Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 26, Number 21, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 November 1895 — Page 3

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WOMAN'S WORLD.

MRS. COCHRAN, WHO HAS WON SUCCESS AS AN INVENTOR.

Dm PtogrtwlTO Woman—JfewMt Styles la Collar*—Elisabeth C*dy Stanton The FudnK of the Apron—The Mew Woman.

Too Many Beads.

Few people living in Park Manor, one of Chicago's pretty suburbs, are •ware that the quiet little woman living in unostentatious manner at 6835 Anthony avenue is Mrs. Elizabeth GarisOoohran, a name familiar to inventors the world over, for Mrs. Cochran is herself an inventor and the descendant of an inventor. Add to this the fact that, unlike most inventors, Mrs. Cochran has herself handled her inventions, managing and attending to the smallest details of the large business she controls, and one sees an interesting personality in the bright faced, dignified woman.

Mrs. Cochran's chief invention, a dish washing machine, oocupied a conspicuous place in Machinery hall during the

MRS. ELIZABETH QARIB-COCHKAN.

World's fair, both because of its intrinsic value and the fact that it was the only exhibit there invented by a woman.

Mrs. Cochran's inventive faculty comes as a natural inheritance, she being the lineal descendant of Fitch, the steamboat inventor. Early environment, no doubt, has also been a strong factor in the bent of this woman's genius, her childhood having been spent amid the surroundings of mills and mill machinery in towns along the Ohio river. Her father had charge of woolen, grist and saw mills, and it was among the flying wheels of these that the little daughter found her chief pleasure in play hours. When her father died, Miss Garis went to live with a siBter in Windsor, Ills. Here she met and was married to William A. Cochran, who, during his life, was one of the most prominent men and politicians in- that seotion. One child was born, who, with the husband and father, has been dead many years.

It was soon after her husband's death that Mrs. Ccchran conceived the idea of .ch.ne which would do the work that ha*d become suoh a drudgery to so many women. She had no knowledge of drawing or the construction of a model or any of the principles of mechanism, yet she resolutely set about her task and never wavered until the conception was worked out in brass and iron, although it has taken 12 years and a fortune to do it.

It is a long jump from dishwashers to elevators, yet it is nothing less than a passenger elevator for elevated railway trains which Mrs. Coohran is now engaged in perfecting. The unique idea in this elevator is that the moving trains themselves lower and raise the elevators, an incoming train raising the elevator and the outgoing one lowering it. The need of passenger elevators in connection with elevated trains was forcibly impressed on Mrs. Cochran's mind one day, when, after a weary expedition in New York, she stood at the foot of the stairs at the elevated station—which wasn't elevated—and realized that before she could rest her weary self in a seat she x»unt climb those stairs. Then the idea began to flounder round in her gray matter, and so intensely did it absorb the traveler's attention that the flight of stairs was climbed, a tioket bought for she knew not where, Brooklyn bridge was crossed, a couple more tickets bought and railway lines traversed before the dreamer waked and found herself in an unfamiliar part of the city and miles away from her destination. "But," she says triumphantly, "my elevator was all but built-Chicago Times-Herald.

The Frosrcwin Woman.

The superficial observer has confused the term now woman with the real progressive woman. It is the fashion to take women cranks, vulgar women who make a spectacle of themselves, women writers of vicious literature, and call them "new" women. This title is also indiscriminately applied to the women of broad and progressive culture. The real progressive woman disclaims the term "now.'' She simply trying to develop herself as a human being along the lines designated by her nature and her surroundings. She is anxious that all other women should have the same opportunity for development. There is nothing really new about it. For 900 years a few women have insisted on becoming educated. During the last 60 years this class has increased, mainly through efforts along the lines of literature, art and philanthropy.

Among women who thus worked along individual lines are George Eliot, George Baud, Rosa Bonheur, Florean© Nightingale, Emily Faithfull, Julia Ward Howe, Dorothy Dixand Klienbeth Fry. Today this ia a common type. The term "new" woman originated in England with Mrs. Lynn Linton and her kind, who are protesting against the advance of women in new fields. In this country this type was called "women's rights" women at that time.

