The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-04
MANY WOMEN INVENTIONS.
Collection of Patented Articles at the
Tennessee Centennial.

Boston Herald.
They are women inventors. gathered
collated and July labeled to help in making
a Tennessee holiday They crowd a room
in the womens building. itself a womans
invention, and furnished throughout by ef-
forts of other women. The room is not
over big, but chock full of most various
and varjc Isy interesting things
That is 81 So uncommon, therefore note
worthy, as the sort or things 10 which
womans mind has run. OR rather to their
betterment. one expects to ind them IN
proving upon sadirons and duting irons and
chufns a;-o bread mods ana other such
household small deer. But it is trihe as
tonlshing TO find q woman patenting the
best brush for horses coat yet devised.
Woman's wary fears explain the rein pro-
tector, which makes it impossible for the
most evil-minded beast that ever drew in
shafts to get his tail above them. The
same is true of the net for belly and sides
Flies in those regions are the root or many
a runaway. If it comes in spite Of the net.
here are TWO other shielding devices-a bit,
warranted to bow the StiifeSt neck ana
more effectual still. ring bolt running up
which horse and shafts are lOosed from the
carriage body, at the same time that the
wheels are locked SO as to obviate danger
Gus retrOgrade motion.
Then there is a tent good for soldier or
camper 1t has a light deal framework,
with canvas rocf and fly. All the sides are
filled with wire gauze in handy sized sash
frames. Within it one can feel every WIND
that blows yet bid superb deiian !TS5o TO
is likewise q camp bed, with mosquito net
attached-all warranted to fold into port
able compass. Snug nests of pans and
than apparent here that the woman who
goes ateld has felt the need of things, and
set her wits to work at supplying them.
For here is camp bread-raiser upon
the principle of an incubator, and capable
of serving as pantry ~ tin kitchen when
not in active service. \ lamp or the camp
stove supplies requisite heat. Then there IS
a canteen. warranted neither to break nor
spill, to say nothing of folding knives ana
forks and spoons and ladies' Good for use
anywhere are the mustache and medicine
spoons with hinged cover and orfce
either side. Their inventor. ii is said, was
a woman who's conscience of nea tneSs was
forever offended by the soup which got into
her husbands hirsute adornment.
The round paper cupboard htung snug
over the knees, and Of the most agreeable
hghtness, will appeal strongly TO every
woman, who has hasted difficult BIT upon
a fiat surface. The churn, worked by
pedal after the manner Of a sewing ma
chine, opens Vistas of ease and culture 10
the women of the farm who have now no
time to read. One can sit, through the
churning, reveling in good literature, ana
for once things are properly adjusted, there
is nothing to do save work The foot until
the butter has GENE.
Here are a tfremans cap and gloves, due
to womans comprehension. ana already
adopted by more than one city force. Here,
too, is the model dirt cart-a sort OF bag
upon wheels--devised by Mrs. George E.
Waring jr to help her husband in the
cleaning of New York streets Here is also
a machine for turning out paper bags 1t
a companion piece which helps in preparing
some essential part of the war vessels
hull There is a propeller, too to woman 5
credit, and ever so many lifeboats cheek
by jowl with clocks and sewing machines
and thimbles and patent washers, all
evolved from the feminine tnner-consclous-
ness.
Dolls and dolls, of course. The most no.
table are Miss McDoWells paper dolls and
the rag ones made by a Tennessee woman,
who manages to cut and shape and sew
them with the neatest possible stitches into
a semblance of human features truly start
ling. They are practically irdes huctible,
and look much like the uncolored bisque
beauties of the Christmas shops. Boy dolls,
also-deliciously grotesque as to costume,
and with something of a small boys aban-
don in line and pose. There are games for
the wee folks, and states and toys mani
fold. Indeed the patent room demonstrates
beyond peradventure that woman does not
give her whole mind to any one thing or
set of things, but takes this world and
some moiety of the next for her mental
parish.