The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-15
WOMAN'S PAGE.

position in which to do so, she shuts out
all but the roseate side.
As time goes on, however, the nov
city wears off and if the woman has
not in the meantime learned to use the
gift it is to be hoped she has, that of
Hitting in then she is likely to have
many unhappy hours For instance, her
manners are brusque and not at all like
the men she has known hitherto. in the
home life.
Well, what of it? If gallantry is to
be insisted upon then many women
would be unemployed. In the business
rush. system takes precedent and until
women learn that they cannot fit in
to places of trust and render themselves
invaluable to employers.
A true gentleman, however, is never
too busy to show the fact. Still any
woman of experience knows that it Is
hears of, instead of what goes right
until it sometimes seems as though
there was no premium good work
If in her heart woman feels she has
done her very best then she ought not
TO become discouraged or disheartened
over her work even if she never hears
the well DONE good and faithful serv-
ant" or receives an invitation to
rest
Novel Occupation.
The field in which the women of the
present day may roam is not circum-
scribed by any particular bounds.
Whatever they find to do that offers
means of employing their time or re-
plenishing their purses they attempt
and generally successfully. The latest
and in some respects the most curious
field for their activities has recently
been opened in New York and is a di-
rect importation from London. 1t is
that of dinner tasting, the gaStronOmic
expert being employed at elaborate ban
quets and dinners to taste each dish
before 1t goes to table, says the Sunday
Chronicle
The idea is undoubtedly to be attrib-
uted to the desire on the part of the
fashionable world to increase the lux
ury of living The menu must not only
be elaborate, but it must be as pal
atable and in all respects as perfect as
modern experience can make it, says
course hitherto the dinner taster's'
duties have been performed by the
cook, but as the cook is often better
fitted to prepare the dishes than to pro-
duce the exact havors demanded by the
guests the dinner taster's'' services
were called in merely to supplement the
work of the cook, and, of course, with
out any idea of supplanting it.
Often a dish can be improved by the
injection of the various flavors and con-
diments known to the culinary art, and
when Such are required or when the
dish can bear little sweetening or
thickening or thinning, as the case may
be. it is the duty of the expert to sug-
geSt it to the cook.
The pay varies with the character of
the feast as well as with the extent of
the work to be done.
The occupation is followed mainly by
cooks who have lost much of their cum
ming as far as the preparation of the
cooking itself goes. but whose expert
ence. is extremely valuable in the new
capacity. which they can now fill. Many
of the smart set who have become re-
duced in circumstances are also to be
found employed in the new work and
as there is really no manual labor con-
nected with it it is not half so uncon-
genial as it might on first thought ap-
pear, and even a woman of culture
finds little in it of which she might feel
ashamed.
She SOIicits Patents.
Miss Edith GriswoId of New York has
demonstrated that a woman can win
success as a solicitor of patents and she
is said to be wondering why other
men do not follow her into the pro-
fession, and always encourage them to
do so. for, after several years exper-
fence, she considers it easy, profitable
and interesting. Evidently. however,
the realm of patent law is too dry to
attract women. 1t requires advanced
technical knowledge in the one who
practices it and thorough acquaintance
with mechanical drawing. Miss Girls
void began as a draftswoman in the
office of a friend. After serving a three
years apprenticeship in this office she
opened one of her own, says the Sunday
Chronicle.
Patent soliciting is an uneven bust
ness, in which long periods of idlenesS
alternate with big jobs" But when
it is known that Miss GriSWOId has
sometimes made as high as 81 900 in
single month it will be seen that this
profession has profits far in advance of
those generally gained by women. AL
though Americans are supposed to be SO
much more liberal in all matters con-
nected with women it is a curious fact
that three-fourths of Miss Griswold's
business has come from foreigners. She
has also made a Speciality of copyright
and trademark law and is an authority
on both subjects, having published a
very useful little brochure on the for
mer.
Miss Griswold is so young and at
tractive that those who have heard of
her achievements in such abstruse sub
JSctS are apt to see her first with a
shock of surprise. She relieves the con-
finement of office life and keeps herself
in splendid physical condition by long
wheel spins and she ascribes her power
of concentrated and prolonged effort
largely to the simple comfortable,
hygienic. but at the same time artistic,
mode II dress which she evolved for
herself and to which she has always
strictly adhered.
An American Woman on Philippines.
In letter just received from one of
the army officers wives who is with her
husband at Masinloe. Philippine Islands,
the following interesting picture of the
country and its people is given as seen
through an American Woman'S eyes,
says the New York Tribune:
Nearly every afternoon we take a
walk of mile or two out of town be-
fore supper. The country, with its
verdure. is beautiful. and I
viii climb a hill any time for the fine
view which can be seen from its sum-
nit During the summer months we
have some of the most gorgeous sunsets
that I have ever seen. The colors are
more brilliant than in northern cities.
This is certainly a rich and beautiful