The Portland daily press., 1879-06-18
Three Successful Women.
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Under the head of "Three Successful Wo-
men," Mrs. E. X. Churchill, in the Providence
Journal tells an interesting story of three New
York ladies. The first of these is Nine. Dem
crest, the founder of the great paper-pattern
industry. She is an American woman with
Yankee shrewdness, and the taste in dress of a
Frenchwoman. Her paper patterns go where
ever railroads and steamboats, go, and some
places where they do not. She has twenty-six
agencies in France alone. Recently she sent
ton of paper patterns to London at one ship
ment. She has made a substantial fortune
through her cleverness and untiring energy.
She employs many men in her immense busi-
ness house, and has whim of her own that
she will hire no man who uses tobacco in any
shape. She was for time interested in tea
importations, and during that time made the
uncomfortable discovery that "there was not
pound of black tea which is not adulterated
with logwood." From her long connection
with working girls she has become much in
terested in the industrial training of women,
which she rightly believes to be the great
need of their sex. She long ago discovered
what everybody else has found out who ever
undertook to aid the poor workingwomen, that
scarcely one in five hundred of the great army
of starving needlewomen can sew decently,
"nor are they willing to remedy their defects
by patient application" That is the worst of
Mrs. Churchills second successful women, is
Mrs. Croly, "Jennie june" Her maiden name
was Cunningham. Twenty-Five years ago she
sought employment ON the New York press.
Sapient managing editors laughed at her, it is
said. Margaret Fuller to the contrary not
withstanding, they declared that no woman
wrote anything that was worth reading in a
daily newspaper. But Miss Cunningham
could not be put down. She persevered till q
day came when they no longer laughed. Now
she too, is reaping an ample pecuniary harvest
from her labors, which have been of an ardu-
GUS Sort it is not to be denied. She works like
a steel machine. She edits Demorest's Maga-
zine, and is the correspondent of twenty-five
different newspapers. For some years she has
been President of the Sorosis, the first woman S
club formed in the country. Her daughter
May, highly cultured young girl, is following
adopted the theatrical profession for her occu-
patton. Both Nine. Demorest and Mrs Croly
have beautiful homes.
The third of Mrs. Churchill's trio is Mits
Susan King. What kind of a successful wo-
man she is may be guessed from the fact that
from her own efforts she has amassed a fortune
of half million dollars. How? She was a
shrewd Maine girl. She had observed that
the peculiar article of food known as tripe had
good market value in the cultured city of
Boston. At the same time she observed that
the farmers about her threw it away. She put
the two hints together, and acted. She en-
gagged number of women to prepare the stuff
for her, and then she sent it for sale to Boston.
In this way she realized in time, a good sum of
money. Thus the foundation of her fortune
was not exactly ''weal pie'', but tripe. With
the money she had saved she went to New
York and began continuously to buy real es-
tate in a small way. She held it till the price
she put on it was offered, and then sold it, just
as Spectators of the stronger minded sex do.
Women can do great many things that peo-
pie think they can't do, if they only set thei1
heads to it and then work and wait patiently
and don't throw away their money in Alsatian
bows and scoop bonnets If Miss King had
spent that first tripe monev for sealskin
cloak and silk dresses, she would not at present
be the owner of half million. She wisely
saved it, and now she can buy shipload OF
sealskin cloaks if she pleases.