The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1890-11-08
WOMAN'S ENTERPRISE.
How Many Ladies Make a Living
for Themselves.
A Large Business Built Up in the Making
of Minee Meat and Plum Pudding
y honAS n. a.ie lssread an Article
Always In Demand.

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The hosts of women who flock to the
cities without employment or the
1efinite promise of positions, hoping to
achieve at once fame and fortune in the
busy whirl, should take warning by the
almost hopeless struggle of thousands
of their predecessors, says the New
York Mail and Express, and look for ex-
cess at home as are afforded by workers
like Mrs. Thomas s. Taylor, of Plain
ield, N. j., who has built up a large
business in the making of mince-meat
and plum puddipgs. The details of Mrs.
Taylor's success are not commonly
known. She is daughter-in-law of the
popular DR.. Taylor, late of Grace
Church, and as in the case Of SO many
women there was family home but not
sufficient income. Her next-door neigh
Dor was the late Mrs. Helen Nitsch, bet
ter known by her nom de plume of
Catherine Owen" who gave her the
sensible advice that she put her culinary
skill to some account in money making.
I'll give you famous plum-pudding
recipe" said Mrs. Nitsch, .'and you have
your own mince-meat formula; the mar
ket, if the things are good, won't be long
IN appearing"
Mrs. Taylor went among her old
friends in Grace parish explaining her
project. The holidays were coming
and she took $40 worth of orders as re-
suit of her first days expedition. All
lays, of course, were not as prosperous,
but among the neighbors and towns
people her wares grew in demand. BY
and by the Plainfield grocer began to
keep them, and now there are several
groceries in New York where they are
also on sale. Mrs. Taylor has as much
as she can attend to, and all without the
necessity of leaving her home. sswa
/, Often it needs hat the. courage to try,
and results are Won in some similar
field. The women all over the country
who are asking themselves almost hope
lessly: "What can | do that will not
take me away from my little onesp"
might take courage If they knew of the
efforts of other home workers whose
successes are real if not large or spec
tacular enough to receive much public
mention. Here is an instance which
has come under my notice in Brooklyn
A woman, much of whose time is occu-
pied in the care Of number of children,
was looking about in quest of some
thing that might bring in money.
A neighbor urged her to make bread,
her loaves being famous in the
circle which had tasted their sweetness
and lightness, to add syllable to a
phrase. This neighbor agreed to take a
loaf every day, and three or four other
families were found ready to enter into
the arrangement. With a market for
perhaps half dozen loaves assured the
experiment was quickly under way, with
no very sanguine expectations of sue
cess, but in default of any better plan.
This was about eight or ten months ago,
and without any very strenuous efforts
to push the business, it has grown to
about the limits prescribed by the
plucky bakers time and the capacities
of an ordinary range oven. SsH1E3
Twenty-Five loaves is about the aver
age daily baking and sometimes these
are too few to supply the demand. The
bread is mixed in several patches, and
the oven is kept hot until all are out of
the way. Two sizes of loaves are sup
piled, selling at six and ten cents re-
spectively. The bread is weighed to
keep the loaf Of standard measure, ac-
cording to the usual custom at bakeries.
Monday has proved the poorest day in
the week for bread selling, but good
sales are to be counted on for Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays. The average
profit is about four dollars per week
clear. No fortune certainly, but there
are thousands of women whose skies
would be brighter if they could see a
way to add that amount regularly to
their incomes. 5as,
Two other young married women make
candies for sale in a country village.
They began during the holiday season
year ago and found it an easy matter
to get their wares placed on sale in the
village drug store. They asked sixty
cents pound, but the candy
shrank materially in weight through
evaporation if not disposed of immedi-
ately, and they had not learned the art
Of making it as tempting to the eye as
to the palate. But they renewed the
experiment, packing their sweets--now
as dainty as heart could desire in small
fancy boxes holding perhaps half a
pound. Each box sells for twenty five
cents, and the candy is made only to
order. There have been far more orders
than they could fill. w
One woman in Brooklyn, assisted BY
a half-grown daughter. pickles vege
tables for sale and puts up preserves
She does very good business. Another
woman has very practical idea. Many
housewives thoroughly appreciate soup
but are debarred from having 1t on theil
tables because they think that to make
soup stock is very tedious and time-con
suming. This woman buys beef bones
boils them down, bottles and seals tn,
stock and offers it for sale. She find