Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-09-06
WOVEN As WORRIES.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps sums up ia
the Ladependent some Of the things enter
prising women have done-showing that
when a sensible woman can dowork. she
is more likely to do it than TO travel
about the country crying out over the
wrongs she has to- endure. or clamorins
for her'rights." Hear Mrs Phelps -
In the capital Of . stout hearted If
not very broad shoa,dered I,t!e New
England State, one ef the best black
smiths in the city is said to Se a young
woman; she works side by side with her
father, of whom she acquired the trade.
In one of the Territories We find two
young women. sisters. runninga black
smiths shop upon sAeir own account
In the crude condition of the region the
undertaking was as necessary as it seem
ed natural. and they have mads it re-
.pec,abls. The girls dress in Bloomer
costume. and shoe hoose with ease and
skill.
think it is Detroit which boasts Of q
woman who took out contrac, for mac.
admizing road. engaged her workmen.
kept them to time. and conducted them
and her road safely shd successfully
through her agreement.
The same woman il am rish,fully
informed, has more than once moved
barns and other buildings on contract
with composure and despatch.
In Wisconsin two girls. whore works
rise up and call them blessed. have for
six years managed farm of one hun
dred acres and supported their father and
mother from its proceeds. -r.-
The same State estimates that thers
are in all two thousand women at work
this year in its generous fields.
Iowa and Indiana contain two hun
dred women working farms on ,heit own
account successfully. ....
In one of the largest cities in the
country young, pretty and accom-
piished' lady has opened an extensive
boo. and shoe store. Her clerks are all
young women. and her trade is reputed
to be of the briskes,.
Of woman in Washington Territory
we learn that she has just returned from
trip to China. where shs carried car.
go of lumber. "She is said to b. sharp
er" observe the source of information,
than any other mill owner on Puget
Sound, and got at least $40 more per
thousand feet for lnmber than wac ever
paid at Hong kong before.
Of an extensive dry goods establish
ment in New Jersey we are told that it
is managed entirely by two ladies, and
that their credit in the business centres is
of the sounde,. and highest. We are
given to understand that they set up
business eight years ago on a capital Of
from $1,000 to $4,000. and that they con.
troll stock now worth from s20, 900 to
$50 900 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 ac
tive muscles and steady eye; her en-
ployer has long since been accustomed
to call upon her fer her very effective
assistance.
A ladies' life insurance company, all
the employees of which are to be women
is forming In London.
And here we rnn against another W;s-
cousin woman (surely that energetic
State is the woman's Earthly Para
dise"l, who supports a sick husband ard
his old grandfather frum a forty-acre
| farm.
And again from New Jersey. What
says one of her leading papers Our
entire newspaper is the work of yoang
ladies, and every type is set by them
advertisements and all-an3 the maker
up is a young girl. And we have no
foreman in the newspaper rooms, a young
lady acting in that capacity"