The Prescott daily news., 1909-09-23
PILLINGTCN'S
 PATENT
Copyright. by J. B. Lippincott Co.)
By Amos R. Wells

anu MTs. fllllN5tOu was lHS supJoSt of women's nventiveness-or non- inventivensss, rather. Ellington prided himself on his mechanical genius. and was always fishing for an acknowledgement of 1t from his wife: but she. mindful of house numbered from attic to cellar with futile con trivances. observed always grim silence.
 One day, as MT. Ellington was ex- patiating on bis favorite theme, Mrs. Ellington chanced to be feeding the baby with a nursing bottle.
 'I wish," she remarked that with all mems superior inventive ability. they would contrive good way to feed baby"
 Pillington's interest was at once aroused
 Now, that's just like woman!" he exclaimed Here's field peculiarly hers. Here's something forced on her attention from the days of Eve. And yet I'll warrant that every patent nursing bottle in the world was in vented by man."
 T should think so" sighed Mrs, Ptl- lington. 1
 well, what's the matter with 'em?" he inquired
 Matter? Everything. You cant keep them clean. The hole gets clogged up with shred of cloth If you make 1t larger, the baby gets the milk too fast. If you keep the air out, 1t collapses and the baby gets nothing. If you let the air in, the baby gets the collie. Oh, they're horrid!"
 ''Lomme see it," and MT. Ellington looked critically at the nursing bottle. Maria Ellington, day after tomorrow will show you what a man can do. Evidently this thing was some wom- ans maneshift."
 For two days the inventor was mys- teriously silent, though sagely observ- ant at baby's feedingtime. On the second evening he brought to his wife with an air of triumph, a marvellous affair.
 What is it?" she asked.
 "2iliingtons Patent Feeding Bot cle!" replied her husband, proudly. I've filled it. You try it.
 Mrs. Ellington examined the appa- ratus suspiciously.
 Whats this big bulb for?''
 That, madam, is to clean it with force the water in and out by suction; also to force the milk into the mouth. Now, no woman would ever have | Al.- .l
 "I agree with you" remarked Mrs. Ellington. dryly. And what's this brass arrangement in the neck? Isn't 1t part of some gas fxture?' "Yes," MT. Ellington admitted, un- willingly-"yes. temporarily, 1t is. But that's the great point. You see this screw? Work it out, and you en- large the orifice; screw 1t in, and you diminish the flow of milk. Beauti- fully simple, and yet no woman would ever have thought of 1t. Now try 1t on the baby
 "Never!" shrieked his wife What! poison his little froatsy-toatsy with horrid old brass gas machine?" And she embraced Ellington, Junior, pro- tectingly. Besides, how do you know it'll work! Have you tried it?"
 No need of trying it. replied the inventor. If you had mechanical mind you would know it would work just by looking at it. Gimme the baby"
 T won't" shrieked Mrs. Ellington. Try your horrid contraption on your self first. I don't believe you could suck a drop through it."
 I'll show you," said MT. Ellington. fercely. You see where the milk is?"
 Yes, Mrs. Ellington saw.
 Then her husband tipped back his head bottle in the air, and began chewing the rubber neck. He grew red in the face. Evidently he was getting nothing.
 "It-it-doesn't seem to come, some way" he confessed, at last.
 Any air-hole in it?" asked Mrs. Ellington, kindly.
 "Air-hole? What'd I want of an air hole?" gasped her husband. "Oh, yes! I have it. Gimme that knitting Forgot little point" And Mr. Pill ington jabbed hole in the rubber tube that joined the bottle with the section of the gas jet.
 But isn't that an air-hole?" Mrs. Ellington ventured to ask. "Air-hole nothin'. It's ventilator. Now I'll show you how to use that screw and bulb. Observe" Mir. Ellington threw back his head once more, and this time to some pur-