The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-21

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dozen successful women photographers
whose work is up with the best, but the
| chemist photographer has the advantage
| of them all in being able TO carry out her
conceptions from the first stage to the
| last without depending in the least on
outside help. Her conclusions as to the
developing of the pictures are absolutely
sure She studied chemistry with the eX-
press intent of becoming an artist pho
| tographer, and of, perhaps, devising meth
DDS of her own looking 10 the improve
ment of the work
Mrs. Annie White Carpenter is one of
| the most successful business chemists in
| Buffalo. There is a woman chemist in
Cincinnati who owns and conducts three
| pharmacist establishments. Another in
'Detroit who runs thriving drug store,
| and one in New York, who is in charge
of a department in a chemists supply
house where fifty or more girls put up
cordlals, remedies and restorers under her
direction Miss Elizabeth F. Fisher is pro-
lessor of geology at Wellesley College,
and Miss Rosa Benton instructor of chem
istry at the Nebraska State University.
The professor of chemistry at the Sophia
Newcomb College, New Orleans, is also
a woman, Mrs Evelyn NJ. OrdWay. Mrs.
| Helen Abbott has followed the science in
the abstract and has analysed some val
liable but hitherto unknown, Mexican
| banks and plants.
She Graduates HOusekeepers.
The woman chemist most conspicuous In
educational circles is Mrs. Ellen H. Rich
ards of the Massachusetts Institute of
| Technology. She analyzed a rare miner
Observation-Disclosures was interesting
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then has at various times done work for
the State Board of Health in examining
the river and harbor waters and giving
assistance in other matters of sanitary
Importance Long before the institute adj
mitted women freely to its departments.
| Mrs. Richards conducted special la bora
tory course in chemistry for teachers, and
! she has written able books on domestic
science and been the assistant and close
friend of Mr.. Edward Atkinson in his
crusade for pure food. She is fondly al
luded to by both men and women stu
dents as the mother of the institute"
| and as an instructor she has stimulated
| more interest in chemistry as a profession
for women and turned out more enthus-
iastic sound principled housekeepers than
any woman living
The woman chemist who has been the
most signal influence for artistic effort in
this country and who has given work -
| many younger eXpaTimenters is the found
er and originator of the Lockwood pot
terry in Cincinnati 1t was her personal
| knowledge of the native clays and their
possibilities that gave stimulus to the pro-
ject No one city has as many working
women chemists as Cincinnati, although
there are some in Pittsburg and other
| manufacturing centers.
| A chemist who travels all over the union
| in the brewers interests tells of women
| who are working in that branch of chem
lists processes. And these are not alto
| gether 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 brew
ers plants in the larger towns, quite as
| a matter of course 1t would never do
| in speaking of women chemists to leave
| out the New Jersey girl who has made
| special study of poisons, their antidotes
and promotions. She is a blue-eyed blond,
| with delicate features and gentle manners,
| but versed in serums and death deal
| ing potions as ever Borgias daughter
was, or any Indian squaw familiar with
baneful juices in which TO dip her war
| riors arrow tips. When antitoxine was
! first being experim0nted with as pre-
ventive for diphtherA this young woman,
then newly graduated from Berlin in
sttute was The right hand assistant of
| the professor conducting the work She
helped make the baccili cultures and per-
sonally administered the trial doses 10 the
| guinea pigs which were kept on hand for
preliminary experiment.
A SeIf-Made Woman.
A chemist who acquired proficiency In
a very different school is Miss Josie Wa
nous of Minneapolis. She is a prosperous
| manufacturer of pharmacists goods, both
for use in her prescription department and
in her stock of toilet preparations, lotions,
| creams powders, etc. Her five years bus
haG MAJ har L h.,
dealers in chemists supplies and she is
held up as an example of what a woman
can achieve in their particular line. Miss
Wanous is only Is years old, was born
in a log cabin several miles from Glen
coe, Mimi. and had no other education
than that obtained in the town high school
and is a self-made business woman in ev-
cry sense She is of Bohemian origin, and
it was thorough acquaintance with her
native language that she first be-
came interested in pharmacy. As
very young girl she was employed as in
terpreter and bookkeeper in the village
drug store. The different colors, signs and
shapes of walls and Jars on the shelves
| interested her, and being naturally of an
| investigative 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 administer
ed for certain complaints. Her curiosity
grew with what 1t fed on, she was led to
study and investigation outside OF bust
ness hours and eventually set up business
for herself, which venture has assumed
its present prosperous aspect. She boasts
that neither patents, cigars nor soda wa
| ter are listed in her stock that her bust
ness wins solely on its merits and that
although she came to II in such humble
simple way, she enjoys 1t thoroughly and
| finds something new to interest her every
day. There is rival woman pharmacist
In her own town, who graduated at
regular school of pharmacy. and also does
well, but on less original lines. There is
a woman chemist making researches and
experiments In an American manufacture
er's interests, she having studied under a
professor connected with the dyelng de-
partments of Saxony's famous technical
\ schools. Several women embalmers en-