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from corsets to locomotives as we'll as those
mechanics who are supposed to be made of
sterner stuff. Already with the whole mas
culine world sneering at US, we have pro-
duced about one-tenth of the patents grant
ed since the beginning of the Government
and many Of the inventions which have
made fortunes for men have been invented
by their wives. their sisters or their lady
friends. Eli Whitney gets the credit of the
cotton gin and the industrial world to-day
worships his shade. Yet it was the widow
of General Green at whose house Whitney
was visiting, who gave him the idea, and he
made his model under her supervision. 1t
was she who substituted wire teeth for wood
en- pegs. and 1t was her idea to revolutionize
the cotton trade.
SOME HISTORICAL INVENTIONS.
The first straw bonnet made in the United
States was turned out by Betsy Metcalf, of
Providence, R. l., in 1898, and now Massa-
chusetts has tens of thousands Of women in
the bonnet business, and she turns out her
tens of millions of straw hats every year.
It was a woman who first invented the max
ing of pillow lace, and an italian girl named
Isabella Cunio produced one of the first en-
cravings from wood. A French woman in
vented the manikin which has done so
much Tor dressmaklng and physiology, and
the finest pyramid that was ever made in old
Egypt was after the design of Nitocris, the
Egyptian Queen. Another Queen of Egypt
designed the obelisks, and it was a woman's
brain which planned the hanging gardens of
Babylon.
Semiramis, the Queen of Persia, invented
gown which was adopted by the Median
and Persian kings as an insignia of royalty,
and this was the gown which Haman hoped
that Ahasuerus would put upon him when
he sat at the gate and thought that he was
the one whom the King delighted to honor.
He got rope instead and the saying "Hung
as high as Haman" has gone down into
history. The Semiramis gown is still known
in the East and there are in the patent office
to-day many inventions of women's apparel
patented by women.
There are in the model room enough cor
sets to hold the frames of all the Washing
ton society bellies and to give each one an
article OF different material made in a differ
ent shape. There are enough patent bosom
pads to cushion the seats of both Houses Of
Congress, and the designs for curious skirts
and dresses. it they were pasted together,
would carpet a county.
MEN INVENT woMEN's CLOTHES.
There is enough wire in the patents for
bustles to make springs for every bed in
Vice President Morton's big fat l noted
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ton. A score of years has not sated me with
the experience.
''Of women reporters it is scarcely fair for
me to speak; l know only by hearsay of
their branch of the work; it is different In
so many respects from the department in
which I have always labored that I am not
competent authority in the matter. 1. know
a number of lovely women who have made a
beginning in this way, and as many, too,
who are still following it. Their large
measure of success indicates the aptitude of
women for this phase of newspaper enter
prise. l think, however, that women like
to get out of general reporting as soon as
possible. 1t is arduous work and ap-
proaches more nearly the distasteful, so some
OF my friends have told me, than any other
branch of journalistic effort.
CoURTESIEs OF THE OFFICES.
Concerning the co-working of the sexes
in journalism" continued Mrs. Sangster in
reply to further questioning, my expert
ence is that women have absolutely nothing
to complain of concerning their treatment
by their brother laborers. l do not know
that they have done so, although lady not
long ago did express to me a little querul-
ously, in speaking of visit to a publication
Office during its busiest time, that she was
not even offered chair A woman should
not ask too much. A courteous civility
even under the greatest pressure of work
she will always get, and moye ought not to
be insisted upon. One does not expect the
gallantry of the drawing room in the rush
of peremptory and absorbing labor any
more than one looks for white and gold cab
inets in the appointments of the business
office"
Something of the future Of woman's pur-
suits of journalistic calling?" continued
Mrs. Sangster; 81 am disinclined to think
that she will ever supersede man in any very
perceptible degree. Women have published
as well as edited newspapers and periodi-
Gals, but in such exceptional and rarely re-
curing instances as to rather point the asser-
tion that women cannot compete with men
in this particular than to serve as pre-
cedent.
LACKS BUSINESS INSTINCTS.
"Her executive ability is sufficient
think the average woman has more of that
than the average man-but she has not the
inherent business instincts and natural
business habits that generations of system
attic workers have developed in her brother
laborer.
''The woman journalist must be systematic,
though she cannot be the slave of system.
She must grasp details. make quick decis-
ions and learn how to say no, in every possi-
BILE infection. She must be quiet-mannered
and self-controlled, not losing her temper
when things go wrong.
"She will feel, if she be born a journalist
and journalists, like poets, are born, not
pulse of her public opinion. She
will seize by intuition the topics which are
vital, but all the while through the tumuIt
md turmoil of the hour she will hear the
ar off booming of the bells OF eternity and
ealize that her work is not for to-day nor
o-morrow only, but forever"
NJ. II. WEIGH.
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some corsets perforated with holes like a
patent chair seat, and made of white parch-
ment nodded into shape. The advantages
claimed for them were their ventilating
qualities, and Annie S. Mclean has made
combined shoulder brace, corset and
bosom pad in one. Catharine O'Hara has
invented aboutf20 different patents for crino-
line. and Catharine Griswold patented q
combination corset and shoulder brace, out
of which she has made a lot OF money. The
majority OF patents for women's clothes,
thousands of men to-day who do nothing
else but scheme and scheme to inven. some
thing which will add to the beauty or tickle
the tastes of women.
The inventions of women cover all
branches OF life, and, strange to say. quite
as many patents are granted to them for i'm
proved machinery as for articles of wonen's
wear. As tar back as 1928 Elizabeth II.
Buckley patented sheet-iron shovel, and
the first submarine telescope and lamp in
vented in this country was patented by
Sarah z. Mather in 1916. By this telescope
the bottom of ship can be seen, wrecks can
be inspected and torpedoes sighted in time
OF war. The model for it is one Of the finest
in the Patent Office. 1t is made of brass,
and one part of it is tube nearly one foot
Al uAolhCeCi. 1uc uieb pobcub SfduIcu w
woman in the United States was for ma
chine. It was for the weaving of straw
with silk or thread, and Mary Kies patented
it in 1909
MOVING MACHINES AND LOCOMOTIVES.
In 1860 New Jersey woman named
Smith patented the moving machine, and
on the following year Sarah Jane Wheeler,
doubtless left to take care OF the horses by
lazy husband, invented q patent curry
comb. Mary Jane Montgomery, of New
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WHEN NIAGARA RAN DRY.
Ice Damned the River and No Water Got
Through to the Falls.

