The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-30
Self-SuppOrting Women.
WHAT WOMEN HAVE DONE AND CAN DO.

WHAT WOMEN HAVE DONE AND CAN DO.
One of the vital questions confronting
thoughtful men and women, aye, con-
fronting starving, freezing women, with
wailing children clinging about their
knees, with haggard little faces, mutely
asking "Why ?" is the practical one,
allow can we make a livingHr
'All the rights want" haughtily
exclaims the wife or daughter of a mil
lionaire. But lol a single revolution of
the weird wheel of fortune, and, shorn
of glittering jewels, costly draperies, ele-
CANT equipage, palatial residence, with
the father and husband resting in the
quiet cemetery, widowed wife and Or
phaned daughter mutely helpless, star
ing at each other as they murmur.
"How shall we get bread ?'
Is this fancy sketch Would that it
were, but almost every reader could
supply me with facts-stubbOrn facts,
that came under your own observation
hence we turn resolutely away from
the beguiling fields of literature and art,
and attempt to collect few facts in re-
gard to what women have done, in hope
of suggesting to some anxious ones
what women can do.
! Just here l am reminded of blessed
crusty bachelor friend, who is insisting
that the most thankless Office in the
world is that of advising woman-for
says he of little faith: "Rend your
brains in deciding what they are best
fitted for, narrow it down to two things
advise them to take either one-and nc
matter which-horn of the dilemms
they choose, they will always wish they
had taken the other, and blame you fOl
your advice" So we only intimate thai
what had been done can be done-Witt
never a thought of advising.
! "a young woman recently established
a real estate agency in Chicago and net
ted $500 the first month. On the same
street is the Office of Miss Ellen Culver
for eight years tire Chicago manager o
the large real estate business done By
the Baltimore millionaire, Mr.. Hull
Miss Culver has 300 tenants in charge
and collects her rents promptly"
Miss Ellen l.. Fletcher has engaged
in business as matchmaker and jewele
in Charlestown, n. H. Having Learned
her trade by three years. apprentice
ship, she has pursued it successfully TO
the past five years.
Miss Boyle, of Phanixville, Pa, is
member of the firm of Boyle & Penny
packer, dealers in dry goods. They ar
also managing a restaurant and bakery
Miss Boyle has acquired such reputa
ton as a breadmaker that she has al
most monopoly of the trade.
Mrs. L. Harrison, of Peoria, ILL.,, ha
an apiary, which in four years ha
grown from two to forty colonies o
bees, besides selling swarms as she ha
opportunity. She does all the work in
cident to the business herself, and say
she has proved by her experience tina
"any woman who has a suitable local
ity, observation, perseverance, and pa
tience, can succeed in this business"
In Canastota, Madison county, New
York, Mrs. Kate Boyd is painter ant
designer.
Clara H. Boylston is a successful tele
graph operator.
Miss Susan Speeshly has made sue
cess as a photographer, as has also Mis-
Matte Gallup, of this county.
Emily Ruggles, of Reading, Mass.
has had retail dry goods establishment
for twenty years and has been eminentl
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