Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-10-09
WOMEN AS SAILORS.

the river and then, sitting on barrel OF pow
der, blew himself into the air.
WOMEN AS SAILORS.
Cannot women be sailors as we'll as soldiers?
They have made the attempt at all events.
Early in the reign of George ILL.,, Hannah
Whitney, an Irish women, served for five
years in the royal navy, and did not reveal
the secret until she re-entered what may be
called private life. A few years after this, a
young Yorkshire woman came up from Hull
to London, in search Of her lover; he had en-
listed on the man-ofwar "Oxford" at Chat
ham, and she did the same, putting on sailors
clothes, and assuming the name OF Charles
Waddell. Her faithless swain deserted, and
she attempted to desert likewise. This brought
on detection and the officers kindly gave the
poor girl a little money and dismissed her.
Thenewspapers,in 1872, told Of one Mrs. Cola
of Poplar, who served on board man-of-war
as sailor, and then, on having bit OF prop
erty left to her, resumed her feminine position
and took a public house. Early in the pres
ent century, a country girl, aged fifteen, left
her home, put on boys clothes, and offered for
service On board South Sea whaler. Being
refused, he apprenticed herself to water
man, and piled her avocation deftly. 1t was
not until she had been upset and nearly
drowned, in rowing out to "The Sir Hyde
Parker" West Indiaman, that she ceased to
be "jolly young waterman" and became
domestic servant in proper femininity OF ap-
parel. There was a girl named Rebecca Ann
Johnstone, who knew what it was to have a
cruel father or uncle Git is not clear which,
He dressed her as boy when she was thlr-
teen, and apprentced her to collier ship.
She served four years. and then ended her sea
life, after receiving severe beating from the
mate for not getting up sufficiently early
Another girl aged fourteen, named Elizabeth
Bowden, being left an orphan, came from a
village in Cornwall, in 1907, to Truro, in
search of employment. Destitute and unsuc-
cessful, she went to Falmouth, put on boys
clothes, enlisted as boy on board H. NJ. S.
Hazard" and did good service afoat as well
as below for several weeks after which the
poor young thing, by the kindness Of the chief
officers, was enabled to resume her proper at
tire and avocations. One more instance: In
1915, when H. NJ. S. "Queen Charlotte" one
hundred guns, was paid of, an African wo-
man was found among the crew, who had
served eleven years under the name of Will
liam Brown. She had become an able sea-
man, and captain of the fore-top, she had all
the traits of q sailor, and no one had suspec-
ted her secret, which turned out to be a cruel
husband, to escape from whom she had taken
to this hard and unfeminine mode Of life.
Thus it is that, in most cases where women
have become soldiers or sailors, husbands or
lovers have generally had something to do in
supplying a motive. Why she did it is not
narrated but the gossiping chronicles which
tell about the centenarians, speak of one Mary
Hall, who was sexton of Bishops Hill, York,
and who lived to the age of one hundred and
five. There was peddler, in 1898, who was
taken ill at an ale house in Worcester, and
shortly before dying told his (her) story. She
had been concerned in the Gordon Riots in
80 and fearing capture and punishment, had
put on mans dress, and travelled the country
as a peddler for thirteen years.-London Times.
The FEEr.-Ofall parts of the body, there
is not one which ought to be so carefully at
tended to as the feet. Every person knows
from experience that colds and many other
diseases which precede from the same, are at
tributable to cold feet. The feet are at such
distance from the wheel at the cistern" Of
the system, that the circulation of the blood
may be very easily checked il them. You
see all this, and although every person OF
common sense should be aware Of the truth
of what we have stated, there is no part Of
the body so much trifed with as the feet. The
young and would.be genteel-footed cramp
their feet into thin-soled, bone-pinching boots,
in order to display neat feet, in the fashiona-
BILE sense of the term. Now this is very
wrong. In cold weather, boots in good, thick
leather, both in soles and uppers, and large
enough to give free circulation of the blood
in the feet should be worn by all. They
should be water.tight and warm, but not air
tight 1t Injuries the feet to wear an alright
covering over them. India rubber shoes or
boots should not be worn except in wet and
slushy weather, and then taken off as soon as
the exposure to it is over. No part of the
body should be allowed to have covering
which entirely obstructs the passage Of the
carbonic acid gas from the pores of the skin
outward, and the moderate passage of the air
inward to the skin. There is one great evil
against which every person should be on
the guard, and it is one which is very seldom
guarded. We mean the changing of warm
for cold boots or shoes. A change is often
made from thick to thin shoes without think
ing of the consequences which might ensue.
1t is dangerous practice, and many all indi-
vidual has suffered hours of illness because Of
it.
TIE PIN MAcHINE.-This machine is one
of the closest approaches that mechanics have
made to the dexterity of the human hand.
1t is about the height and size of a lady's sew
ing machine, only much stronger. On the
side, at the back, light belt descends from a
long shaft in the ceiling that drives all the
machines, ranged in rows on the floor. On
the left side of the machine hangs, on apeg, a
reel of wire that has been Strengthened by run
ming through compound system of small
rollers The wire descends, and the end en-
ters the machine. This is the food consumed
by this voracious little dwarf. He pulls it in
and bites it off by inches, incessantly-l4O
bites to minute. Just as he seizes each bite, a
little hammer, with concave face hits the
end of the wire three times, "upsets" it to
a head, while he grips it to counter sunk
hole between his teeth. With an outward
thrust of his tongue he then lays the