A Woman Inventor

The story of one Portland girl deservM to be recounted, iay tbo Botton UMe. Tbis is a Miss Helen Blanchard, now a resident of Philadelphia, who was specially gifted, and who suoceeded in a field commonly supposed to be open only to the masculina intellect. She is of au Inventiva mind, and with a passion for raechanical contrivaaca from her childhood. Naturally, she was foreordalned to invent somethiDj, and sha did it. The somethlng, or rather the fint thing she inventod was an attachment for sewinfc machine t sow "over-and-over" stitchcs. The story that was told pf her runs to the effect that one day, while at work at a sewing-machino she got out of patience with tho way it worked, and in a passion kicked It over, with the rcraark that she could make a befter machine than that herself. Straightway, continued the vivaciout chronicler, she proceeded to lavent the "over-and-over" attachment. In point of f act, the account thus (ven U largely a myth. Miss Blanchard did not and does not kick eewing machines, but she did very üecorously and proporly, afUr long and careful study, lnyent th "overand-over" attachment, and obtained a patent on it. This laid the foundation for a lrg fortune, which it is pleusant to be ubis te say he now enjoys. She owns large - tates,.. a manufacUiry and man y patent rights. .Jler fortune, royaltics and locóme, without Tcnturmg statement accurate enough tó be im pertinent, may be descrlbed in the fluent language oMho dim norelitt aensational reporter as "bcyond the ivildest dreams of ayarice. " She earned it all herself. She hó osststanco from anyone, and hired money at twenty-flra per 15 puy her flrst Patent Offlce itts.