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Show Connecticut's Girl MurliiuUt. Miss Nellie Patterson is working at her lathe and vise in tho Mount Cariuel Belt company, and there isn't a mechanic in tho whole shop who can do a better job or in less lima than tho fair young work woman. Four years ago, when Miss Nellie began to think of tile meis whereby sho must earn hor living, sho ooked over the whole field of woman's work. Among the trades or occupations which tho pmhlng women of this country coun-try have mado their own there was none elio especially liked. She was u bright girl, with it great deal of Yankee cleverness clever-ness and considerable ingenuity and in-ventivenefs. in-ventivenefs. Tho remark was made to a friend that sho was so fond of inventions feho ought to become a machinist. The seed thus sown took root, and sho applied for u place as an apprentice. For the past four years she has worked faithfully, faith-fully, and a few days ago her time expired, ex-pired, and sho is now a full Hedged machinist. ma-chinist. Sho is able to block up a piece of work on a planer or turn up an arbor on a lathe. She uses tho drill or handles the file as well as any man in tho shop, j Her specialty, however, is tool making, I and to this sho proposes to devote herself. her-self. Sho can also draw plans, figure !"Oiit dimensions, and froiui the working drawings she can make anything. Sho j is not afraid of tho grease and grime of ;. tho shop, and her beauty is not in the i least marred by a long swipe of dirt 1 across her dimpled cheek or a spot of oil on her nose. Her hands are not as white as thoso of some of her sisters, but they ; are. by no means large, though they are . very strong. Boston Transcript. ' I |