Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-29
NEW WORK FOR WOMEN.

Doctors, stock Dealers, Burgiars ana
Train Robbers-Female sailors and Sol
diers-Women Who Tell Other womer
What TO Talk About.
,No woman has taken to the trade Of raj
catching yet so far as is known; but the gentle
sex are occupying the most OF other fieldi
Of human industry at rate which would bt
alarming to men did the latter find aught bui
pleasure in this rivalry Some of the best doctors
in New York Philadelphia and Chicago are
women. Lawyers in petticoats have been
heard of since Portals day, and are quite mum.
erous in the West. Preachers in hooDskirts
there have been from time immemorial. Joan Of
Arc was one, Mrs. Barington Booth, the
charming evangelist, ia another. Journalists
with bustles on-New York is full of them; one
single journal in that city has six women on its
regular staff, some of them young and pretty
women, too. Among bankers and brokers,
maDipulators, Mrs. Hetty Green makes and
Keeps her millions, and yields to no man in
shrewdness or boldness.
Trayelers-nen call it "gadding" when women
do it-there have always been among the fair
sex, famous ones. too. ever since the Queen of
Sheba's time down to Lady Mary Wortley Mon
tague, Lady Florence Dixey, Lady Baker and q
dozen others whose names will readily occur.
snip captains in petticosts have never navi-
gated the Atlantic as a business SO far as is
recorded; but shippers in skirts are not un-
known on Lake Erie or on the Mississippi. In
81. Louis year or two ago license was regu-
larly issued by the United States Supervising
inspectors of Steamboats, to Captain Mary
Ryan. AS merchants, in a small way, women
all over the world sell nearly everything that
men do; for large wholesale and other bust
ness enterprises requiring long looks ahead the
other sex seem to have not yet developed .
marked fitness.
All Sorts of Odd Occupations.
Women in disguise as men have proftably
pursued the profession of arms; in trousers they
have also mined for gold in the sierras, braked
freight trains over the Rockies, driven street
cars, dug in the Streets gone diamond hunting
In South Africa, shipped before the mast, and
proven in rare instances "as good as any other
man."
No woman in the guise and garb Of her sex,
says New York Herald writer, has yet ap-
peared on the front platform Of a street car, the
top OF freight train; nor has she as yet served
as policeman, or coachman, or groom.
6lacksmithing women often do IN 'the Black
country" OF England; carpentering they have
Deen known to do in one or two New England
towns where the preponderance Of their sex
had grown painfully large; bootblacking only
one or two girls have trled-though with sue
cess.
Horse thieving is a new. trade for women.
Pretty Eta Robinson has been making busi-
ness of it all the fall In West Virginia Down
IN NO Mans Land-it may be Some Woman's
some day-where horse stealing is an honorable
ana lucrative profession. Eta, and any young
woman who feels like riding along her trail,
may no doubt amass fortune, besides getting
one husband, if not more.
Reading for Other Folks.
There are some very odd and many very IN
teresting ways in which women make their liv-
ing now, ways they have in many cases found
out for themselves and along which no men
keep them company. Every few months some
bright creature whose pocketbook is emptier
than her heart carves out for herself-and her
sisters-a new avenue to honorable mainte-
nance.
Emerson" Jones Is a young New Yorker
who brought from Vassar to New York a
nickname, sound judgment and good educa-
tion. Miss Emerson has originated q pro-
fession. She regularly reads the newspapers,
weeklies, magazines and new books, and for
consideration instils the pith of them into the
vapid mind or fashion wildered head Of your
spoiled darlings Of society, who want to talk
well to their friends and to be thought smart
and progressive. but who have neither the time
nor the inclination 20 read or think for them
selves. "Emerson'-that is, Miss Emerson
who, it Is said, was called after Ralph Waldo
to distinguish her from the other Jones, of
Yassar, fills the yoid-''the world could never
flln it-in these brain pans. She tells Mrs. We're
de We're she must comment when she gets
chance on Professor Slashington Hobbs
brilliant disquisition in the Century Just out on
the foliculated toes of the anser scarabaeus.
Mrs. We're de We're pays "Emerson"-or, Miss
"Emerson"-$5. say week, and talks about
the anser scarabaeus in an anserine, but effu-
sive way. She Is conscious all the time that
sne doesn't know follicle from microbe, and
she is glad of It'll There's new trade for
women.