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Daily British Whig (1850), 14 Jan 1914, p. 11

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» [FLMOST nokaown to the MR busy millions that traffic 8 vp and down sre women fin tLe: United Statps who Re spend thelr lives--and risk PN them, (oo=In the epuse of p are dmong (be great no neers o res. In quiet laboratories Ko 10 N ! | i 1 CAUSE they' dace the uokuows, the deadly forces | of gerins 'snd untried cvewicst resctives. They Inbor to leave the world better than | they fonnd it, bleadse of the deetil Bowl: . edge they lmve added to the love of @mau- kind. They gre the onberalded Mme. Curles, the seekers after few radiums. : Lo-day. thes are 'simost unkuewp. 'ko wortow 'they may be numbered with the immortals. The cold" ster of thelr, fame may rub' meteorlike', across the" earth over night, and the world scanuipg the morning paper over its breakfast egg (it I adwinediy a 'man's world) may re- mark :--"Look at that now ; here's another wornar discotered someting." One contribution to kngwidige and they are contest. For this they sperd years aver test tubés and on Journeys to'far off lauds. : You wold sevér think of them ae deeply learned scientists could you see them. They aye quiet and unagsertive, ds is fit- ting: '1¢ wkes 'time 4nd patience to ght thers to spear of their work, aad when you have sucgeeded they bave little to say snd that rither of what they hope to dis- cover than of what they have so¢om- plished. | i | i "I spent some years in research work in Germany," she said, "and it was there doripg & year of private work that 1 de- vised a 'method of measuring rapid 'elec-| trical oscillations and conductivity, When | I find time from my lectures { work ow a new point of attack and hope to accom-| plish sameshing. Beyond a few mono-| graphs en discoveries in the frequency of | h Nibration I bave done little that I hoped] for." woman should add to the higher knawl-| edge of electricity, a study in which only men were eugaged aud recognized a few years age.) "1 am gla' to be numbered! Stich a one is Margaret E- Maitby, Phin the roll "Men 'of Science' and hope some | 1x yy) a-Cyanocinnamy (Bhe 'considered it little that a Acid." One} experiment covered six months, that of lidenacetate (stable Uyanocinnamylidenacetic D.. of Columbia, who teaches physics and|dsy tc hit on semething useful in 'myieo..) (of jt Miss Reimer writes:-- This | experimetit in higher electricity. She is also an A. B., A. M. and 8.°B. These degrees were disclosed by reference to sariots published treatises on her work. There may be more--degrées and treatises, One cannot: chirp up, "How many degrees hate you got? when w doctor of philoso phy and all the rest is sparing & few wmo- wets between experiments and classes to speak of her work in science; and par- ticularly. when her conversation is of thermo-dynawmics and precise methods of phensuring rapid ofcillaticiis, 41) delivered ina quick, concise style that 'you are struggling to grasp, even 'nebulously. About forty-five years old, strong and pleasant, her exact speech suggested the science shea delved in. Sone is wholly frank and unpedantic. > ao x Concerning Your Daughter. Tews little ones in the handsomest of finery. Those that are wealthy think a week wasted fn which some dainty little addition has not been made to the juventie wardrobe. Even the poorest. mother is thelined 0 her hard earned money an & new sash or a new bounet for her child. Bul jal these fond and indulgent mothers should be careful not to overdress| their children. They alould remember thint the slmplest frocks are in the best taste. , + This Warne' may. fot apply to the ma- jority, but it certainly applies fo a great many, too. many, unfortunately. The women who belong to this class are those who "want to get their money's worth." If they spend fifteen dollars on a frock for a child they want that frock to look like fitieen dolaps, not Ake They do net apfireciate the ta that Sime not. sed not be audy and. overtiimmed fn order to, look ay - It really does mot look well for a little 1 to. be laden Hite frodk is much more childish and sweef HERE is nothing that hy t moth~ ri love miite so A rte: i A plain dainty experiments." Khe peglected to mention that in the list "Men of Science" there is & star be- fore ber name. Also she neglected to say that she is the first woman to receive a i scientific degree in' Germany. She is a | graduate of Oberlin (Mass.) Institute of {Technology and Goettingen University, {Germany. It was while engaged in pri vate research in the Physikalisch-tech- pische Reichapstalt that she made her discoveries. Then there is Marie Reimer, Ph. D., of Barnard College, who has numerous de- grees' and 'has dene research work in Berlin, She is engaged now in: experi- ments on the reaction of light on various orgapic