The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-05-12
WHAT WOMEN CAN DO.
Some Remarkable Results that have been
Achieved in New York.
Letter from Jennie juno.

Letter from Jennie juno.
NEW YORK, April 2S.
1t would be revelation to many to
know the number and kind of women
who are now living Independently and
earning their own livelihood. 1t would
be still more revelation to. find what an
excellent livelihood they make, and the
sort of interest they pat into their self.
made lives. Dropping into the Office OF
woman physician the other morning, in
reply to q question she showed me
book of engagements, every moment hll,
ed to the middle of May. She lives and
keeps house with another woman-the
, daughter of once well-known writer
and lecturer-a refined, intelligent wo'
man, who first made money keeping a
high-class boarding house, and is wise
enough now to keep what she has made,
and add .toit. These two ladies maintain
charming home, and entertain hospita-
bly,, though not with any show or parade.
Two other women, teachers, maintain
beautiful home together, and have each
taken little orphan child to rear. One
was eighteen months old, the other only
FIVE; neither has been absent from its
adopted.mother oneEnight, and both now
are old enough to be very little trouble.
Another woman, physician, has ele'
CANT apartments and forty thousand dol:
lars out at interest dollar earned
bys herself. One of. the best known wo-
men in New York, a lady of fashion, and
one whose name is seen wherever there
is a fashionable gathering, earns her own
and children's clothes and the wages OF
her own maid and the children's nurse
by writing fashionable news and society
gossip. Two young women | know rent
an elegant house, part of which is rented
out, and part kept for their own use:
This and themselves they maintain, and
they have also succeeded in buying back
the homestead in Pennsylvania, lost
through the reckleasuess and dissipated
habits of their father. A widow, LETT
with one child-a girl-some years ago,
5 to fight her own way, has educated her
daughter at the best schools, has adopted
q friendless boy, and in addition to main
tanning her home in New York, has built
charming summer home near Ocean
Grove. These few odd cases, picked up
at random, are not exceptional; they are
only examples of thousands of others.
And with pecuniary Independence comes
an altogether larger, freer, nobler life for
woman-a life that reacts upon the re-
pressed life os thousands OF other women,
and makes them able to think their own
thoughts, and act their own minds, for
the first time inythe history of their kind.
Il great many women are going abroad
) this season, and going together in twos
: and threes or more. One lady goes tor
the third time, who some five years ago
put q athousand dollars which she possess.
edsinto business which another woman
wished to buy out. Sickness in the fam:
lily and other, ,domestic;reasons prevented
the first from fulfilling her intention, and,
to save her money, the second, a wife and
mother who had a pleasant home, and
not "a particle of business experience,
plunged IN medias res and took the bur
den upon her own shoulders. In two
years she succeeded in paying herself
back all the money she put in, and in
placing a business which had very much
deteriorated on firm foundation. The
following year she took trip to Europe,
and the fourth-that is, last year-a
second, in company with her husband,
the two dividing expenses. This year
she goes again, because there is nothing
she likes so much, and she feels she can
afford it. I heard of new company the
) other day which is just starting, composed
wholly Of women, with capital OF
100000 raised among ten women in less
than. one week.
In paper sent me from the Isle OF
Man, the otherday-that isle which has
been, the first to grant the absolute night
of suffrage to women, and which will
now live in; history for something more
than;its independent sovereignty-there
were advertisements of woman coach
builder, :, who announced fine stock of
carriages and the like on haad woman
"Matchmaker,n who did repairing" and
hoped by sstrict attention." &C., and a
third woman who announced that her
: husbands business of 'sail making"
wonld hereafter be "carried on by her
SELF" and that she hoped, by keeping
good workmen" and sprompt ful6lment
of orders" to merit the patronage her
husband had received. No wonder the
men have extended the right of suffrage
to women on.the Isle Of Man ; >theyshow
themselves equal to any emergency.