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Show J.NVENTIONS TO LIGHTEN WORK OF HOUSEWIVES Brighter days for the American housewives were forcast this week in the announcements of new labor lab-or saving gadgets ranging from "featherweight" pianos to non-oozing non-oozing griddles. A lightweight piano has been developed which can foe shoved around by women without their resorting to the "strong arm" tactics so necessary in the past, it was announced by David O. Woodbury, Wood-bury, in Colliers' Magazine. The secret of the" featherweight piano is a plate or sound board made of aluminum which is reported to be 80 pounds lighter than conventional convention-al steel types. Non-oozing grids for waffle irons ir-ons are coming along with toasters toast-ers that keep toast warm until it is ready to be served, and new plastic filters for coffee pots, according ac-cording to Mary Riedal, director of the , information center of the Proctor Electric Company. Electronic Elec-tronic cooking, she added, still remains re-mains in the distant future. Contact lens popular with actors, ac-tors, athletes and people who do not like to wear glasses have three principal drawbacks, it was disclosed by the New England Council of Optometrists. They are very expensive, the average price is $250, a wax cast of the eyeball is necessary for proper fitting and friction of the eye agains the lens irritates the corena. A new type plastic lens developed by Dr. Wm. Feinbloom of New York is being studied toy the Council which said it may eliminate drawbacks lens moves with the motion of the found in current models. The new eye, is available in stock models, can be fitted in a few minutes and costs $100 less than the old types. A new type rubber fabric has been developed by the Goodyear Rubber Company and will compete com-pete with plastics and other rubber rub-ber products recently perfected. Called "Pliofilm" the new material consists of twisted threads of rubber rub-ber which can be woven for light or heavy duty and used in goods I ranging from scuff resistant traveling trav-eling bags and brief cases to uppers up-pers for shoes. Speed of service will be the keynote of restaurants of the future fu-ture when an electrical device similar sim-ilar to juke boxes is installed on tables, it was reported this week. All that is required of patrons is to push buttons indicating their order, wires travel directly to the kitchen carrying orders to a wait- er standing by who immediately fills and delivers the meal. Other announcements include: non-skid soles for shoes; waste-baskets waste-baskets which automatically put out fires within them, shockproof helmets, non-slip deck coating, which is used around gun turrets , during the war and which may have commercial value; new type sun glasses; and for rural communities, com-munities, a telephone service by radar waves. |