Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-20
A RESIARKABLE YANKEE GIRL.
Twenty-seven Years Old and Can Do q
Little Of Almost Everything.

A New Preston, Conn, special to the Ne,
York San says: In boarding house here Their
10 an American servant girl aged twenty
seven years, who was born in New Preston and
attended . private school until thirteen year
Of age, leaving It with an award for the bes
scholarship in book keeping. She immedi
ately took a clerkship in the local post office
and, although so young, handled the mail and
performed other duties in the store adjoining
satisfactorily. After six months she worked in
| . factory in Watertown making ferrules for
| umbrellas. After that she took . clerkship in
. dry goods store in Waterbury, which she
kept for three years.
She then went TO Bethel 10 learn the hating
trade, and became % expert that she made all
the samples and was appointed forewoman.
The man in whose store she had been employed
in Waterbury proposed to open another store
in Meriden and to give her entire charge and a
good salary. She accepted. and did all the
buying, Bookkeeping, writing and general man.
aging; but just as the enterprise became . sue
cess the proprietor died and she was thrown
out Of employment. She then went to Phila-
delphia, where she learned cigar making and
worked at the trade for three years. She came
home and obtained situation as stage driver,
going twice day to meet passengers at the
station, miles distant She managed and
often harnessed the two horses, lifted and
strapped onto the stage all baggage and carried
says he has never since had his business so
thoroughly attended to. At the end Of six
months she learned carriage painting here in a
factory, and for some time earned S250 per
day IN,
ford, where for q short time she did copying in
the office OF the fire department. She after
ward went into the carpet sweeper factory and
took the contract for cutting and dovetailing
the woodwork. Before leaving she made seve-
raj entire sweepers herself, even to putting the
stamp OF the maker in large letters on the top.
She came home for q rest, and resident of
the village gave her two mustang ponies that
ne had been unable to manage. They had been
harnessed but few times and were unshod
She caught them in the field, harnessed and
pletely under control.
Between times this unusual girl has mended
| shoes, planted tobacco by the acre, ridden the
horse with cultivator, and raked hay with a
patent rake. She has laid new kitchen floor
in her fathers house, built a veranda for her
uncle. and shingled and sided an ice house for
a neighbor. She takes care of the home gar
den, and made and keeps in order the winding
walks about her house. She is also an adept
at shaving and hair cutting, and waits upon
gentlemen at their residences in the village to
do this
She is fond Of hunting and fishing, and in
the fall bags many cartridges. woodcock and
rabbits, and in the season catches bass from
the lake and trout from the brooks. Last
spring she caught the champion trout that
weighed two pounds and half The fish broke
the pole, but she jumped into the water waist
deep, secured the disappearing section of the
pole, and safely landed the trout She catches
frogs and dresses the legs for her own taste.
She 10 much interested in natural history, and
has specimens OF snakes, lizards and many
other curious things preserved in alcohol She
door, but her mother disliked the familiarity of
the visitor and killed it. She also climbed
tree to examine crows nest and took one of
the young ones home. She brought il up on
lndah meal and bread crumbs and taught it to
laugh and say Hello"
This girl has also invented kitchen utepsil
upon which steaks can be broiled, potatoes
fried and another vegetable cooked at the same
time.
1t might be concluded that this girl must be
masculine and unrefned, but such is not the
case. A recent caller found her reading Mil
tons Paradise Lost" with several musical in
struments in her room. She is fair musician
and sings in the choir Of the village church
She Is church member in good standing, and
Will not read novels or play cards or in any way
desecrate the Sabbath. Her house is adorned
| with embroidered lambrequins and draperles
that she has made, and she makes her own
dresses and takes work home from residents
here when time permits. She clothes entirely
| sister and child whose means are limited
She is proficient house keeper and good cook
and gives the greatest satisfaction to her pres
| ent employer. She does not prefer house WORK
as means Of livelihood but during July and
| August when trades are dull she accepts a do.
nestle situation rather than live in idieness