Show 1 i i AMERICAN inventions IN BOHEMIA Y tile the extract belong below fro from d a letter ton ron non J the tho seat seit of or war in europe E mattl makri matri mauo mako fr it r evident that some soine of the inventions n hi in this country are popular in that thab t part of the tile old world rad to you how nir nth hace have 41 thib this lib its and other othor matters I 1 must state t wat mat h at soon after my iny arrival here I 1 was formally introduced into a roo too room m where some 50 60 or GO 60 ladies wera weri wert burli bus busily 11 y engaged in plying needles and working sewing dairing chinca machines and engaged in a X variety of ways preparing foa fol forthe the arrival of men these ladles af of whom there the re are IW in all are organ iced into what they call the the le it american club and their object is to introduce os as much aa as possible into bo hemia american ideus ideas about educil education fion flon labar saving machinery mi chinery the indi enca enea and rind calt exaltation atlon of women men ien with I 1 should J judge the slightest tinge of what you would call adl strong mindedness and rights ism most of bt these 6 ladles ladies who are arb of all ages ancl anil some 0 of f them exe eve exceedingly beautiful are bohemians Bohem ians lans by birth the impulse given gi ven to the present movement and 1 which ilas lias resulted in the present organization niza atlon tion is due to a gentlemen of ex I 1 tra tia ordinary ability and anti native genius united with wilh a lively bisp disposition position to improve mankind in general beneral en eral and I 1 hla hia his own owr e countrymen otI men particular in this gentleman MI in bolja is 18 a bohemian by birth a maii man of in independent dependent me means aims alls of thorough education and great literary tastes and Is now a member of the bohemian landram Land tag tam it or local diet of this division of the tub austrian trian empire mr nna Mpa eek eok some isome years gineo since went to the united states shutes where he resided for eight or ten ys years most of uio via time in the tho west where at one time ahne in I 1 milwaukee ho he published a daily wrin the bohemian language upon an his return to prague some four years since he set act about scout the introduction 0 american idess ideas and things into llis ills native country brought over a lot of I 1 genuine sewing machines to take aake the me place of the miserable imitations shiell which r under the name of american maecil machine n eq were then ulen being scattered ered over the thy continent introduced models of laborsaving machines of various kinds and save a berles series of lectures upon their uses vibes and upon the tho benevolent and educational institutions and systems of the united states every sunday lectures lectured are given by him and other oth er gentlemen of the american club and no lie has at hia hla rooms a free exhibition to which ho he invites all who choose to colef come of 0 f large views which he has painted of the tile prominent educational and benevolent institutions ns of the united states |