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Show Grandmother Becomes Machinery Expert ft :.f iv ': I y MBS. MINNA DSN NES, OBANOMOTHSR Sy JOglFHINE VAN OS OBIFT NIA Service Staff Writer. NEW YORK, Sept. 11. And now that we've said goodbye to mother on her way downtown to toe office lets go ever in the corner and alt by grandmother while aha knits. My word. Ursndmother Isn t knitting. knit-ting. As a matter of fact grandmoth. er Isn't In the corner at all. Hhe s pul on her flexible arch ahiea and her little lit-tle cloche hat with the natty quill end gone off to have a career of her W'And ahe haa a perfect right lo It.'' aaya Mrs. Minna lennee, grandmother grandmoth-er herself, "tlranoma ha learned to do ell sorts or ueetul things In the home. There Isn't a reeeon why ahe ehoulda't carry them Into the eutalue world and make a areer or them." By which Mrs. Itonnee mesne machinery, ma-chinery, for machinery ta Mrs. Den-nee' Den-nee' eperteJly. It waa even beck In the old daye when ahe had only her kuehand and Utile daughter to think ''Did' the town moher break down er the faucet need a new washer or the kitchen alove show signs of blowing up? Mrs. IJennes fixed It. tine dsy he found herself alone her husband dead her daughter married.- Mrs. Uennee didn't want to sit In the corner cor-ner and knit. , . . Then ahe remembered what a nana he'd been st fixing the lawn mower In the old daya. "I went over to a neerby machine shop. PU on a pair or blue overalla and matched the men work." ahe eey. Then I alerted doing things niy- eir " Now ahs sells mschlnery. Is tsrv snd treasurer ot her company and Is said to have a belter knowl-edge knowl-edge or tatlonary machinery than any man going. Home of her achleve-menta achleve-menta will go on record when the New York league or Business Slid lroree-atonsl lroree-atonsl Women holds Its second snnual Women'e Actlvltlea exhibit neptem- "iVuet amplified on the thing I did beat when I waa keeping houae. ahe seya "Gmndmolhere aren't on lo themaelvea li e no harder to put a motor together than lo atlr up a pud-dlnaTor pud-dlnaTor dinner." |