The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-26

break the model, on which she had labored
patiently and enthusiastically, till she
made it work.
toned afterward about the wanton destruc-
ton, "but l said to myself, Because l am
girl and am only II, every one will laugh
at me and say l have wheels in my head
if | ask them to examine my model so l
broke it," Then her eager intelligent face
lighted up with the Joy and faith of the in
ventor as she added: II know, in myself,
use the worst that could happen to any one
who fell in the way of the car would be a
few bruises"
Then Amelia explained her fender,
which is made principally of rubber, on a
framework of iron and copper, and has re-
voIving wheels that sweep whatever lies in
the track of the car aside. The machinery
is set in motion by the wheels of the car,
but it is attached to an iron rod, which
falls, lowering the fender with it, whenever
the motorman touches hook When the
rod is raised the fender has no connection
with the wheels of the car, and is motion
less. but a touch lowers it and sets the
rubber-covered wheels revolving.
eff it were always at work there would
be such waste of rubber" Amelia ex.
planned. "The street-sweeping machines
here give you faint idea of the principle
of my fender, but l have seen q steam
snow-sweeper in Lapland constructed on
something the same lines that rushes
through the streets almost as fast as the
electric-cars here, and though the side
walks are hard and frozen have seen it
sweep a basket of shellfish onto them
without injuring strand of the basket or
breaking shell. There was a model in
Vienna, too, that suggested some things to
me in making my fender"
Miss Sternscher, it seems, was born of
Viennese parents in Cairo, and has tray
her life, visiting even such remote coun-
tries as Cashmere and Afghanistan. Her
family states that from her earliest child
hood she has had a passion for machinery,
and in every city she has been has always
taken the greatest delight in examining
mechanical contrivances and trying to
make models of them In her frequent
voyages she has sat for hours watching the
machinery, and the engineers have often
whiled away an idle hour in explaining its
workings to the child. In this way she
has acquired practical mechanical knowl-
edge that a young girl would not be ex-
pected to possess.
Amelia Sternscher is remarkable young
girl in many respects, however. She has
vents in China and Japan, by private
teachers in Calcutta and Cairo, and at
public schools in Europe and America,
but through the constant changes she has
watched and studied character and tenn
permanent till she has become sort OF
female La Rochefoucault. Who, for in.
stance, would expect sweet II to write such
proverbs as these:
Truth can travel, but 1t is seldom recogniza
BILE when 1t comes home.
Most of our misfortunes are more support
able than the comments of our friends upon
them.
The man who takes his own time does moi
hesitate to take the time of others.
In addition to proverbs she writes clever
verses, but her inventions are nearest tc
her heart. She has recovered now from
her momentary detection and is setting tc
work again on her model, and is having
drawings of her fender made by q
draughtsman. More than one engineer
has encouraged her to proceed, and after
applying for a patent she hopes to have a
sample fender made, when she will make
application for it to be given trial.
But Amelia says there is still this terri
BILE drawback-she is q girl and is only IL