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Show GOOD CHANCE FOR INVENTORS. Fortune Waiting for Man Who Can Perfect the Umbrella. "How rich I'd he," suld ono umbrella um-brella salesman to another, "if 1 had patented the umbrella." "You might ns well talk of a patent on cooking," said his friend. "Umbrellas appear to have existed always. Indeed, wherever wher-ever excavations have been made nt Babylon, Nineveh, Nippur traces of the umbrella have been round. The article is coevnl with mankind. The English didn't begin to use It until 1700. Shakespeare with all his genius had no umbrella to protect him from the rain. What you might do would be to patent some new sort of umbrella um-brella some rain shield built on better bet-ter lines. We have proof that the umbrella has existed for 10,000 years nnd yet In all that time it has not once been improved. To-day, as it did two or three hundred years ago, It turns inside out with a strong gust of wind nnd It only protects tho head nnd shoulders fioni the rain. Change nil that. I want an umbrella that is u complete rnln shield. Then you will be a millionaire in six months." |