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Show INVENTOR CAN MAKE FORTUNE Odorless Shoe Blacking Crying Need of the Day. "A fortune awaits the man who Invents In-vents odorless shoo blacking," declared de-clared the man about town. "Well-polished "Well-polished shoes always make their presenco known and they leave a trail of blacking perfume behind them In parlor, hall and dining room. Ono pair of newly blacked shoes Is sufficient suffi-cient to scent up an entire room, and In a crowd It Is the odor of shoe blacking which arUes above that of ftll others. At the theater tho sachet perfumed garments of tho women nre smothered by tho shoo blacking scent, and violet, Illy of tho valley, carnation, carna-tion, whlto roso, nil go down before tho shoo polish. 'Do a man ever so shy, modest and unobtrusive, hta presence will bo felt In a toomful of company If ho hnppons o bo tho only man In tho room who has hnd his shoes freshly shlned. He gets coiircIous of his feet nnd knows thnt every one Is certain he Just came from tho bootblack. Ho knows that thoso shoes will keep on smelling for tont-four hours and wi-hes fervently fervent-ly that ho were wearing boots of rusty black an) thing but those with thnt shining, odoriferous polish! "If sonic ono dots arise to invent odorless blacking, ho may go n step further nnd mnnufneturo perfumed blacking nnd tho bootblack will ask, 'Violet, whlto rose, cnrnatlon or musk?' beforo he begins work on a customer's shoes." |