compounds. If the subject were not serious one might be tempted to say "whee!" on reading the titles of some of the published accounts of her discoveries. Here is one:-- f { ester melting at 113° may be prepared] quantitatively from the acid! by heating] the latter with a three per cent solution | of hydrochloric acid in ethyl alcohol orl by the Claisen condensation of ethyl] eyanoacetate with cinnamic aldehyde." Several things happen to the mixture, and | among them she finds that part of the | ester is "polymerized" and that "'oxidiza-| tion and isomerization occur." | Another published work is "Reactions | with ; Methyl a-Phenylcinnamylidenace-| tate." But the palm of polysyllabics is. borne by a compound used by Miss Reimer in! her work of discovery. The linotype man | cannot get it all in one line, but His is the worry. Are you ready? ' Repeat| slowly : -- "Diphenyltetramethylenebisme- | thylenecyanacetate." Never mind if*you don't know what it means. Suffice it to say that the scientific "The Action of Light on Esters of | world understood and accepted it grate New York, Saturday. OURTEREN years ago a brightly col- and it was announced that Junch would be served there st any hour, day of aight, except Sunday. That was the pio- peer owl wagon in New York. Boys and men at that time felt it something of an advedture iv ¢liub joto a restaurafit. on them out at night snd whe found it giffi- cult to get their food when and where they wanted it. There were aot so many tes: those days as there are now. "From that lunch wagon," explained Migs M. K. Graham, general secretary of the Church Temperance Sotiey, "has grown a great and unique work. Tease that an application had been made for I aight licenses by 200 apldon. k my father, to whose place as 3 thati the gaudy one and will never look cheap. Now, an overtrimuned dress, me much it costs, always has a ded after his death two ¥ A entirely inadeq Joke we own. A thend ghve the a oie Sante mere fesdy to Moreover, we gave of its kind that money could buy, and we have gone on doing that and. in spite of the fact that we have fo pay more for pur food than formerly and that ouremplayes have to be more highly paid, we have never raised prices nor reduced the sive of the portidhs. [© think we probably Bold & vecord on'that. NEW YORK'S "BREA ored van drove into Hérald Sguarel" wheels, and the convenience of it made al} strong appeal to men whose work kept| taurants open in the wee shall hodss in ee story will be par understood, TS WHO BRAVE DEATH FOR Marte Retmer, Mutat Professor of Chem» | | 1 something big is discovered by her, x 1 be tremendcusly useful that her name and the nature of her experiments will be known. And even ti to mankind | en" the commercialized celerity of speech (provided the thing was marketed) would quickly change the name of the dis- covery (in the advertising department) {and call it by some catchy word, easily { pronounced Aud up in Barnard, too, there is Ida H. | Ogilvie, Ph. D, calm eyed mountain climber, explorer and instructor in geology. {1t is not such writings as thosé of hers {around "Analcite-Bearing Camptonite " {from New Mexico" and "Igneous Rocks" ST that the layman would "be interested. { Rather the fact that eve: she dares ida H. Suivis, PhD. Bamary College | nnknown paths and hy as of {hitherto unclimbed mountains in quest of fully 'as an addition to knowledge. Any- knowledge, is the thing to level surprise how, what does the superior business man avd admiration at. know of such things? If, however, after] All the way from British Columbia and reading this,ke admits that perhaps some ils snow topped. mountains, far from the women know more than he, the point of the | course of civilization, down to the heart of tly ghined. Miss Reimer | Mexico, Miss Ogilvie has prospected with vv be some day largely | bammer and pick--but not for gold. She is dotibtful. 'It is only| Was trying to discover something hitherto and 'her work D LINE ON WHEELS," A WORTHY CHARITY, PUT ON BUSINESS BASIS ers, workers of all grades. The wagons re-neat and clean, so that the most fas- {tidious are not offended, that the custom-| er can see just what is being prepared' and how. it is done as he waits for his erder to be cooked. | '¥, "The society has seven wagons now in "| xarious parts of the city, the latest one| being in Madison Square. This was pur | chased from the ten thousand dollar fund: left to the society by Miss Caroline Phelps. |Stokes to maintain a wagon in perpeltity. | The price of lunch wagons, like: other the valueehings, has advanced. We can no lowger | | buy them for $1,000 each as we did at| first. Neighborhood conditions change, too. Union Square, where we formerly bait a much patronized wagon, is now jhe! beart of a wholesale district that is com- paratively deserted at night. < "Out of the profits of the luneh wagons we have