Ice Damned the River and No Water Got
Through to the Falls.
A New York pioneer says in the St. Louis
Globe Democrat that on March 90, 1S48 for
a few hours scarce any water passed over
Niagara Falls The winter had been an
extraordinarily severe one. and ice of. unusu-
al thickness had been formed on Lake Erie
The warm spring rains had the effect Of
loosening the CONCEALED mass, and during
the day mentioned stiff east wind drove
the ice far up into the lake. About sun
down the wind suddenly changed and blew
heavy gale from the west. This turned
the ice in its course, bringing it down to the
mouth OF the Niagara river and piling it up
in q solid mass.
The force of it was so great that soon the
outlet of Lake Erie was SO completely
choked up, that little or no water could
pass. Soon all the water below the barrier
had passed over the falls, and when the in
habitants awoke the next morning a weird
spectacle met their gaze. The roaring,
tumbling rapids above the falls were almost
obliterated, and nothing but the cold
black rock were visible everywhere. Crowds
of spectators, witnessed this sight and the
banks on either side of the river were lined
with people all day long until the ice in the
lake was released from its position, and the
wall OF the waters returned to their usual
course.
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ing is done in Kensington stitch with the
same silk. The satin leaves which appear
to underlie the others are edged with but
tonholing of light green silk and filled with
lace or honeycomb stitch. The points of all
the leaves are cut out after the edge is
worked.
An easily made lamp mat and one that is
not at all expensive is circle of dark felt,
stiffened with cardboard and bordered with
a thick roll Of red yarn; over the roll is a
covering of knitted tinsel. 1t is knitted
loosely, on rather large wooden needles, in
the plain stitch used for making garters or
suspenders. The knitted strip is to he
sewed over the yarn roll very loosely. No
one seeing this border, unless familiar with
the tinsel used in this way, would imagine
how it was made.
MRS MCC. HUNGERFoRD,
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GIRLS IN OUR COLLEGES.
A Lady's Gift 10 Johns Hopkins Brings Out
n Severe Comment.

