THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MAY 5, 1912.
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Santa Monica, Cal., May 4, 1:31 p. m. '
The Maxwell car, driven by George Joerman, won the
light car race in the Annual Santa Monica Road Race today
and broke the American record. Time for 101 miles was
one hour, 37 minutes and 57 seconds.
This is the same Maxwell line of cars selling for $1150 which have performed so
splendidly in every event in which they were entered. The last Annual Glidden
Tour was won by the Maxwell, and now the same sturdy little car won the Santa
Monica Road Race. Come in and let us show you a duplicate of this car at $1150.
UNITED MOTOR OMAHA COMPANY
2115 Farnam St. Plione Douglas 7703.
Patent Office Record Bereali Their
Growinf Ingenuity,
APPLICANTS STEADILY INCREASE
Met ef the Articles Pateated by
Waaara Hair, to Da with Drew
mm Domestic ar Farming
Apparataa,
It ha. been but m .hart time .Inc.
woman ntred other field, of effort than
thoM provided by th. home. Tt ah.
bow write book., mualo and plays in
epan and successful competition with h.r
mat, produces work, of art, aoulptura
and painting, compete with bus oa th.
athletic fiald, excels him In nursing, win.
fame and tartan. In (uch profession a.
ar. open to bar, .uch a. medicine, sur
gery, college and eUIement work, and
aven occasionally write, her nam. tarf.
In tha clntlne world, a. Mr. Fleming,
th. famous astronomer, and Mm. Curie,
th. discoverer of radium, hav dona. Per
hap It la because aha hun t yet wanted
to put It there, that her nam. la not on
th. Ut of great Inventors. She at
yet claim a telegraph, telephone, it earn
engine, eiectrlo light, reaper, binder, cot
ton ain spinning Jenny, improved loom.
wlreleea telegraph, aeroplane or auto
mobile.
The reason t not far to seek. She
hasn't- bad time. When th. 11 census
came to the question of patenta and It
listed patents granted to men la
this country since tha beginning of the
patent system, but MM patents were
credited to women, nine-tenths of 1 per
cent of the total Issue. But the per
centage of patenta granted to women In
creases yearly. Thus, from 17M until Mi
there were IteS patent granted to women
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and from IS8J to 18K. KtM, In seven years
more than doubling the total that had
been accruing for the previous ninety,
eight years. And from UK unUI 110
there were HI patents more, bringing
the total number up to S.H. as stated
The Pioneer.
The first patent granted to a woman In
this country went to Mary Kles for a
process of straw and alls: weaving. The
patent was Issued May a, la, before
the system of numbering patents went
Into vogue The second patent given a
woman was Issued more than six years
liter. Mies Mary Brush had an Idea for
Improving a corset, and on July n, Ula,
received her patent en that Invention.
Patent No. t to a woman went to Miss
Sophie Usher, four years later, and on
September 11. lilt, she became the owner
of a United States patent on a process
for making violet wster and cream of
tartar Into a toilet lotion.
Not until th. eighth patent to a woman
came to Issue did madame leave such
womanly subjects as weaving, kitchen
utensils, clothing and cosmetics for the
stsrner arts. On May 10. ISM. on. Phoebe
Collier procured a patent on sawing
wheel fellies, which apparently Inspired
another woman to leave her sphere for
aa excursion Into man's domain, so that
when Miss Elisabeth H. Buckley took
her patent home with her, the ninth Is
sued to a woman, she had sole rights to
a certain way of making a aheet-lron
ehovet-thls was February 8. lot.
Unfortunately, the great patent office
fire destroyed many early documents and
copies of patents, so that much Informa
tion about these early Issues Is hard to
got It la a pity that wa do not know
what Miss Harriet Cook had la mind
when she received the fifteenth patent
granted to a woman, February X, UJt,
for a "calash balloon for ladles.'' Is It
an article of dress? Or an alrahlpf one
suspects a bustle, but speculation has no
plaoe about so serious a matter as a
patent.
Ftret Certificate laaaeJ.
The first numbered patent to go to a
woman was No. LOTS, oa February 1 l&a
to Eltsa Aon B. Judklna for a method of
needing. Whether "shedding" lndl
eated some early depilatory process or a
manner of putting up outbuildings or re.
fers to taking the heart out of fibers of
some sort, ia not known.
The great civil war which flooded tha
patent office with devices of aU eons
applicable to carnage and bloodshed from
inept res eltlsena, who desired thus to
atd their country tat a price) while safely
being token care of back home, had
little Influence hi stimulating women to
Invent But few patents granted daring
thoee years were to women, and of those
few but a scant half dosea have any
bearing on the war. Martha Willis of
Rochester. N. T- received Patent No
Ml, la MM. for a bandage, and Clarlaaa
Britain of St. Joseph. Mich, Patent No.
. for aa improved ambulance. In
list Apparently having an eye more to
military beauty than th. care of the In
lured, one Sarah Morsman of Cleveland.
