Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1876 — Some of the Articles in the Women’s Department. [ARTICLE]

Some of the Articles in the Women’s Department.

Sin correspondent of the Teurnal mentions « ffiw useful articles on exjrien’s Department at the lows: -blanket, invented by a \ which she has so cudiu»pended an Inch or two by means of a slender wire frame. It is said to be admirably adapted to the comfort of working horses iu hot weather. Mrs. Somebody, of Massachusetts, exhibits an india-rubber life-preserver, soninflating, and capable of being adjusted In less than a minute. A patent dish-washer made of galvanised wire attracts a great deal of attetotion, and seems to be quite an ingenious contrivance. It is the invention of an Ohio lady, and from the way in which the 41 machine” performs I judge it to be a IWmrJßlvihg success. This will be encouraging to all such men as may happen to believe in the coming of an era when the women of Araqylca shall run the political machinery thereof, and the men be left at home to do the baby-tending and dishwashing of the household. Another inventive lady exhibits a dustcatcher into which the tidy housewife or her servant-girl can sweep all the little rubbish and particles of dirt that accumulate on the carpets—including the quids of tobacco which the husband throws there because be is too neat to pitch them into the yard. There is a patent griddle-greaser which works so perfectly, and so completely supplies a long-felt want in every well-regu-lated family that when placed in the market it ought to go off like hot cakes or Fourth of July rockets. Look a little further among the collection of patented inventions and you will see a magic rolling-pin, capable of rolling out pie crust by the acre, with so little expenditure of physical strength on the part ■of the person handling it that you wonder whether pie-making will not soon be reduced to a fine art. 4> From Worcester, Mass., come some nioe -specimens Of darning, and other needlework, by a lady eighty years of age. Also, imlttens and stockings knit Mrs. Abigail Flagg Lovering, who is 100 years and four months old. These specimens of what a • centenarian can do in the wav of knitting are accompanied by a photograph of the old lady herself. Several specimens of fine needle-work and silk embroidery from the Union Benevolent Association, of Philadelphia, fill a large glass case, and make a creditable diaplay. Some work «ts a similar kind comes from Baltimore, including an apron wrought by a lady of seventy years. From England we have a few specimens of needle-work, executed by members of the royal family, including a splendid napkin, the flax for which was spun by Queen Victoria. In the collection of American work we find tatting that is hard to equal, and probably cannot lie excelled. In the department of Brazil I find ithat most of the women’s work is from convents, schools, and orphan colleges. The display, however, is very fine, and some of the articles evince a degree of skill which must challenge the admiration of all visitors. In the lot there is a beautiful picture, of delicate bag relief work in cork, executed by Anna Sexsedillo Faria, of Rio Janeiro. A likeness of a cat, done in worsted on cardboard, is the work of a little girl away down in Dom Pedro’s Empire. She desired to manifest her interest in the Centennial Exposition of America in some Eractical Way, and so she made agd sent er pussy cat. It is just suck a little thing as this that often sets visitors to thinking as well as looking. Brazil also lias*a fine display of crocheted tidies and quilts, embroidered Slippers, embroidered coats and similar articles, which combine beauty with utility in admirable proportions, il