Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-06-03
SENSIBLE WOMEN.
Talented Ladies Who Adopted Cookery In
Place of Art and Grew Wealthy.

Talented Ladies Who Adopted Cookery In
Place Of Art and Grew Wealthy.
A few years ago, when the craze for
all sorts of decorative art was at full
tide, woman, who was really a most
capable artist in that line, made hand
some income by her own work ard the
work of those whom she instructed and
employed. When the fashion changed
and the demand for this sort of art
work ceased, she found herself, with a
family dependent upon her, without
employment. Among her housekeep-
ing accomplishments she numbered
that of making an exceptionally de-
]icious quality of angels-food cake. On
inquiry she learned that the Chicago
demand for the best quality of this par
ticular kind of cake was supplied by
woman in New York, and, believing
that she could satisfactorily fill these
orders. she laid aside the pallet and
brush for the egg-beater and sieve.
From this small beginning in cake
making the business steadily increased
until this woman now derives from it
an income more than sufficient for the
maintenance of herself and family.
In another instance q young woman,
after having in vain tried in every
direction which her ingenuity could
suggest for some way in which to solve
the problem of making an honest liv-
ing. went, quite discouraged, to the
directress of the woman's exchange and
stated her case. The directress ques-
toned her as to what she could do par
ticularly well. At first she could think
of no one thing in which she excelled.
At last, however, she remembered
that in the days before misfor-
tune overlook her her chicken
pie had always been pronounced
particularly excellent. Under the adj
vice of the directress of the exchange
she began making chicken-pies. and is
now the chicken-pie maker of Chicago.
She makes them in all sizes, from the
little individual pie to the huge pastry
structure which would contain the four
and twenty black birds of nursery
rhyme fame and leave room for several
chickens besides.
I other woman turned her knowl-
edge of bread-making to equally good
account. She discovered that it was
really very difficult to get nice quail
ty of homemade bread. Being obliged
to earn what is popularity called .'liv-
ing" she began making bread and sup
plying few customers regularly. The
fame Of her loaves both white and
brown, spread until she was obliged to
keep several helpers to enable her to
supply her regular customers and
found herself the proprietress of . lu-
crative business.
To bring the thin translucent shaw
ings of the Irish potato to that degree
of delicate brown crispiness which
makes them the palatable ''dish'
known as chips" or Saratoga pota-
toes" is an art quite beyond the caliber
of the ordinary Queen of the Kitch-
en-. whose services can be commanded
intermitcntly for from three to five dol
lars per week. This being the case, the
unsupplied demand for this sort of eat
able was recognized by woman. who
proceeded TO supply it. She induced
the fancy grocers to add these ''chips"
which keep nicely several days-to
their regular stock, and also solicited
patronage among families She now
has a large list of private customers
and is now doing lucrative business.
-Ant0iRette g. Wakeman, IN Chicago
Times.