After the term "new" was transplanted to this country it was taken tip by the paragraphist. Then came the bicycle and bloomer erase, and the par­

agraphist applied the term indiscriminately, particularly to the woman who makes herself objectionable and conspicuous. On the other hand, the real progressive woman has the courage of her oonvictions and is simply carrying out her own individuality. Instead of household duties merely she has a larger sphere, a greater work in society. After all, she is the same woman of old, with the same loves and hatreds tuid family ties.—Ada CL Sweet

Newest Styles In Collars.

Emma M. Hooper, in writing upon "Accessories For Dainty Gowns," in The Ladies' Home Journal, states that crush or stock collars will continue in style made of velvet, silk or satin, as woolen goods are usually too heavy to lie in loose folds. Bosettes at the sides are rather passe, but points of the same or a contrasting material form a pretty finish. These points are named after the Parisian modiste Paquin. One point is turned over on each side, being inches wide at the top and a sharp point at the bottom where it is even with the lower edge of the straight or crush collar. Another style has a crush collar, with two pointed tabs and a tiny knot on each side flaring out like a pair of bird's wings. For a demievening dress a collar that is

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full neck is of velvet, forming a deep point. The ends meet in front under two email rosettes, and the back is three inches deep. To the edge of this is sewed ten inch lace, which is shown its full length front and back, while around the points it is only three inches below the velvet

By adding this collar and a beltcrushed or shaped in a point—of velvet a house dress maybe wonderfully freshened. Pretty collars and belts of No. 12 fancy figured or striped ribbon are made by shaping the center front with a or dart. At the back the hooks and eyes are concealed by four loops on each side. Two long ones project sidewise and two shorter loops are thrust straight out backward. Then for further decoration straps of the ribbon may be added over the shoulders, ending half way to the belt back' and front under a small bow, which may hold a fancy buokle,

Elisabeth Cady Stanton.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton celebrated her eightieth birthday on the 12th inst., and the following letter from her, which appeared in the New York Sun of the 4th inst., explains itself:

With reference to an article in your journal of Nov. 1 allow me space in your columns to say that as the probable recipient of a proposed gift from a working women's club I do not share in the disapprobation of many as to the nature of the gift

As a tribute of gratitude to one they may think has done much to open to them the world of work any useful garment should be acceptable. Whatever others may think of a robe de nuit, I do not see anything immodest or improper in such a gift, and I hasten to say this lest the working women's club should ohange its minds and send the traduced garment to the future Duchess of Marlborough, as none of the fashionable world nor the metropolitan press has expressed the slightest shock at the details of her wardrobe, although the most hidden mysteries have all been revealed.

Why should anybody be shocked by the garments worn in the sacred silence of the night, when the mind in sweet dreams wanders with the angels in the mysterious realm of the possibilities, when the thoughts of the sleeper may be more refined and exalted than in the glare of day or in an evening ball or reception?

All must admit that the robe de nuit is more modest than the fashionable evening dress and fax more comfortable, graoefnl and artistic.

So, have no fears, dear girls, that I shall scorn your gift With kind regards and sincere wishes that yoa may ever have good wages and plenty of work to do, cordially yours,

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON. The Paftslng of the Apron*' Although so much has been written about the advent of the bloomers as part of the new woman's dress, nothing has been said of the passing of the apron. Fifteen years ago the apron was an esteemed adjunct to the costume of every woman, no matter what station of life she might occupy. The fashion books supplied varying styles for the changing seasons and different occasions. There were bibless models and models with bibs. Pockets and strings marked evolutions in modes. Once the woman with a unique apron pattern achieved a temporary fame that was greater than that enjoyed by the wearer of the most outre bicycle suit of the present. Nothing so distinctly marks the change in the feminine character as this almost complete disappearance of the apron among the women who are today challenging attention.

Once every housewife was proud of her kitchen aprons of pretty gingham, her sewing aprons of sheerest lawn or linen, her fancy work aprons of dainty silk and lace. The apron was the badge of the housekeeper. The memories of its numerous vocations bring back a sort of heartsick feeling to the man who remembers the biscuits his mother used to make and the mittens his grandmother was accustomed to knit long ago. The new woman has no time to wear an apron. She has relegated it to the past, when her sex was in the thraldom of home. It belongs to the person who holds the pof 'Hon of nurse, cook or seamstress. It i-vi* not fit well with the bloomers. Th re is no place an the mannish wai-io^.t for the bft that was onoe so highly wteemed.—Philadelphia Timm.

