The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-21
WOMEN AS CHEMISTS.
ALL OVER THIS COUNTRY THEY
ARE DOING VALUABLE WORK.

ARE DOING VALUABLE WORK.
Makers and BOttlers of Mineral Wa
ters, and Dyers, ConfectiOners and
Compounders of Pickles and Pre-
Massachusetts Is said to Have
Turned Out More Enthusia site,
sound PrincipIed HOusekeepers
Than Any Living Woman, and the
Government Has Found Miss Dor
set Helpful in the Bio Chemie Lab
oratOry at Washington.@
New York. Jan. 19.-One of the first wo-
men in this country to make experiments
in chemistry collected gases in bottles
and used a WATERFALL as trough, teach
ing the district school between times.
Later, as a special favor, she was ad-
mitted to the laboratory of a professor,
who favored her appeal in order that she
might rehearse his lessons. step by step,
for thS advantage of a brother. who was
blind. This brother was Edward Living
ston Youmans, the eminent writer. lee
turer and simplifier of science for the
people He attributed much of his success
to his sisters apt explanations and untir
ing devotion.
This was all more than forty years ago.
Since that time scores of women have
mastered chemistry in its various
branches and put that knowledge to use
for their own benefit and not their broth
ers Some have taken special university
courses, it being fifteen years since the
more literally constituted universities eX-
tended their privileges to women. Other
women chemists picked up their infor
nation by hand-to-hand contact with the
work in chemists shops and professors
laboratories, having no diploma other
than efficiency and practical service.
Some women are chemists by associa-
ton, their fathers or brothers having been
long identified with business founded on
chemical processes and they in turn hav
ing familiarized themselves with the work
when occasion demanded. The woman
who has five fiourishing dyeing shops in
a big city is one of them; also the women
who are. makers and bottlers of mineral
and medicinal waters, "a half dozen of
whom may be cited, the woman who con-
ducts a large cider and vinegar MILL and
her prosperous compeer who eXcels in
pickles and preserves made by her own
recipes, secret formulas that have des-
cended to her through generations of
pickle makers. There are women as vers-
ed in the confectioners mysteries as men
are, and who are as quick to adapt the
new discoveries and facilities of science
to attaining unique results.
New Orleans Girl.
All this can be proved by making tour
of the different business plants, but a few
women are born experimenters and delight
in chemistry for its own sake. These
analyze plants, metals0 soils and com
pounds with the same zest that their sis
ter women feel for matters purely per-
sonal. There is a New Orleans girl of
this mental pattern now taking an after
degree course in laboratory work at Bar
nard College. She was a PHI. d. two years
ago, but came back this term with special
intent to study the nature and properties
of cotton seed and cotton seed oil in their
relation to farm economy.s This young
scientist considers agriculture as the most
noble 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 ma tive
chemical agents at an age when most
| girls Just freed from college tasks, and
who have means to pursue their own
| bent, are going in for gaiety and social
| diversions.
At anothe- woman's college is a young
graduate so engrossed in the study of
physics that even after her marriage
which has occurred within the year, she
has come back to the work room for the
| special course which her professors rec
commended.
Other Chemists at Work.
A woman chemist Miss Marion F. Dor
set has for three years been doing work
for the government in the biochemic lab
oratory al Washington. There are fifteen
women members of the American Chemi-
cal Society, their home addresses and the
work they do being as diverse as the
points of the compass. Three women
chemists are practical mineralogsts as
well. Miss Lily Miller has a chemist 5
position on the Massachusetts State Board
of Health, and Miss Laura Lynton, a
graduate of the Minnesota University is
doing perhaps the most unique work of
any woman chemist. Miss Lynton is not
only an original writer and thinker. whose
papers read at various scientific meetings
attract attention, but she is regularly en-
ployed by a large park and street paving
firm as consulting chemist. sBituminous
stuffs and substances. the kind Of earth
they are found in and the ingredients
likely to increase or detract from their
worth, are everyday topics TO this en-
thusiast She knows the whereabouts of
all the asbestos Mines their output and
comparative value, and frequently contrib
utes original ideas as to the composition
of fireproofs goods, feelings and insulators
for other working chemists to descant
upon. The makers and users OF theatre
cal drop curtains and of all classes of
goods destined for close contact. with can
dies and gas flames are on the lookout for
new DISCUSSES of a non-niammab,e ma
ture, and the woman apt at suggestions
in such matter does not go begging for
occupation.
As Shopkeepers.
A finished woman chemist graduate of
foreign university. presides over busy
photographers studio. There are a half