paid for our work among the longshoremen, which is what we afe es pecially interested in furtherijig at present. About four years ago a longshoreman | Wrote to us, tellibg us low difficult it was: for the longshoremen fo find any piace in 'which to pass. their waiting hours exdept | the ever open saloon; closing his letter by saying; "This ix more than 1 have writ ii thirty years." We dd wot Know much about the character and conditions of the longshorewan, hut we sét to work 1a ip: -| form ourselyes. There are about Fifty thousand of these men, and their wath is ublike that of any other. They. never Enow' beforehand. when they date to work and when they will be idle. A lot of them 'shitpe up' for 3 job and when enough have! {for Wig mest job. This been chosen the others go away and = # x get home with jt. came, that lore a wich needed work! unions and: for. ) Owl: Lunch uncertainty makes it difficult for the men streets, but the owners refused us. Then to get proper rest or recreation and still we hired the entire house, fitted it up _ herder for them to save any of the money jand called it the Longshoremen's Rest. they get for their work long enough to| 'Some persons shook their heads and - said that the longshoremen would never "We went to the steamship companies,icome, but we went ahead and sent out hut they gave ns Jittle encouragement. | invitations to all the longshoremen in Indeed, almpst every one, including thejcity to bring their pipes und men themselves, were very lacking in en-|make themselves at home. tists, but the "loré' we saw of the{bave a very complex organization water front and of the men whose work! this made things was there the more convinced we be-! we 'asked those wl £ hin which no ale Wis making it his business! to 'tome to to nidertake. So "We Qecifed to do it.|that politics w Taking all tings 0 consideration, we|They distrusted what thought the Cia Hiker the best one thought that we might for our fulkwfc, and: we tried to rent one|an alliance with the ems hptige in: Eleventl) avenue, be-| were goiug to attempt to pn k iH bave some i 2 onknown fu the great world of science, In Mexico she descended volcanoes and prospected over almost impassable coun- {try. Her adventures have been numer ous ghd at times dangerous. Much of her time was #pent in the Ortiz Moun- {tains of New Mexico, which afforded | interesting data on erosion in an arid {climate. These mountains also told thelr secrets to Miss Ogilvie, secrets they had kept since the pleistocene period, when {they lay south of the great ice fields. { Fhis work, coupled with a few trips {after glaciers (they are supposed to be moving down this way but they don't come very far) have occupied Miss Ogil- 'vie's time when she was not teaching in Barnard. 'When you combine the ideas {of volcanoes and glaciers in one pars- jgraph and ascribe thie trip to a woman | there is action enough for even the hardi- jest. These things has Miss Ogilvie done | without any reward other thai the satis- faction of working for the advancement of knowledge. And if the result of some newly blazed trail is a book om igneous rocks, with analyses carefully figured out, we can at best read it humbly, pot know- ing much about igneous rocks ourselves but willing to '~arn. Some day Miss Ogilvie may strike a specimen that will suggest a new theory of. creation or prove one of the several that are lying about loose, with deadly germs in lsboratories ail over the world, striving to find the means of stopping disease, rather than the cure, there are women in New York who work side by side 'with some of the most noted of them. In Rockefeller Institute there are Dr. Martha Wollstein and Dr. Linda Bertels Lange, who conduct experiments in bacteriology and pathology. % al however, and when they found comfort- sble chairs and games and illustrated magazines, all to use at their pleasure and not a rule in the place, thity sue hundred men a day dropping in for the conifort of the Rest. "The first thing we did was to put in chairs, benches, ice water fountains and lavatories. Then we hung pictures om the walls, the kind of pi those men could appreciate; bought magazines and games and plenty of playing cards and told the men to enjoy themselves. It is their Rest, without restrictions. "Another branch of our work is that of sending out two coffee vans all during the social season, so that waiting chauf- feurs and coachmen may have refresh- ments. - Early in the winter we send no- tices to the hostesses who are glad to avail themselves of the sdvantages of the wagons. . Just now the Squirrel Inn, our place for the unemployed on the Bowery, is demanding much of our at- tention. We have bought the buildi While noted professors are battling] cumbed, and we usually have four or five| & F SCIENCE AND HUMANITY Dr. Wallsteln bas published in the Journi! of Experimental