A better way to clean teeth, see Fig. 103, to shampoo the head, to manicure nails, to wash backs and to shine shoes should all have attention. Improvements in false teeth and in making the deaf hear are in order; but it is just as well to keep away from inventions to make the hair grow and to remove freckles.
For the House.—You can help to save mother’s time and conserve her strength by inventing any of the following devices and besides you’ll make enough money so that she won’t have to use them and that will be still better.
Fig. 104a. THE OLD WAY—THE CARPET SWEEPER
Fig. 104b. THE NEW WAY—THE VACUUM CLEANER
Odorless cooking utensils, candy making apparatus, visible ovens, dish washer, ironing machine, soap saver, milk jar seal, fish scaler, fire extinguisher, water cooler, water purifier, cheap ice machine, ice crusher, window cleaner, silver cleaning apparatus, vacuum cleaner, see Fig. 104, knife sharpener, fountain scrub brush and all kinds of handy tools are needed.
A self-serving dining room table that will let the folks eat instead of keeping every one busy waiting on everybody else between bites should and undoubtedly would find a large sale.
For the Farm.—Improved farm machinery has made the farmers and the inventors rich and important but the little things around the farm have been sadly neglected and if some one doesn’t come to its rescue pretty soon it will go to rack and ruin.
Fig. 105. A LABOR SAVING PAINTING MACHINE
A substitute for leather, mail conveyer to carry mail from the road to the house, a painting machine, see Fig. 105, cheap fence posts, fattening apparatus for chickens, insect exterminators, portable fences, nests and coops for chickens, traps for preying birds, parcels post cartons for butter and eggs, incubators, brooders, cream separators, milking machines, and everything else used on the farm can be made more efficient than the present apparatus and machines which are now used.