through a field of clay and
later without taking the precaution to
wipe her feet walked through a sugar
mill on the same plantation, scatter
ing clay over the loose mounds of
sugar as she passed. Afterwards it
was discovered that wherever ner
trackes had fallen on the moist sugar
the clay had whiteled it. Scientists
took up the matter and from this in
cident introduced the method of bleac
hing sugar by the clay process.
A dog gave the art of dyeing cloth
One afternoon so many years ago,
that the date is of small consequence,
a noted man and his sweetheart when
for a walk along the sands of the sea
shore in far-off country. IA little dog
trailed along at their heels and be-
coming weary of much love making
finally ran ahead and went fishing
among the rocks. One particular
shell FISH which the captured and de-
vOured exuded a fluid which dyed
the hair about his mouth a pretty pur-
pie. Investigation of this incident
founded the science of dyeiag cloth.
A man from Michigan was told by
the doctors to take his wife South
for her health. He purchased a big
wagon and team for the trip, and
thought to make some profit by car
rying stock of feather busters to sell
along the way One day he went TO
a factory where his busters were be-
ing made, and while standing in the
yard talking to one of the employees
picked up from the ground one OF the
'Strutters" or tail feathers from a
turkey-the refuse from the duster
factory. He began idly twisting a
thread back and forth through its
broken edges and the idea of fea-
ther bone came to MIN. The feather
bone is the successor of the whale
bone, and is indispensable to the at
tire of the modern woman. He patent
ed the idea and received so much mon
ey from it that he will never have to
travel overland in wagon again IN
less he wants to.
A man standing in front of the Post
office at Washington bent small |
piece of tin in his fingers until it took |
the shape of a T. This would make |
4 good paper fastener ne remarked |
20 the man with whom he was talking
ild he straightway had the idea pat |
ented. Another man made money |
rom the device of an imbedded string |
N the end of an e1velop to cut the |
paper as it is drawn out. Still anotn-
sr man added to this idea by tying a
Knot in the end of the string to keep |
t from being drawn through.
1t is interesting to note how man
has borrowed many of mis- ideas from i
he animal world. Wasps made paper
rom wood long before man did. The
folding scissors and folding pocket
compass are only copies of the folding
over jaw of the dragon fly. The fly
way of projecting itself as high as
:welve feet above the surface of the
water by forcibly expelling water from
is body. Man saw this and invented /
he skyrocket- The nope making ma
shine used in the United States navy
yards follows almost the precise lines
hat a spider does when making mis-
'wn frail cable.
Women have been prominent in the
ield of Invention and there are more
han $500 different devices credited
o their ingenuity OF the list of
hings invented by women about 80
percent are devoted to the home, the II
dtchen and to dress. The first pa
ent given a woman il the ninteenth
century was granted to Mary Kier
N 1909 for straw weaving with silk
'r thread"-the probable forerunner
,f American mating. One of the
most recent inventions by women is
snoe string that won't come united.
The records of the patent office
how how some people have invaded
he field of invention with most eccen
ric IDEAS An invention called the
anti-snori1g device" it is something
imilar to a telephone. No sooner
oes the sleeper begin to snore than
he sound is transmitted to his. own
ar. causing him TO awake at once
ut machine which will automatic
lily tip a mans nat when he passes
woman acquaintance ON the street
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