The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-01-21

ter women feel for matters purely per
| sonal. There is New Orleans girl of this
mental pattern now taking an after-de-
| gree course in laboratory work at Barnard
| College.
! She was a Phi. D. two years ago. but
| came back to this term with special intent
| to study the nature and properties of cot
| tonseed and cottonseed oil in their rela-
| ton to farm economy. This young scient-
list considers agriculture as the most no.
BILE, useful, and universal OF human pur-
| suits. She was reared among the cotton
| and sugar-cane interests of Louisiana and
is devoting herself to research and expert
ment in the matter of soils and native
chemical agents at an age when most girls
| Just freed from college tasks. and who
/ nave means to pursue their own bent are
| going In for safety and social diversions.
AT another yoman's college is young
graduate so engrossed in the study of
| physics that even after her marriage
which has occurred within the year. she
mas come back to the workroom for the
special course which her professors rec
| commended.
| Inc woman chemist who has been the
| n sienai innuence for artistic effort in
eie country and who has given work to
many younger experimenters is the found
| er and originator of the Rookwood notter,
| In cincinnati. 1t was her personal knowJ-
cage OF the native clays and their poss;-
| biiities that gave stimulus to the nroiec,
no one city has as many working yomen
chemists as Cincinnati. although there are
| some In Pittsburg and other manufaetnr-
ing centres
chemist who travels all over the union
In the brewers interests tells of women
VINO are working in that branch of
chemists processes. And these are not al
together such unlettered women as own and
run some little lager brewing saloon in
crude. Isolated localities but women who
have acquired their knowledge in educated
circles and are working in the big brewers
plants in the larger towns quite as mat
ter OF course. Vt could never do in speaking
OF women che r5ists to leave out the New
Jersey girl WHO has made special study
OF poisons, their antidotes and promotions.
she Is blue-eyed blonde with delicate
features and gentle manners but as versed
IN serums and ath-dealing potions as
ever Borgias daughter was. or any
Indian squaw familiar with baneful Juices
in which to dip her warriors arrow tips
When antitoxin was first being expert
mented with as preventive for diphtheria
this young WON m then newly graduated
nom Berlin ms titute. was the right hand
assistant Of the professor conducting the
work. She helped make the bacilli cul-
lures and personally administered the trial
doses to the guinea pigs. which were kept
on hand for preliminary experiment
chemist who acquired proficiency :. a
very different school is Miss Josie Wanous
OF Minneapolis. She is prosperous
manufacturer of pharmacists goods. both
for use in her prescriptive department and
in her stock OF toilet preparations. lotions,
creams. powders, etc. Her five years
business success has made her known TO !
the dealers In chemists supplies and she !
Is held up as an example of what a wo- /
man can achieve In their particular line. /
Miss Wanous is only twenty-eight years
old. was born in log cabin several miles
from Glencoe. MIMI. had no other edu-
cation than that obtained in the town high
school. and is a self-made business wo-
MAJ In every sense. She is of Bohemian
origin, and it was through acquaintance
with her native language that she first be-
came interested in pharmacy. As a very
young girl she was employed as interpre-
ter and bookkeeper in the village drug
store. The different colors signs, and
shapes of the walls and Jars on the shelves
interested her, and being naturally of an
turn she gradually acquired
knowledge OF the contents OF these walls,
the simples they were composed from
what uses they filled, how much and how
often such potions should be administered
for certain complaints
Her curiosity grew with what 1t fed on,
she was led to study. and investigation
outside Of business hours and eventually
set up for herself which venture has as
sumed its present prosperous aspect She
boasts that neither patents, cigars, nor
soda water are listed in her stock; that
her business wins solely on its merits and
that. although she came to it in such a
humble, simple way, she enjoys 1t thor
oughly, and finds something new to in
terest her every day. There is a rival
woman pharmacist in her own town, who
graduated at a regular school of phar-
macy, and also does well. but on less orig
NAL lines. There is woman chemist maxi
ing researches and experiments in an