NECESSARY INVENTIONS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 97, 27 April 1933, Page 2

NECESSARY INVENTIONS

It is much less surprising how many things have been invented than how many have not. One fills up the house with gadgets, some of which work, and still there are lacking mechanical helps, to say nothing of assets to dressing and to taste. We are told that silver should be washed in hot water if it is to polish well, and experience teaches that the hotter it is the less it needs special attention Yet who really enjoys picking silver out of boiling water, still less holding it for a wash-down? Why are there no helpful wooden tongs which would not damage ir. but which would save the ordeal of boiling water? Why, again, are not eases—they might be of the simplest nature —made for such things as hairsieves, graters, strainers? They grow dirty hanging up or have to be thrust into unbecoming paper bags. A limp case would take up no room and should bo within the compass of the average inventor. Mustard has at last appeared in a tube, like tooth paste, instead of necessitating that easy and constant but tiresome and wasteful mixing process. Why should tubes be confined to tooth pastes or face creams? Why should not more mixtures be included

in them, such as anchovy paste and the like? Why are washing-gloves made which do not wash—no, not even under skilled hands? The washing-glove has proceeded so far that only a little more ingenuity should make it is easily washable as cotton. Why are the majority of greys pink, when there exist perfectly good greys in a steely shade, and why, therefore, arc not grey stockings as certain of their complexion as any others? Why do woollen stockings weai out at a moment’s notice, when with some cotton or harder substance in the heel they would sell by the hundred to those with cold feet but with a dislike for daily mending? Why, indeed. is there no mending paste which might act like new skin upon every kind of stocking—mat variety preferred. If every woman made a list for men to invent, there would be hundreds of unemployed re-employed in carrying out the invention.