| Show All I Kinds of New Things 1 From Mexican Tortilla Mix to Left Gas Pedal By Rr Frederick O. O Othman V WASHINGTON Let Let us not be too smug about all the boons to humanity being invented in inthe inthe inthe the U. U S. S A. A A So weve we've got ot quick biscuit mixes instantaneous cake flours pie crust in cellophane cellophane cello cello- phane packages and gingerbread gingerbread ginger ginger- nger- nger bread to be poured out of or the box and baked baked Let us take a quick look south of th the border where the tortilla is the staff of life liCe This is a flat pancake made of corn which the senoras for centuries have been soaking and rubbing rubbing- between rocks into a course meal Then they bake the tortillas on griddles and the result result re re- result re- re sult hot or cold or toasted toasted- called tostada tostada does does everything for a Mexican that bread does for us Only trouble is that making making making mak mak- ing ing- tortillas is hard work So an outfit called S. S A. A financed in m part by the Mexican government government government govern govern- ment now is making making- prepared tortilla mix mix just just add aqua and 1 I bake for bake for the modern senora 1 No development de on our ow own n industrial front quite compares I with that though I must report t that we have some lulus coming up One of these is an adhesive e backed vinyl plastic for female femal e fingernail polish This stuff f comes in sticky sheets in four fou r shades of or red A lady trims 1 10 0 pieces to size sticks slicks em on th the e ends of all her fingers an and d thumbs and she's got an everlasting everlasting everlasting ever ever- lasting manicure This plastic plash c is tough stuff like a shower shower- bath curtain The o on n back is permanent A lady ca can n polish her fingernails with a damp cloth she also can remove e em while she takes her bath and slap em back on after after- wards The manufacturers figure figure fIgure fig fIg- ure they have such a revolutionary revolutionary revolutionary product for decorating feminine fingers that they ar are e rushing it into national tion One of oC the leading washing machine outfits now is producing producing producing ing its automatic clothes clean ing devices in pastel shades o of DC t pink blue and green g Th The theory here is that ladies gc get g-et t tired of all their machinery be be- white as in a hospital operating g room Plastic Blankets Several new plastic materials w which h ich look CUZZ fuzzy like wool an and d feel warm in the same way are ar e beginning beginning- to be used in blankets which the manufacturers claim clean i are meeting the approval o of f everybody but the moths Th The e army is experimenting with th the e same material for use in synthetic synthetic synthetic syn syn- syn- syn wool suits and I believe e e that if I were a sheepherder Id I'd I start worrying worrying- An enterprising citizen i in n Fort Lauderdale Fla FIa now hasin has hasin s in m operation Americas America's first firs for the benefit o of f winter This consists consists consists con con- of a truck and a big trailer with 10 automatic washing machines machines ma ma- maIt chines all white inside I It makes the rounds of cottage camps and business is rushing More will be en route to mountain and beach by summer Syrup Powder Ponder Available now in some groceries groceries gro ro eel ceries ics is a five-cent five package e that price in itself is an achievement of syrup powder add sugar and water and youve you've got something tasty to Lo pour on the pancakes The telephone company has discovered at long last that the holes in the dial are no proper place to put the numbers because because because be be- cause your finger always has one number covered while youre you're dialing This leads to confusion The new model phones have the numbers outside the holes experimenters experimenters experimenters ex- ex ex ex- claim this has re resulted resulted re- re in a phenomenal decrease in wrong wrong- numbers On the market finally i is isa a widget to give the left foot of ofa a motorist with a car something to do He feeds the theas gas as with his left foot steps on the brake with his right and if he doesn't get all mixed up in inthe inthe inthe the head should be a more efficient efficient ef- ef ef cf- chauffeur 9 |
