Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1915 — MENTAL SPECULATOR INSPIRES A GENIUS [ARTICLE]

MENTAL SPECULATOR INSPIRES A GENIUS

Something That May Revolutionize the Pie Service—Electric Pio Counter “Why is it?* asked the man who likes to speculate on things, “that people in eating pie Invariably begin at the point of the piece of pie—at the apex of the triangle, bo to speak—and then work back to the crust? Tvo never yet seen a person that did not eat pie in this way, and everyone appears to dd it instinctively. “Just pause for a moment and consider the Innumerable pieces of pie that are eaten in the United States, in the world, in the course of a year. That means an innumerable number of useless motions of arms, hands and Angara, not to mention unconscious brain effort, in turning those pieces bow on. If statistics were gathered I have no doubt that the world’s annual pie-turning motion would foot up into thousands of horse power. ‘Tn these days of efficiency, why, I ■nV, should that immense amount of energy be thrown aways It shouldn’t and won’t be, says an Inventive genius. This handy gentleman is already at work on plans for a restaurant lunch counter that blds fair to revolutionize the various systems now in vogue in the pie emporiums of our country. He proposes to have the cuts of pies served on special plates, or discs, which are a part of the to-be-patented lunch counter. By a system of electric wires connected with a large cloiklike register on the wall of the restaurant the Inventor proposes to impart a small amount of electric force to this receptive clock, and form it Into a storage dynamo that forms a large part of the wall apparatus. Now, while the genius admits that the amount of elctrlclty produced by a few turns of a pie plate Is infinitesimally small, still, he argues, and he generally knows whrt he is talking about if others do not, the thousands of revolutions and partial revolutions evolved as many thousands nil turning and eating pie at the same tim-, during the same hour, and, as in crowded cities, three times a day, the combined result must be eno-gh electric force to light, heat, operate the kitchen utensils and record the num ber of pie orders delivered in the res taur-mt during the entire twenty-four hours of business, if the place Is run on the “open all night” plan. Besides, the revolutions of the stools may be utilized if necessary, says the same inventor.