The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-29

evening from the scenes of their daily labors and
the establishment of homes and pleasant places
or call under proper and engaging control cannot
fall to be of the highest social value.
A list or American women who are patentees
mas called the attention of social reformers to
THIS interesting subject, and while the number
on this side Of the Atlantic of women who have
taken out patents for new inventions is very
small indeed, when compared with those of the
United States. the number Of patents granted to
women from July, 1884. to the end of March, in
the current year of 1885, shows a great increase
on previous years, and is not without special in
terest at the present moment. 1t is, however,
noticeable that while American women soar
right into the masculine atmosphere of mechan-
zeal and s~cietifc research and invention,
EnSilsn women are mostly content with
what is generally regarded by men as
their own particular sphere. While an Ameri-
can woman lnvents the Burton horse shoe ma
chlne, an English woman takes out a patent for
an improved pea-soup; while Mrs. Mary E.
Waltren perfects a system for deadening the
sound of elevated railroads. her English sister,
q goVerness. patents a registering label and
means of attachment to boots and shoes at
hotels and other establishments; while Mrs. A.
H. Manning invents a new moving and reaping
machine on your side of the water, the English
widow of a bookseller registers improvements
for the manufacture of bread; Mrs. Mather, In
the United States, improves the deep-sea tele-
scope, and Mrs. Jones, of England, makes a
compound sardine paste, and so on. Not that /
would infer there is no evidence of higher
mechanical genius than is represented by these
English patents, for, among others, women have
taken out papers for improvements in plano-forte
key-ooards, In the manufacture of non-alcoholic
beverages from fruits, and Improvements in
connection with circular-frame knitters. The
comparison [ have given above is, nevertheless.
a just one, although it may fairly be said for
English women that just as they are only now
entering upon a course of social and political
freedom they are only beginning to take up the
role of inventors. al
1t is curious to note that, with all the tender
susceptibilities of woman, they have throughout
history shown themselves to be almost as ca
pablo, perhaps more so, of cruelty as men. Fash
ION has the power to lead them very much astray
in this respect. There are no more interested or
excitable auditors of a Spanish bull-ight than
the Spanish ladies. Until within the last year
or two the pigeon matches of Nottingham, a
fashionable resort near London, were largely
attended by ladies-not merely the ordinary So
ciety women, but by ladies of the highest cult
ure, breeding and associations. Pigeon-shoot-
ing is a form of sport in England which has al
ways been more or less condemned in the press
and on the platform as a degrading sport, un-
manly and cruel. 1t was discovered that the pro-
viders of the birds frequently mutilated or in
jured them on special occasions that they might
become more easily victims to the gunners. AS
birmingham gradually became a fashion resort
for society, where ladies became a feature
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manitarians began to attack that institution
with force and bitterness and in the midst of
the discussion DIR. Carver arrived from America
with his substitute for pigeons in the shape of
glass balls. Thereupon a bill was brought into
Parliament for the suppression of pigeon shoot
ing. The measure was passed in the Commons
but defeated in the Lords by a small majority.
1t will, no doubt, be revived at an early day, and
will be sure to be eventually carried. In the
meantime, so strange and cruel are the vagaries
of fashion, French ladies have inaugurated on
their side of the channel an entirely new sport,
the shooting of iarks. This year cunning among
ladies, with larks as the victims, has become a
feature OF country life and sport at many of the
leading chateaus. AS a rule, English ladies do
not shoot. They ride to hounds, they are great
at tennis, they play cricket, they fence, in many
country houses they are adopts at billiards, they
walk immense distances. they row on our rivers.
swim at every bathing place, and once In a
lifetime you may see a woman with a gun.
During the shooting season they may be seen
driving to the cover with their husbands and
the guests, occasionally Joining them in the field
at luncheon, but when the hunt is up they are
often first at the meet and first at the death,
splendid equestriennes and as a rule on election
ate terms with their horses. l hate men who are
always saying Il told you So" But Stead, of the
Pail Mall Gazette is in prison picking oakum.
The mlnatour" is the.myth, [ told you he was"
The systematic immortality and hunting down of
young girls, as described in THE Revelations"
is now proved, on legal investigation before two
Juries, to have been the tissue Of lies L warned
you they would turn out to be. Stead had to
confess that when he vouched for them as facts
he was merely repeating what the procuress and
brothel keeper, Jarratt, told him. Stead was "a
young mar from the country" In Chicago they
would call him "a granger" in New York,
'fresh." He zane from Darlington, a provin-
cial editor. to set the Thames on fire. and he
may be said to have done it. He has debauched
the public mind with a stream of filth: but he is
now numbered with a number and marked with
a sign in one of ner Majesty's jails.
JOSEPH HATTON.