The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-05-12
WHAT WOMEN CAN DO.
Some Rcmarkable Results that havc been
Achieved I'm New York.
Letter from Jennie June.
NEW YORK. April 2S

NEW YORK, April 2S.
1t would be q revelation TO many to
know the lumber 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 put into their self.
made lives Dropping into the office of
Il awoiilaii physician ;he other morning, in
reply to question she showed me
book of engagements, every moment fill
ed to the middle Of May. She lives and
keeps house with another woman--the
daughter Of once well-known writer
and lecturer refined, intelligent wo.
man, who first made money keeping
high class boarding house, and is wise
enough now TO keep what she has made,
and add to It, These two ladies maintain
4 charming home, and entertain hospita.
bly,, though not with any show or parade.
Two other women, teachers, maintain
beautiful hon, together, and hayc each
taken little orphan child to rear. One
was eighteen months old, the other only
five; neither has been absent from its
adopted mothcr one night, and both now
arc old enough to be very little trouble.
Apcthcr woman, a physician, has clc.
CANT apartments and forty thousand dol
lars out at intercst--every dollar earned
by herself. One Of tho best known wo-
men in New York, n lady of fashion, ard
one whose name is seen wherever there
is n fashionable gathering, earns her own
and children's clothes and the wages of
her own maid aud 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 bnck
the homestead in Pennsylvania, lost
through tho rccklessncss and dissi pated
habits Of their father. A widow, left
with one child-n girl-some years ago,
to fight her own way, has educated her
daughter ut the best schools, has adopted
fricndlcss boy, and in addition to main
tanning her homo in New York, has built
charming summer home near Ocean
Grove. These few odd cases, picked up
at random, nre not exceptional; they are
only examples Of thousands of others.
And with pecuniary independence comes
al altogether larger, frecr, noblcr life for
wOman-a life that reacts upon the re-
pressed life of thousands Of other women,
and makes them able to think their own
thoughts, and act their own minds, for
the first time in tho history of their kind.
great many women arc going abroad
this season, and going together in twos
and threes or more. One lady goes for
the third time, who some five years ago
put thousand dollars which she possess.
ed into business which another woman
wished to buy out Sickness in the fam
lily and other domestic reasons prevented
tho first from fulfilling her intention, md,
to save her money, the second, n wife and
mother who had pleasant home, and
not particle OF business experience,
plunged in medids rcs and took tho bur.
den upon her own shoulders. In two
years she succeeded in paying herself
back all the money she put in, and in
placing n business which had very much
detcriorated on n firm foundation. The
following year sho took u trip to Europe,
and tho 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
sho likes so much, and she feels she can
afford it. 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 ono week.
In paper sent me from the Isle Of
Man, the other day-that isle which has
been tho first to grant the absolute right
Of suffrage to women, aud which will
now live in history for something more
than its independent sovcreignty-there
were advertisements of woman "coach
builder" who announced fine stock of
carriages and the like on haAd; woman
"watchmaker," who did repairing" and
hoped by "strict attention." &C., and
third woman who announced that her
husbands business of "sail making"
would hereafter be "carried ON by her.
self" and that she hoped, by keeping
good workmen" and prompt fulilment
OF ORDERS" to merit the patronage her
husband had received. No wonder the
men have extended tho right of suffrage
to women on the Isle of Man; they show
themselves equal to any emergency.