Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 257, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1917 — BABY IN STEEL CAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BABY IN STEEL CAN

Device Invented to Hold Infants on Railroad Train. HOLES SUPPLY NEEDED AIR — - e • Cover Is Fastened by Button and Seat Provided Upon Which Youngster Can Sit and Contentedly Suck His Thumb. The good news is true. We have been hoping for years that some intelligent Inventor would come along with a device to can obstreperous infants during the late hours of the night. We suggested a hermetically sealed can wrapped in sound-proof material, but Caleb M. Prather of Evanston, 111., who is the Inventor of the can illustrated, sidestepped our Instructions at several important points. Rocks Baby to Sleep, * He intends to use the can to rock babies to sleep. It is. in fact, a baby holder. Our can was to be a baby holder and silencer combined. Mr. Prather has provided several holes in his can, through-which air can reach

the baby. We don’t object to the baby getting air but as long as there are holes In the can the baby’s yells will be as nerve-wracking as ever. That was our reason for the hermetically sealed can. Can Suck His Thumb. A cover of the can Is fastened by a button, and a seat Is provided upon which the baby can sit and suck Tils thumb when the top and cover have been removed. The can Is of steel and it can be fastened to the rail of a porch* the back of a chair, or the seattff~a will make his can airtight and soundproof—features which we originally know of a bachelor who will buy a half dozen right away. —Popular Science Monthly.

Baby Holder and Silencer.