National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-08-15
WORK FOR WOMEN.
A FRESH FIELD OPENED FOR INDUSTRIOUS
INDIVIDUALS.


Make Comfortable Living at Type.Writ.
ing-somo Peculiarltlcs Of the business as
Carried on In This city.
"This typewriter has enable me TO
support myself and my mother and sis
ters," said u neatly dressed, but business
like maiden, whose family nomo hns
been leading one In the district almost
since It's first settlement to q REpUBLt.
CAN reporter yesterday She stood with
one hand on the compact little machine.
while she caresscd n6'octionately, while
In the other was m order" which had
just como in, being bundle of very bad
manuscript to BIO transcribed into crisp
characters upon the machine. The lady
occupied part Of an Office which furnishes
her much Of her business, but the start
had boon mado without auy assistance
from friends. When the care OF hor
family devolved upon her she made some
effort TO entor ono Of tho government de-
partments, but becoming disgusted at tho
delay invested nearly her last dollar in
the purchase Of the machine.
bO you hHOW IL NOuE HuNCtbb hhb bCCh
unusual ~ was asked.
IL know of many who have got along
oven better than | have, and mono that
are not making good living"
"Whero do you got your business from p
From lawyers mainly who want briefs
and bills and other legal documents made
out in good, legible style, sometimes in
duplicate; then architects, authors, patent
attorneys, and persons in general who
havo business with the departments,
where they know type writing, Is more
acceptable than manuscript communica.
lions, being even requested by some of
the officials. Then | have petitions, re-
ports, sermons. addresses, poems, articles
for publication in magazines and news
papers, and q thousand other different
kinds of work, besides dictations for cor
respondence."
"How is tho last managed2 Arc you
q stonographerT
you can dictate u letter, as / do with
those business mon who call to have
their letters written. Try"
The reporter did try, and by the time
he was ready to commence tho second
letter tho first was lying before him, only
requiring his signature to complete IL.
"How many words minute is that? 2"
probably eighty-five. l can write
eighty steadily on a long stretch, and that
| ia as fast us any ono wants to talk when
its business he's talking"
"And the terms for this sort of service ~
That depends upon previous arrange
ment IL ono copy Is wanted we charge
o cents for each folio or 100 words,
Averaging three folios on page of fools
cap; when more than ono one copy il
required they are charged for of cents
each. If an hourly arrangement is pre-.
fcrred the price is 75 cents. We take
dictation from shorthand writers at hall
price"
How was copying paid before type
writing came into use2p
Ten cents folio is tho price for manu-
script copying, but twenty words q min
ute is q fast average for a copyist with o
pen. With typewriter forty words is a
very low average, while an expert easily
reaches eighty-fve. Ladies who arc en-
ployed regularly in large offices where
there is steady work for them get as high
rs $50 week, but many who are work
ing Independently easily mako from 500
to 5000 month with work and pupils"
do you have many applicants for in
struction ~
"plenty; but most OF them go to the
Office whore the machines are sold"
A gentleman was found Mt tho last
named place, who insisted upon explain
ing the superiority of his machines over
that of rival manufacturer before he
would answer the reporters inquiries
He said that no less than 500 machines
had passed through his hands in this city
besides those that have been brought here
by operators and others coming from other
cities. "Thero are," no added, 1900 il
use in tho government departments alone
and we expect an order for ten NOR,
every day. The interior department alon,
has hundred, and Secretary Teller ha
ordered all communications OF othe
written matter to be in typo writing be
fore being submitted to him"
DO you have any inquiry from the
blind and halt ?"
"a gentleman was in yesterday TO bu,
one for his blind wife, IL she could b,
taught. We undertake to teach ever,
one we sell to- and have q machine will
raised letters for the blind. We hay,
another contrivance by which a one
armed man can play on our piano as wei
as n two.armed one it is like an organ
swell and is operated by the knee. I'm
provemonts are being made all the time.
you have not reached the point wher,
| Olc Cull ott VIM hO 10 NIlNluR
Not yet, but we expect IL to come"
A cruise among the operators developed
tho fact that they are a. class remark
ably intelligent. With triiling cxcep
lions all seemed to have work on hant
and to take so much pleasure in 1t as tn,
boarding house miss who knocks tn,
maidon's prayer out of the piano for tn,
thousandth consecutive time. Tho visit
were paid toward the closing Of bushes
hours, but no sign of woariness were visi
BILE such as spoilt tho beauty lines In
pretty store'girl's face long before CLOSING
time comes.
They have to DO intelligent" re
marked o gentleman in whose Office tw,
ladies were at work turning out pag,
after page of neatly printed matter from
manuscript that would drive composition
crazy. "If person does not know
good deal about tho English language, it
construction and spelling, besides tn,
capitalization and punctuation, ho or sh,
will not mako much Roadway with tn
machine. Intelligence is required II
addition to fill in words which the write
probably did not know how TO spell. an,
consequently substituted crooked lin
for it in his manuscript. Good spelling
is more important in machine writin
than IL is in pom work, because an erro
cannot DO excused by an ambiguous mark
} it sticks right out in type.
81 know y gentleman in business her
who, though we'll educated, spells badly
and was frightened out of taking a ma
,, chine by seeing some of his orrora
matter no had tried on in the shop col
rected as though faults of novice. Will
in reality they were fruits of his failing.
IL the absence of suitable materials for Ill
time to prepare H. people O,lcn 90 without
dressing Tor salads Buy Durkue's DRESSING
T and you will never trouble yourself to max
another.