Tlw K*w Wonm

A new woman has signally demonstrated her ability as a station agent under most tryintf circumstances. The Times recently called attention to the* opinion of a prominent railway official, who asserted that at certain classes of railway statios^ be believed the services

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of women were more acceptable than those of men. It was not to be expeoted that he would indorse a plan to put women agents in stations where the bold bandit might attempt to take unjustifiable liberties with the property of the company, but this new woman has demonstrated the practical utility of in oh an arrangement if all new women are suoh as die is, and she wasn't the regular agent either.

This woman's name is Mrs. Lena Marshall of Baden, Cal. She was left temporarily in charge of the railway offioe at that place, and two bandits tried to raid the station. She started to draw a revolver when they entered and demanded the money in the safe, but one of them shot her through the arm. XJn daunted, she emptied her weapon at the robbers, and they fled.

Another forward march in the strug gle for woman's rights, another victory gained over poor, weak man, another example of woman's ability to do men'i work successfully. Get out your note books, O suffragists! Here's a good point for your next speeoh. But mascu line admiration of Mrs. Lena Marshall'i courage and pluck will not be withheld. —Kansas City Times.

Too Many Beads.

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Hatpins are growing in elaborateness and expensiveness every day. Every conceivable design is made in rhinestones, silver, steel, gilt, gold and even jewels. Around ball seems the favorite conceit, and very effective it is in rhinestones, steel or what is oalled agate—a transparent blue glass, set with miniature jewels. The most useful and inexpensive black headed hatpin is no longeB4«ri possible, alas! and if we cannot afford real jewels, gold or silver we must deck ourselves in gaudy imitations thereof or be considered hopelessly behind the times.

The designs in silver are very varied and sometimec grotesquely inappropriate. A small Cupid, poised on a ball, may be artistic, but is certainly not appropriate to boldon a hat, and yet this is only one of many equally remarkable pins.—New York Herald. S

Paper Confetti at Wcddiuc*. #:•,

Rice at weddings is doomed. A com spondent informs us that in the upper ranks of sooiety the vegetable grains ore discarded and their plaoe supplied by paper confetti. These articles are about half the size of an ordinary letter wafer and are stamped in all colors. They are soft and pleasant to the touch and fall upon the bride's shoulders like the gen tie rain from heaven without wetting her dress or veiL The oonfetti can do no harm either to hat, olothes or face, and if a few stray down the baok of a bridesmaid or the best man they cause no uneasiness at the breakfast table, for they oan be sat upon with a delightful sense of ease. Exit rice enter oomfettj.— Exchange. &T

Bmily Maltose Morgan.

Miss Emily Malbone Morgan has written -an interesting little story, entitled "A Poppy Garden," the scene of which is laid in the town of Blandford, Mass., about 20 miles from Lenox. From the profits of the sale of this little work Miss Morgan has been enabled for the last three years to support a home for working girls in Blandford.

The Fit of Coata.

A ladies' tailor says that coats should fit well about the armholes and neck to secure comfort as well as a good appearance. It is a mistake, too, to select too heavy a oloth to make these garments, as when lined with the lightest of lining the weight is trying. Nor are they any warmer than a lighter, closely woven oloth. -v. s-,

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In a recent lecture on dress before the Hartford School of Sociology Mrs. Clara Colby of Washington, Who is an authority on physical culture and hygienic dress, described the corset as the cause of more tumors than any other one thing.

Mrs. Clare de Graffenreid is the only Woman in the labor bureau in Washington. Her reports of Investigations among the working classes in Belgium, England and elsewhere abroad are full of interest

Mrs. Elisabeth Pbippe Train, the author of "A Social Highwayman," is a Boston ian. She is between 40 ahd SO years old and greatly prefers living in Boston to living in New York.

Hemstitching seems to be the one requisite to elegance in then* days. Pillowsases and sheets of fine cotton, as well as those of linen, are hemstitched.

Are white wedding dresses going out? In Paris every wedding gown now ordered is of pale jrtnk cor rose ool*.