Medicine ser: eral of her discoveries. She is getting closer all the while to the discovery that may some day leaye pneuiecnia no longer dreaded. She may save millions of lives by a single discovery. Her work is dan- gerous. Patients with communicable dis eases are under her observation in wards {separated by partitions of glass. On the Pp i that di te iss} comes mainly from direct contact with the infected parts, her work is wost dan. {gerous because she is daily using millions of germs in her experiments. One of her tests was to find whether "the pneumonic lesion produced by the streptococcus was a forma of poewmonia caused by a less virulent crgapism." Soe found it wasn't. So she decided "flat leucocytie infiltration of the framework of the lunge which occurs invatiably -in streptococcus pneumonia aod Which is practically absent in the lesions caused by the virulent as well ag by the non- virulent paneumococcus, is a strong enuigh featare to form a dividing line between the two forms of experimental puen- monia." Imagine such a thing as a woman séme years ago telling the scientific world of the action of germs in experimental . monia! Yet Dr. Wollstein is listened. to and her monographs are eagerly read by doctors all over the world. Other women scientists are scattered shout in colleges and private 1sboratories. Their very names are hard to discover sud nothing is known about them, except that they are highly trained and devoted to te- search. Any one of them may be the Mme. Curie of America through some ex- periment that discloses something of worldwide importance, These women .may be called the truly great ones of the feminist movement, they and the other women who devote them- selves to the welfare of humanity along lines of, scientific uplift and woral regen: eration. Not one of the Mme. Curies who were interviewed showed the least trace of aloofness or irascibility that is encom, tered sometimes in wen scientists who often adopt the foibles of the truly great as their own glory increases. They were women of great kuowledge, which they are required to display constantly while fighting for a foothold in the seisnfific world. That realm is perhaps the only one where bluff has ne pert All that Is there is precise and determined snd can be acquired only with effort. After learning all that has 'been at tempted along their chosen scientific lines, they must plan "points of attack," ax Ms Maltby, of Columbia, called' her experi: ents. In this way they discover the nn- known. And to this end they are striving for the good of the world. : What Every Girl Should Know About h UNNING the home is just ag much a business to the women who Jo if ua any man's work is to him. © Iit fact. it I» & much bigger business than meat wen ae iy nt wl ie Insite Wh @re a great ded] of work The kitchen alone requires &n 'artist tn the culinary iin expert business woman In all othér linea | Few women combine both these requisites, unfortunately, and perhaps that fs the reason why so few kitchens are Perfectly conducted. Thers should 3 fuck System in running the kitchen 3a the most exacting business would de | One absolutely essentiar part of any business is clear, well-kept accounts, and et toms De with the kitchen. Ace of every item should be reco: ace and added up each week. hl Fone most women are blind' ts usiness side of the kitchen. The Method of at wif and Paving the bills at the end of the month he aay and requires no oe, White Systematic mays call for a tie added Bet only e but and must find the money to pay the taxes and keep up the running expenses. Here the men can find warmth, shelter we can to keep up their courage and give them a fresh start." Miss Graham zives all of her time to the work. The president of the Woman's Auxiliary' is Mrs. George S. Bowdoin and Bishop Frederick Courteney is the president of the general society. OF Interest to Women. Two causes have ledl to the reappearance of the petticoat, no longer by any means tempestuous. One of these is the chill in he air appropriate to the season, The other is the prevalence of semi-transparent ma- terials for gowns, which would be quite] impossible without a petticoat or under- skirt. The Jatter word ghems favored by |taflors, some of whom appear to imagine that a savor of indelicacy hovers about! the good old name "petticoat." It means exactly the same as the French "fupon," little skirt. The new petticoats are slit up at various points, so that they can be worn with skirts, also slit, but not in the same Way as the petticoat. ! : At a recent French race nieeting one |smart woman appeared in a novel gown that al once won its way to favor in the med all beholders. It was immediately | and some of them work. We do what|*® tieg schema of color in which it was ! "the pillar box," from the Start}

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