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The Little Girl
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“SI‘ARE the rod and spoll the child”
is a Solomonic injuuciion long
held in reverence. There is also
an old rhyme that used to be taught little
girls to drive home the lesson of obedi
ence. It runs:
Mary was a little angel, 7/
Always did what she was told,
Never disobeyed dear mamma,
Never made dear papa scold;
Little Mary, when she grew up,
Always had the best to eat,
Just because she was obedient
Aud never cried or stamped
her feet.
But little Jane wasn't like little Mary.
Oh. dear, no. Hear about little Jane.
Little Jane was very wilful,
Always wanted her own way,
Caused her parents heavy
SOrrow
Just because she'd NOT obey ;
Shricked and wept and tore her
hair,
Shook her fists and stamped
the ceiling;
When she grew ill her parents
Ssaw
Her pass away with no sad
feeling,
Unmindful of these warnings Mr. Oscar
Banger, the famous musiclan, and his
equally distinguished wife, decided when
they had a little daughter come to them
always to let her have her own way.
At the time of the decision little Miss
Khyva—that is her name—having nothing
but the simplest wishes, couldn’t be
harmed by it.
“She must be natural,” they sald. “To
try to turn hortromhuovntqtuud
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How Anybody Can Win Fame and Fortune by Inventing Things the World Needs
£ £ ETTER close up the Patent Office—there's nothing more
B to invent” This was the suggestion made by a Wash
ington offiefal after the United States Government had
been issuing patents only a few years. Ridiculous as it sounds
to-day, his advice was regarded by many people at the time as
exceedingly sensible. .
| What the feelings of this man would be if he could come back
to earth and resume his old place in the Patent Office {s difficult
to imagine. Since he confidently predicted that there was “noth
ing more to invent” and advised the closing of the Patent Office
as a useless expense, the Unjted States has issued patents on
more than a million {nventions. Merely to read a brief descrip
tion of each of these inventions would take weeks. To make
even a superficial study of all those which are proving of prac
tical value to mankind would require two or three lifetimes of
strenuous effort.
Yet, despite this intensive cultivation of the field of invention,
its surface has been scratched but little more perceptibly than
it had been seventy-odd years ago when the short-sighted Wash-
Ington official made his ridiculous suggestion. Kach new inven
tion seems to create a need for others. There are countless
things which the world would like to have invented and for
which it stands ready to pay liberally in fame and fortune.
We are apt to forget what splendid rewards await the suc
cessful inventor for a number of reasons. One is that our humor
ists are so fond of portraying the inventor as a visionary dreamer
who is never able to turn his ideas into cash. Another is that
#0 many inventorg who are reaping fortunes from their patents
are unknown gg & general publio,
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Little Khyva Sanger
When She First Be
gan to Understand
What Always Having
Her Own Way Means.
Inclinations would be to
warp her disposition and
stunt her will.”
“But suppose she wants
things that are bad for
her?” the objection was
urged.
“It she’s intelligent she
won't want it a second
time. If she has character
she won't want these things
that are bad for her. The
three things that make
character are intellect, sen
sibility and will. Without
will the individual is a rud
derless ship. If she’s not
allowed to have her own
way her will won't grow
strong.”
Such was thelr theory,
and under it little Khyra
grew and flourished for five
years. Then came the first
unfereseen fruition of it.
Small Khyva, having a
great love for animals, de-
clded at the age of five to be a vege
tarian., “
“If meat comes from the big-eved cows
and the woolly sheep and the poor little
wabbly calves and the white pigs with
Speak of inventors and the average person will call to mind
only such exceptional men as Bell, Edison and Marconi. There
are, however, thousands of other men living to-day who have
gained great wealth from their conception of ideas which lighten
the world’s labors and add to its happiness. Many of the things
we use every day and would hardly know how to get along
without are things which have brought fortunes to the men who
thought of them.
Take the lead pencil you are using. It cost only a penny, but
it is conveniently equipped with a bit of erasive rubber in one
end. It was a Philadelphia man who thought it would be a good
idea to supply pencils with rubbers and devised a means of doing
it. Before his patent expired it yielded him more than SIOO,OOO.
