The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-10-09
LADIES PIN MONEY.
Curious Cevices Rasorted to by
New York Women to Raise
Money.
New York World.

The feminine imagination is dis
tinctively fertile in resources. Hem
med in, hampered and hedged about
as women are in the matter of earning
a livelihood, they are often ingenius
in finding industries to degree that
is astonishing. The universal will
which comes from womankind is
"How shall l earn money ?" The out
let for either activity or genius with
them is bitterly narrow. Thousands
OF women in every city who have
enough to eat, plenty of fine things to
wear, perhaps. and are certain to be
comfortably housed, yet plan and de-
wise and dream of ways of earning
little money which shall be their own
to disburse as they wish, ''and no
questions asked" Women have shot
madly out of their "spheres" shat per-
scribed orbit permitted by fogydom--
to attempt anything that promises
them money of their own earning.
The general and intense thought
which impecunious or restless femin-
Unity has put up ways and means of
swelling the exchequer has developed
some curious expendients in the mo-
mentary hue. Women try unheard
of experiments to make money, and
though often with pitable results. the
certain consequences of desperate or
ill-timed measures, quite as oAen with
rare and radiant success.
One that has grown to be a recog-
nized business, extensively pursued.
though on the sly, is the practice Of
taking women and children out to
ride at price per hour far below any,
thing the livery-stables offer. As this
business is almost exclusively monopo-
lized by ladies who toll not neither do
they spin, so far as the world knows. it
has gained but little publicity. Ere
q1ently advertisements similar to the
following appear in the newspapers,
but always signed simply by an init
ial:
Notice to invalids. "A lady will take
an invalid lady or child fol a drive
in the park or elsewhere as often as
desired for small compensation. Ad-
dress Y, rs, etc.
Every issue of snch advertisement
in fair weather is apt to bring several
answers. To these the female Jehus
reply in person at the modest figure
Of so cents an hour. Their phaetons
are generally stylish and well.kept and
their horses handsome, if not the most
manageable in the world. They ar
ray themselves in modish driving cos
tunes and rein up in front of the
houses designated in the note of re-
sponse to the advertisement, quite as
nonchalantly as though their "fares"
were friends of years standing. They
know nothing of the persons they take
out, and their "fares" know nothing of
them. All women affect the severest
pro ,,r;ety in regard to who they are
seen with in public. That it is an af.
lection with many> of them is proven
by the readiness with which they are
willing to drive out with somebody
who may be anything but congenial or
even reputable, when the chance of
earning little money on the sly pre-
sents itself.
One of the grimmest guardians of
an extremely aristocratic "set" may
often be seen bowling through the
parks with her invalid at so cents an
hour propped up by her side. She
meets her fashionable friends OCCASION
ally, of course, but she whips up and
cuts by them with snowy bow. and
those who are not posted Us to all the
uses to which a private carriage NAV
be put, naturally suppose the two
ladies are friends.
Not infrequently driver is an ad-
junct of the occasion but the wool is
pulled over his eagle eyes. and he
never dreams that he has been a par
ty to petty money transaction.
Feminine tact can even bamboozle
the shrewdest of mentals.
Somestimes the fair owner of the
carriage is the wife of man of means
who never dreams that she has gone
into the hack business, If she heard
Of him joining the formidable phalanx
of coachess. even in disguise, she would
consider the family ruined. # he
was compelled to do it, it is doubtful
if she would look at it in any other
than fretfui and complaining light
This is to be inferred from the style of
criticisms women of ordinary minds
pass upon the chapter of Charles Reade
Simpleton which represents the pa
tient husband of the simpleton as
playing the parts of hackman on Sun
day nights as a matter or grim necessi-
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