The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-19


stalls when she came to the market, but all
| produce wss sold from baskets.
Mrs. s. ID. Barker hss for twenty six
| years tod lamb, mutton, and veal In Wash
ington Market. She has seen many changes
in the old rookery and in the people VIII,
Market there. Years ago. she says, people
| depended upon the butcher to select thsir
meats; they had il rolled in a paper and car
| ried 1t away. Now women have been so
educated by the market articles IN the pa
psrs that they know every part Of the critter,
| ard the prices current
Mrs. Pa-rett ves twenty years ago left a
wide with two children. Since that time
| che bss oten a butcher, and is now known
| in the cd town locality where she has al ex-
| ceIleDuy appointed shop Is the woman
butcher Sue bears the reputation OF bsing
| ore OF the beat judges of meat. She Is deli
cate and refined looking little woman. aud
| in or out OF her store would hardly be sup
| pose equal to 60 robust an occupation
Parad &c may not be regained, bnt fair
living can be found in garden we'll titled.
| Bill Arp OF the Atlanta Constiuti 1n has been
wrestling with the question ''whas the
clever country girls do to make living for
thems elvs and feel independent and ,und
1t partially answered by come girls in Z ast-
ern North Carolina He found, he says:
''seme nice, well educated girls cultivating
small fruits and vegetables for market. They
didn't pillow the ground, but they planted
acre Of strawberries that two sisters had
painted, and they made frolic OF it; that is
they went at il with will, and took lively
interest in ii, and they gathered 1000 quarts
and said they would get th ousand more,
and they packed them into little baskets, and
North, and their sales averaged thirty cents
quart Their total expenses for hire OF
help and cost of baskets and freight to mark
ct were $500. and this left one thousand for
their work and watching and constant care.
Well, these girls are proud and independent.
But this is not all. These girls have go. q
crop OF raspbeIries Just behind, and they will
make two hundred or three hundred dollars
off OF them, and they are growing currspts
and gooseberries, and talk about going into
potatoes, beans, grapes and all that. Well,
why not9 Fruit growing is nice business
for girls, and so is vegetables"
A correspondent OF the Inter Ocean tells of
the efforts OF widow In Illinois. Her cap.
ital consisted Of a comfortable house To-
Gated in large barren village lot, a stable
and one COW. She had three dependent chill
dren, ard no income. After due considera-
ton and preparation she had the lot plowed
in early spring and converted il into one
large strawberry bed while around its sides
were planted black cap Taspberries. She So.
lected standard reliable vsrie lies, aud gave
her plants good and thorough cultivation.
The next spring her plants were strong and
thrifty 81 d in coed bearing condition. A
compact was made With her grocer who IN
dertook the sale OF the entire crop. When
the season was over and settlements made
the widow felt well paid for all her wo.k
and anxiety, for her teruss had returned
sufficient over expenses TO provide for ell
the needs of herself and children until the
rext spring. Then she secured al adjacent
vacant lot on G long lease at low
rent ard filed il with the
increase of plants from her original patch.
Tee question of support was settled, there
va5 10 reed for her TO leave her home TO
labor, ard last, but by no means least, she
vas able 10 interest and employ her childrs n
| 20 teach them the lesson or sell help aud
| mutual help, and to keep them under her
| care.
in filling the soil On q lar "a women
see to be az succt ssful as IL .is berry patch
Amorg the women who are DEMONSTRATING
| in Hernandez County, Fla, are Misses Fan
| ME and Matte Clark and Mrs. Conger. They
teach public school five months during the
| year, which enables them to improve their
| places the remaining seven months. These
| ladies ere planting orange groves, and do the
| manual labor themselves.
| Mis- Austin, formerly a teacher, has s
| hundred acre lot near Fresno, California on
| which, with three unmarried lady friends
| and ChiDaman, she follows raisin growing,
| and has also hundreds OF peach, apricot and
| nectsrine trees.
| Miss Julia Pesse, a Vassar graduate, and
daughter of the late ex Governor Pease, has
| charge OF 6 600 acres OF land in Texas. she
| lives in the family mansion az Austin with
| her mother, and. in addition to her other
| duties, superinteuds the education OF the
| three children of her deceased sister.
| A young woman OF Illinois, Tor some time
teacher in the public schools OF that State.
decided to go West. She took up farm In
| Dakota, and now owns three hundred and
| twenty acres OF land and two ID jusand dol
| lars in money.
| The above are but few OF the instsuce,
| reported of woman's success as an agicul.
| surist.
| The Woman's Tribune gives the following
| instance OF good business sense:
| In 1881 Mrs. Osbourne had been for some
time housekeeper for Cook & Tower, who
had a cattle rancho near where the town of
| Ainsworth now stands. When the tide OF
emigration set In this direction, the rancher;
bad to move along. but Mrs. Osbourne and
her daughter concluded to remain and 10
Gated six quarter sections of land on which
as it turned out the new town was located
Then it turned out that Mrs. Osbourne had
| wonderful business capacity, and knew JUS,
| how to be liberal and how TO pinch to the
best advantage Of herself and the now thirty
| ing town, where she is reckoned to be worth
| $4,000. and 1.-The best badness man in Aims
| worth"
The Northwestern Lumbermsn ntains a
letter from Mrs Harriet Smith. of Tucker
town, Fla, who in relating Der experiences
shows the wisdom of making the best of thG
opportunity at hand. of turning what wa
about to become 8 loss into . profitable has
mess She lent money to others II start
sawmill. They failed, aud the mill came
into hel hands She placed Ii IN charge o.
her son.inlaw but he too failed to make
success of it. MIS-. Smith then undertook
the business herself. She moved the mt
distance OF twenty miles fo.diug thu Hi 8
borough River. and placed t. near her OWL
house. In few days she Ia 1 rything IL
good running order. She has her ow team
and carts, takes tic, Der from her own lsuds
empls VS. only the bss. hands sat miSsJ
money.
General News Notes.
IspIASA.-An excellent paper on "Wo
mans Work" was read by Mrs. L. A. Vawte
before the Laconia Circle of the Chautau IN.
Literary and Scientific Circle at Greend slS