Show Rowboat Rowers Saved From Old Age g Old Fate While Lazy Man Gets Electric Toothbrush By FREDERICK C. C N WASHINGTON Oct 28 UP The The Inventive genius of Br Brooklyn Brooklyn Brook Brook- oklyn ok- ok lyn N. N Y today rescued rescued from from froman an old age-old fate the fate the rowers of row boats who cant can't see where they're rowing because they dont don't have eyes in the backs of their heads This same Brooklyn Ingenuity provided an electric toothbrush for brushers too lazy to do the job by hand and it developed a protector for mothers-in-law mothers riding riding riding rid rid- ing in rumble seats Other Inventors inventors inventors tors elsewhere produced an apparatus ap ap- apparatus for running automobiles sidewise like a crab and a device for making homely folks handsome handsome handsome hand hand- some while they're having their picture taken then they get ugly again These things obviously are all I to the good The world has needed them for a long time That's why the government i issued s s sue u e d patents on them all aU and wished their inventors a lot of luck as asa asa asa a reward for their public service Consider first the row boat sit sit- Ever since the first Egyptian rowed down the Nile row boat rowers have had to face the back of the boat That's why they have rowed in circles and bumped into things Until Conrad Conrad Conrad Con Con- rad Carlson of Brooklyn began to consider the problem Improvements Improvements improvements improve Improve- ments in rowboats had been conspicuous conspicuous conspicuous con con- by their lack He attached attached attached at at- some same gears to the oarlocks oarlocks oarlocks oar oar- locks and hook hooked d these gears up with some handles The rowboat r rower o w e r pumps Mr Carlson's handles and he faces forward while so doing After years of sitting backward he now can see where hes he's going A similarly important contribution contribution contribution tion to human welfare that is of I another Sol Rothschild Rothschild Rothschild I child who has made the brushing of teeth a thrilling experience His toothbrush is hitched to an electric motor The motor makes the bristles polish the ivories Ina in ina ina a a hurry Lew Levi Lewis is the to kind your mother your mother law n-law man He has invent invented d a portable one-man one top which will fit any old oid rumble seat said hey mothers-in- mothers law For motorists who wh find parkIng parking parking park- park Ing spaces too short for them to wriggle into and who doesn't Adolph A. A Thomas has provided an extra set of automobile wheels little ones which touch the pavement pavement pavement pave pave- ment upon the yanking of a lever by the steering post These wheels act like the casters on the dining room table By their use a motorcar can be squeezed into a spot at the curb not much bigger than a parking no-parking sign The photographs nice f for for-a o r-a r n y b bod od y-invention y comes from Ferdinand Diehl Diehi of Graf- Graf Germany It consists simply of a beautiful mask with holes for the eyes and mouth Wearing it when the photographer photographer photographer squeezes the bulb anybody anybody anybody any any- body can look like a movie star |