The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-21
EDITORIAL NOTES

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 The first @Portlapd ceuent'' was made by Joseph Aspdin, a bricklayer of Leeds. England. who received a patent on his invention eighty-nine years ago today. In the letters patent issued under the seal Of the English king the cement was described as artificial stone It was called Port land' by the inventor because of it's resemblance to the natural stone from the Portland quarries in southern Eng land. Aspdin made his first batch of tPortland' cement from mud scraped from the public roads, These highways were clay which had been macadamized. so that the material was a mixture of clay and lime. Natural cement, as distinguished from the ar tidcial "Port1and'' cement, has been in use since earliest times. The Ro- mans made it by grinding lava pro- cured from the slopes of Vesuvius. Af- ter the fall of the Roman empire ce- nent fell into disuse. and the industry was not revived until about i1750, when cemetn was made by grinding volcanic rock The 'sPortland'' cement indus try. founded by Joseph Aspdin, is now an important one all over the civilized world.
 Dr. Frederick Henry Sykes, who last March was chosen president of the new Connecticut College for Women at New London, was born at Queens vile, Ont.,s fifty years ago today and has long been prominent as an educa- tor in both Canada and the United States. Prof Sykes. as director of the School of Practical Arts at Teach ers' College, Columbia. University, be- bame the head of new movement which has as it's main purpose the cre- ation of a new earth for the fair sex by the elimination, as far as possible, of household drudgery
 Throughout the mans world" Dr: Sykes has pointed out, machines have taken the place of hands, but that branch of human, labor which has been regarded distinctively woman's has had comparatively little attention paid the victims of tragic waste of time and effort in mere durdgery, most of which could be as well or better done by machinery, and with the expendi- ture of but a. traction of the time and 1nuscular and mental effort. Rescue SaMornen from her drudgery, and you will rescue the race.
 s'.The twentieth century is destined to begin a new era for women, in the application of the sciences to her life and work Manufacturers and mer- chants are taking up scientific man agement,' and the business engineer has already accomplished wonders The next development will be the house hold engineerl' The home has been the last p1ace in which we have tried to introduce efdciencys but the new era has already dawned. Women have been too busy with the endless tasks of keeping house to evolve new and improved methods The poet told it when he penned the lines: Mans work is but from sun to sun, while 'EFomanss work is never done. ''
 Dr. Sykes, the prophet Of a. new era for women, was educated at the Uni Eersoty of Toronto, and began his ca reer as an educator in the secondary schools of his native province Later he became a. lecturer at the Ontario School Of Pedagogy, examiner in Eng fish of the Ontario Department of Ed ucation and the University of Toron- to, and professor of English and his tory at Western University, London, Ont. He joined the faculty of CoIum- bia University ten years ago. His name appears on the title pages of many books on educational topics.
 Louis Napoleon Parker. edramatist and composer, was born in Calvados, France. sixty-one years ago today. He wrote his first play when only seven teen. Upon leaving the Royal Acad- eEny of Husic he was appointed direc- tor of music at the Sherborne School in Dorset, England, and remained there nineteen years, when he re- signed to devote his entire time to the writing Of plays. Joseph and His Brethren 9 sePonander walk Drake and stThe White Sister are only a few among a multitude of dramatic successes He adapted 'SCyrano de Bergorac'' for the late Richard Mans field, and provided, Naude Adams with ..L,Afglon.' Mrs. Patrick Campbell starred in his ''The Sorceress.'' and Nat Goodwin in 'tBeautv and the Barge Otis Skinner starred in ''The Duel.'' and Mr Parker provided the translation for Viola. A1len's produc- tion of Bernetein's '-The FoId,' MT. Parker started the pageant movement in England, and inspired the Sher- borne, Warwick, Bury St. Edmun5s, Dover, Colchester, York and other ia nous pageants.
 Admirers of Will Carleton. author of lover the Hills to the Poorhouses'' Betsy and I Are Out" and other homely classics, will celebrate today the sixty-eighth anniversary of the birth of the poet of the people, The man whose gems of verse were read by millions throughout the English speaking world, died at his home in Brooklyn last December. Few modern bards have attained so wide a popular it. and his career proves that poetry does not pay" in financial sense. AL though he lived modestIy,. and was a lecturer and Journalist as well as a bard, he left an estate worth only $5@ GOO. If he had been little more ex- travagant in his tastes, and little less industrious, he might have f1gur- ed in some such pathetic incident as that described in his lover the Hills to the Poorhouse." Carletch's wide spread popularity proves that the heart of the great common people,