Los Angeles Herald

Miss Frye's Discovery

One of the most valuable discoveries ever patented for making patent tiles is the property of a bright young woman, Miss Frye, a school teacher, who will soon be able to desert the school room and live on the royalty of her patent.

Just what this patent is the writer is not at liberty to tell, but like everything truly feminine it is lovely and simple. It is something every male potter has been trying to discover for years—a lost art, in fact—and every blessed man who has seen it has, man like, exclaimed "What a blankety idiot I was not to have thought of it." You see, the only thing to do was to—think of it; the balance was easy enough. However, nobody ever thought of it—and Miss Frye had the patent safe in her pocket, and along with it a handsome fortune in prospect and a competency for the present. Like all really studious and thinking women Miss Frye is modest to a degree, and reticent as to herself and her discovery.

There is also a fortune awaiting the man who will rediscover the lost art of producing the green, blue and red of the ancients from copper. The first two colors can be got easily enough, but the last is elusive. Will the "man" who finds this be a woman also?—New York World.