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black eyed seamstress appear­

ed the other day in the offioe of a well known oculist, complaining of her eyes. "They are strong enough," said she, "but they hurt me." "You have been focusing them," said he, looking critically into their depths, "upon some minute object for many hours at a stretch. There is coming a email furrow between your brows, and your eyes have a weak spot in the nerves at about sewing focim Do you use the needle much?" "I don't know," hesitated she, "whether you would call it much. I sewed jet beads upon 80 yards of white ribbon in wheel pattern, making a hand made trimming. Then I cut out the edges of the ribbon down to the beads and buttonholed both edges of the ribbon, keeping the in and out of the pattern, and then I fitted the beaded ribbon into a pattern of jet beads upon the back of a bodice. There were, I guess, a million beads, and I don't know how many buttonhole stitches. There wasn't one stitch as big as a machine stitch." "Ah," said the oculist, "I understand. Go home. Know that you have paid the price of a lifelong neuralgia with that beaded strip. But women must be in the fashion."—Philadelphia Press.

Fails In Hatpins.

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Workbags are almost as varied In style and kind as the work that is placed within them. So much ingenuity and taste are expended in making them that their beauty and convenience have almost displaced the old time workbasket, while the workbox and stand are scarcely ever seen. We might almost call it an era of bags, for they are now made for scores of purposes unthought of a decade ago. Every holiday season furnishes some novelties in bags, till it seems as though invention could no fur-

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ther go, and where formerly a woman had two or three bags at most she now counts her possessions of this sort by dozens.

The empire workbag is made of blue plush or corduroy. Take a square of the material of any desired size, round off the corners and line with rose colored silk, adding an Interlining of canvas, which keeps the bag in good shape. A half handkerchief piece of rich pompadour brocade, with the lower corner rounded off, and the whole edged with a gimp or a frill of narrow lace, is draped around the bag, straight across on one side, the ends fastening under a short pocket of the brocade, which is intended to hold thimbies, emery and wax or other small conveniences. On the opposite side is an escutcheonlike tab of plush or velveteen, crossed diagonally with gimp, lined with chamois and finished on the edge with a ruche of frill. It is fastened only at the top and serves to hold pins and needles. The bag is drawn up by ribbons run through gilt curtain rings sewed to the edge at distances of three or four inches.

The smallest illustration shows one of the most complete and convenient all ound workbags ever devised, while it is also one of the prettiest It is made of ribbon, either a wide sash ribbon or plain and brocaded ribbon overhanded together. The model bag is of plain violet satin ribbon with violet brocaded ribbon between. A disk of bronze morocco, 6 inches in diameter, bound with narrow ribbon of the same color, forms the bottom and is overhanded to a rib bon covered disk of cardboard, just as the favorite little pocket pincushions are made, and when the bag is finished the seam is stuck full of pins.

A strip of 2 inoh violet ribbon surrounds the lower edge of the bag inside and is divided by lines of dainty feather stitching into tiny pockets for thread, silk, buttons, eto. The bag should he seamed up first, finished around the top

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with a ribbon through whioh toVrun the draw strings, and then have the ribbon for the pockets put on, after whioh it should be gathered and overhanded to the bottom disk. When used in traveling, the top of the bag, drawn in closely with the draw string, can be thrust down into the center, this shutting the pockets completely, so that nothing can tumble out There is room in the center for needle book, scissors, a bit of work or anything else wanted.—Demorest

Trained Vanes In Oermaay.

A noteworthy innovation in Germany la the introduction of trained nurses such as other countries are blessed with. Heretofore the caretakers of the poor and the sick have for the most part been illiterate, incompetent and awkward, if kindly, peasant women, who have taken but a three or six months' course in nursing. Even the deaconnesses of good families have had to contend with a sadly insufficient knowledge of, the duties and responsibilities connected with their calling. Now, a nurse's training is to extend over two years, with the best of opportunities for medical and surgical study in the clinics and hospitals, an immeasurable gain for both physicians and patients.

Women Illustrators.

Afield in which women are doing an increasing amount of work each year ia that of newspaper and magasrine illustrating. At all the art schools this fact is amply attested to. In the Art Students' league two-thirds of the students are women, and a goodly proportion of them are devoting themselves exclusive ly to this branch of art It is the testimony of those most competent to judge that women will soon do as good work in this field as mm, to whom the palm of superiority has heretofore been given. Already individual women do as well as men, but the claim ia for the elevation the average standard. ~New York tinea.

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