The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-09-08
Women as workers.

ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS sums
iip in the Independent some OF the
things enterprisiug women have done.
In tie capital of a stout-heaIted, if
not very broad shouldered little Eng
land State, one of the best blacksmiths
In the city is said to be young wo-
man. She works side by side with her
father, Of whom she acquired heT
trade.
Ip one Of the Territories, we find two
Young women, sisters, running a
blacksmith's shop upon tEeir own ac-
count. In the crude condition or the
region the undertaking was as neces-
sary as it seemed natural and, as they
have made it, respectable. The girls
dress in a BloOmer costume, and shoe
n horse with ease and skill.
I think it is Detroit which boasts of
the woman who took out contract
for macadamizing a 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 am rightly in
formed, has more than once moved
barns and other buildings on contract,
with cOmposuTe ard 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 It's 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 on
their own account successfully.
Tn, Dua cF LARGEST cities in the
con utry a "ycang, pretty and accom-
plishe 4" lady las opened an extensive
bo,,t an. / shoe sore Her clerks are
ali lo,1no, women, and her trade Is re-
puted to be If the briskest.
or n woman in Washington Terrific
rv. we learn TN, she has just returned
from q trim to q 'ua, y UheTe she carried
a oargo of lumbet. ''She is said to be
sbarper,U observes the source OF 1nfor-
nation, ttthan any other mll-oWneF
on Puget Sound, and got at least SIO
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 tolo thsI II
is managed entirely by two ladles, ana
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 $4,000, and that
they control a stock now worth from
$4,000 to $50, 600 in ladies' furnishing
and fancy goods.
Maine, has been fitting herself, under
excellent promise, for the profession OF
a dentist. In the heavier work, which
requires active muscles and steady eye,
her employer has long since been ac-
customed to call upon her for very ef-
fective assistance.
A ladies' life Insurance company,
ali the employees of which are 10 DE
women, is forming in London.
And here we run against another
Wisconsin woman (surelY that ener-
getic State is the woman's Earthly
PaTadisen) who supports q sick nus
band and his old grandfather off from
q forty-acre farm.
And again from New Jersey. What
saws one Of her leading papers "Our
entire newspaper is the work OfyOung
ladies, and every type is set by them
-advertiscments and all-and the
tmaker-up' Is q young girl. And we
have no foreman in the newspaper
rooms, young lady acting in that ca
pacity." MAJ
deIpbia. that one of the largest hotels
on Chestnut street is owned and man
aged bv q woman; that a woman Is
the principal of boys grammar
school, and leading teacher in one OF
the most fourishing school sections OF
this city; and that on Chestnut, Eight
and other streets there are several large
stores owned and managed exclusively
by women. In one store, owned by q
woman, on Chestnut street, that we
know of, business amounting to con,
siderably over 100000 year is done