The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-05-09
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/. volop Mechanical Genius.

Let Them Hav0 an Opportunity 70 De
/. volop Mechanical Genius.
Parents do not object to see saw and
hammer, gimlet and screw.driver in their
sons hands at very tender age. They
look, says Wide Awake, upon tools - q
hurriedly told in q horrified tone to .sput
them down" "to not touct," that she will
cut herself or pound her fingers and s'get
hurt" generally
! But the time is not far OF when there will
be room in the house set apart for their
workbench, and that bench and its tools will
be rs FREQ to the daughters as the sons. In
their fashionable brass-hammering and
wood-carving the girls have ssgot taste''
OF 1t. We may expect to yet see the carpen-
ter come tn give lessons as regularly as the
music teacher. Why mott That eight chill
dren out of ten would like it better there Is
no doubt
A dozen years hence certain branches Of
many trades will be largely occupied by
Women. We shall see young women at
study and work in architects' of1ces, In tho
wallpaper designing rooms, mixing paints
and stains and finishes and frcsco washes.
We shall see the student at the Harvard
Annex emerge from her long companion
ship with the sshighcr mathematics" with
the "plans and elevationsh of house In
one hand and o ''bill of lumber'' in the other
as "applied mathematics" Al present the
training, in geometry, say, Is SO unapplied
that tho Hswect girl graduate" lays the ted
table with the cloth awry and the plates at
all angles and distances, and Is sercnely un-
aware that she has hung her water color
craving crooked until some distressed oc-
i cupant of the room points it out.
| The modern female hand and eye arc 30
far unframed that not one young woman in
five can take shears and cut across breadth
OF goods unless she fold and crease the
cloth or 'sslowly cut by o thread"
For myself, have saved many a dollar
first and last by being ''handy with TOOLS"
When was q little girl and held o mortal
objection to allowing my older brother any
accomplishments which had not, con-
ccived the brilliant idea, one summers
rainy day, of making myself . churn, which
was to be an exact reproduction in miniature
OF an old-fashi0ned instrument that my
grandmother used and called an ssupend-
down. churn.
A gentleman called ut our house and
found me under the shed diligently boring
holeinto a round piece of wood. Wishing
to make himself agreeable to INC, I suppose,
he inquired what was making. replied
in the most matter-of- fact way, as IL it were
the most common matter in the world for
ven-year-old girls to manufacture house,
hold tools, ga churn,, aud great was my In
dasaation when he, went away laughing as
If he had heard tle greatest joke in tho
world. After that never met him, even after
l had grown to tho dignity Of young lady
hood and trained gowns, but what he In
quired with a most .,aggravating interest if
my churn was done.
It never was, am found to say; but
learned my lesson just the same, and when
ever want nail driven in, g shelf put up
or window-shade adjusted, / do not wait.
for q carpenter. Instead, I thank Hiy stars
that ever practiccd on churns and wooden
sewing g-mach,nes; and IL it were necessary
I think could-with all the confidence
once began my churn-build house after q
fnohion