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January 7 1926
Women are invading another domain hitherto almost entirely occupied by men – that of inventions.
The advance by women in this respect was particularly marked in 1925, as is shown by the number of applications for patents made in the name of women inventors.
Among many devices for which patents were taken out by women were: -
A tray for standing perambulators on so that rain water may not drip off on to the floor; a device for mashing potatoes; a continuously-acting candle-making machine; a device for fixing inside of gas ovens which can be easily and quickly cleaned; a portable tent which requires no pole when in use; a scooter propelled by the weight of the body, and a device for automatically cutting off the gas when the flame is accidentally blown out.
Women have also gone into business in buying and selling patents.
A sign of the more active role women were starting to play outside the domestic sphere and within the business world were the increasing number of patents of inventions attributed to women.
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“Making a Move”?
The “Derry Journal” intimates that nationalists of that city and its vicinity are beginning to realise the facts of the present political situation at last.
Our contemporary understands that “at an early date important decisions will be arrived at in the Six Counties in regard to nationalist attitude towards the Belfast Parliament”, and adds –
“There is good authority for stating that it is proposed to hold a conference of the nationalists in the various constituencies concerned. At these conferences an effort will be made to determine the question of future policy, in view of the failure of the Boundary Commission to satisfactorily discharge the duty which the Irish signatories to the original London Treaty promised it was meant to carry out.
“It is, of course, realised that, the Commission proving abortive, an entirely new situation has been created for the nationalists of Down, Armagh, Tyrone, Fermanagh, Derry City and County, and it is felt there is at least need for studying the positions afresh, bearing in mind the advice of members of the Free State Executive Council.
“Few nationalists are disposed in the circumstances to allow themselves to be influenced now by advice from that quarter, but a full and frank discussion of the situation in the light of all that has happened is deemed desirable in the several areas.”
Following the collapse of the Irish Boundary Commission in late 1925, most northern nationalists ultimately decided to take their seats in the Belfast parliament.