A Lady's Gift 10 Johns Hopkins Brings Out
Severe Comment.
The Johns Hopkins University at Balti-
more has celebrated its fourteenth anniver-
sary. In his address on the occasion, Presl-
dent Remsen announced the establishment of
a new professorship, the "Caroline Donovan
Chair" Now, 1 don't know who Caroline
Donovan was, writes Elizabeth Archard
Conner, but she would have been in much
better business if she had given her money TO
some college that admits her own sex.
Women have been for years knocking at tine
doors of Johns Hopkins, begging tor admIs-
sien, but they have invariably been refused,
and that not always courteously.
A brilliant young girl friend of mine
some years ago used all her efforts to be
allowed to take the course in chemistry,
which at that time was a superior one. She
was college graduate, and admirably fitted
to do honor to Johns Hopkins. But there
was no chance at all for her, and my young
friend was obliged, at much expense, to
cross the ocean TO monarchical England and
enter the scientific classes OF the University
of London, whose trustees do not consider
it too high and mighty to admit women
students. In her own tree country there was
no high class chemical school that would
admit this talented American girl.
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WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING.
Gossip and Information Prepared by Eliza
Archnrd Conner.

GOssip ana information prepared Dy Eliza
Archnrd Conner.
WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATcH.J
JENNIE JUNE is agitaung on the CO operative
Housekeeping idea.
l HAVE heard of pretty and fashionable
girl who is so rigid in church observances that
during Lent she will only flIrt with the pastor.
WHAT delightful world to live in it Will be
when we women cease to criticise each other
and learn instead to correct our own faults. Lee:
us try it awhile.
MRS. CLARA SIMPSON, of Vancouver is
writing botany especially adapted to the fora
of the State of W ashington. Each State ought
to have botany of its own.
ONE woman, Mrs. Maria Beagley, of Phla-
delphia has invented something that is really
worth while. 1t is machine to do coopers'
work, and turns out hundreds of barrels day.
THE annual Lspten spectacle of learned doc
tors of divinity laundering away at the poor
women sinners is on again in full blast. Why
can they not give us rest and thunder away at
the men awhile for once?
1T would be both interesting and instructive
if ladies' parliamentary classes and literary
clubs would take up the points at issue be-
tween Speaker Reed and cx-Speaker Carlisle, of
the United States House of Representatives.
study both sides of the question carefully and
discuss it at their meetings. Such discussion
would give them much information about par
lltuSuddlg uodBt
IT is pleasant TO notice how many names of
women newspaper correspondents appear.
Women seem to make especially good corre-
spondents. for their contributions are sprightly
and readable. If they penetrated more thor
oughly the heart of leading topics of the time
and acquired more fullness of information
their work, much OF it, would stand for model
of journalistic correspondence.
A RIFLEwoMEN'S club has been formed in
Bermuda, and the wife of the Governor of the
island is President of it. The ladies have a
range of their own far enough from civilized
for the shots not to hit hens or hus-
bands. There they bang away at their own
sweet will. They have already become excel
lent marksmen at 100 yards distance, showing
that, though woman may not be able to drive
a nail, she can hit mark.
DENVER COL, has an incorporated stock
of women who have undertaken the
of a summer resort at Diana Park,
40 miles from that city. 1t is designed especial.
ly tor the comfort of women, children
and families. Ground suitable for tents
or cottages may be leased or bought of the
Adjoining the resort will also be
for sale ground in plots of from three to five
acres. These are designed for gardening,
fruits, bee keeping poultry raising, etc. These
small farms will be sold to women who desire
TO earn their living at outdoor employments.
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summer wear put through the same course,
before the arrival of the hammock-days,
when to get anything accomplished, whether
BY thought or muscular effort, is literally to
earn it "by the sweat of the brow" That
this work may be effected before such time
is the season given by merchants for the un-
sessonable display Of such goods.
1t is rich feast for our eyes the fashion
caterer has spread for US this season-not
one of scraps like wash-day luncheon;
no cooked-over ideas-but all delightfully."-
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WALKING DRESS FOR WOMEN.