A Washington man invented a little lock to hold fence wires
together. It was only a small thing, but it had two big advan
tages—it was cheap, and with it a boy could builld a good wire
fence as quickly as a man. With a very small investment his
patented idea netted him in a single year $20,000.
Many persons remember the old style soda water bottle with
the stopper which had to be pushed into the bottle to open fit.
A Baltimore man conceived the idea of replacing this cumber
some arrangement with the convenient and much less expensive
little tin cap such as now so widely used. Although he used up
more than ten years of the life of the patent in getting capital
interested in his invention, he made a fortune in the remaining
seven years.
It seems as if anyone might have thought of making cans
with strips of soft tin which would hold the cover in place am®
which could be easily torn off when the can’s contents were
wapted. It was, however, a long time before such an idea
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At Nine Years Khyva Decided to Wear poys’ €lothes, and
Wore Them for Two Years! This Is One of Her Outfits.
the pink lining of their hair—and Nurse
says it does—l won't eat any meat,” was
her fiat.
“But listen to me, little daughter.”
The musician drew her upon his knee.
How a Curious
Experiment in
Child Raising That
Defies the ““Spare
the Rod and Spoil
the Child’’ Pro
verb Actually Has
Worked Out
“Eating meat will
make little girls
strong, and we want
our little girl to be
strong, so that she
will grow up to be
& fine woman.”
He was amazed at
“the strength in the
large blue eyes
turned upon him.
“Papa, if you try
to make me eat meat
I will throw myself
out of the upstairs
window,” sald Miss
Khyva.
So she was per
mitted to become a
vegetarian, which
has remained. She
has grown into a
very tall and bedu
tiful girl, in no wise
stunted in growth
by the lack of car
nivorous food.
At elght she be
came deeply attach
ed to a white ban
tam rooster, which
she called Dick. The
thought possessed
her that Dick was
drooping a little in
the early Summer
and required sea air.
When her parents
started on a cruise of
the New England
Coast Khyva accom
panied them.
And Dick accom
panied Khyva, great
ly to the annoyance
of everyone of fl}o
party save Khyva, for Dick lived in the
bathroom.
She was nine when she determined
that she would wear boys’ clothes.
“But what will become of mother’s
oocurred to anybody, and the lucky individual on whom it finally
dawned has made two or three fortunes. \
A successful invention does not necessarily have to be a
useful article. Some of the greatest money-makers of recent
years have been games and puzzles. “Pigs in Clover,” the
“Pifteen Puzzle” and the “Ferris Wheel” are three of many
things of this description that made fortunes for their inventors
before their popularity died out.
Interesting puzzles are often the result of accidents. The
famous “Whitechapel” puzzle was due to a painter’s idle handling
of two paint-bucket hcoks while waiting for a sudden shower
to pass over.
All at once he found that he had fastened the hooks together
in such a way that it seemed impossible to separate them. It
took considerable thought to get them apart, and then he
realized that he had stumbled upon an interesting puzzle. He
made $16,000 from his chance discovery.
In proportion to the amount of time and effort involved there
is, they say, more money to be made from some ingenious little
article that will be in great demand at five and ten cents each
than in some epoch-making invention like the teleghome or the
phonograph. Such things as the latter, of course, give the oppor
tunity for innumerable new inventions which extend the useful
ness of the original idea.
If you have inventive ability you do not have to look far for
a favorable opport&nity for exercising it. Here are just a few
inventions which tfe world really needs and for which it will
be willing to pay some man or woman well:
An inexpensive attachment that will permit of cooking' over
an ordinary gas jet.
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Mttle giri’" mourned Mrs. Sanger
“I'll be your little girl just the same.
Only I will be more comfortable and I
will be healthier and grow faster,” in
sisted the littie girl, who had her own
way. 80, for two years, as long as she
willed it so, she was in attire a boy,
Walking, driving, riding, dancing, every
where save at home she wore the cos
tume she would have worn had she been
her own brother.
