Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-30

, artistic CONSIDERATIONS Will 40 10 a
Nation.
The next thought which seized us in
inventive mood was that of giving the
spout of the pitcher an inward list, with
an outward bulge, which would cause
the fugitive drops to be smothered ere
they began their sad downward course
| In the world.
It was to be simply another case OF
prevention, which has authority behind
1t for being better than cure-a whole
pound better, we believe 1t is said. The
reader will forgive us for not making
the details of this our invention public
at this time.
| We may go on and invent the perfect
cream pitcher after all. 1t has always
been a dream of ours to invent some
fool thing that would make us rich
overnight without stirring a hand.
We are utterly unable to get rich by
working % out of "a hours a day, as
so many of our grandest men are said
to have done. We admire them length
lily, heartily, and all that, but we can
| not initiate them, any more than we
can live as do those worthy. estimablc
and supremely energetic men who run
corner stores all night.
Maybe the reader has patroniZed one
| or the other of them. He was coming
home, no doubt. after gainsome toll
say about 3 am.-when he passed a
store on the corner and decided that
he was hungry.
As he entered the shop he heard a
| bell ring, and no sooner did he stand
by the counter displaying doughnuts
than portly man appeared at the rear
He had been keeping that store open
% hours day for the past five years
and in another five years he would re-
tire for good. He would branch out
with car block long and fine home
out in the country, and he would de-
serve all of it.
How much easier a nice dripless
cream pitcher would be!
Millions of housewives yet unborn
would rise up to call its inventor
blessed. To those busy inventing means
of Staying their fellow men. or of pre-
venting their beloved fellow men from
being slain. the mere idea of a cream
pitcher, dripless or dripping, is ridic-
ulous.
What do we inventors care? There /,
a need for such a device, and 1t will
come forth in the perfect amplitude OF
time crowned with the cheers and tears
Of 10999, 999 housewives.
Obtuse male readers should remem-
Der what a moot subject the home
tablecloth Is. 1t Is not an inconsequen-
tial bit of cloth hurriedly slid under
the dishes in order that every one pres
ent may lap up the daily provender
! No. sir: tablecloth may range all the
way from the old-style red affair that
never came of to filmy piece OF Ita1-
ian lace that looks too fragile ever
to go on.
Tablecloths. like the old-fashioned
white bedspreads, now happily Of men,
DRY. are put on primarily not to gel
soiled. At least. that seems to be the
main reason. as far as one can find out
The offender who carelessly drips
gravy on clean tablecloth, or permits
the gurgling ketchup bottle to get the
best of him is given one of the worlds
rnightiest frowns. If he is a guest, he
hurriedly moves his plate over, in the
hope Of covering up his crime, but as
far as records go no guest has ever beer
able to get away with it. The eye /:
quicker than the hand. in this case.
1t is hoped that dispensers Of popu-
lar foodstuffs will go right ahead i'm.
proving their containers. until the last
bit of worry is taken out of dining
Then we will all be as happy as the
baby with his bib. Or do babies veal
bibs any more?