| Show seaweeds among the pleasant occupations for woman described in womans comans Wo mans work recently published by scribner Is that of the collecting ind and pressing of seaweed A young woman not many years ago went to the coast exhausted by the labors of teaching she knew her next occupation it if she ever had any must be out of doors she became interested in seaweed sea weed and found at monterey ilon terey bay a splendid field for collecting marine algae seaweeds sea weeds nor her first collection to which she devoted several years la Is valued at and when disposed of she proposes to prepare another lor for the paris exposition of 1900 several young women who are working in under her direction are preparing a collection for the leland stanford university they otten often spend the entire morning in mounting a single specimen and go out at four in the morril morning ng when the lowly plants are first uncovered by the tide in this field of work may mai be mentioned the collection of dried flowers and mosses gathered into albums and hold bold by several young women on long island they give the scientific information about each specimen and it Is more interesting te and instructive than pictures |
