The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1911-01-20
PILLINGTON'S
PATENT


A stock augmentation between Mr.
and Mrs. Pillington was the subject
Of women's inyentiveness-or non.
invennYeness. rather PiIlipgton
prided himself on his mechanical
genius. and was always fishing tor an
acknowledgment Of Il from his wife;
but she. mindful of a house numbered
from attic to cellar with futile con
X trivances. observed always grim
silence.
One day. as Mr. Pillington was ex-
patiating on his favorite theme. Mrs.
Piilington chanced to be feeding the
baby with nursing bottle.
= wish" she remarked, that with
all mems superior inventive ability,
they would contrive good way TO
feed baby
Pillington's interest was at once
arogsed.
4 Now. that's just like a woman" be
exclaimed Here's a 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 a man
= should think sol" sighed Mrs. PHI
Iington
We'll, what's the matter with 'emf"
\ he inquired.
Matter? Everything. You can't
keep them clean. The hole gets
cIogged up with a shred OF cloth II
YOU make 1t larger. the baby gets the
milk too fast. II you keep the air out,
I It collapses and the baby gets nothing
II you let the air in, the baby gets the
\ collie. Oh, they're horrid."
sLemme sec it" and Mr. Pillington
I looked critically at the nursing g-bottle
Maria Pillington, day after tomorrow
! will show you what 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 feeding-time. On the
second evening be brought to his wife
with an air Of triumph, marvellous
affair.
What is it?" she asked
"Pillington's Patent Feeding-Bot-
I tle," replied her husband, proudly.
I've filled it. You try it.
Mrs. Pillington examined fhe appar
ratus suspiciously
What's 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
thought Of that"
Il agree with you" remarked Mrs.
/ Pillington. dryly And what's this
brass arrangement in the neckg
/ Isn't IT part OF some gas fixture?
4 @Yes. Mr., Pillington admitted, un-
willingly-''yes, temporarily, it is..
I But that's the great point. You see
I this screw Work 1t out and you en-
large the orifice; screw it In, and you
diminish the flow Of milk Beauti-
i fully simple, and yet no woman would
4 ever have thought OF It. Now try it
on the baby
''Neyer." shrieked his wife What!
poison his little froatsy-toatsy with a
horrid old brass gas maehine?s And
she embraced PilIington, Junior, pro
/ tectingly Besides. how do you know
it'll work? Have you tried it,"
mo 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"
Il WON'T" shrieked Mrs. Pillington.
"Try your horrid contraption on your
self first. ! don't believe you could
suck a drop through it,"
I'm show youl" said Mr. Pillington,
fercely. "You see where the milk
is?"
Yes, Mrs. Pillington 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.
4It-it-doesn't seem to come, some
way" he confessed. at last.
ANY air-hole In it?" asked Mrs.
Pillington. kindly
'Air-hole? Whatd | want Of an air
e nD2Ct gasp AcA IrdcbdnN+ JAg YES
/ have it. Gimme that knitting
/ Forgot little point" And MT PHI.
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
Pillington ventured to ask.
'Air-hole nothin It's a yentilator
Now III show you how to use that
screw and bulb Observe"
Mr.. Pillington threw back his head
once more, and this time to some pur-
pose. Whether 1t was the knitting
needle. or the screw, or the big bulb.
no one viii ever know; but with the
inventors first satisfied swallow the
brass broke away, and in one wild
squirt pint Of milk flew into Mr.. PHI
( lington's face and down ais shirt
front
-gl-gI-f-gf-oofm spluitered
the unfortunate Stop your fdiotic
laughing, Maria Pilungton. Why did