The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1907-09-11
They Count for More Than is Gener.
ally Known-Leading Spirit in
Progress for Centuries.

newspaper in America?
Mary Katharine Goddard printed
the Declaration of independence?
Nine. Ducondray invented the man
nikin?
Mrs. Vandernplasse came from
Flanders and introduced the use and
manufacture of starch in England?
Mrs. Wilson managed the principal
line of omnibuses in London?
Joanna Alfred founded the oldest
scholarship at Harvard, established
it in 1855?
A woman manufactured the famous
Erard piano9
A woman owned the largest fax
mill in Europe. +
A child was the means or inspira-
tion of the spinning jerry.
Mrs, Thrale, of London, conducted
a brewery.
Onthe Island of Nantucket at the
close of the war men went to whale
fishing and women went into trade as
{storekeepers.
A woman founded the first savings
bank.
A woman planted the first potatoes
in New England.
A woman conducted crockery and
dry goods store in 1884.
I A woman was an official of the Bos
ton custom house and a real estate
dealer hundred years ago.
A woman in Minnesota cuts grave
stones in the rough as do men.
Women have had over hundred
years. experience in trade and horti-
culture.
A woman ran ferry from Slifton,,
Iowa, to Garden Plain, Ill.
Susan King and Nine. Demorest
promoted ''woman's tea company"
in New York.
A woman invented the nailed band
box,
Mrs. Green invented the cotton gin,
but it was patented by Eli Whitney.
A woman established the manu-
facture of buttons, although the busi-
ness was run by man.
The self-fastening button was a
woman's invention.
Two girls combing their hair in
spired the machine which combined
cheap cotton into moderately fine
yarn.
The seamless bag was invented by
q woman in 1924. ~
The machine for making satchel
buttoned paper bags was an impor-
tant one, and invented by woman.
The largest maker of champagne
was woman.
Two silk dresses were spun, woven
and colored by the skilful fingers of a
woman who raised the silk from the
worm.
Mrs. Sheldon introduced two hives
of bees in California in 1868. :
A woman tapped her sugar orchard,
cut her wood, gathered sap and made
400 pounds of sugar.
The first strike or turnout occurred
in 1886 by women on account of re-
duction of wages. It was not sue
cess.
Woman suggested the sewing ma
chine.
The knitting machire was based on
observations of woman handling her
needles.
A woman's sign reads: "Mrs. Gill,
Boot and Shoe Maker, Repairing
Neatly Done.''
Women are engaged in shoe, cotton
goods, sewing and dress silk factories,
hat and cap manufactures, broad
cloth, hoopskirts, corset and large
clothing establishments. They are
burnishers of gold and silver, electro
typers, bronze workers, printers, limo
type workers, watch case and watch
works makers, painters, of china,
makers of miro VS., table tops, taxid-
ermists and are employed in many
other pursuits, but the finished prod
ucts are listed under a masculine firm
name.
In very early days in America two
women kept a billiard saloon, fifty
conducted beer saloons, one woman
| a blacksmith shop, twenty women
kept butcher shops, one had wood
engraving business, one was drug
gist, one a stationer and bookseller,
fifty-two were doctors, two undertak-
ers, while three were pawnbrokers
and five livery stable keepers.
Woman is still the homemaker,
sym pathizer and helpmate to man,
albeit she is part of the great world
of commerce and finance.-Giselle
| D'Unger.