A Patent Pad for Suorers.

Otago Witness, Issue 2370, 3 August 1899, Page 61

A Patent Pad for Suorers.

S. Anderson, a c&rpenter and builder who lives in Prairie Avenue, has constructed an apparatus for the prevention and cure of snoring which can hush the trumpeting of Ihe loudest <snorer that ever -disturbed a neighbourhood to a sound as soft as a baby's breath. If the device which lias just boon patented is all it is claimed to be, it could be applied to the throat of the North Pier fog-horn, and a sound like the solo of a 5000dol a night grand opera prima donna would come cut cf it. Mi- Andfcrson'B invention is not so /Pia.-h the result of h:s skill os a carpenk-r as that hs has pnored oil 1113 life himself. After tr>ing for nearly 50 years to cure himself of the habit, and applying all remedies, from gurgling his threat with salt water before going to bed to eating a slice of tho wedding cake of a woman who had married the seventh bop of a seventh sou, all without tho slightest effect, Mr Anderson hit upon the device which he has just had patented. Th© gag which hi has constructed, and which, it i-j sa.id. wili work wonders in that particular branch of music, is not as large as a croquet tall, as some people might think it would have to be to be effective. It is a small pad which rests in tho uiouth and is ke : >t from beinc? swallowed by a strap. It is s?id this wiil noi. ir.iarfare with tiic FliiTuborti of the enorsr, while, at llio Dame time, ir v/iil Ireap ihe snort* from interfering with H-.o T.i-iin^eic of ethers. Mr Anderson's invtutioh has not bee;i "or.ipleted long, but already ? prood mswiy afflicted people have called at !iw horse Prairie Avenus io look it over. v^iUi a «. icy- to /niucinj; present •to thpir friend?. y.';r>r> •.bjoefion Ima 1.'0e.-i ruhe.i t>:>. nuse k tiinnofc be admliii-Un-r-ci in a tnr> oi -oiTsft m-knouu to the saorer, J-tic nearly evuryona who lia3 .-ceu it has pronounced it a success. Tho device is to he manufactured in several sizes to, suit the taste and capacity of the wearer. If is practically indestructible, and one of them may be handed down from father to son, or to daughter, if snoring oxi»ts on that side of the 1- oe.se. — Chicago Tribune.