Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-02-20

servati0r stations. In large meas.
ure, so far as their educa tional value
is concerned, all these magnificent
germs of university appendages are
now practically wasted. Let the
facilities, the aggregated deposits Of
the nations ia years of life be
rendered accessible to men an
women who have been trained into
capability 10 use them, whose prior
requirements, whose ambitions and
lose talents could '~ansmute these
now buried treasures into the
nations life blood"
The chancellor of the university of
Mississippi is trying 70 work up
movement in favor of a womans
building and new gymnasium, aud
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 Winiock of the Harvard OBJ
servatory staff has elaborated with
Prof. Simon Newcomb in computing
the orbit of newly-found asteroid.
the New York Tribune pays tribute
to the not inconsiderable number of
women who have won fame and
standing as astronomers, going back
as far as Sophia Brahe Q556-1643),
Maria Cunitz Q610-1664), 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 Somerville, Caroline Herschel
(whose talents were simply tools
for her selfish brothT to use), and
Maria Mitchell, the special pride of
America-all these are we'll known
to every one. Of today Dorothoa
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
also 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 IL assistants, among them
Miss Maury, niece of Matthew F.
Maury. in charge of the naval ob-
servatory at Washington from 1874
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
plates. Mrs. Elizabeth Preston
Brown Davis. employed at the
nautical almanac Office in Washing
ton, detected and corrected an error
in one of La ssPlace's tables, which
had long been stumbling block to
astronomers, and some years ago,
when Prof Newcomb wished com
puter and held a competitive ex-
animation for the place. Mrs. Davis
outstr.pped a dozen men who at
tempted tho 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
Maund5r, an amateur at that. The
most eminent women astronomers
are Lady Higgins and Miss Agnes
M. Clarke. Lady Higgins is th0
wife of the spectroscopist, 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 onelourth
cups pastry -four. one-half teaspoon
ful soda, one-half teaspoonful salt;
one tablespoonful of ginger; one-half
cup molasses, one cup of sour milk,
one-half teaspoonful of soda, one
tablespoonful of melted butter, one
half cup of sugar. Sift the soda, salt
and ginger into the -four, and the
sugar, and mix thoroughly. Put the
r1olasses 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 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 a mixing bowl and
mix thoroughly. Add part OF the
milk, then the egg we'll beaten, and
the remainder of the milh. Use a
I;+tI, moro milk If tbe batter is too