Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1883 — A GREAT INVENTION. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A GREAT INVENTION.

The Me Pine Ultra of All Labor-Saving Contrivances.

The problem of the present age is how to lessen, as much as possible, the labor of man. Every year sees such an increase in the number and perfection of labor-saving inventions that it is only a question of time when everything will be done by machinery, operated by perpetual motion. Fifty years ago a man who would have prophesied the time when human beings could talk to each other, while five hundred miles apart, would have been designated a “crank”—provided that term was known in common parlance so long ago. Yet to-day one may almost see' the time in the future when the farmer may sit in his upholstered parlor chair, and by manipulating a little lever on the mahogany table, may cultivate his fields, sow his crops, reap his grain, thresh it, garner it, convey it to market, and sell it at the highest price. B,ut the trouble is all the inventors have appeared to concentrate their efforts at alleviating the laborious lives of the working class—those who are best able to work —and have almost ignored the condition of the people in the smoother walks of life—concrete pavements, and so forth. A tender-hearted inventor has noticed, with sadness, the overworked condition of our society young men, and especially the dudes. By an inexorable mandate of society these young men are Worked nearly to death at tipping their hats to the ladies whom they meet on the avenues and boulevards, and the result of this fatigueing exertion is seen in the deteriorating. condition of the rising generation, and is manifested by .emaciation of the lower limbs, flascidity of the muscles, languidness and indisposition to speak intelligently the United States language. “ Their arms become so decrepit by this constant practice of lifting the hat, and are so strained by the exertion, that the danger of them being talked off by the dudines is greatly increased, and instances of these sad occurrences are becoming only too frequent. Is with a philanthropic desire to lessen this evil and reduce' the labor of the dudes, that the inventor has devoted a portion of his life to the perfection of an invention that will be hailed with delight and five dollars each by the poor, over-worked bank clerks and counter skippers. The invention is a simple contrivance by which a combination of light steel levers, connecting the hat with the shoulder of the wearer, are made to do the duty of the arms in lifting or tipping of the lint. The contrivance is pretty in appearance, does not interfere with any functions of the Body, is nickel-plated or japanned as desired, and is an ornament to the wearer. The dude'who is the possessor of one of these “Chapeau Conniptions,” need never raise his hand higher than bis cigarette, for when he desires to doff his hat to a lady friend all the exertion that is required is to pull the string—the silk tasseled cord—and the hat is gracefully lifted to a fashionable height above the head. — Fort Wayne Hoosier.