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About Ashland American. (Ashland, Jackson County, Or.) 1927-1927 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1927)
/ ornen. Albert Rooke Makes His Comeback Wins six-year fight for health. N o w w ell and strong at 60 . H usky as ever , he praises Tanlac I i i \ ¡ I j A t 1830 West 39th Place. Los An geles, lives Albert A. Hooke, a re spected citizen with 38 years of active railroad experience. He tells of a very interesting experience. “ About seven years ago,” says Mr. Rooke, “ my stomach and liver went back on me. It was a most distressing experience. Nothing seemed to agree with me; I lost all desire for food. A sound night’s sleep was out o f the question, so 1 rose each morning tired and pepless. Then constipation de veloped and made life a continuous misery. I lost weight and could hardly drag myself around a good deal of the time. Al ter six years of that I was all in. Along’ camo tho ‘ flu’ when I had no resistance left. That was about the last straw. Nothing seemed to help me. “ On a friend’s advice I tried Tanlac, and that certainly did help. I soon began to get refreshing sleep again, to eat with old-time seat. The distressing stomach and liver troubles disap peared. Briefly, Tanlac put me on m y feet, with all my old-time vigor and enjoyment of life. I put on weight and after five bottle« was as well as ever in my life. That was a year ago. I’m still in fine shape, as you see. Few men of 60 are as well as I am, than k a to Tanlac.” Tanlac is nature’s own tonic and body builder, made from roots, herbs and barks by the famous Tanlac for mula. Try a bottle— n may do for you what it did for Mr. Rooke. Your drug gist has it. Over 52 million bottles «old. A Spellbinder Hit Intention “ Do you admire Wagner’s music?” “Gap, you ort to get for the smaller "I do,” answered Senator Sorghum. children some sort o f toys that can't ‘Tie’s a true spellbinder. I know of break up,” said Mrs. Johuson. no other man who could compel peo "Um-huhl" replied Gap Johnson of ple to listen so attentively, regurdless Rumpus ltidge. “ I sorter 'lowed to go of what was being said.” around to the Junkyard next time I'm in town, and see if I can't find a few Clever people may suiter immense second-hand anvils for ’em. What do ly; only one in ten may understand you think of the idy?” —Kansas City Star. their cleverness. Drawing by Ray Walters By ELMO SCOTT WATSON Even at that, the pre-World war pe HE other day an Illinois riod was one o f great activity for woman was granted a women inventors, for in that time patent by the United more than 5,000 patents were granted States patent office for to women in ten selected yeurs from a “ secret envelope,” i. e. 1905 to 1921, n number which fur ex one which cannot be ceeds the total number granted them t steamed open, its con during the span of 105 years which tents read and be sealed ended In 1895. ' without detection of the As might be expected the majority fact thut it has been of women's inventions are those which tampered with. Immedi have to do with their household duties. ately there were col But they are far from being limited umns of newspaper publicity about to that and they cover a wide range the "woman inventor,” as though of uctivity in 50 industries, coal min woman in that role is unique. ing througli agricultural machinery, manufacturing To the average person she Is, per hospital equipment, haps, for we commonly think of the equipment, chemicals, artificial fuels, inventive genius of woman in terms wood turning, even to submarine ex o f the stock joke about her ability to plosives! Before you exclaim over do an innumerable number o f things that last, however, consider a list ot with a hairpin when necessity de inventions by w omen which proves that mands i t As a matter of fact, wom the mothers o f men, who are pro en Inventors are becoming more nu verbially opposed to the war which merous every year, as the records of robs them of their husbands and sons, the United States patent office will are still doing their part to perpetu show. The women's bureau of the ate its horrors. This list includes au United States Department o f Labor tomatic pistols, bomb-launching appar recently made an analysis o f those atus, a cane gun, an Incendiary ball, records to determine woman's part in railway torpedoes, sights for guns, this age of invention and revealed submarine mines and a top for pow what will be an astonishing fact to der cans. many persons— that at least 506 gov Woman, the citizen, Is responsible ernment patents a year are now for inventions of voting booths, vot granted to women inventors, and that ing machines and d pocket ballot. more patents were granted to