Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-08-18
WOMEN BREAD-wINNERs.
How They Have Found Their Wa
Into All Occupations.

From the Philadelphia Press August 10.
There is hardly trade or business formerly sup
posed TO belong exclusively 70 men into which the
women OF Philadelphia have not entered. Many
are actual workers; some, through their capital,
hold controlling interests while others are success
| fully carrying on businesses beQueathed to them
by their husbands For q woman TO sell goods
that some one else has manufactured IL not re-
markaole, nor Is it 30 In calings that bring into
play her womanly gifts-such as any form OF sew
ing, laundry work, nursing. &C, but when she APP
pears In avocations that require mechanical skill
and ingenuity IL Is realized that there Is nothing
that woman cannot do II she but wills it.
There is a long list OF women manufacturers
in Philadelphia, and some OF the establishments
that they successfully conduct are quite exlen:
wooden yarns, hosiery and corsetA packing boxes
and paper boxes, umbrellas and trunks There
and women are the proprietors and managers of 4
match factory and a friedrich kiln. Two OF the
largest ARTIFICIAL nower-making establishments In
the city are owned and managed BY women. Ono
OF these firms, conducted by two bright enter.
prising business like sisters, has just experienced
By disaster opened temporary oflce Ins same
day and made arrangements for continuing the
business
keepers They sell tea and coffee, nsh, oysters
and groceries, bread, fruit, confectionery, milk
and pickles The abolition OF the wooden street
sheds, where our mothers and grandmothers did
their marketing, has given rise to hundreds Of
little meat markets. They are generally con-
Quoted by thrifty German and his WIFE The
woman, neat as pin, and as fresh looking as
stin starched calico dress and gingham apron can
make her. Is an attractive picture and draws trade
ness and eventually does the work better than her
clumsier husband She slices on steaks prepares
chops, and "bones" rib roast or shoulder Of NUT
ton with deftneSS that Is astonishing,
Women also sell BOOKS, stationery and artists
materials, toys fancy goods and trimmings chan
deliers, Oil and lamps, wooden and willow ware
baskets nd firm
-four, feed and grain. There are three Jewellers
and one coal dealer, and hundred of stores selling
ing everything from bonnets to mems SUITS.
In dingy little shop in q narrow street IN
the heart of the business portion OF the city
makes comfortable living and Is now
enjoying summer vacation from the profits of
her ira,, thrift Away up in Richmond lives an old
skill In making and mending shoes Her husband
was worthless scamp who invested his earnings
neglected his customers work. 1t was to keep
herself from actual starvation that first induced
his wife to try her hand at cobbling Practice
made perfect, and careful observation Of her hus-
band In his sober moments soon taught her all the
mysteries or the handlcraft, and she could make
or mend with the best OF them.
In the purely mechanical branches of business
there are women clothing cutters and women
dyers, picture-frame makers basket makers, a
and mattress makers a saddle and harness maker
q marble worker, q musical instrument maker
any quantity OF cigarmakers and two horseshoera
one OF the largest bOOk-binding establishments
In this city Is owned and managed by q woman
who Is thorough mistress OF the trade, and has
risen by industry, THRIFT and business sagacity
from Journeywonan TO proprietor. Running q
livery stable Is hardly a womans work nor Is
managing a lumber yard, yet women are at the
head Of TWO establishments OF the sort They are
also well represented as boarding house saloon.
restaurant and hotel keepers, but no woman has
yet taken advantage of the bonanza that is 10 the
instaiment business, nor are they mentioned as
inventors half dozen buy and sell rags and
junk, and four are pawnbrokerS
There are four sewing-machine agents, any
quantity or dressmakers, one shirt manufacturer
a bath-house proprietor, number OF employment
agents, a bird fancier and one dealer In military
furnishing goods and manufacturer of regallas
Several years ago In all sections OF the city one
met with the modest little signs OF the layers out
OF the dead. a his was peculiarly Philadelphia
Institution. The quaint old ladies' no performed
this last ofice for the dead are fast disappearino
The regular undertaken takes their place in which
business women are well represented. Since the
rounding OF the Womens Medical College there
have been large accessions OF women TO the medi-
cal profession.
They make excellent physicians, especially in
the line Of practice peculiar to the sex. lew
have made fortunes, number have lucrative
practices, and ali make a comfortable living AS
adJuncts TO the doctors, several women conduct
drug stores, a number are dentists, two are Occu
lists aud there are several cuppers, leechers cleo
tricians, manipulators and botanical and patent
There Is as yet only one woman lawyer and no
preachers. The single scenic artist can be aided
IN artistcaliy presenting stage picture by the
woman costumerS Fully one-half the official
stenographers are women, but there is only one
pubic accountant One woman, whose husband
was German physician and adjuster and i'm
ness founded by him for the last twelve years.
Sue Is bright, attractive little woman, and has
the pest patronage OF the city. Her patients come
from all parts OF the United states as we'll Since
the invention or the numerous reproducing pro-
cesses, artistic wood engraving has become almost
lost arI put four or nve Philadelphia
women still md profitable employment In its pur-
suit. As designers, wood carvers and workers in
leather and metal, women are yearly coming more
10 the 'front.'. Despite the lack OF an appreciaIiye
market Tor their productions, two women are
scuiptors and although there are hundreds of
amateur women photographer there are but two
professionals.
Women have not yet turned day laborers al.
tnougn many frail and delicate women work lust
as naru lor less pay, but many OF the little truck
farms that keep the Philadelphia markers SIM
Pneo Win early vegetables are managed by
women, and they do their share or the worS in the