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The Only W oman Coffee Importer
The Paper Hag Lady
By FRANCES L. GARSIDE
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MRS. ALICE FOOTE MAC DOUG ALL
I'S some explanation of the phenomenal
women arc making everywhere ma be
eir willingness to begin n i small scale,
respect for the small order, It is told in
m's stor) of failure that the day he opened
e, he hired a brass band. This has yet to
. woman pioneering along strange paths,
tut to begin in a small Hope is a
thing, and a necessary asset, but 1 1 1 men
freely that they become its victims,
ess of Alice Foote MacDougall, the onl
i importer in the country, proves the con
' began with half pounds and rose to car
her story: Her "husband a in the green
ess. It was a business in which the coffee
M"'ji the importer to the i t 1 .t. from the
wholesalerf from the wholesaler to the re
tin- retailer to the individual customer.
made a profit, the cost coming finall) on
i- f tlie consumer. "Why not." argued
ougall, "deal directly with the consumer:
waiting till you have an order for thousands
nt sell a halt pound to a housewife, or
' isks it?"
ea was ridiculed, 't course, Ever) woman
tlii is. Some tit teen years ago Mrs. Mac
left with three children to support, thirty
rs m the world, and a handed down know 1
tree.
in n he began putting her theory into prac
bought a little green coffee, roasted it. made
lend and sold it by the pound, the half pound,
fonts of Men and Women
-
s
fro
the
tee a
hair ii
four
either
the bl
red ii
ILAR i the dress of both sexes in the Green
that it would he difficult to distinguish the men
women except for the difference in the way
their hair. The man Combs his Straight
r Ins forehead, possibl) for added protection
d, parting it enough only to enable him to
in front of him. The woman combs her
long plait, whkh she forms into a knot about
es high on top of her head and ties with
le, black, or red ribbon, very appropriately
' -lie is a widow, the hlue it a wite and the
maiden,
hi I mis there are no moving vans nOT carts, many
,'; ' narrow streets being impassable. Household
; .oe changed from place to place by porters.
J0, ' any da ma) he seen staggering under chests
, v ers and other heavy pieces of furniture. On
jJasi me potters will even transport, in huge bas-
, ers US who may he sick, or otherwise incapftci
laten
p. " t in. n . when an engagement to marry takes
ace' f,,' gentleman is immediately called the bride
"',ln the lady the bride, The couple at once begins
.iiis upon their friends to receive their felicita-
u ns.
A of her
nay. in ac
I cir
sale:
iti- .r
or the quarter pound, if asked. order was to.,
small to receive her attention, and her customers had
the satisfaction ,,f buying a coffee that was blended t
hruiK out its leading virtues It was not bought, roasted,
and sold automatically, without any thought of quality.
'I he small order received as v;reat consideration as the
large orders which began to come later.
Mrs. MacDougall circularized. She sent out. a-
soon as she could attorn it. two to three hunuref
CUlars a day, and continues to (In it M
are f man order: she has made it
to ner omce in a wholesale district she is conducting a
store in the shopping district of New Vork City where
her coffee is sold over the counter. She now sells di
rect to three thousand customers, and to over a thousai
institutions, hotels, restaurants, etc. She is doing a
business of five thousand dollars a month, built, she
will tell you, Oil respect tor the small order, tin
beginning to which so man) men fail to iriv
scanty attention.
It has not been an easj climb, hm it has been worth
while, tor sht has demonstrated what a woman can do
if given untrammeled opportunity. She has proven t
the business world that success still crowns the small
beginning, it one has hope and courage and persistence.
small
even
What Becomes of the Pennies?
KK care of the pennies and the dollars will take
care oi tnemseives, reads an old saw. it i a
perfectl) good old saw, hut one in which the average
American appears to he little interested. People seldom
take nood care "t" pennies, otherwise millions of them
would not disappear every year as though by magic.
More than 150,000,000 pennies are coined annually
in the Philadelphia mint. Only a small percentage of
them are ever accounted for after they leave the
coining machines.
"'Only a cent, let it 140." and that seems to be the
only answer to the problem of where the millions of
pennies turned out annually y,o.
Hurrying for a car you drop a penny from your
purse or pocket. Only a cent, let it go; catch the car
Only a small percentage of the pennies lost in the
streets are ever found. They lack luster and fail to
catch the eye as would a silver coin. They are swept
up with rubbish, carried to sea and dumped overboard,
thousands of them, every year.
When the new Lincoln cents were tirt placid in cir
culation thousands were used up as souvenirs, never
.main to be placed in general circulation. Hundreds
were gold-plated ami silvered, to be used as cuff links
and stick pins.
County fairs and expositions of all kind- and de
scriptions mutilate thousands of pennies yearly. It:
almost every fairground is p he found a machine
which will flatten a cent and at the same time emboss
a souvenir view of the fair.
Even mesh bags have been made ol copper cents
linked together and silvered. It takes i oi the cop
per coins to make a head tor a hat pin, ol which there
are hundreds in every large cit) in the country.
