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Show WPMfN Dr.m-l.Maffett; President of the National ' Federation of Business " V and Professional Wo- . ' ) men's Clubs, Inc. Through her black pottery, Maria Martinez and her . plant at San Ildefonso, New Mexico, have become famous. Examples of this beautiful pottery are in most of the museums in the United States and in many abroad. The revival of this almost lost Indian art is due to the Museum of New Mexico, Mex-ico, which began some time ago ' to interest men and women in carrying on the craft. Maria studied old designs and shapes and then began to mould her own pots. She discovered how to produce a shiny black surface by firing, then how to make the designs come out of the fire with a dull black effect like etching. These two discoveries led to her fame. Now Maria molds the shapes and her husband, Julian, who used to work in the museum, paints the designs. The pioneer perfume makers in Bermuda are the Herbert Scotts and they quite naturally started with the perfume of the Easter lily. Mrs. Herbert Scott was born in Bermuda, was always an ardent gardener, and her knowledge of flowers and her interest in them have been a great asset to the perfume making firm. In her gardens grow practically every plant that can be found in Bermuda. Ber-muda. Of course, it wasn't easy at first, and I doubt if it is much easier now, to make the rare perfumes per-fumes that are distinctive of the Bermuda house, but the work has grown more and more interesting as the Scotts have widened their variety of bottled scents to include jasmine, oleander, gardenia and the Bermuda passion flower. Mrs. M. H. Gordon of Clare-more, Clare-more, Okla., is one of the busiest women I've heard of. She manages man-ages two dairy farms, a milk bottling bot-tling plant, several business properties prop-erties and a free employment agency. Several hundred women now have the right to argue a case before the United States Supreme Court. The number is steadily increasing, but it will take some time for it to equal that of the more than 50,000 men who have this distinction. Virginia R. Howlett, secretary of the welfare department of the Association of the Junior Leagues of America, has recently measured meas-ured their community work. Last year 42,189 volunteer jobs were held by members. |