The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-09-14
Women rs Workers.

ELIZABETH STUART IHELPS SullS
M i'm the independent some OF the
things enterprisng women have done.
In the capital of stout-hearted, If
not very broad shouldered little Eng
land State, one of the best blacksmiths
in the city is said to he young wo-
man. She works side by side with her
father, OF whom she acquired Aer
trade.
In one of the Territories, we find two
Young women, sisters, running n
Ilacksmith's shop upon tEeir own ac-
count. In the crude condition of the
region the undertaking was as neces-
sary as it seemed natural and, as they
have made it, respectable. The girls
dress in u Blcomer costume, and shoe
a horse with ease and skill.
think it is Detroit which boasts of
the woman who took out n contract
for macadan!zing u road; engaged
her workmen, kept them to time, and
conducted them and her road safely
and successfully through her agree
ment.
The same woman, if l am rightly in
formed, has more ll!an once moved
barns and other buildings on contract,
with compOsure and despatch.
In Wisconsin two girls, whose
works rise up and call them blessed,
have for six years managed farm of
one hundred acres, and supported their
father and mother from its proceeds.
The same State estimates that there
are in all two thousand women at work
this year in its generous fields.
Iowa and Indiana contains two
hundred women working farms Oh
their own account successfully.
In one of the largest cities in the
country a "young, pretty and accom-
plished" lady has opened an extensive
bovt and shoe store Her clerks are
all young women, and her trade is re-
puted to be of the briskest.
ora woman in Washington Terrific
ry, we learn that she has just returned
from trip to China, where she carried
u cargo of lumber. "She is said to he
sharper" observes the source of infor-
nation, ethan any other nIill-owner
on Puget Sound, and got at least $40
more per thousand feet for lumber than
was ever paid at Hong Kong before.
Ofan extensive dry goods establish
ment in New Jersey, we are told that 1t
is managed entirely by two ladies, and
their credit in the large business CEN
tres is of the soundest and highest.
We are given to understand that they
set up business eight years ago on
capital of from $1,000 to $1,000, and that
they control stock now worth from
100000 to $50, 600 in ladies' furnishing
and fancy goods.
A young woman in Lewiston,
Maine, has been fitting herself, under
excellent promise, for the profession of
dentist. In the heavier work, which
requires active muscles and steady eye,
her employer has long since been &C
customed to call upon her for very ef-
feCtive assistance.
A ladies' life insurance company,
all the employees OF which are to he
women, is forming in London.
And here we run against another
Wisconsin woman (surely that ener-
getic State is the woman's "JIarthly
Paradise") who supports u sick hus-
band and his old grandfather OIL from
fOrty-acre farm.
And again from New Jersey. What
says one of her leading papers? sour
entire newspaper is the work ofyoung
ladies', and every type Is set by them
advertisements and all-and the
'maker-up is young girl. And we
have no foreman in the newspaper
rooms, o young lady acting in that ca
pacity."
TO the above we may add, for Phila-
delphia, that one of the largest hotels
on Chcsnut street is owned and man
aged by woman; that II woman is
the principal of n boys grammar
school, and a leading teacher in one OF
the most ilourishing school sections of
this city; and that on Chestnut, Eight
and other streets there areseveral large
stores owned and managed exclusively
by women. In one store, owned by a
woman, on Chestnut street, that we
know of, business amounting to con-
siderably over 100000 a year is done.