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Emily Gascoine A fine story of one of America's most famous and prolific women inventers Emily Gascoine, is told by Dr. K. R. Moore, president of the Institute of Patentees and Inventors. Dr. Moore, who is a distinguished inventor with 39 active patents to his credit, including the wire line core remover for oil-well drillers, vouches for the particulars. This remarkable woman, who brought out over 80 successful patents, began this work late in her married life.. But she continued to rear her five children and meantime made £150,000 in royalties from her ideas. Dr. Moore had good reason to remember her.
"I boarded next door to her during her early years as an inventor," he said. "Emily had a habit of knocking on the fence beside my window at the most unearthly hours to announce new ideas which had just come to her. She would shout instructions eagerly while I made a rough sketch on papers of her project. We would then return to our beds, sleep on the idea, and have a conference in the morning.
"Some of her outstanding ideas that I can recall, and which brought her great sums of money, were a push fastener for dresses which was the basic idea for the present snap fastener; and a cardboard construction set with which children built models, the forerunner of Meccano. She invented the first soup vegetable cube—this alone brought her a small fortune; a boating device that enabled one to face in the direction one was rowing; and the famous Gascoine sandwich paste, one of the earliest lof picnic pastes, which sold on a colossal scale through America and England. Emily also had a wonderful flair for dress designing. She in-
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