New Gadgets of Women inventors

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 171, 22 July 1939, Page 11

New Gadgets of Women inventors

CHICAGO, June 7.—One look at the exhibits at the National Inventors’ Congress to-day dispelled tho idea that inventing was exclusively a pastime for men. Twenty-four feminine inventors proudly exhibited their handiwork, all allegedly boons to mankind. Miss Johnnie Keif, a young abstractor of Tulsa, Okla., exhibited a simple lightweight adjustable circular cardboard shield for feminine faces, necks and ears, to be worn under a hot dryer after a shampoo. | Another Tulsa woman (a fourth of the women exhibitors were from Tulsa) 1 came through with an air-conditioneil pie xian. As fashioned by Mrs Samuel IPendelton Mcßirney, this wire bottom contraption is insurance against soggy pie crusts. | A cloth makeup band to keep cold cream out of tho hair was tho contribution of Mrs Catherine M. Gorman of Cedar Rapids, lowa, while Mrs Maria K. Heinzman of Tulsa designed a makcux> cape to protect the dress while powdering the nose. Esther Brown of Roanoke, Va., went complicated with a combination vanitywalking stick-beach capo-beach umbrella. In the top of tho metal cane is a vanity. Out of the cane comes umbrella ribs and oil tho shoulders of the beach-bather comes a cape that covers the umbrella. George Lyle of Littlefield, Texas, showed buttons with a trick fastening to make them attach to the dress without aid of needle and thread, and Mrs Effio Boeter of Seattle, Washington, sent her idea of a poor man’s caddy—a golf bag on a wheel. A woman had a hand in one of the most unusual exhibits at the congress — a doughnut with a handle. Arthur Basham of Indianola, lowa, gallantly gave his wife credit lor her part in designing the doughnut. It’s triangular and the handle is part of tho doughnut. A man at a boarding-house said to the maid on the morning after his arri\al: “I say, you might take this back. If it’s my early cup of tea it’s too weak. If it’s my shaving-water it’s too strong.”