The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-28
THE BRATTIEBoRo DAILY REFoR1IEs; FRIDAY 2s 1915
PATENTS AND POLLY
BY MOLLY MINISTER.

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Crawford was fatty discouraged. As
he mounted the steps leading to his
boarding house he realized that he had
lost the small model of his patent
However, since the thing was not
worth financing and putting on the
market, Crawford didn't care what
happened to it. He had banked rather
heavily on the outcome of his visit to
the financier, but his dreams of sud
den and vast wealth brought about by
a startling demand for his patent egg
boiler had vanished into the past, even
as his model itself. had lost itself in
the subway.
And Polly Woodward, returning
from hard day in the office of her
employer, picked up the small pack
age that had been left in the seat into
which her tired body sank.
She was far too weary to ponder on
the exact nature of the thing she had
found, but knew it to be something
| for kitchen use. 1t might be a baby
| feeder or even grill of some kind.
For the present she closed her eyes
they were strangely Iuminous-and
robbed the gentleman opposite Of the
pleasure Of watching them. He, also
a tired toiler of Wall street, had been
resting his own eyes unobservedly on
/ the beauty of the weary little worker.
John ellsworth was more than ever
/ Tegretful that so many women were
/ forced to enter the field of labor.
When Polly Woodward had finished
her evening meal she sat down with
the patent and studied it infinitely.
An egg boiler, she mused i Won
der il it's any good or just like the
| thousands of other egg boilers" Curl
osity got the better of her and she
tripped lightly into her kitchen to ex-
pertinent with jim Crawford's patent
and one of her 60-cents-a-dozen eggs.
Using great care so that no harm
would come to the model, Polly put in
her egg.
The indicator on the egg boiler
snapped and Polly removed the egg,
only to find it half boiled. She sighed
disappointingly. The patent had
I seemed so promising, yet it failed be-
cause Of the indicator.
4 Surely it could be quite easily ad-
justed, she pondered while she
cleaned the model and dried it care
fully.
When a week had passed and no one
had advertised for the model Polly
became impatient. She had perfected
the boiler until it worked like charm,
and it irritated her to realize that the
Inventor was so lacking in interest as
to put forward no claim for his patent.
1t was Polly herself who finally adj
yertised for the person who had left a
small package on the subway contain
ing an invention.
1 Crawford from whom the shades of
gloom were gradually lifting, hap
| pened to see the advertisement and
went forthwith in search of his lost
| property.
You can make stacks of money out
of that" she told him when she had
drawn him into the coy sitting room.
1t only required simple bit of regu-
lating. You won't mind my showing
you, will your"
Crawford listened attentively to her
curiously intelligent explanation of his
error
BY Jove! My head is solid ivory
not to have seen that" he said with a
| splendid dash of color in his cheeks
and sparkle to his eyes.
There is Mr.. John ellsworth in
our office building" Polly began hest
tatingly, 4 feel sure he would be in
terested if"
You are taking far too muct
trouble" interrupted Crawford. If YOU
will agree to take half the profits
will be glad to get the thing off my
mind. The thing was useless without
your Improvement"
Il When he was gone Polly skipped GU
TO the telephone in the corner chem
lists and made an appointment will
John ellsworth.
Il The big fnancier received her thu
Il following day in his luxurious Office
His philanthropy was well known
/ Polly approached him with no fea
and put her model before him.
ellsworth remembered having rest
: ed tired eyes on her beauty one eve
a ming in the subway. Her magnetism
together with the undcubted value 0
81 the egg boiler which she demonstrate
3 to him, quite worked the charm.
q When Polly returned to her Office
q after most happy lunch hour spen
q with Crawford, she rejoiced for tn
d second time that she had worn he
q new blouse. John ellsworth had tele
81 phoned her. He wanted her to hay
81 dinner with him if she was not tire
q of talking business. There was niue
D to be discussed about the egg boiler
q And if at dinner there were re
81 roses on the table for Polly, and rose
Il in Polly's cheeks for ellsworth an
only a short talk on the subject G
d egg boilers, no one minded overmucl
The evening passed with wQnderfr
q promise of happiness in it's trail, fo
q Polly and ellsworth had found on
81 another
81 Crawford went up that evening t