Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-02-20

apparently to some purpose, as it is |
thought that the next Legislature |
will make appropriations for these
buildings.
Women as Astronomers.
Apropos of the fact that Miss
Anna Winlock of the Harvard OBJ
servatOry staff has colIaborated with |
Prof. Simon Newcomb in computing |
the orbit of a newly-found asteroid, !
the New York Tribune pays a tribute
to the not inConsiderable number of
women who have won fame and
standing as astronomers. going back
as far as Sophia Brahe 0556-1643)
Maria Cunitz 1610-1664. and Eliza
beth, the second wife of Hevelius.
The name of Sophia Brahe is more
familiar than that of Maria Cunitz.
who was the greater mathematician.
Mary SOmervilIe. Caroline HerscheI
(whOse talents were simply tools
for her selfish brother to use). and
Maria Mitchell, the special pride of
America-all these are we'll known
to every one. Of today, DOrothca
Klumpke, the Californian. who has
been connected with the observatory
of Paris for the last IA years, whose
thesis on the rings of Saturn won
her degree, and who is now at the
head of a bureau for measuring star
plates for the new international
chart OF the heavens. is perhaps the
most brilliant American woman
astronomer, though Rose O'Halloran
IalsO has gifts. Mrs. Williamina
Patton Fleming has been curator of
the astronomical photographs at the
Harvard observatory for the past
three or four years-a very 1e-
spOnsible position. She has dis
covered stars not known before
She has II assistants, among them
Miss Maury, niece of Matthew F.
Maury, in charge of the naval Cb-
servatOry at Washington from 1914
to 1861. Another in the Miss Win
! lock who has been working with
Prof NewcOmb in computing the
orbit of the new asteroid Miss Win
lock is the daughter of Prof. Joseph
WinlOck, for several years director
of the Harvard observatory
In the astronomical department of
several other American universities
there are women who measure star
plates. Mrs. Elizabeth Preston
Brown Davis, employed at the
nautical almanac office in Washing
ton. detected and corrected an error
| in one of La Places tables. which
had long been a stumbling block to
astronomers, and some years ago,
when Prof. NeWCOmb wished a com
puter and held a competitive oX-
animation for the place, Mrs. Davis
Outstripped a dozen men who at
tempted the examination. In Eng
land the British astronomical as
ISOLATION has a number of women
members. One of the best photo
graphs of the total eclipse of the
sun, taken in India two or three
years ago, was by Mrs. E. Walter
MaundeT, an amateur at that. The
most eminent women astronomers
| are Lady Higgins and Miss Agnes
NJ. Clarke Lady Higgins is the
wife of the spectrOscCpist, Sir Will
lam Higgins, who IS gallant enough
to share the credit with his wife in
all published reports of his e
searches. Miss Clarke is an Irish
woman, and has been engaged in OBJ
Sensational work at the Cape of
Good Hope A good showing.
Recipes for Desserts and Otherwise.
Gingerbread: Two and one-1Ourth
cups pastry flour, onc-half teaspoon
| full soda, one-half teaspOOnful salt;
one tablespoonful of ginger; one-half
| cup molasses, one cup of sour milk,
one-half teaspoonfuI of soda, one
| tablespoonful of melted butter, one
half cup of sugar. Sift the soda, salt
and ginger into the flour, and the
sugar, and mix thoroughly. Put the
molasses and sour milk into the
! mixing bowl sift in the other half
! teaspoon of soda, stir well, and add
the dry mixture quickly, then the
melted butter. Beat thoroughly and
bake in muffin pans in a hot oven.
Rye mullins: one cup white flour,
one cup rye meal, two teaspoonfuls
baking powder, one-fourth cup sugar,
one-half teaspoon salt, one egg, one
cup milk Put all the dry in
gradients into mixing bowl and
mix thoroughly. Add part of the
milk, then the egg we'll beaten, and
the remainder of the milk. Use
littla more milk if the batter is too
thick to drop easily from the spoon.
Bake in hot, well-greased gem pans
about half an hour.
Cider pie: Mix three-quarters of a
cup of sugar with one tablespoon
corn starch, and stir it into one cup
of boiling water; cook ten minutes;
add quarter of a cup of boiled cider
or half cup Of new cider, one
tablespoonful of butter and one egg
well beaten. Bake in one crust.
Steamed cOTn-meal pudding: Mix
together ~ cups yellow graduated
corn meal. one-half cup entire wheat
or graham -four, one-haIf teaspoon
ginger, One-half teaspoon aIlspice,
One-half teaspoon salt and one tea
spoon soda Stir in one cup sour
milk, one cup sweet milk, and one
half cup mOlass5s. Mix thoroughly,
then add liz cups seeded and f1oure,l
pudding mold in a kettle Of boiling
water 21a hours. Place a trivet or
ring under the mold, and keep the
water boiling steadily all the time,
replcnishing as needed with boiling