them Woman, the scientist, has given us in a recent ten-year period than were new dyes and new dye bases, chemi issued during the whole century end cal treatment o f oils for commercial purposes, artificial fuels, gas appar ing in 1816. Although the number o f patents atus, air compressors, hoisting appar taken out by men is some 70 times as atus, reversible turbines, various many as the number taken out by steam and street railway necessities the other sex, the percentage increase ranging from road bed and .rails for women from decade to decade lias through rolling stock equipment to exceeded that o f the men by as much traffic signals and block systems. as 300 per cent in some years. An Some of the reasons given by the other striking fact is that war seems women for their inventions are among to be a strong incentive to woman's the most Interesting facts connected producing new things. Before the with their work. A large number of Civil war about half a dozen patents ■ these reasons, o f course, come under a year were granted to women. Dur the proverbial head of "necessity, the ing the war and in the years that fol mother ot invention." On« Invention, lowed the number of patents to wom made tor this reason, turned Its bene en increased steadily, rising at times fits In a direction curiously different to more than 100 annually. The de from the original intention. A woman cade of 1837 to 1867 saw an increase golf teacher, who had been much an of 677 per cent in the number of ar noyed by the perverse habit of golf ticles patented by women, as com balls of becoming lodged In Inacces pared to 290 per cent increase for the sible places or droppirg Into streams. men in the same period. Invented an adjustable rake to recov Although It is yet too early to pre er the errant balls. The wider use dict what effect in this regard the fulness of the rake was soon apparent, World war will have, it is true that and gardeners now have a golf teach tfae number of patents taken out by er to thank for making their work women from 1918 to 1921 was 34 per lighter. cent higher than from 1912 to 1918. A Texas woman who took out a pat ent for an improvement on a cultiva tor tongue, which lightened the bur den of the “ menfolks,” said that “hav ing been raised on a farm and seeing that there wag needed improvement on cultivator tongues, I made up my mind to Improve upon the old-style ones.” A Minnesota woman invented a portable smoke house because as she explained it “ As a farmer’s wife, my duty was to cure meats for sum mer use and smoked meat Is very much favored in my family. I tried to smoke mine without expense, and after I had completed tills device I used it successfully for two years be fore I obtained a putent upon It” It is in lightening her home duties that the American housewife finds her best reason for turning to inven tion. In this realm her new devices include nlurms for cooking utensils, juice extractors, kettle protectors, sieve-cleaning devices, waffle irons, ash cans, laundry equipment, broom racks, stovepipe cleaners, napkin holders, bed-airing devices, high chairs, bathroom fixtures, an auto matic rocking chair fan, awnings, clothes containers and ant traps. Do mestic difficulties sometimes result In invention, as witness the case of the woman who invented a pie-pan cover because o f the "overflowing of Juicy pies, the best of the pie Is wasted, leaving the poorest part in the crust.” And these are only a few of the many new devices for which the world can thunk the women. None o f them is "revolutionary,” perhaps, but for those whom they benefit by making life easier, that is Immaterial. What if, so far, mere man has been respon sible for ull of the most important inventions, including those, such us the typewriter and the sewing ma chine, which have meant so much to women? (Incidentally, it might be added that Elias Howe’s invention o f ! the sewing machine was not greeted with unanimous enthusiasm by the ! women of the time. Was it “ feminine j inconsistency” which prompted some j o f them to opposition when the first [ sewing machine« came upon the mar ket because they "would take away the livelihood o f the poor sewing wom en” ?) This Increase in woman's in ventive activity, as shown by the rec ords of the patent office, may be indi cative of the Increasing importance of women in every phase o f life, and we may yet see some new device o f world-wide and all-time significance conceived In a woman’s mind and molded by a woman’« hand. dally prepared for Infants in arms and Children all ages. T o avoid imitations, always look for the signature o f C mxì >/^//- u U c J u A a Proven directions on each package. 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