They Must be Out of Doors so Much Nowa.
days That Reform is Needed.
One thing must be devised ere long, and
that is comfortable and convenient walk
ing dress. Women of our time are workers,
and must be out In all kinds of weathers.
Besides that, many who do not earn their
own living have found what health and joy
there are in five or ten-mile walk. Men
have business suits-why may not women?
Our pioneer mothers, who led active lives in
the early day, wore gowns reaching to the
ankle.
Women in trades and professions have
now to do as much outdoor walking as the
pioneer mothers did, yet have to wear the
long trailing dress adaDted to the parlor or
carriage In this garment, ii lady walks
much or rapidly, in a few weeks time her
gown will be torn into rags and strings
around the bottom, utterly worn out, entail
ing much trouble and expense. 1t is ull of
dust in dry weather and draggled with mud
in wet weather, and in either case is not
pleasant object for a woman Of delicate
senses to contemplate or carry. How can
we have o reform?
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1t was with rather deprecatory shake of
the head that Mrs. Sangster greeted a visitor
recently, who went to her asking an opinion
upon the subject of Women in Journal
ISM"
WHO are some of the women earliest
prominent in this feld?" repeated Mrs.
Sangster. THAT strong and brilliant pioneer
in the work, Mrs. Swisshelm, is, of course.
the name which first suggests ITSELF But
now her followers are legion. The reasons
for this are the greater interest in home dec
oration, the wider scope of women's lives.
and the many new avenues of self-support
open to her sex. The fashions, the home
economies, the care of babies, the educa-
tion of the older children, the ethics OF daily
life, social customs, etiquette, amusements
and other topics which equally touch life at
the fountain head of the home, enlist
woman's attention.
THE FIELD HAS wIDENED.
Where 40 years ago mothers magazine,
pure indeed, but intensely narrow and con-
servative, monopolized the field, we have
bright housekeeping aud home making
periodicals, weekly and monthly, which are
as various in their contents as the homes to
which they go and which carry help,
advice, sympathy, and a note of cheer
wherever the swift mails carry them. To
this department of journalism, as legitimate
and as honorable as any other, the edu-
Gated woman brings her tact, her culture, her
conscience and her brain. You will rarely
find that the woman who writes regards her
occupation, though il may entail hard, al
most unremitting labor, with other than
enthusiasm. There is a fascination about
seeing ones ideas and opinions set out in
type that does not wear away with repeti-
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MAKING HOME BEAUTIFUL.
A Lamp Mat That is Very Handsome and
Very Easily Made.
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH I

WRITTEN FOR THK DIsPATCH.1
Now that lamps are so freely used, there
seems to be an equal demand for mats which
serve the double purpose of ornamenting
and protecting the table upon which they
rest. When to be used upon dining able
which is lighted by one of the lofty 'ban-
Quet lamps" the mat is made of material
that does not conflict with the viii teness
of the napery. If for parlor or sitting
room table, or little stand, the lamp
mat may be of velvet, satin or plush.
The mat illustrated is made of green satin,
with an interlining of cardboard and back
of green canton flame. The border, which
projects beyond the square of cardboard, is
made of maple leaves, of which the dark
ones are worked on the satin. The light
ones are made of green velvet of lighter
shade. They are buttonholed on the edge
with dark green embroidery silk. The vein
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York, has patented great many machines,
and in 1864 she made a good improvement
in locomotive wheels. In sc she got up a
machine for punching corrugated metal, ana
she has, am told, made great deal of
money out of her inventions.
The sewing machine YVES invented by a
man. but there were machines patented by
women, and there>are % Improvements OH
the sewing machine made by women. These
machine, and some of them are valuable.
The best fatirons in use to-day are made by
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HOW AMERICA WAS FOUND.
Columbus Set Sail for Marco PoIO's Golden
City of Fiction.

