Albuquerque morning journal., 1914-12-14
WOMAN PASSES
ON APPLICATIONS
' FOR TOY PATENTS
MRS. Santa Claus Makes IT
Her Business to Safeguard
Life and Limb of All Uncle
Sans Riddles,

ton. who has been nicknamed Mrs.
Santa Claus Miss Purinton is an as
sistant examiner OF patents. II IL her
duty 70 prevent any toy being granted
a patent which may be dangerous TO
Uncle Sans little folks. II Is also her
work to see that the original inventor
Of the innumerable ingenious play
things which crowd the stores at
Christmas time are protected In their
rights. In other words Miss Pufin-
tons keen brown eyes are the govern
ment's wide-awake detectives, who
not only protect the children from
dangerous toys, but protect the man
who invents "A harmless and clever one
from having his idea stolen and put
upon the market by some one who has
no right to It,
| Among the many examiners In
Washington there is but one other
woman. While II may be imagined
that II Is easy and remunerative work
to simply examine u lot of playthings
every day and discover II they are not
lonly harmless but deserving Of a pat
ent. II il job which few women or
men either, could fill. A vast amount
of technical knowledge is necessary.
Miss Purinton is an adept at detect
ing infringements and she is an eney-
clopedia of all the technicalitles per-
tanning to mechanical engines, motors
and such things. No plaything has
mechanism too Intricate for Mrs.
santa Claus mind and fingers. Every
mother in the land owes u debt OF
gratitude to the care of the quiet lit
| tie woman who works so diligently
every day at her desk to protect
Young America" from harm.
Last. week there was a case which
proves how very necessary IL Is that
childrens lives be safeguarded. AS
strange as il may seem. not long ago
right here in the national capital one
mother perruitted her eleven-y -ycar-old
son to go out with a toy gun, which
shot real bullets, 10 endanger not only
his own life but others. A little curly
headed boy ofseven, an only child of
la widow, who lived next door, was
afraid when the older boy pointed the
lgun at him in a spirit of fun. He ran
shrieking for his mother. At that mo-
ment the older boy pulled the trigger.
Today there Is broken-hearted
mother and lonely home. She never
Iagain viii know u merry Christmas.
The other family have their son. They
are 80 sorry jacks little gun went
off and killed the poor little fellow
OF course they are Mortified that any
one should blame their boy, who Is
.'only Il child" But how about the
father and mother who were not
children who dared to put the toy into
their boys hands. which cost another
woman her only, child? Uncle Sam Is
right. No dangerous toy should be
permitted TO be sold. for accidents
win happen, as long as parents are SO
criminally careless.
The Juggernaut festival In the !
Orissa district of Bengal. India, Is one |
about which the civilized world has
heard with horror, for centuries. In |
June or July each year thousands of |
pilgrims gather to do honor to the
heather god Vishnu. An immense car
OF pagoda forty-live feet high, thirty
five feet square. and supported by
sixteen wheels each seven feet in d.
afnater is drawn by hundreds OF pill
grims. 1t Is said that in a desire TO
propitiate the god, in a frenzy of fan
aticism at times men, women ana
even little children are cast under the
wheels of the great car, and their
lives crushed out.
Mothers in the Christian countries
Of Europe pity the poor ignorant
creatures in India who sacrifice hu-
man life to the fiendish worship oil
Juggernaut. And yet these very wom-
en- are doing the same, only far worse.
Not one but, hundreds OF thousands
are being provided the war-lord to be
ground under the heel Of the Moloch
war. Beloved sons in all their strong
Young manhood, with brave hearts
and smiling lips 80 by battalions TO
become food for cannon. Soldiers are
now commanded to marry, England
has recently Joined Germany and
Austria in urging her recruits to wed.
The great nations, we are told, wish
to protect themselves against a
failing birth rate" in view OF the
enormous death rate incident to the
war. Yes, truly! They wish to protect
themselves lest the supply OF human
victims offered up by Christian gov
ernments to the "Jack Johnsons, IT,
inch guns, hidden mines, submarines,
bomb-throwing air.
craft, and all the rest of the latest
diabolical improvements in death
dealing engines of distractions be ex-
hausted,
Many weddings arc occurring daily
Il is reported, and The archbishop or
and other high religious
dignitaries have reduced the mar
riage fee. English licenses which
formerly cost ten dollars, are now is
sued for five. and in Germany the
fees have been done away
with entirely. Very properly iron we'd
ding rings. are being substituted for
gold ones. Iron, the metal of which
cannon and bombs are made! Iron. 4
which will tear the young husband
limb from limb! Iron rings which love
may slip on a fair maiden's finger but
rings OF iron which war has forged
and which will all too soon crush
her tender heart. Oh, the pity Of 1t!
Well may Shakespeare declare,
What fools these mortals bel" And
Of all the fools the saddcst are the /;
poor blind women who are willing to
be cajoled into matrinony simply to
insure the required number OF men
TO be killed.
Mrs AntoInette Funk. acting chair /
man Of the new national congressional
sent members Of the house [
Of representatives O letter containing I
a brief survey OF the suffrage mea-
also called attention to the fact that 1
there are now eleven fully enfran- {
chised states besides Illinois. which +
has the presidential franchise. She q
stated that at the next presidential 1
election there would be, according to
the settled ratio Of increase. between
four and q half and five million wom-
en- eligible TO vote for presidential !
Electors. American women are no =
onger satisfied, Mrs. Funk declared. '
xhen they ask consideration Of their o
to receive the hack I
Keyed excuse that they were fairly
their constituents, when