Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1896 — A LONG-FELT WANT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A LONG-FELT WANT.

Enables One to Eat Hot Corn Without Burning the Fingers. What lover of hot, sweet corn, who likes to tat from the cob, has not wished for some means to partake of the succulent ear without soiling his fingers

or burning them? He may rejoice now, for a corn fork has been invented to supply the want so long felt. Though It Is called a fork, It does not look a bit like the conventional article oTQthafci ua me. It is a little device of wire made somewhat longer than the average ear of corn. It consists of two pieces that slide back and forth, so as to make the fork longer or shorter, to fit an ear of any size. The ear, steaming hot, Is placed iu the fork and automatically fastened by a slight pressure of the hand. The fingers grasp the wire, and do not come at all In contact with the corn. A screw at one end of the fork holds the cob fast. A turn of this screw naturally gives the cob a turn, and so it Is revolved until the corn has been all eaten. It Is all so simple, that the smallest child can understand It, and can toe fitted to a portion of an car just as w.ell as a whole one. The fork is made df galvanized steel wire, so that it is easily washed, but will neither collect dust :tor rust.