. paid for Patent No. .7, in the'
same year on an Improved military can.
nut Mary c. Ross and Louise Anderson, j
the first of New York and the second
process of building war veeielirbuT
most of them confined to bandages, medi
cine and comfort for the sick.
A strange feature of women's Inven
tions as shown by patent office records
is that a child's toy was not patented by
a women until as late as 1867, when Elis
abeth Hawks procured Patent No. M.HB
on a plaything for babies..
Where Woman's Skill Ski.r.
Ths great majority of patents granted
to women have to do wtth articles of
dress and domestic or farming apparatus.
improvements In corsets and new de
signs In these garments get more atten
tlon from the woman Inventor than any
other one thing. But the other articles
of dress run a close second, especially In
more recent years, when Improved meth
ode of manufacture' have made possible
so many variations In underwear.. Im
proved and new designs in underwear.
In chlidrea't garments, in hose support
ers. In shoes, caps, hatpins, safety pins.
stockings, all get a great deal of atten.
tlon from women Inventors, again closely
pressed by her interest In kitchen end
garden utensils and in farming tool..
Occasionally the woman Inventor takes a
dive Into more obrtruse realms and gats
a patent on a means for desulphurising
ore, or mounting fluid lenses, or an Im
proved method of guiding traction en
gines, but the vast bulk of her Inven
tions relate either to her dress or thoee
things which more Immediately sur
round her In her household life.
But the fair sex has not confined Its In
ventive faculties either to strictly fem
inine matters, nor to science, art, manu
facture or th. art of war. Among the
patent, granted to women are many de
voted to masculine comfort, among which
are to be noted a trouser tree, a mus
tache guard, a machine fo- making ciga
rettes, a man's necktie clasp and holder.
a protector for dress shirts, a folding
natntuo lor travelers, etc.
Leet some should think that because no
woman has yet made a great and epoch
making Invention therefore aha la apt
to make ridiculous Inventions and obtain
thoee freak patents so beloved by the
comic paragrapher, let It be said that the
number of freaks patented by woman Is
small in proportion to the total number
of patenta she has obtained. Nor Is this
hard to understand-the faculty of In
vention hi not as yet largely developed.
therefore It does not overgrow Itself ar
"run to seed." Freak Inventions, of
which men produce so many, are a re
sult of an unbridled, untrained Inventive
faculty, which, properly directed or edu
cated, might result In good. Womaa sel
dom makes these varieties of Inventions,
strange to say when she does get
Into the freak class she Is often discon
certingly close to the practical, and
though one laughs at the freak be can
not but see that there was a real Idea to
the fore, even If the means and the remit
are somewhat outre.
Aa "tll-Woeiaa" Pateat.
No story of woman's inventions would
be complete which failed to mention the
"feminine" patent taken out by Minnie
Agnes Phelps of Chicago. 111. This Is a
recent patent, which soil has eleven years
to run. having been granted December 11.
It Is remarkable as being the in-
patenta filed every year In the patent of
fice. Of these two-thirds, or about rt.000,
go to Issue. Of these 40,ooe each year sees
aa Increasing number Issued to women.
A feature which is generally remarked by
all who handle patents Is that compara
tively few Invention, claimed by women
and filed for patent are rejected when
she has an Idea for an Invention she Is
usually sura of Its use, practicability and
novelty.
Of the rewards earned by women In
Invention It Is hard to get data. A oar
coupler brought one woman a large roy
alty, a printing press Improvement netted
another a neat sum. A young woman
now living In New Tork draws a royalty
of several hundred dollars a month from
an Invention regarding the making of
buttonhole, on strips of cloth, sold In all
shops to women who buy them to sew
Into shirt waists, etc. Many Inventions
relating to dress and household utensils
have brought handsome rewards to the
brains which conceived them, and many
designs are applied to articles of every
day use everywhere.
As stated before, while no woman haa
aa yet written her name beside that of
Morse, Edison, Howe, Whitney, Uood-
year or McCormlck, there Is no reason
why she may not do so. Women so far
have taken out less than 1 per cent of the
total patents Issued. But a very, very,
mall traction of 1 per cent of the total
patents Issued can be minutely resubdl-
vlded and still be a number too large to
apply to the real epoch making Inven
tions, so that there Is plenty ef time for
milady to make her great Invention and
SUI1 be well within the operation of the
law of averages. Scientific American.
SUIT AGAINST TANNER
IS TAKEN FROM THE JURY
The lawsuit against the Ben I. Tanner
company for the sum of IKKO, alleged to
be forthcoming on the sale of real estate
by Max L Woolfson. plaint! ft was taken
away from the jury In United State, dis
trict court by Judge Page Morris.
The counsel for the defendant company
proved that Woolfson had no claim
against them, whereupon the court or
dered th. ease dismissed.
All Juror, were excused to report Mon
day morning at I M o'clock.
