The Washington critic., 1886-07-22
WOMEN MAY DO.
Trades and Professions in Which
They Succeed.
ENCOURAGING EXAMPLES.
Doctors, Ministers. Florists, Journal
lists ana Money-Malkcrs.


the Boston Record mentions many In
that city who are achieving reputation
and success. Among them are num-
Der of doctors and several ministers,
but as yet no lawyers Dr. Annie Il.
Fisher, who Is lecturer on children's
diseases in Boston University, is among
the most successful members of her
profession. She devotes herself in
practice to the specially on which she
lectures, and is especially earnest in
teaching preventive means to the
mothers of her little patients as vel as
In the application of her curative
methods.
DR.. Grace Wolcot is one of the
youngest practicing physicians of her
sex in the country. She took up the
study of her profession when very
young indeed, going from the comfort.
able home of her parents of her own
will into the rigid training of nurse
at the New England hospital. She
learned her work thoroughly, and
went from the nurses into the doctors
relation to sick people with that knowl-
edge of the manifold requirements of
Illness which an experienced nurse un-
derstands even better than physician.
She is now making speciality of sur
gerry. DR.. Clara Austin and Dr. Lena
1ngraham are among other representa-
tive women in the Boston practice of
medicine.
WOMEN AS FLORISTS.
One of the prettiest of occupations
for women is that of a florist, and Miss
M. s. Newman of Beacon street has
long been known as the only worker in
that field who Is in business for her
self in this city. She served an ap-
premiership as a saleswoman for O
florist for several years, and when her
employer withdrew from the business
she decided to carry 1t on for herself
and has since conducted 1t successfully
Almost all of the floral orders of the
Back Bay go to Miss Newman, and her
hands have made many homes beauti-
full for weddings and parties. She uses
laurel twinings chiefly now for festal
adornings in place of the once popular
smilax, and under the constant re-
straining of her quiet taste funeral
decorations have become more sub
iect of true sentiment and less costly
display. Wreathes rather than STACEY
designs, and graceful punches of roses
rather than set nosegays, are more ap
preciated every year from her hands
There are no less than six women In
the suburbs of Boston who own green.
houses, and who supply private GUS
toners and the trade from their own
gardens and hotbeds. 1t is health
full occupation and there is always a
chance TO build up paying business
for good, practical worker among
flowers.
WOMEN. IN JOURNALISM.
Elderly women now living remember
when 1t was considered unwomanly for
them to go, under any circumstances,
into so public place as postoifice;
and when women first began to work
in newspaper offices there was great
hue and cry against the pioneers.
There are women employed now either
as editors, correspondents or reporters
on nearly every paper in Boston, and
their adaptability to many departments
of the work of making great news
paper is so well recognized that it goes
as matter Of course. Early workers
in this field found good degree of
persistence, and, perhaps even asser.
tiveness, necessary to give them foot
hold, but they certainly won 1t, and
have made the path of journalism an
easier one for the women who come
after them. The names of Mrs. Sallie
Joy White, Miss Blackwell, Lillian
Whiting, Miss Alice Stone, and Miss
Helen Winslow are well known as
press workers, and there are half
dozen new writers who are working
their way up from the reportorial ranks.
The business manager of the Woman s
journal is Miss Susan G. Vogel, and
she conducts her work skilfully and
successfully. Several women have
made good livings in advertising com
mission work.
ART. WORKERS.
Three women representative Of ar
tistic work are Mrs. S. w. Whitman,
Miss E. NJ. Carpenter and Mrs. Sc
linger. Mrs. Whitman is now doing a
window for new Episcopal church in
Andover Mrs. Selinger has gained
rank with Helen Searle as a superior
painter of flowers, and Miss Carpenter
has succeeded admirably in the same
branch Miss Carpenter has taken up
portrait painting quite seriously since
her return from Europe, and her por-
trait of Mr.. Charles w. Slack, painted
but short time before his death, has
been much praised. 1t belongs to the
Mechanics Association, Of which Mr..
Slack was a former president.
THE COOKING SCHOOL.
A number of rich women have
pushed the interests of the Cooking
School Association, Of which Mrs. s.
r. Hooper is president There /:
plenty of room in this industry fOi
girls seeking ways to earn money If
as seems quite likely, instruction II
cooking is to be as much n part of pub
lie school work as instruction in arith
metic, there will be II growing demnnt
for educated girls who know how t
cook to take positions as teachers OF
their science in the schools. Whereye
cookery has been taught 1t has beef
prolific of enough good results, Gs
pecially in the poorer districts, to sat
isfy the missionary instincts of all wh,
are interested in teaching the masse,
how to eat simple, healthful, we'll
cooked dishes instead of the peculiar
and often more costly fare on which
they now subsist.
THE TYrE WRITER GIRL.
The typewriter girl has become
national necessity, and she has many
representatives here. There is a reall,
superior set of young women engaged
as correspondents, who have sort o
clique of their own in town, who CON
mand better pay than minor worker
and who are Indispensable in the office
where they are employed These girl
are of more than common school edu
cation--girls who have been trained I,
good mental habits and who can do