The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-06-29
EXTENSIVE
MEETING OF THE STARK COUNTY
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY

The June meeting Of the Stark County
Grounds, Canton, on Wednesday, June
2lst. with large attendance OF members
and a goodly number of visitors. Groups
of two or more families placed their
viands together and several of the tables
OF the largo dining hall were laden with
most bountiful supply of eatables and by
noontime the Horticulturists were demon.
strating their ability to consume, as well
as produce the necessaries and the luxu'
ries the farm yields.
Az 10 minutes past o'clock President
Krider drought down the house" with q
vigorous rap,and In less time than takes
to write IL, he had the business OF the day
we'll In hand, having previously gotten
the standing committees to work prepar'
ing their reports,
Minutes read. Names Herst and Herbs
made TO read Hayhurst, and minutes ap'
proved.
Mrs. Mcdowell read the following
essay:
No assertion in reference to woman is
more common than that she possesses no
inventive or mechanical genius. Even
the United States fails to enumerAte her
among the inventors of the country. Such
statements are carelessly or iRnorantly
made, for tradition, history and expert
ence all proves her possession of these
faculties in the higher degree.
Although woman's scientific and NEE
chanical education has been grossly neg
lected, yet some OF the most important
inventions OF the world are due to her.
Tradition accords to woman the inven-
ton OF those arts most necessary to COM
fort, most conducive to wealth, most pros
motive of civilization. Mans first needs
are food, clothing and shelter, and to
woman tradition assigns their present
practical forma. Isis in Egypt. Minerva
GTaano- W
OF Iucas in Peru, and sevs
eral Empresses of China have alike
been worshiped because OF their
inventive genius. The gods of Egypt
were of two characters, the supernatural
or purely spiritual gods, and second,
Most beloved and most worBhiped,"
those human beings who had been of es,
pecial benefit to the world, and who, after
death, we're enrolled among the gods.
Foremost among these secondary gods is
Isis. To her Ia attributed the invention
of bread making, and the foundation of
agriculture; previous to her time the
Egyptians lived upon uncooked roots and
herbs. She also taught the art of heating
and the manufacture OF fax, and laid the
foundation Of Egyptian literature.
Down TO the time Of Gslen many medi~
ciDes bore the name Of Isis. So famed
were the medicines that the prophet Jere-
miAh mentions them, and Homer sang
their praises. Isis also invented the ART
of embRlming; through its means
the Israelites we're enabled TO keep
their oath 20 Jacob and take his body
with them when they fed from Egypt
nearly four hundred years afterward.
Minerva, the feminine inventor, and
goddess OF Athens, was regarded as the
inventor OF every kind of work usually
done by women, and by many was deemed
as the originator OF agriculture and me.
chanics, The inventor of ali tools of mans
han T,EW. 4
the arts OF wal hariots and of even the
breaking of horses. Ceres not only gave
corn to the Greeks but was revered as the
first law 2iver.
But leaving the realm of tradition and
mythical history, we still fiud woman &C
credited with some Of the earliest and
most useful inventions. TO her as the one
to prepare the food, the invention of
potting Is ascribed. The invention of
spinning and the discovery OF elk 10 ac-
corded TO the wives of two Chinese emper-
ors four thousand years before Christ.
When the word China Is spoken, il is in
perpetual honor and and remembrance of
these inventions. Wood engraving, the
pioneer OF all other forms OF engraving,
was the invention of the Cumeo children,
twin brother ana sister, at Ravenna, Italy
IN the thirteenth century. The discovery
OF cotton as textile fiber ascribed in the |
East to Semirainis, was in America attrl- |
the Peruyians its manufacture.
Ihe straw industry of the United States /
owes It's origin to Miss Betsy Metcalf, who |
In l796 made the first straw bonnot ever
in this country. The most
remarkable invention of the age in its
INDUSTRIAL, social and political influence
tne cotton Rin-owes its origin TO a woman,
Catharlne Ltttlefield Green, all accounts
In Unitod StateS histories to the contrary
This woman was the |
WIDOW OF General Green, of Revolutionary
anne. After the close of the was Gen.
Ireen settled in Georgia, where he soon
iieo. To seperate pound of seed from
he cotton was a dayswork for a negro,
After much thought Mrs. Green conceived
he idea of q seed picking machine and
ntruated its construction to the hands of
sii Whitney, then boarding with her.
The wooden teeth, at first tried, did not
10 their work well, Mr.. Whitney wanted
o abandon the machine altogether, but
drs. Green whose faith in ultimate suc> |
ess never wavered, would not consent, |
,he suggested the substitution of wire. |
Within ten days from the first conception |
x Mrs Green's ideas q small model was
completed so perfect in its construction
hat all succeeding gins have been based
Ipop it.
A very slight investigation proves that
'Rtents taken out in some mans name |
re in many instances due to women. An |
Instance of this kind ID Miss Louisa Nc.
,aughlin's invention of under glazed
'ainting on pottery. She desired that all
rtists share in its benefits and explained
he process TO every person who asked
er. A certain man seeing its value
ook out q patont upon IL thus prohibit
ng even ito inventor from using the
ruits OF her own brains. The Burden
orseshoe machine turning out q COM
lete shoe every three seconds, was a
fnmAnIH InVAnLInn. /
can invention, the mower and reaper,
ives its early perfection to Mrs. Ann
iArned Manning OF Plainfield, New I
ersey, who In 1917 .l8 projected a system
or the combined action of teeth and cut
ers, patented by her husband, William
ther improvements OF which not being !
Atented, she was robbed after her hus-
And's death by a neighbor whose name '
ppears in the list of patents upon this
Machine. She also invented a clover !
leaner. Nor was she the only woman
hose thought has been turned towards
machines.
Elizabeth Smith also Of New Jersey, apI c
ears In 1851 among a list of patentees 2
pom an Improvement to the mower and u
saper, whereby the knives could be ad. c
isted while the machine was In motion. y
he smallest inventions sometimes prove 1
le most lucrative. A San Francisco lady
,ceived fourteen thousand dollars for =
or patent on baby carriage. The epaper
all, the invention of a Chicago lady
Ields large income. The Rimlet point.
! screw, the idea of q little girl, has rea- b
zed millions of dollars to its patentee,
Among inventions of more or less inn 1
ortance by woman, ire a spinning mA' 9
1ine capable Of running from twelve to ! !
,rty threads, rotary loom, doing three I
mes the work of an ordinary loom. A
olcanic furnace for smelling ore. n