Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-13

eyes. Although listed as maker of the
same. she disclaimed that honor, saying
all those most likely to simulate a nat
ural orb are constructed in Paris.
1t is after the patient has been operated
upon and the order for glass eye taken
and delivered that Mrs. Hempler appears.
BY some weird twist of the wrist or in
f1uence of mind over matter which she
does not explain the artificial eye is COM
PEELED to stay put and to beam out as
bIandly as though it had always been
mate to the good eye. Mrs. Hempler is
said TO be the only woman in the United
States who does this work, and until a
woman started in the same line in Paris
recently she held the honor for the world.
Asked how she happened to take up such
an unusual pursuit she replied, Il just
drifted into ii somehow
Washington is remarkably prolific i'll
women lawyers and netaries public For
any other city. They range from Belva
Lockwood. who has argued case before
the Supreme Court, down to the newest
beginner of a notary, who has taken 1t
up sort of side on stenoSraphy. More
than elsewhere these. local Portias-hOw
they do loathe that title!-are conceded
respect and ability. Mrs. Ellen Spenser
Mussey, very well known lawyer ana
dean of the Washington College of Law,
belongs in the very front row of this
galaxy. Then there is woman residing
in the tranquility of cunt Pleasant after
her strenuous office day is over, who is
a commissioner of deeds and claims, a
full-fledged notary and an authority ana
attorney on patent claims.
Nor must the claim agents be forgot
ten, nor certain lone woman lobbyist
who gets her bills through both houses
by eloauence and persistence. rather than
the oglng methods of so many of her
traditional congressional sisters. Rumor
has it that some very ambitious meas
ures have been sidetracked or passed upon
favorabiy through her interest in them
one way or another.
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Mrs W. A. Leonard of the Treasury
Department has had to endure many
pleasant gibes from masculine cotem-
poraries because of her marked ability
TO Immediately detect the counterfeit from
the genuine in currency. And she can
afford to take it pleasantly. for her unique
merit is a very profitable ore. She has
the satisfaction of knowing that twice
month a generous supply of real dollars
come her way.
Equally interesting is Mrs. A. f. Brown
of the Treasury. known as the lightning
calculator She can count money faster
than a multi-millionaire can spend ii. and
none of it ever sticks to her fingers but
goes falling rhythrnically just where It
should all. Hers is an arduouS task, COM
bning the quintessence of both mental and
lily atigue. but it proves very desirable
way to earn a living and one utterly be-
yond the ken of the average woman or
man either.
Way, way down the financial ladder
from these representatives is the coll
ored woman who keeps the wolf away
from her door by keeping cats inside
ii. Very many WashingtonianS of the
sex feminine have highly. developed
fondness for felines, and refuse to let
their pets roam the streets while they
are away for the summer months So
the latter are conveyed to the aforesaid
domicile and for the sum agreed upon
kept supplied with food and place TO
stay until their owners return.
Yet the woman would often find her
peculiar business tagging if it were not
for obdurate apartment house Janitors
who refuse absolutely to allow a cat on
the place. The women. who have moved
into fats and yet cannot bear the idea of
giving up their four-footed idols install
them in this cat home and call upon
them frequently with all due pomp and
ceremony. Meanwhile the caretaker
runs business which is the only one
of it's kind in town.
When trade or profession suggests
very hard work and difficulty of eXecu-
ton the humber of women listed as be-
longing to it is usually small. which
may be the reason why Mrs. j. L. Thorn
son is the only engraVer who could be
located In tie government. She is an ex-
pert and declared to be worthy the adj
mission she has gained in the ranks of
masculine occupations.
A solitary female junk dealer is listed
in Washington, though it seems rather
an epticing method of gaining living to
women, who are such natural-born col
lectors. Apropos. this is pursuit until
very lately entirely monopol!zed by mas
culines, but into which several women
have gone with all the zest Of new
convert. Somebody reasoned out that,