The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-08-22
Women as Workers.

hhzaDeth Stuart Phelps sums up in the In
dependent some of the things enterprislng
women have done-showing that when a SEN
slble woman can do work she is mo.e likely
to do it than to travel about the country cry
ing out over the "wrongs" she has to endure,
or clamoring for her "rights" Hear Miss
Phelps
In the capital of a stout-hearted if not very
broad-shouldered little New England State,
one Of the best blacksmiths in the city is said
to be young woman; she works side by side
with her father, of whom she acquired her
trade.
In one of the territories we find two young
women, sisters, running a backsmith's shop
upon their own account. In the crude con-
dtion of the region the undertaking was as
necessary as ii seemed natural and they
have made it respectable. The girls dress in
Bloomer costume, and shoe horse with
ease and skill.
L think it is Detroit which boasts of the
woman who took out contract for macad-
amizlng road, engaged her workmen, kept
them 10 time, and conducted them and her
road safely and successfully through her
agreement.
The same woman, if am rightly informed,
has more than once moved barns and other
buildings on contract, with composure and
dispatch.
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 contain two hundred
women working farms ON their own account
successfully.
In one OF the largest cities in the country a
young, pretty, and accomplished" lady has
opened an extensive boot and shoe store.
Her clerks are all young women, and her
trade is reputed to be of the briskest
OF a woman in Washington Territory we
learn that she has just returned from trip to
China, where she carried cargo of lumber
"She is said to be sharper" observes the
source OF information, ethan any other mill
| owner on Puget Sound, and got at least $40
| more per thousand feet for lumber than was
ever paid at Hong Kong before"
OF an extensive dry goods establishment in
New Jersey We are told that it is managed
entirely by two ladies, and that their credit
in the large business centres is of the sound
est and highest. We are given to under
stand that they set up business eight years
ago, ON capital of from 81 900 to $1,000; and
that they control a stock now worth from
$4,000 to $4,000 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 heavi-
| er work, which requires active muscles and
steady eye, her employer has long since been
| accustomed to call upon for her very effective
assistance.
A ladies' life insurance company, all the
employees of which are to be women, is form
| ing in London.
And here we run against another Wiscon-
| sin woman (surely that energetic State is the
woman's "Earthly Paradise who supports a
sick husband and his old grandfather off from
| forty-acre farm.
And again from New Jersey. What says
one of her leading papers? sour entire news
paper is the work of young ladies, and every
type is set by Observation-Disclosures and all
and the maker up is young girl. And we
have no foreman in the newspaper-rooms,
young lady acting in that capacity"