St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-31

VNSN!f q l 5yse XII 39 and fin Of
ing is lighter up
on her. but even then she will discover
that ner path to preferment and GOOD
wages is not an easy one.
OF course the securing of a>place III a
factory or shop where the pay is barely
enough to keep soul and body together
is often not matter of difficulty, yet
even in this there are sometimes obSta-
cles to be overcome which try the pa
thence and wiring the heart OF the weary
seekers after work. Then, even when
place is secured, there comes that in
evltabe certainty that ''the season,
will not last all the year round, and
that provision must be made for the
DAYS when there will be no work and no
wages.
That is why some of the girls and the
women who work in New York are al
ways ready and anxious to find some
way in which they can toll for their
own account and be sure OF a living,
even if it be not a luxurious
one. There are such ways OF
securing comfort and respectable
support, and there are not few women
in this great metropolis who nave found
and utilized them. Nor does this re-
quire great talent nor any special train
ing. Here and thereWomen and girls
have found new occupations-lnvented
them, one might say-by which they
earn enough to make their lives COM
Portable and their necessities secured.
There never was time in New York
when the services of good professional
nurses were more in demand than to-
ii rrirl of ordinary
intelligence who will set her mind and
hands to the task can become one, and
secure an income that will save her
from worry and want. There are six
schools in this city where those wishing
to become nurses are taught, but the
best of them all are at Mt. Sinai hospl-
tai and at Bellevue.
It cost nothing to acquire thorough
knowledge of a nurses duties. The
learners are not paid any salary while
they are being taught, but the services
they perform are taken i'll pay for their
board and lodging by the hospitals, SO
that all girl has to provide during her
probation would be her clothes. Six
months, at the furtheSt, ought to be
sufficient to fully equip a girl for serv-
ice, and when she has her certificate
the hospital will either employ her
themselves or furnish her such recon-
mendatiOnS to medical men as will Sc
cure her a certain and comfortable
source of income.
The ranks of professional rurseS in
New York are not, according to state
ments made at Bellevue hospital. nearly
as full as they should be, and there is
said to be room to-day for couple of
hundred skilled and tender females to
soothe the sick and the suffering. The
wages are good, and the profession a
very respectable one. Even the doctors
themselves now realize what an effect
i've aid these nurses are to them; and,
in fact, no sick room. WHARF the service
can be afforded. will be without its pro-
fessional nurse.
There are scores of girls and women
in New York who, within the last few
years, have started business for them
selves, and found in it the means of
ready and reliable support. They SIM
ply prepare and put up pickles and pre-
serves. During the flush fruit season
these workers gather their supplies,
and keep busy bottling and boxing them
for sale to their customers. There is
hardly small industry in which women
can engage where there is more GER
TAIN anu Satisfactorily pIOlt.
Homemade pickles and preserves
when we'll made, find ready market
anywhere, and this has been proven
very concluSively by number OF
women who are now doing we'll at the
business and saving money. Little, il
any capital is required to start-S10 will
Law the foundation of what will, if prop
erly looked after, prove to be remun-
onh fairlu method of m OIL L
ing living. Mrs. S. S. Mcknight, of
Brooklyn. is an example of a woman
who started in this pickle and preserve
business in a small way, a few years
ago, and who has remained at it ever
since.
She has not alone made money and a
good deal of it. but she has established
a trade amongst some of the best fami-
lies across the river, which assures her
most comfortable income. She has
got so far now that she does not handle
ordinary pickles and preserves. She
finds ready sale for the finer grades
of these goods among the people of
BROOKLYN who know what they want in
those lines.
Most girls would imagine that it
would require good sum of money to
start nice lunch stand, but it does not.
The experiment has been tried. and
successfully too, by several New York
girls who are now making very ready
income out of their little business. One
instance as an example. In the corri-
dor of the Constanceau building, on
State street, two girls, one nineteen
years OF age. and the other seventeen,
some time since rented space about six
feet by four, and had a bit of counter
fixed up. They had bought little oil
stove, glass case, and other little fix
ings and started into business.
Their whole stock and fixtures on the
day they began had not cost $50. They
made hot coffee, and they made it good.
They baked and cooked little delicacies
at home and brought them down every
morning.
They began work every day at 9
o'clock and they finished at 4, and after
they paid their months rent of $50 at
the end of the first month and reckOned
up their profits they had made nearly
$40 each, and had lots of fun and eX-
perience besides.
They are in the business yet, and
their profits have gone on increasing so
that they have been able to fit up and
adorn their once modest lunch stand.
There are hundred other buildings in
this city where the same experiment
can be successfully tried by any ener-
getic and industrious girl seeking for
an honorable and fairly profitable living.
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