When she was eleven she went to Buf
falo Bill's Wild West Show and asked to
be allowed to ride in the stage coach
during the Indian attack.
“Wasn't Mamma’s own little daughter
afraid of the bad Injuns?” Mrs. Sanger
anxiously asked after she had done so.
“Don’t talk baby talk, Mamma dear,”
the youthful prodigy replied. “It will ar
rest my mental growth. No, I wasn't
at all afraid. 1 was only worried about
whether I should sit upright and show !
was not afraid or faint. I wonder what
ladies did out West when the stage
coach was attacked by Indians?”
The love of adventure was strong in
ber. At eleven she made a tour of the
chateau towns in France alone save with
a girl a few years older.
They travelled unmolested for five
days except on the evening of the last
day of their journey when they were pur
sued for an hour by gipsies. Because
the weather was hot they elected to
travel at night.
Khyva Sanger asked her mother after
ward. This was almost too much.
“Ah, well, her will is growing strong
er,” they consoled each other.
At twelve she purloined fruit and flow
ers from a New Jersey farmer and only
escaped arrest because the farmer’s
A cheap machine for washing dishes.
An automatic furnace regulator, which will turn on the draf¥
at a certain hour without attention.
Any improvement in cooking utensils which will make themy
cheaper or better.
A cheap water fliter—one that may be permanently attached
to the faucet or kept in a handy place for use.
A foot rest for radiators which will support the feet in a com
fortable position without burning the shoes.
A machine which will polish the finger nails without the
necessity of endless buffing by hand.
A good and efficient fire escape which could be carried in &
suit case. :
Means for automatically closing windows so that one need
not get up on cold mornings for this purpose.
A shelf which may be quickly attached to a ladder to support
a bucket, brush, etc.
A really satisfactory device for turning music on a piano o»
music stand so that the operator will not have to stop playina.
Some means for cleaning cuspidors without touching them
with the hands. ;
Novelties in devices for exercising the musocies.
A curling iron which will automatically heat itself. -
A match box which will deliver one match at a time—and
do it every time.
Some adjustable device for fastening packages to take the
place of rubber bands.
A device for pressing men’s clothes which can be carried
about by the user and in which the clothes will bs pressed in »
presentable manner.
Miss Khyva Sanger After Sixteen
Years of Always Having Her
Own Way, Posing as “Juliet®
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neighbor vecognized the little
marauder as “Professor Sanger's
girl,” whom “they are bringing up
in the new-fangled way of letting
her have everything she wants
They think to cross her is to spofl
her. None of the old rod busi
ness in her training.”
“But she got right out of her
pony cart and stole a bunch of
red hollyhocks and a basket of
apples right under my nose.”
“But it ain’t stealin’ if its done
right under your nose,” remon
strated the neighbor. “It's juet
takin’ what you want. She thinks
what grows from the ground sis
free (o all like air and sunshine.”
The farmer twisted a straw be
tween his teeth. “I don't see ne
difference between stealin' and
taking what ain't yours,” he
sulked.
“You ain’t been brought up the
way the Professor is bringin’ his
girl”
“I'm glad I wan't. I might be
in jail,” sald the farmer.
There were many to predict
Shhad i DRAARL BT T
that the little gir! who always
faa ner own way would reach the equiva
lent of jail. But Khyva went serenely
on her way, smiling, affectionate, teachs
able, but displaying marvellous dem.
mination. !
At eighteen she is healthy, happy,
beautiful, brimming with artistic aspira
tions. Though she was aliowed free rein,
she never ran amuck. Though she was
allowed all the candy she wanted, she
wanted little. She has never been {ll.
“My father and mother always talked
things over with me as though I was of
their age,” she sald. “I am glad, for if
they had scolded or whipped me it would
have turned my nature sour. That is
what it does for all children.”
Now she wants to be an actress, and
it 1s quite likely that she wili be aliowed
to adopt the stage. Certainly she will
be if the rule on which she has been
brought up remains unbroken.
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