The Portland daily press., 1900-01-24


College,. : ne was Pm. -. two years
ago, bat came back this term with special
Intent to study the nature md properties
Of oottonssed and ccttonsesd oil in their
relation to farm soohomy. This young
woman considers agriot lture tie most
noble, USEFUL ana universal Of human
pursuits. she was raareu among the
cotton and sugar cane interests OF Louisi-
ana and IL devotlug hersslf TO research
and experiments In matter OF soils and
native chemical agents at an age when
most girls just freed from cclleze tasks,
VINO have means TO pursue their own
bent, are going In for saitty and social
niVersions.
At another womsn's college IL q young
graduate 50 engroFscd in the STUDY Ct
ply sizes that even inter her marriage she
has coms hack to she wOrkroom 70. the
special couTss which Ter professor recon.
nended.
A woman chemist, Mis- Marion II.
Dorset, has fol thIel yeats vsen doing
work fer the Government in the biochen
10 laboratory at Washington. There are
fifteen women msmb ers of the American
Chemical Society, their home addresses
and the work they do being as diverse ss
the points of the compass. IbIes women
chemists are practical minsralogists as
we'll. Miss Lilly Miller h. $ chemists
position on ths Msss2ohusetts State
Board OF health, and Miss Laura Lyn-
N
sity. is regularly employed by large
park and street paving firm as con sui ting
chemist. Bituminous staifs and SUBJ
stancJs, the kind OF earth trey are found
In and the Ingredients likely to Increase
or detrsot from their worth. sre everyday
topics to this or huslast. She knows tbs
whereabouts Of all the asbestos mines,
their output aud comparative value. ana
frequently contributes original Id sas Us
TO the competition Of flreproof goods,
feelings and insulators for other working
chemists to work out. The makers and
ugers OF theatrical drop curtains and of
all clases OF goods destined for close CON-
tact with candles and gas flames are on
he lockout for new disguises Of q nom
infiammatie nature, and the woman apt
ut suggestions In such matters, does not
go begging for oooupatiun.
A finished woman chemist, graduate Of
a foreign university, tresidss over u busy
photographer studio. There are half
dozen successful woman photographers
whose work IL up to the best, but the
chemist photographer las the advantage
OF them all In being able to carry out her
conceptions from the fret stage to the last
without depending In the least on out.
side help. Her conclusions as to tina de-
yeloping of the pictures are absolutely
surs. she studied chemistry with the
express intent Of becoming an artist
photographer, and of. perhaps, dcvising
methods OF her own LOOKING 10 the I'M
provement OF the work.
Mrs. Annie White Carpenter Is one OF
the most successful business chemists in
Buffalo. There Is women chemist in
Cincinnati who owns and conducts three
pharmacies. Another In Detroit runs u
thriving drug store. and one In New
York Ia In charge Of q department INA
| chemists supply house. whsre hfty or
more girls put up oordials, remedies and
| restorers under her direotion. Miss Eliza
bath Il. Fisher 10 professor OF geology Mt
Wellesley College ana Miss Rosa Bonton
instructor of chemistry at the HebrAskn
state University. 1he proles7or Of cEen-
| istry at the Sophia Nswoomb College,
New Orleans, Is also q woman, Mrs.
Evsiyp NJ. Ordwsy. Mrs. Helen Abbott
has followed the science In the a1straot
and has analysed ZONE va lGa bic and
hitherto unknown Mexican barks and
plants.
lhe woman chemist most conspicuous
| In education Is Mrs. Helm Ii. Richards
OF the Msssa chuset:s Institute OF Iech-
nology. She analysed n rare mineral
sauna skite-whioh was interesting miner
alogists twenty years ago, and dinoe then
has at various times done work for the
State Board OF Health In examining the
| river and harhor waters and giving as
sistanc5 in other matters Of sanitary I'M
por tanoe. Long before ths institute ed-
Initted women freely to It's Department.,
Mrs. Richards conducted special lahora.
| tory course of chemistry for teachers, and
she has written books on domestic
science and been the assistant and friend
| of Mr.. Edward Atkinson In his work for
pure food.
The woman chemist who has been the
most signal influence for artistic effort In
| this county and has given work to many
younger experimenters ~ the founder
an originator OF the lockwood pottery
| In Cincinnati. IL WAS her personal
| knowledge of the native clsys and their
possibilities that gave stimulus TO tbs
project. No other city has as many work
| ing women chemists as Cincinnati, al
| though there are some in PittsbuTg and
| other man ufacturing centres
| chemist who travels all over the
union In the drawers interests tells of
women who are working In that bran Sh
OF chemists processes. 1t would never
| do In speaking Of women chemists to
leave out the New JERSEY girl who has
made a special study OF pOisons. When
anti-toxine was first bs!ng Experimental
with as n preventive for dIphtheria this
young woman, then newly grad uated
| from q Berlin institute was the right
hand assistant of the professor conduct.
| ing the work She helped make the Gull
| lures and personally Administered the
| trial doses to the guiHea pigs on hand for
preliminary experiment.