Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-09-02
BAY GOSSIP.
TALK ABOUT WOMEN OF BUSINESS
BAKE SHOPS.
Laundries-s chool feachsrs-Women Doc
tors-Church singers-WoTk in the
Canperies-Type Setting.
Correspondence of the RECoRD-UM0s.l
SAN Francisco Anrust 81. 1859

SAN Francisco, August 81, 1882.
went to order some coal one day at the
coal-yard, aud as l stepped into the office /
met very business-like young lady, who
took my order and my number, and as l
left I heard her give both to man GOV.
cred with coal-dust, who afterwards de-
livered the load. she tod me she kept
the books and waited on customers
when necessary, being regularly en-
ployed by her uncle, the owner of
the yard. I was pleased with her
manner-pleasant, brief and suggestive of
business. have since learned of wives
and daughters who regularly keep the
books of the store" owned by the men,
folks, doing the work at home, sometimes
carrying on the business correspondence
beside. 1t is usual thing for young ladies
to take course of bookkeeping at the bust
ness colleges, and il is not unusual TO see q
lady's face bending above the books in any
clean and pretty business. Any woman
naturally looks for some genteel employ
ment, bot she cannot always pick and
choose. In the busy season the csnneries
employ large number, good proportion
of which are women and girls. receiving
from half dollar to dollar and
quarter per day. This is not mic,
clean work. Any one who has worked at
peeling fruit knows what kind Of work
that is. And here where it is done day
after day for months, the hands, besides
being discolorsd, get sore, the skin recedes
from the finger nails, the sharp juice eats
farther and farther in /; and yet there are
plenty of applicants for such places. If l
were left destitute to-day, without know
ing any trade or any profession, think l
would open
LITTLE BAKE SHOP.
II is a small business, but it is a good one,
and has many advantages. In the first
place, it may be situated in part of the
city where rents are small, and the shop
is in the froat room, the family being be-
hind it, which is economy, of course. But
little capital is required, the stock being
perishabls and bought from some bakery
fresh every day. There isn't much to be
made on ten. cent pie or a tive.cent mer.
ingue, but "many muckles make a
mickle." How little l make when l sell a
loaf of bread but everybody buys bread
here, even poor people. You can get such
a good sized loaf for five cents, and it is
such good bread, and when you reckon up
coal, -four and the rest of it which bread
at home costs, bakers bread seems cheap.
And it all counts up, and you would be
surprised at how it counts up. I was sur
nrised N hear ladyr rho would Iyaa,,
a laundry, because several
woMEN'S LAUNDRIRS
Have been started here without success.
But she said she had investigated the sub.
ject from curiosity, and felt sure she could
make it pay. One energetic lady friend
stones raisins for restaurant at 81 so a
box, and has done it for years. Thanks.
giving and Christmas times her fingers fly
and earn many dollar. Women with
good voice for singing must necessarily
come to the city if they wish to earn liv.
ing by it. There is occupation for them as
chorus singers, especially just now, when
cheap opera is great success. But this is
not an emiDently genteel employment,
and is not recognized socially, whereas the
ShuANt S+hsNA 70 d oOSIdl suCCSSr.
But any one may see at glance the vast
step between the two. Most of
OUR CHURCH SINGERS
Are persons with years of experience and
training. Witness Mrs. Howells, Mrs.
Mariner Campbell, Mrs. Pierce, Mrs.
Anderson, Mrs. Lippett, Mrs. Stetson,
Airs. Clement, Miss Rightmire, and the
twenty others who sing go sweetly, who
have sung so long and studied so much
and aimed so high to be church singer
1t means local popularity, the routine of
hymn and ritual, disappointment at first
and finally resignation to no higher destiny,
and 1t further means a salary of from SIS TO
S75 per month. l remember very well when
Henri Herherte and Emma Howson sang
OF week nights IN burlesque opera and in
the First Congregational church on Sun.
days, but our choir singers are now differ
ent from that, though l don't say that
was wrong The occupation of teaching
school is SO thoroughly popular that there
is scarcely need 90 mention it. 1t has one
great advantage will always be while
there are children to teach, and though the
number OF teachers multiplies every year
the little ones multiply with equal rapid.
ty. The position of teacher in
THE SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Is in many respects a pleasant one. The
children are not benefited by long confine-
ment, therefore the hours are limited from
till 3. The work is mapped out each
year, and the responsibility for general
discipline being divided among the dozen
in one building, falls very heavily upon
none After 3 In the afternoon comes
freedom, while the country teacher
is g the school ma am" and must
walk with rigid circumspecsnesy
out of school as well as in school. Here,
when once appointed, the position lasts,
not for three, Xix or twelve months, but
for an unlimited time The average salary
is about SO per month for assistants, and
for principals Sl2j 70 $500. To obtain the
situation commanding any of these pays
one must have influence, know big man,
pull wire, have friend to roll a log, etc.
Yet accidents happen, and sometimes
place is filled because an applicant is es-
pecially tit Printing seems an employ
ment peculiarly adapted to women, it beng
work which requires no great physical
strength, but wnich rather demands
exactness, nicely and rapidity. Many girls
are employed in book binderies and print.
ing Offices. Objection was made at first by
the male employees, but they were obliged
to submit TO the inevitable. As rale.
women do best where there is regular work,
such as newspaper business but one wo-
man, Mrs. Richmond, carries on job
office, having three or four men, besides
women and girle in her employ The wo-
man who Gets type earns from $40 to SIS
per week. All woman's work is yet in it's
lncip'eucy. AS yet il is taking its first
stride; nobody knows how great the iDhu-
ence OF its second effort may be upon the
minds which now look upon it with doubt,
perhaps with fear. The future will demon.
strate the smicable and successful result of
the introduction of female hands into the
trades and professions, and the world
will look on ut the man and uo