Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-12

The housewares department Of q big
store Is one Of the best places we know
of to spend an interesting hour when
one has nothing else to do.
Instead of going to the talkie, or
other place of entertainment, drop into
this emporium, and enjoy the sight OF
gadgets innumerable.
There Is a crude belief that women
alone are interested in So-called house,
wares. The truth is that no man alive
can resist the lure of the fancy fruit
Juice presserS, the can openers, the
hundred and one other articles dis
played there.
A man let loose in such q place goes
mildly crazy, whereas woman, pos
sessed Of a much more practical mind,
holds tight to her purse.
Her husband, the chances are, will
purchase one or more trick articles
to his mechanical fancy. Even the
least handy man has a theoretical
knowledge, at least, of machinery.
He knows the good points of a new
gadget on sight; if he cannot be sure
that the thing will work as glowingly
as the clerk says it will, he also real
ICES that the only way to find ont is
TO buy the thing and take 1t home.
just as there are some men who are
EoHoo
day, as the signs say), so there are
others who by no means should be
permitted to enter q housewares de-
partment.
Entering to buy one thing. whatever
1t Is, the enthusiast will return with
his arms burdened with packages. And
each packet viii contain one or more
devices OF approved pattern for tighten
ing houseWork, for making the home
hres burn more brightly, for inducing
something or other to function better
than it has in the past.
Evidently thousands of inventors are
staying up nights to figure out WAYS
and means OF helping the American
housewife. They have read articles
somewhere to the effect that she holds
the strings to the pocketbook- she
is, IN 1act, the American purchasing
agent.
Their desire to help her spend is an
palling. Here, they say, is q neat little
article which will peel your potatoes in
one-fourth to one-tenth the time the
task formerly took.
Think, lady, of the hours upon hours
you spent peeling potatoesI Three
fourths to nine-tenths of that time was
wasted. During that wasted time it
would have been possible for you to
have learned the French language.
mastered the latest in bridge, or given
your children liberal education.
Here, for a small sum, so small as to
be unworthy of mention, is the Great
Grandiglorious Potato Peeler, approved
by all the approving plants in the
world, and triple guaranteed by the
maker.
All you have to do, lady, is to ease
this cutter up to the side of the I'M
suSpecting potato, and before it can
wink its little eyes it will be totally de-
prived of its skin.
So thin does the Grandiglorious
work that one-thirty-second of an inch
of potato is saved with every peeling.
This may not seem large, at the time,
but when you take into consideration
that the average home consumes TO-
S65 potatoes q year, and that the total
amount OF pure potato saved by this
device comes to two full bushels of
potatoes, the ACCESSIBILITY of purchasing
one or more Of these peelers is mani
fest.
Here Is a man who has come in on
the hunt Of an ash can cart. Rolling
the family ash can-f1lled with ashes
from the house to the alley gate is