Hundreds of thousands of pennies are carried out
of the country b
tourists who leave
them abroad. I'ncle
Sam's pennies are
held in high esteem
by plantation labor
ers in Cuba and
Porto Rico. It is
not long since 1 H . -0011
were shipped to
Cuban bankers and
placed in circulation
among the laboring
classes in Cuba.
American coin looks
good to the Cuban
laborer and 1(H) of
I Fncle Sam's copper
cents place him .011
the high road of
prospe r ity.
In the meantime,
anyhow, from 150,-
000,000 to 200,000,
000 copper cents are
turned out every
year at the I'lula
lplna mint. I hey
placed in cir
culation almost as
1.1st as they are
Coined. Hone up in
neat canvas bags
containing $1 in
pennies, they gO to
the bankers and
brokers, thence in
to general circuit
tion. and then dis
appear. The Araeri
can copper cent
runs a close second
to the nn, of which
millions are lost ev
er) 'r.
OVER ft ft) yea
garet Knight
that had 1 me 1 1 1
ought to be an uu
men to use instead
them. 111 style.
'The idea that
thought, and w.ts
ward, an
Igo a young woman named Mar
awake pondering over an idea
r. This was the fact that there
n-uve paper bag for the K'ocery
the unhandy method of wrapping
ought came to m after hours of
simple," Miss Knight said after-
tlre .1 man ol it in l') 1
tad the bag patented., and the following year the Queen
.t England honored b) presenting me with the
Royal Legion ol Honor.
From this invention she yot the name "Paper Bag
Aunt Maggie" and she said that was the way the rising
generation came to call her '"Aunt Maggie The chil
dren all loved her.
Besides the paper bag. Miss Knight invented many
devices used in the cotton and woolen mills, and before
her recent death she had completed an automobile
motor, with winch sIk- had her
She was the first woman
take ut a patent. Her
tached any importance
"it was made w h n
years old," she said.
New I lampshire, w here
IW!1
m msine
mi
Tst
en
w a
w e
t w
seers m the c tton mil!
running in and out to carr
at IV m n. 1 n t h e da S tin
tipped with steel. ( n
shuttle fell out of the
vere v. 1 w nt home atK
some wa bv which sm
n to which she at-
nc of the most interesting,
s a little more than twelve
were living in Manchester,
of rny brothers were over
as familiar w ith the mills.
m brothers their lunches
shuttles on the looms were
while 1 was m the mill a
t the operator sc
once to think of
might he avoided.
a
loom and 1
1 i
ii' tun 1
iccident
ma
dr
h accidents
increase
v desire
I may say that it led to ray
law been useful, most of thctn
1 worked out .1 contrivance which
impossible, though it brought me
"Success with this new shuttle
t study machini r .
other inventions. All
appliances that might he rlaol as tabor savers. In
181 I worked out and perfected a machine for folding
square-bottomed paper bans. Tins machine was a un at
success and is still used. Later I perfected a contriv
ance which manufacturers of tin cans accepted."
Miss Knight was horn in Maine, and when a child
moved with her parents t New Hampshire and a few
years later to Ashland, Massachusetts. For a number
of ears she ran a machine shop in Ashland, and she
herself shod all the horses on her farm. From Ash
land she moved to South Framingham, where, four
years later, she died.
There was nothing masculine about Miss Knight,
although she would jo into the shop and run a lafhe or
drill as well as the best mechanic: however, sht pre
ferred to do housework. There was nothing in her at
tire suggestive of tin workshop: she wore a simple
black frock with white cellar and cuffs.
Divorces in Other Lands
IN THESE days of eas divorce in this country a
study of the divorce customs, especially among the
so-called heathen nations, is entering b way t com
parison. In Australia, among the original natives, di
vorces are never sanctioned (as. b the way, is the case
in our own South Carolina). The Siberian men have
If dissatisfied with a
divorces all in their own hand'
wife, the husband teats ,,ff her
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MRS. NICHOLAS 1 ONGWORTH
Anew nhotnariiph of Mr Nicholas Loagworth, .n f Co.
pressman LMlWOrth, of Ohio, ami Jauilhtcr of iht Intc CotOOtl
Ihroorf RoOMVtM cldotn Mrs LoagWOrtl cannot he
seen at the Capitol, an interested oherer.
headdress. She is then
in disgrace a n d
must flee from his
home. In Morocco
the w i fe d ei the
divorcing. She must
appeal to her trihe
for her divorce and
may then marry
again. The only
grounds, however,
on which her free
dom is granted, is
if no son is born to
her. In direct con
trast to this, an In
dian chief in our
own country, never
divorces a wii e who
has borne him a son.
In Abyssinia, entire
freedom prevails tor
bi th p a r t i e s, no
marriage ceremony
beine, n e c e s s a r y,
likewise no divorce.
The Tartars and
Hindoos follow this
plan als in so tar
as it applies to a
divorce. In Siam
the first wife has the
best things, it would
seem. She may be
divorced, but never
sold, as ma) be the
other wives. In the
arctic regions the
husband wncs bis
wife a gentle hint
In lea big his home
tor a tew days.
She is then expected
to clear out he i ore
his return.