Columbus Set Sail for Marco PoIO's Golden
City of Fiction.
A lack of mercantile enterprise, says
lecturer John Fiske, and an ignorance of
geography in Europe in the eleventh CEN
urpprevented the discovery OF the Morse
men from being followed up. 1t is not at
all likely that Columbus ever heard of the
discoveries by the Norsemen, and it has
been we'll said that an ounce of Vinland
would have been worth pound of cosmog-
raphy to him. From Marco Polo's work,
probably, he received his first ideas.
When Columbus set sail in 1892 his desti-
nation was Cepango. in Japan. the golden
city OF which Polo wrote. Although Co.
lumbus discovered the Venezuelan coast in
1893 he had no idea that it was a new conti-
nent, but died In the belief that it was
part of Asia.
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six Hundred Hides In n Belt.

A Philadelphia firm has taken an order
OF the Louisiana Electric Light Co., az New
Orleans, for 16O feet 72' (six feet wide)
double belt, and a $50 feet 49, (four feet
wide) double belt. These are the largest
belts ever made, and it will require the
hides of more than 600 head of cattle to
make them,
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HERE is no rest for
the fashionably weary.
No sooner has the
Easter costume been
decided upon, pur-
chased, made up and
put out of sight than
the necessity forces it.
salfunon ne of oettipr
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Mlstache Spoon. bright girls working in
the departments, and there is hardly law
yer's Office nor claimants den in the city
which has not its women typewriters. There
are one or two women engaged in the real
estate business here who are buying and
selling and getting gain, and the activity of
the great female brain the country over is
shown every week in the inventions which
they file at the Patent Office.
Women are rapidly coming to the front as
inventors. and there is no reason to believe
that our sex cannot get up any new thing
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WHEN SUMMERS HEAT COMES.

The Counters Loaded Down With Goods of
Bewildering Designs and Countless
Combinations of Colors That Will
Beautify the Beautiful and Make
Everybody Comfortable This Season.
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WOMEN IN JOURNALISM.
Margaret E. Sangster snys They Will Never
supersede Men, b ut in Certain Lines of
Work Can Succeed Admirably-Their
Treatment by the Men.
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH

Treatment by the Men.
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH
In her cozy nook in the very heart of the
great Harper establishment surrounded by
the whir of bookmaking machinery, the
noise of which penetrates but does not seem
to permeate the quiet of her sanctum, sits
daily at her editorial desk Mrs. Margaret E.
Sangster, the controlling mind of that
famous periodical, Harper's Bazar. Her
personality. physical and mental, is well
known. Modest as she is Mrs. Sangster
has not been able to prevent the strength
and sweetness of her character from showing
far outside the circle which comes into
actual contact with it; her admirers are the
thousands who read her writings, her friends
the public throughout the land.
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lie Amcricdn girl OF
to-day has her seven
leagued boots on. She
Is walking at tele-
graphic speed into
every department of
American industry,
and we have at Wash
ington several women
lawyers and half a
dozen female doctors OF
more than ordinary
reputation. There are
something like 5000
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WOMEN'S
Record of the American Female Brain
in the Patent Office.
THE COTTON GIN A WOMAN'S IDEA.
Everything From Babies Toys to Moving
Machines and War Vessels.
A LIST OF INTERESTING NOVELTIES

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DISPATCH,
WASHINGTON, March %.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-22
A lullaby.
.en. little Dear-My-Soul,

Oh lister. little Dear-My-Soul,
To the fairy voices calling.
For the moon ia high in tie misty sky,
And the honey dew is falling;
To the midnight feast in the clover bloom
The bluebelis are a-ringing.
And it's "Come away 10 the land of fay"
That the katydid is singing.
o, slumber. little Dear My-Soul.
And hand IN hand Well wander
Hand in hand 10 the beautiful land
OF Balow, away off yonder;
Or we'll sail along in lily leaf
Into the white moons halo
Over a stream o. mist and dream
Into the land OF Balow.
Or you shall have two beautiful wings
Two gossamer wings ana airy,
And all the while shall the old moon smile
And think you q little fairy;
And you shall dance in the velvet sky,
And the silvery stars shall twinkle,
And dream sweet dreams as over their beams
Your footprints softly twinkle.
Eugene Field.