The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-01-21
HONEY ~ CHEM TSTR !.
Many Branches OF the science In Which
They unXe SMcCeeded.

They Have succeeded.
One Of the frs, women in this country 10 make
| experiments In chemistry collected gases in bot
ties aud used n WATERFALL as a trough, teaching
the district school between times, Later, as a
| special favor, she was admitted to the laborat'ry
Of q professor, who favored her appeal III 'fder
that she might rehearse his less, NJ, step by step,
for the benefit of a brother who Was blind, This
brother was Edward l~iviugNt II Noumans, tie
writer. lecturer aud simpliiier II science fer the
people. He attributed much of his success I"
his sisters apt eXplahati, rs aud untlrlng deru-
tlun.
This was all more Than forty years ago Since
that time scores II women have mastered cncm
istry in its various branches and put that knuwl
edge 10 use for their own benefit and not trcir
brothers Some Of them have taken special
university courses, it being fifteen years new
since the more literally e, instituted universities
extended their priyilegeSt e. women Other women
chemists picked up their Information by work
in shops and laborat ries, having no diploma
other than efficiency and practical service.
Some women are chemists by association,
their fathers ~ brothers having been ldenti-
fed with business founded On chemical pro
cesses, and they in Turn having famlllari7ed them
selves with the work when occasion demanded
The woman who has five lourishing dyCng
shopsin a big city is ne Of them; also the women
whoare makersand bottlers Of mineral and medic
inal waters, a lfdo7en of whom might be named,
the woman whucunduC,Sa large cider and vinegar
mill and the woman who eScelsin pickles nd pre-
serves made byherDwn recipes, secret formulas that
have descended 70 her through generati ms OF
pickle maker There are women as yersed in
the ~cunfeCti, ners mysteries as men are, and rs
quick - adapt the new discoveries and facilities
Of science - attaining new results,
All this can he proved by making n tour Of
the different business plants, but a few women
are born e~xperimenters aud delight in chemistry
for its own sake These hudlyze plants, metals,
soils ana compounds with the same zest that
their sisters feel for matters purely personal.
There is a New Orleans girl Of this mental pattern
now taking an after degree course in Laboratory
work at Barnard College She was a Phi. u, two
years ago, but anne back this term with special
intent to- study the nature and properties Of
Cultuusepd and CuttuEseed oil in their relation
TO farm economy This young woman considers
agriculture the most noble, useful and universal
Of human pursuits. She was reared among
the cotton and sugar cane interests Of Louisiana
and is deyoung herself 10 research and eX peri
mentin matter Of soils and native chemical agents
at an age when most girls Just freed from college
tasks, who have means to pursue their own bent,
are going in for gaiety and Social diversions,
Al another woman's college is a young gradu-
ate So engroSsed in the study Of physics that
even after her marriage she has come back TO
the workroom for the special course which her
professor
\ woman chemist, Miss Marion l. Dorset.
has for three years been doing worn for the GOV |
eminent IN the BloClemlC laboratory at WASH
ington, There are fifteen women members #
the American Chemical SuCirty, their home al
dresses aud the work they do being as diverse as
the points of the compass Three women chem.
lists are ~pracucal mIneraloglstS rs well. Miss
Lily Miller has a chemists position On the Massa- !
chusetts State Board Of Health, and Miss Laura
Lynton, a graduate Of the Minnesota University, |
Is regularly employed by a large park aud street
luminous stuils aud substances, the kind of earth
they are found in aud the ingredients likely To-
increase or detract from their worth, are every
day topics 10 this enthusiast She knows the
whereabouts 81 all the asbestos mines, their
output and comparative value, aud frequently
contributes original ideas as 10 the composition
Of firepTOuf goods, lettings and insulaturS for other
working chemists 10 work out The makers
and users 81 thea trlcdl drop curtains and II all
classes of goods destined for close contact with
candles aud gas flames are on the lookout
for new d~lsguiseS of a non-iuflammable nature,
and the woman apt at suggestions IN such mat
ter does not 60 begging for occupation.
\ finished woman chemist, graduate Of a for
eigu university, presldes over u busy phutog
rapher' studio. There are a half dozen Successful
woman photog raphers whose work ~ up 10 the
best, but the chemist photographer has the ad
vantage IL them all In being able TO carry out
her conceptions from the first stage t. The last
without depending in the least on outside help
Her conclusions as a. the developing OF The piC-
lures are abs lutely sure She studied chemistry
with the express intent " becoming an artist
PILOT %grap,her} and Of; perhaps, deyising methods
OF her own looking tuth" improvement # the work
Mrs Annie White Carpenter is one II he most
successful business chemists IN Buffalo There
Is a woman chemist in Cincinnati who owns and
con luCtS three pnarmaCleS. Another in Detrnt
runs a thriving drug IT. r., and ne in New N,rk
isln charge Of a Department. a chemists supply
house, where my q more girls put up |corLialS,
remedies and rest rrrs under her direction. Miss
Elizabeth + Fisher is profess, 7 u geology an
Wellesley College and Mi>SItos Benton instTic,nr
.. chemistry at tn" Nebraska STATE University
The professor u chemistry a. the Sophia New.
comb College, New Orleans, Is also n woman
Mrs EVELYN " urdway Mrs Helen Abb,ttIns
followed the science lathe abstract and has ~,
aly2rd some valuable and hitherto unkugvn
MEXICAN hHrks and plants
The woman chemist most conspicuous in edu.
C11i,n H. hrs Helen n Richards Of the Nossn
Institute Il Iechn lugv She analy,cd
u rare mineral simarsEite Which WINS iu,rrss,
ING mineral glSiei"ehtN years agu,aud sinrr then
~ 'Hriru- times D,u M work fr the stint ~,
ut Health m examining he river end hsr RI, w,tn,.
aud giving assistance m other matters II sgnitntv
Importance Lon; h"'orc The institute admltrcd
women Freely o. H. depHr mrufs. Mr. RicLnr,.
Cu uduCte,IA special lAb,rat ~ course of Chenisf,,
Tor teachers, and she has written books en- d,rt
eslIr, science an been the assistant and friend Of
Mr. Edward Nthlusunl IN lis wurk fur pure fond
The woman chemist who hos bean the INST
sigma! Influence for aruNuc effort 30 tins country
ana hnN given work 70 many yourrr- rx.
p"rlme'iets Is the founder and urIgtuatnr ~ fin,
Rpnkwuud pottery IN Cincinnati II wa. he,
personal kuuwlr !gr " the uAuyr clrys md tln,l-
possibilities ih'i CAV" stimulus 90 the project Va
"'h"r CiF has ~ many working women chemists
~ CINCINNATI, although there are some ll Pits
burg ana other manufacturing crnlre4.
\ 'hrmlSt who travels I'll over the union i'm tho
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