Evening journal., 1900-02-07
THE WORK OF WOMEN
THEIR FADs. DIVERSIONS AND
INVENTIONS.
Royal and Literary Women and Their
understandable Devices for
Which Humanity Is GratefuI-oc.
ccupations Of Rich and Poor.

Nearly all great women, as well as
great men have their fads A fad is
a useful thing in many ways. 1t serves
to rest the intelligent at times, when
every nerve and brain cell has been
overtaxed by the absorbing subject Of
tenser study.
Queen Victoria's fads are gardening
and dogs and ponies.
Princess Louise boasts Of the num-
Der of dishes which she has invented.
The Queen Of Italy collects gloves,
boots and shoes which have been worn
by royal personages. She has shoes
which belonged TO Queen Ann. and a
fan which was the property OF Mary,
Queen of Scots
Tho Queen of Greece is said to be
the finest needlewoman among Euro
pean royalty. The Empress of Ger
many loves to knit The Dowager
Queen of Portugal, when az her hcmo
on the seashore of Caldas, amusas
herself by shooting from high win
dows at bottles placed in the sea for
the purpose.
Maria Theresa Of Bavaria is fond OF
pets. and is always accompanied by
IA of her favorites when she takes q
long journey
The Czarine of Russia is fond of
lace, and a remarkable piece of Chan
lilly was presented to her as a birth
day gift by the French government
last year.
Many of Americas favorite women
also have their fads.
Mrs. Francis MacVeigh collects
palms. She has one, a dwarf palm.
which is said to be $50 years old.
Mrs Philip d. Armour. Jr., collects
plates and owns more than 1000 ex-
Quisite plates.
Susan b. Anthony has a fad for max
Ing quilts and rugs.
Candace Wheeler, the veteran art
connoisseur and business woman,
knits. The daughters of ex-Mayor
Hewitt have a mania for learning how
to do things, and recently they even
learned how to shoe a horse, not only
hammering ont the shoes on the anvil
but mailing them to the horses feet.
A long list Of American women
have become experts in the use or
rifles and pistols. Among them are
Mrs. John Jacob Aston. Mrs Have
meyer Mrs Alfred Seton, Mrs Sew
ard Webb and Mrs. Valentine Mott.
All OF these women by dilisent prac-
tice of their pet fad have routed the
ancient creed that a bulls eye must
Be the size OF q barn door in order
for a woman to hit it.
Mrs. Charles r. Barnes's collection
Of tea pots In Chicago is one Of the
largest n the oOuntry-or was. until
half of her lot were lost in the FIRE
that destroyed her house.
Mrs. D. Harry Hammer has 10000
buttons which came from all over the
world, and many Of which are inter
esting as souvenirs of various wars.
Several Of the buttons bear crests OF
distinguished families among which
are those of Gladstone Sir Robert Ma
pier Lord Raleigh, the Duke of Ar
gyll. Count Hatzfeldt and the MARQUIS
of Lorne.
In the inventive world women have
not been idle Many of the most use
full inventions Of to-day were evolved
by the eternal feminine. Nor do they
pertain to what has been termed the
'woman's sphere"
Silk weaving was invented by the
wife of the fourth Chinese Emperor:
| bronze work by a Japanese woman.
the weaving of cashmere shawls by
woman OF the Indian harem. and the
lost secret of Venetian point lace was
rediscoVered by an Italian woman.
Harriet Hosmer Is mentioned as hav.
ing invented the way to make marble
from limestone which the Italian
Government had long been seeking.
Mary Kies was the first woman in
America to take out a patent and IN
the year 1909 she was granted one for
weaving straw with either silk or
thread"
Mrs Harriet Strong who began by
inventing a corset ended by taking
out patents for dams and reservoirs.
Although now an aged woman she
recently patented q device for storing
water.
A woman invented a satchel-bot.
toned paper bag and was offered $40.
600 for her patent before she left
Washington. A woman invented the
Burkden process of making horse
shoes. which turns ont such rapid
work that It has saved the country
$1,000 600 in IA years. A number
of women's inventions are known to
have been patented under the names
OF their husbands, fathers or broth.
ers.
The women Of the State of New
York, in point of numbers of inven-
tons head the list, with those of
the New England States following
close second, the Northwest and Mid
die States ranking next.
An Illinois woman invented a bal.
ing press, and two from Texas a dig
ging machine. A Cincinnati woman is
the inventor OF method for decora-
ting pottery, and one from San Fran
cisco devised a tap and faucet; a Phil
adelphia woman a bicycle saddle: a
Massachusetts woman window
frame and SASH a woman from Swift.
zerland a calendar clock; n California
woman a method OF and means for
impounding debris and storing water;
a New York woman a glass jar fruit
protector; an English woman a horse
shoe a Massachusetts woman an alb
dominal supporter; a Florida woman
a railroad car; an Illinois woman n
car heater; a West Virginia woman
a hemming attachment for sewing
machines.
In the beginning and toward the
middle of this century most Of the in.
yentions patented by women were
made in the line Of articles pertainine