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Show Woman Invades Blacksmith Field BIRNAM WOOD. WIS. - Invading a field traditionally reserved for men, Mrs. Edwin Mierkey is an active partner in a husband and wife traveling blacksmith team. She is not just an ornamental attraction taken along to add glamour around the portable forge, but a hard-working, practical partner part-ner for her husband in his work of horse-shoeing, welding and harness repairing. Mierkey, who puts on from 18 to 24 shoes every working day does the calking, fitting, nailing and clinching, while his wife hands him the right tool at the right time. She also keeps a steady fire in the forge without wasting coal or burning the shoes. Mrs. Mierkey never does the .actual horse-shoeing, but she feels confident that she could if anything should happen to her husband. |