American Agriculturist, Ju’.y 21,1923 
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Patterns for Home Sewing 
And Interesting Figures From the Patent Office 
W OMEN have invented everything 
from an egg beater to a rotary 
plowshare, says the U. S. Department 
of Labor, and the idea that the femi¬ 
nine sex is disqualified for mechanical 
ingenuity is entirely disproved by the 
patent records. 
Nearly 1,400 different items are in¬ 
cluded on the list of workable inven¬ 
tions thus listed. The greater number 
are household appliances, and include a 
washing machine, a carpet beater, a 
mattress turner, and a mousetrap. A 
cow-tail holder is one which many 
women have considered inventing and 
so is a cover for pie pans which pre¬ 
vents overflow. But others are in the 
fields office equipment, road building, 
railway operation, musical instruments, 
toys and machinery. 
Wasn’t it the ex-Kaiser who definitely 
settled woman’s interest to include only 
“children, kitchen and church?” Too 
bad William can’t read the United 
States patent office records. 
The Brown Mouse 
(Continued from page 43) 
friends, to go to the school election and 
vote kind of unanimous-like?” 
“Suits me,” said Bronson. 
“Wery well,” said Peterson. 
“I don’t like the way Colonel Wood¬ 
ruff acts,” said Bonner. “He rounded 
career he’s had would mix up in school 
district politics.” 
“Well,” said Bonner, “he seems to 
take a lot of interest in this exhibition 
here. That decision of Jennie’s might 
have been because she’s stuck on Jim 
Irwin, or because she takes a lot of 
notice of what her father says.” 
“Or she might have thought the de¬ 
cision was right,” said Bronson. “Some 
people do, you know.” 
“Right!” scoffed Bonner. “In a 
pig’s wrist! I tell you that decision 
was crooked.” 
“Veil,” said Haakon Peterson, “talk 
of crookedness wit’ Yennie Woodruff 
don’t get wery fur wit’ me.” 
“Oh, I don’t mean anything bad, 
Haakon,” replied Bonner, “but it 
wasn’t an all-right decision. I think 
she’s stuck on the guy.” 
The caucus broke up after making 
sure that the three members of the 
school board would be as one man in 
maintaining a hostile front to Jim 
Irwin. It looked rather like a foregone 
conclusion, in a little district wherein 
there were scarcely twenty-five votes. 
Who wanted to be school director? It 
was a post of no profit, little honor and 
much vexation. In the Woodruff Dis¬ 
trict, the incumbents saw no candidate 
in view who could be expected to stand 
up against Con Bonner. Jim’s hold 
upon his work seemed fairly secure for 
the term of his contract, since Jennie 
had decided that he was competent. He 
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up that gang of kids that shot us 
all to pieces at that hearing, didn’t 
he?” 
“I tank not,” replied Peterson. “I 
tank he was yust interested in how 
Yennie manage ! it.” 
“Looked mighty like he was manag¬ 
in’ the demonstration,” said Bonner. 
“What d’ye think, Ez?” 
1 “Too small a matter for the colonel 
to monkey wi:h,” said Bronson. “I 
reckon he was just interested in 
Jennie’s dilemmer. It ain’t reasonable 
that Colonel Woodruff after the p’litical 
could not expect to be retained by the 
men who had so bitterly attacked him. 
Perhaps the publicity of his Ames ad¬ 
dress would get him another place with 
a sufficient stipend so that he could 
support his mother without the aid of 
the little garden, the cows and the 
fowls—and perhaps he would ask 
Colonel Woodruff to take him back as 
a farm-hand. These thoughts thronged 
his mind as he stood apart and §lone 
after his rebuff by the members of the 
school board. 
(Continued next week) 
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