The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-29

Iecne country. has been elected q member
Oh tue louisiana Sugar Planters Associa-
tlon. Another New Orleans woman. Mary
Z: tarnhaln, has shown herself possessed
OF some practical gifts by taking out re-
Gently patent for new car s artar.
carpentry is not considered an especially
feminine occuDatiOn, but the New Century
Guild Of Philadelphia recently offered
prizes for the best nail driving and saving
which were won by Hiss J. X. Baker and
Miss c. Altemus. respectively. One lldv
member OF the guild claimed to have built
fences, another to have a friend who had
rooted her own house and n third 70 know
a woman who had bullta house out and
out. Msantime the trade Of cabinet max
ing is successfully followed by Mrs. NJ j.
Cullen, of Ninth avenue, New YORK. and
by a number Of women in Boston. wnlle
fresco painting from a scaffold is by no
means the most difficult part of the wors Of
Miss Mary Tiilinghast, the well-known New
orK decorator, who also,
IN the capacity of archi-
tect, infinitely superintends the
erection of important buildings
There are any number OF women phvsi-
clans, yet the appointment Of DR.. Sophia
Fender Unger as sanitary inspector for
the New Y rk Board of Health for the
months of July and August is accsptei as a
token OF their advance in popular consider
alton. There are not many women drug
glsts, but Mrs. +. S. Drummer and Miss de
) carras graduated VITA honors from the
New York College of Pharmacy last wear.
and Mrs. Drummer, who is a pleasant-faced
woman Of 80, at once went into business
With her husband in Brooklyn. Nine. Ru-
doH, of New Orleans, who drives O brisk
trade IN the Crescent City, is secretary
or the Louisiana State Pharmaceutical
Association. There are not many women
dentists, but DR.. Olga Neymanu. the slight
dark haired young Cornell coed who fills
teeth on Madison avenue, mas two fellow
practitioners of her own sex in New York
and one In Brooklyn, while several gradu-
ates of the different dental colleges are
establishing themselves in different cities
Of the country,
One of the brightest business women in
New York is Mrs. Sallie Mcdonald, the
granddaughter Of the noted Tom COrwin
who Is an energetic and successful adver-
Using solicit r and gets a handsome income.
she is remarkable eveu-tempered, keen and
full of ideas and is considered the bost col
lector OF money in the advertising business.
Mrs. Janet Runtz Rees, the president of the
Kindly Club, has made a success of writing
advertisements, line of work which
several women have gone into, one bright
little soul being employed by a New York
III n ehg ~ odldI OL DO,UbJ q wear.
Mrs. bennington Vernon is the name of
the woman who has created the summer
resort of Averne-by the-Sea When her
husband took a slice of RockawaY beach
Tor a bad debt, she planned tie cottages,
drew the elevations and plotted out vii
lage on the sand, telling the carpenters
where to build. Then she went to Holland
to study the sewerage system, armed with one
trunk ana letter TO the minister at The
Hague. She polIed questions at tne eng.-
neers and came back with plan for a canal
with water course 30 feet wide, ruI ming
from one arm to another of the great e1panse
of water i'll Jamaica Oav. The canal an
swers the purposes OF pleasure and SANTA
ton and admits small steamers and ,iling
craft. At each end is a sluiceway OF did
masonry With double gatss tho whole cost
ing $4,000. and making a considerable en-
cheering work to have been superintendel
by woman. She has forced the success of
OF Averne and proved herself a most capa-
BILE manager.
Mrs Emma Yewdall is making money
out Of a livery stable in the annexed dis
trict of New York city. She accumulated
some little money as successful milliner,
inherited little more, and desiring a more
active life and being fond of horses. she
went into the business of letting them. She
DOESN'T wash carriages or groom q horses.
but she keeps tine books and makes a good
livl'g 9. Mrs. Louise Brooks, of Concord,
Mass, is another woman who let's teams bv
the hour. Women BARRIERS do not thrive.
at least hereaboutS. Mrs. Lewis Green's
l4de, the wife Of the religious crank known
as Lewis the Light" is deft with a razor,
but has lately been comuelad to move
from BROOKLYN TO New York for lack of
patronage. Brooklyn and New York have
several women butchers, especially in the
Jewish quarters. There are also several
women opticlacs, in which latter business
the Misses Bradley do we'll in Philadelphia.
Everybody knows that one member of the
big dry goods firm Of the Ridleys' is a
woman, while another woman is
the responsible cashier of Macy's
great establishment Mrs Adolph Heller
and Miss Duffy manage dry goods stores IN
Philadelphia. The jawelry buyer for one
of the largest houses in Brooklynis femi-
nire, while hardware store a coffee house
and coal yard in New Y ork are represen-
ted by women. Women make notably good
hotel keepers, several OF the best on the
Jersey coast being run by them this season.
Mrs. La Fetra has just opened a temperance
hotel of of 100 rooms on II street, Washing
TN, ID. Z.
A Women's Silk Culture Association has
been formed in Massachusetts, with Mrs.
Marion Mcbride, Of Boston, as president
That women understand the benefits of CO.
operation is shown by the cooperative
laundry in Bond street, New York .ofi cered
and manged by working girls, with Miss
Kate Foley as superintendent. The col
Ored women of Little Rock, ARR. have
8 washerwomen's association. An
unusual business fora woman is that CON
Quoted by Mrs. Christina F. Haley, who
has made u comfortable fortune out of the
examination of inventions and patent
claims. Mrs. Haley was chairman of the
business wOmen's committee of Sorosis
until the recent election OF Mrs. Ella Hitch
cock, a successful telegraph operator Mrs.
Allen, Of One Hundred and Twenty-second
street, has discovered new vocation, and
acts as guide for tourists shopping in New
York. Women constables, deputy sheriffs.
etc., are not unknown in the west, even
outside ofthe womau-manage1 Kansas towns
Mrs G. 0. Winger being constable of
Herman, Mimi, and Miss Knowles deputy
in Montana.
Girls are usually credited with precocitv
and the fifteen little mattresses, only 10
years old, who uniform themselves in gray
wool gowns, fluffy aprons, snowy bakers
caps, cardinal stockings and red ribbons to
serve the customers Of a good sized restau-
rant in Grand street, New Y rk, make a
staff as novel as youthful. Kentucky dis
counts the boy preachers with Mary Sem
ons, 10 years of age, who has delivered ser
mons in Falmouth and converted 81 lners.
Maud Hutc1 inson, of Deull county, Dakota,
drove a team and did full snare Of Che
work in stacking 500 acres of hay whe
only T. Arizona b~apS of q pl-l mining