WOMAN IN SCIENCE 



supremely useful animals diminished man's labor as bur- 

 den bearers. It likewise supplemented the fecundity of 

 women and facilitated the multiplication of the race, be- 

 cause it supplied to the child a nourishment that previ- 

 ously could be obtained only from the mother, who had 

 been obliged to suckle her young several years longer than 

 was necessary after the friendly goat and cow came to her 

 aid. Still another consequence of the domestication of 

 animals was that it immensely diminished the amount of 

 woman's care and labor, afforded her the necessary leisure 

 to develop the arts of refinement, and stimulated intellec- 

 tual growth in a way that otherwise would have been 

 impossible. 



It is often stated by certain writers who love to indulge 

 in fanciful speculations that women inventors got their 

 ideas as home builders and weavers and potters from nest- 

 building birds, from web-weaving spiders, and from clay 

 workers like termites and mud wasps. Be this as it may, 

 the fact remains in all its inspiring truth that, in the 

 matter of industrialism, as opposed to the militancy of 

 man, we can unhesitatingly declare, with Virgil, Dux 

 femina facti woman was the leader in all the arts of 

 peace arts which have been slowly perfected through the 

 ages until they present the extraordinary development 

 which we now witness. 



When we contemplate the splendid porcelain wares of 

 Meissen and Sevres, or the countless varieties of cutlery 

 produced in the factories of Sheffield, or the beautiful tex- 

 tile fabrics from the looms of Lowell and Manchester, or 

 the delicate silks woven in the famous establishments of 

 Lombardy and Southern France, or the countless forms of 

 footwear made in Lynn and Chicago, or the exquisite furs 

 brought from Siberia and the Pribyloff Islands, and dyed 

 in Leipsic and London, or the astonishing output of food 

 products from the factories of Pittsburgh and the immense 

 roller mills of Minneapolis, we little think that the colossal 



