PUBLISHERS NOTICES 
’Tis not in mortals to COMMAND success, but we’ll do more, we’ll DESERVE IT. — Addison. 
Dish Washing a Delight. 
Sometimes when the pendulum 
swings in modern invention, it swings 
a long, long way. Dish washing is pro- 
verbially the most monotonous drudg- 
ery of the household, and the inventor 
annihilating that drudgery has done 
great service. The inventor of the Mer- 
maid Dish Washing Machine, however, 
has done more than swing the pendu- 
lum to the perpendicular ; he has sent 
it over into the field of delight, for after 
all delight is simply the joy of satisfac- 
tion and there is satisfaction in seeing 
the ordinary things done superbly well. 
This statement is made by the editor 
of this magazine as the outcome of de- 
light in seeing the old monotonous 
drudgery of the kitchen turn into the 
satisfaction of a necessary thing, a 
mightily necessary thing, done well and 
skillfully. He attended a presentation 
in a New York theatre of Drinkwater’s 
“Lincoln,” and was deeply impressed 
by the statement so dramatically as- 
signed to Lincoln when he saw slavery, 
“If ever I get a chance at that thing I 
shall hit it hard.” But, he thought, 
slavery is not limited to the black peo- 
ple of the past. To a certain extent all 
of us are slaves in the treadmill of life, 
but one step after another in this tread- 
mill has been banished. Memory does 
not need to run back many years to 
recall the drudgery of perpetually 
snuffing the candle. Then came the still 
more disagreeable drudgery of cleaning 
the kerosene lamp. But Edison smashed 
the slavery of the lights — he hit it hard. 
The greatest of all the household 
slaveries is that of dish washing. It 
is even greater than that of clothes 
washing for it is everlastingly with us 
three times or more a day, the same 
old thing over and over. 
The editor after thorough investiga- 
tion at a variety of electrical stores and 
at several restaurants and hotels in New 
York City came to the conclusion that 
the Mermaid is the best dish washing 
machine in the market. But even that 
is not enough. One might have the 
finest radio apparatus in the land and 
not be able to send a message. It takes 
Yankee gumption and skill to use any 
machine advantageously. Without these 
even with the Mermaid the pendulum 
might hang on the side of unsatisfac- 
toriness though it is a well made ma- 
chine and has a good start in a high 
power motor. We have not space to 
describe all the little kinks that have 
made it a joy, but it is sufficient to state 
that after considerable experimenting 
it is now really fun to run the Mermaid. 
The dishes of a household of four 
may be washed and well washed and 
thoroughly rinsed in six minutes, and 
that allows a minute for letting out the 
washing water. There is the gist of the 
whole thing, in a statement not made 
by the manufacturers or by the agents 
but by one who has found the way to 
use this machine with the highest de- 
gree of celerity and efficiency. 
Incidentally it may be added that 
mechanically the Mermaid is unques- 
tionably the best made of any of mod- 
erate price. It is for sale by the Connec- 
ticut Light and Power Company, 
Greenwich, Connecticut. 
A Study in Adaptation. 
“Daddy,” began a small boy on a 
visit to the zoo, “why is it that giraffes 
have such long necks?” 
“In order that they may feed from 
the tops of trees,” promptly replied 
daddy. 
“But why,” continued the youngster, 
mercilessly, “are the trees so high?” 
Again daddy rose to the emergency. 
“In order,” he concluded, “that the 
giraffes may be able to eat.” 
