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Show A Proposition to Mr. Edison-An Opon Lottor ." I fj I E66 BEATER C "J"'' " W) COTFEE V JCq GRINDER VjT" Thomss A. Edison, Esq., Orange, N. J. Dear Mr. Edison: - ' t wat glad ter4 that yeas aad Mr, ford and Mr. Firestone could tak a vacation and have a restful time dowa la Old Virginia, renewing your you'h oa. Mr. Ford' farm. Probably It is Mr. Ford's passioa tor Agriculture that has kspt him from writing m la regard o aa Advertising Proposition I mad him om whll back. I hoped to serve hrm by circumnavigating this vast country of ours In one of his well known Products, thus demonstrating what hit little old car caa do, and-showlng the world It Is ao Laughing Matter. Did he happea to -mention the matter to you Mr. Edlsoar It may be that my Offer wat mislaid by careless office trelp In Detroit while b was away boetiu hla nitrate plaata dowa oa the Farm. Or It Is possible thst he sent m a car a I suggested, sug-gested, and It got lost la th MsllsT At any rat. I have not beard from him, and so I bar. gradually loot Interest In th. Ford Interests. This Is Just as wall, sir, for I hav. bow deeded that my Forte la to become an Inventor like your-eclf. your-eclf. ' In my spare time this spring I hav invents- aa laveBttoa that threatens to revolutionist Egg Betlng the world over. I cell It th. Homsr Balmy Combination Egg Beater aad Coffee Orlnder, Th. Idea cam. to me one day wheo I waa looking at a 117 runabout manufactured by oar mutual Friend. . This Maiden Effort ot rain. Mr. Edlsoa. I on of th grestast labor saving devices yoa probably vr taw. Combtnlng tb Functions of two trtenslls la one,"' and thua economising space, ft la especial. y tu-Lbt tor apartment house Kitchenette. These room r to Cramped, aa yea know, that yoa have to keep th Milk outsld oa th window ledge, aalas It la Condensed, and even the Sou? aaa to be tela. . Whea yoa grind the breakfast coffee with mv Invention In-vention yea simultaneously wind up the mainspring' ot the Egg Beater. The to whla the Omelette, all row have to da s congratulate you on those recent Questionnaire of yours. No on In thlt broad land enjoyed the way yoa showed up the College Graduate any more then wb-ti I, did ...-.i ,..,. '-' . They call themselves Educated and monopolise the ' high salary Job's, snd yet when yon ask them ' to-'' locate Portuguay, or to name the Large Island south of a Given Point they ar all at Sea and nothing to Ball with. And when It comet to telling yoa what sort of wood a Cedar Shlngl Is mad of, or anything Practical like that, they are practically Lost I suppose It would be a Refining Experience to loaf around a Campus four years, studying Julius Caesar's battle In th Pblllpponnesan War, and keeping a Bulldog In your room. No doubt ther would be Culture In learning to tell a Preposition from a Protoplasm, and In reading bow Old Iliad and those other Dead One went .fter Helen of Troy in tb original Latin. And It would be quite Broadening to play Tennis in cream colored Flannels on th. dear old college Lawn, with the Faculty sipping Lemonade under the historical his-torical Elms, and the csrefre Sophomores sliiglng their merry Glees ovsr back of th Peterson Memorial Astronomical Observatory. But Ufa la real, Mr. Edlsoa. lit la earnest. Believe me, by th time I get to be twenty-three or four and old enough to hav a Junior of my owu, a well as a coupls of little Freshman, I want to know how to Support something besides a dear old Football Foot-ball Team. Thank goodneaa, Mr. Edlsoa, there are still a few self-made men like yoa aad myself aad Mr. Firestone and Mr. Ford, to carry the world's Rough Lead. Now. sir. If yoa should like to throw oat th Life Line to a self-rising young Fellow Scientist I will rush my Egg Beater to your dty and let yoa have a look at it. . But I thought I had better not Spring it oa yoa without warning. Cordially yours, - HOMER BALMY. P. 6. I tm afraid It will do Mr. Ford no good to cetne after me at thlt late day. Still, yoa might delicately deli-cately KM him about bis boat Golden- Opportunity when aext yoa write him, and see what he says. H.B. ' insert the Beater in th eggs and press tht battoa that liberates tb Spring. I Mill hsv to perfect it a littles more, however, before It will be perfect as there 1 considerable Re-coll Re-coll at pressnt Ths spring snsps Into its work with too much Enthusiasm, En-thusiasm, if I may ao describe it This msket It difficult to hold the Beater U the dish. Furthermore, a good deal of the egg files off it a tangent owing te the Centrifugal Force, and adherea to the walls aad th Calling. I flgur thst soma kind ot escapement control, such as In a dock, will moderate the Zeal of the spri-.g. But alas, at this point with a Fortune almost In my grasp, I am Stock. New, Mr. Edlsoa, If yoa would like to look my In-ventlOB In-ventlOB over and suggest how to regulate the Mctlve Power, I will be Indeed glad to visit your Laborstory with tt Far be It tor me, however, to Thrust myself without Invitation Boon the Genius who could Invent f-ara-phenylenediamlne and pronounce It afterward. But at the same time, dr. I would certainly Jump at chance to make your peraond acquaintance d Oasevtsht. 1SB1. tr 1W New Yerk Herat. |