SAVI0GE GOES TO LINCOLN
TO DEDICATE NEW CHURCH
Rev. C. W. Savldge goes to Lincoln this
evening to dedicate the Union People's
church at College View, near Lincoln.
Mr. Savldge wilt apeak this evening at
o'clock to the people of the church
oa their bus! news affairs. At 11 o'clock
the church will be dedicated.
Subject of the morning service Is "Have
Faith In God" and the subject of the
evening sermon is "My Last Beat
Chance" or "Is There Any banger of
My Losing My Choice."
I ventlon. of a woman, the application of
of St. t'ltlta m ... L .
Miss Ross took two consecutive paten,- j , ' KZ. " a .! " IT
. and mM. oa a liniment and salve,
respectively. while Miss Andersia
thought of the old addiers and took
Mel on a rheumatic liniment all three
of these Patents being dated November
17, 1KO. .
There a.e few scattering patent to
women to the end of the war, one for a
Sertoas Lacerations
and wounds are healed, without danger
of blood poisoning, by Bucklen'a Arnica
Salve, the healing wonder. Only Sc. For
sale by Beaton Drug Co.
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"'e and Cora A. Schrtver. It Is aa ! repairs, to.: Uda L Leet. 11 jn.
all woman" pat-nt. and to complete the ' frame dwelling. K.'jV); Uda L. Leet. TH
sentiment. Its subject is one particularly ' 8outn Thtrty-.ixth, 2il; Emit Reuman.
of . j . , . ; 2: 17 Leavenworth, fram dwelling, tt.fcfo
-!J!T dicnaln. The patent Is for Andrew Murphy Son. l Jackson, auti
certain new and useful Improvements In garage and repair eh op. mra. L. Han
a eomaued toaeter and a aiming even. ' j Thirty-fourth sod Ames avenue.
. Tbw arc about applied t9r j l'J
STRANGER IS TAKEN IN
. ON OLD-TIME CARD TRICK
it was P. T. Barnum who aaid th.i m.
American people loved to be humbugged,
and that a sucker is born wr,
Henry Homeyer of Chester. N.h .n.
Police Captain Dunn that the Immortal
r. i. nss some of the people slud ur.
pretty well.
Homeyer was walchlna tha orn.H
ruuneenin ana IMUglas streets and
Invited Into a place where a ..m. e
cards was In progress. As he watched the
game, some one exclaimed:
'I'll wager i there are U carda In thl.
deck."
Some unknown person whispered to
Homeyer. "take him no for I t,i
drop two carda. that makes the deck
only el."
A the wsger wss for IS. Nonni,
thought he saw a chance to double his
funds and offered his 16. The dealer then
picked up the two cards and walked out
with all the money. Homeyer notified the
police.
BIG FINE FOR TAKING
MASH FROM DISTILLERY
Becauee of hut Me and good appear
ance. Thomas Emmitt, pleading guilty
of removing from a distillery at South
Sioux City, five gallons of mash, contrary
to the proper federal regulation, govern
Ing distilling of Intoxicant!, wan a mint.
mum eentence of Ko fine and a
months' jsll sentanoe from Judge Pag.
siorrls in th. Lnltsd State, district court.
Tha court suspended eentence but Em
mitt win stand committed to the Hall
county jail at Qreod Island uotll th
fin. I. paid.
"Tou don't look Ilk. a criminal and I
don't want to be harsh with you," aaid
his honor. "I don't want to put you In
jail If I can help It Tou are young yet
and It IS a Small OffariM The aantanaa
la suspended upon payment of Has."
Coveraer Will Speak at (habere.
8HUBEKT. Neb.. May A-Onadal k-
Governor Aldiich will deliver the class
sddress at the high school commence
ment exercises to be held In the Chris
tian church In thubert Wedneedav avaa.
Ing. May U. The tsa graduates presented
the plsy, "Topsy Turvey" at the oners
bouse thl. evening.
Pat Crowe Billed. -to
Give Evidence
in Roach Divorce;
Pat Crowe, kldnaner f tam. r.k.
nd sometime water wagon advocate, i
billed to testify as to the Inner secret
of th Uf of Frederick Lyon Roach, wh,
la suing and la belna cue fn ai..j.
from Mary E. Roach la Chlceaa.
Roach and Crowe wera twtna ,m...
lone, and Mr. Roach ha testified that
oar auseaad took th drink aura together
with Pat. A number ef ll! hii k-
introduced by Roach to defeat hi wife
purpoeea. On of these, directed to David
n. nenry in Omaha la aa fnii..
Dear Dave: What do ou think .r ...
dosed article (nwppr dipping ef tha
Roach sultjf Do you suppose they got
to the tail driver that you sent to th
house r If I had th money, I would hop
an a train and never etoa sole t mii
drnplr di if all that stuff should com
out. Tours. wav
Persistent Advartlaln la tha t,4 ,
Kg Returns.
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Many new features some of them ex
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