tAuJust,  1915™'}    Device  for  Rapid  Sale  of  Nipples.  Z77 
dered,  but  it  will  be  practically  .impossible  to  do  this  unless  they 
collectively  and  individually  insist  that  all  members  of  their  craft 
live  up  fully  to  the  requirements  that  may  be  reasonably  made  of 
them. 
Twenty-fifth  and  E  Streets,  N.  W., 
June  16,  1915. 
A  DEVICE  FOR  THE  RAPID  SALE  OF  NIPPLES.1 
By  George  M.  Beringer,  Jr.,  P.D. 
"  Mister,  will  you  please  give  me  a  nipple,  right-away.  I'm  in  a 
hurry.  The  baby's  outside  in  the  go-cart  and  I'm  afraid  he  will  fall 
out."  You  rush  to  the  place  where  you  keep  your  stock;  hand  out  a 
nipple;  are  told  "  that  is  not  the  kind  ";  try  another  with  equal  suc- 
cess ;  then  pull  one  from  each  box  in  stock,  till  you  have  a  handful 
from  which  the  customer  can  select.  Before  you  have  finished  wait- 
ing on  her  another  customer  demands  your  attention,  and,  without 
time  to  reassort  them,  you  dump  the  handful  of  nipples  into  the  first 
convenient  box.  Maybe  it  wasn't  you,  but  your  clerk,  who  "  messed 
up  "  the  nipple  stock.  However,  the  next  time  you  wanted  to  sell  one 
you  had  to  hunt  all  through  that  "  junk  pile  "  to  find  the  particular 
kind  demanded. 
Here  is  a  device  that  may  help  you  to  prevent  such  occurrences. 
It  will  require  from  one-half  to  three-quarters  of  an  hour  to  make  it, 
and  you  will  need  very  few  tools. 
Take  a  smooth  piece  of  wood  of  convenient  length — about  one- 
half  inch  thick  and  six  inches  or  more  wide.  Sand-paper  this  per- 
fectly smooth  and  mark  off  points  one  and  one-half  inches  apart  each 
way  to  the  same  number  as  you  have  styles  of  nipples.  Attach  three- 
fourths-inch,  or  any  convenient  size,  wooden  button  moulds,  which 
you  can  obtain  at  any  store  dealing  in  dressmaking  goods,  at  each 
point,  by  means  of  small  brass  screws,  and  over  each  peg  thus  formed, 
a  nipple  is  stretched.  For  larger  nipples,  like  Hygeia,  use  the  tops  of 
turned  wood  boxes  of  convenient  size,  with  a  hole  drilled  through 
the  middle.  For  smaller  sizes,  like  the  Maw  style,  use  large,  round- 
headed  brass  screws.  The  nipples  can  be  arranged  on  the  stock 
shelves  in  the  same  order  as  on  the  display  board  described.    If  so 
1  Presented  at  the  meeting  of  the  New  Jersey  Pharmaceutical  Association, 
Spring  Lake,  N.  J.,  June  15-18,  1915. 
