RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30711, 29 March 1965, Page 22

RANDOM REMINDER

EASING THE LOAD

This talk of easing import restrictions is great news for we executives, the men who shoulder the wheels of industry and the burdens of business all day and have nothing much left at night save slippers, a pipe maybe, a Scotch and soda and an hour or two in front of the box. We find we have been starved of a whole series of overseas inventions that will really make life worth living again if the funds are there to bring them in. We’ve made do with suede shoes lately, but we’ll soon be able to get back into leather uppers for the Executive Shoe Caddy may soon be with us here. You need only to hold the brush against your shoe and a battery-powered motor will wipe the polish on. Then you slide off the Electrobrush, insert the Electrobuffer with lambs’ wool pad, press the button again and your shoes are shining. Then without even remov-

Ing the shoe, you can pop your foot on to the Executive Pedimasseur, the pressure turns on an automatic step-on switch and the resulting vibration is said to be balm to the sole. For those who can’t stand on their heads, there is also the Little Executive Massager to provide desk-side therapy when applied to the skull. It also, says the ad., helps clean the scalp. Troubled by the exertion of mixing those difficult ingredients, Scotch and soda? Watch, then, for the Little Fishing Rod. You hold the little fibreglass rod above the glass, let the line dangle into the drink and twiddle the reel causing a little fish on the end of the line to twirl around and merge the Scotch and soda indissolubly. Too energetic? Then how’s about a motorised unit—a tiny outboard engine with fingertip accelerator. All you need to do is to start it, dip the

propeller end into the drink, rev. the motor and the job’s done. Isn’t that something. But it’s not all. We acknowledge that New Zealand industry has filled an important need for those who feel faint at the idea of hefting a toothbrush round the mouth singlehanded by producing a motorised toothbrush. But the Americans have gone one better with the fully automatic electric manicure machine. No longer do you have to get behind the nail file and shove— a motor will do it for you. And there’s a rotary action buffer to give a final polish. Think of all the time you can save when they let these things In here. You might be able to find some time for all the things you have been promising to do, like going for a walk or taking up golf, or even jogging. Come to think of it, you'd better take up all three.