Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-02-28

or ladies and "gentlemen'-rarely ever men and women-in reduced circum- stances" are in the neglected education' business. That is, they undertake 70 im- prove the minis of those unfortunate inii- viduals whose early education was neglected, and who are now anxious to remedy their defects. The class must be numerous, judg. ing from the number of persons who offer it their services as instructors.
 A few individuals with taste for mor- tuary rhyme. eke out an uncertain existence by building obituary doggereL Others do . thriving trade in funeral wreaths and a fell and fearful thing in a black frame which they call memorial The dog woman generally work together. recom- meni each other and patronizs each other. Both watch the papers, and lose no time after death occurs in bouncing upon the bereaved ones with an offer of their ser vices. Death has many stings for the sur J vivOrs. if none for those who die.
 Teaching the art of walking should be numbered among the novel methods of keeping the pot boiling. Those who profit by this species of instruction are not the professional pedestrians; they are the peo- pie of fashion and swslldom bent on learn ing the English walk The teachers arc English, invariably, and start out on the capital assumption that Americans have never been taught how to walk. and Ameri- cans believe ttsm and immediately go into training to make themselves as clumsy and heavy footed as the English.
 Another industry of comparatively recent development Is the .'heraldic studio which undertakes to find your family crest and sketch it, beautifully, in heraldic colors, for one dollar" It is needless to say that thoSe engaged in this branch of business are kept extremely active.
 Manuscript revisers are also to be found They live upon the ambitious efforts of bud ding authors whose barques are still un- launched upon the literary seq. Eager to set forth in go0d trim, the poor aspiring souls pay for having their manuscript read and freshly sprinkled with commas by the literary 'inker, and are then no nearer the final goal of printed immortality than before. Literary brokers are development bA AAu AAiAArN NlAr ltaoNr OI ciltsA an office and reports itself as successfully mediatins between writers and publishers.
 Some men. and a few women. find it pro htable to invent designs for advertising favors; and some devote their whole time, with fair financial results, tO constructing humorous and striking advertisements for the mighty advertisers of the city.
 stLsT,t. they may be. are also in existence. Since their business depends solely upon fools, it is doubtless brisk one.
 A few women earn a stinted subsistence by making various dainty devices of coloreJ French tissue paper. lamp-shades adorned with roses, fans, and other popular mural decorations. At this industry the most expert and persevsring cannot make more than a dollar a day, granting they have a ready marketier their work, which is not always tho cas-
 Dozens Of cosmetic fiends swell the throng of ingenious schemerS This line of activity, if energetically pursued, is usually produc- tive Of ducats. IT thero is any snare that can trap the human mily--particularly the feminine part of it-eyery day in the week. it is something to beautify the person. | heard woman who had tried it say that she could sell Crotou water at dollar an ounce if it were ingeniously labelled and | prop,rly advertised. Professional beauti- | fcrs1 ara as numerous as Ceniuses- They undertake to remove all imperfections of the | face. figure. hanis and feet, and are never idle. Green pay trees can't begin to flourish as they do. Then there are swarms of hair | doctors, of both sexes. who treat hair ''sci- | sntificallv.n Manicures. unknown on this side of the water before the centennial ye ar, are plenty nn1 prosperous Our finger nails are more important than of yore.
 A few musicians. men and women, man. ace to get through the perplexities of board bills by accepting calls to play at imprOmptu little parties, family gatherings, parlor danes and informal social occasions.
 Some of the ''reducedr gentlswomen work out their material salvation by making the gorgeous pincushiOns now sold by all the first-clas3 dry goois houses They take or ders for a hundred or two hunlred at one time Their profits are not extravagant, however. Some others devote themselves to crazy quilts, which they manage to work of on their moro opulent friends or at the stores Dolls dressmakers are fairly numer ous. anl makers of dogs blankets are to b' found I know of a smart colored woman who picks up a decent existencs by making feather furniture for dolls. A very old wo man lives entirely by pstdlin. cOurt-plas- ter of her own manufacture; but then he living has its limitations. It is m eNistenc rather than living. There are men wh' tinker anl women who ment everything from bric-a-brac tO an undershirt.
 Many women do massage work at the dif ferent sanitariums and in private families
 There are "canine dispsnsaries," wher dogs are boardel and cured, bird doctors parrot teacher, alligator feeders and higl custDslians of aquariums. These 'profes sionsr are almost exclusively filled by men They are supposed 10 be solely within thei sphere
 Thousanis of people sell thousands O things, from their grandfather's clock sec nd-hand victuals, and there are buyer for everything.
 Hesiies the hosts of tho active are hosts O the anxious, who have thought O. ne'
 things that could b. done anl should b done, and are going around weighed dow
 with their ideas, but are too hSht hnaI cially to put them in operation.
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