The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-26
THE Do1NGs OF WOMEN FOLK.

Their Whims and Fancies in the
Gloomy Days of This FoRgy jan
uary.
New YORK, Jan. 23.-The hosts of women
who flock to the cities without employment
or the definite promise of positions, hoping
to achieve at once fame and fortune in the
busy whirl, should take warming by the
almost hopeless struggle of thousands of
their predecessors, and look for example
rather to such instances of success at home
| as are afforded by workers like Mrs. Thomas
S. Taylor Of Plainfield, n. j., who has built
| up large business in the making of mince
meat ana plum buildings. The details of
Mrs. Taylor's success are not commonly
known. She is a daughter-in-law of the
| popular Dr. Taylor, late of Grace church.
and as in case of SO many women, there was
| a family home. but not sufficient income.
Her next door neighbor was the late Mrs.
| Helen Nitseh, better 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.
IN give you famous plum pudding re-
ceipt," said Mrs Nitsch, "and you have
your own mince meat formula; the market
if the things are good, won't be long in APP
| pearing."
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 result Of her first days
expedition. All days, of course. were not
as prosperous, but among the neighbors az d
| townspeople her wares grew III demand. By
and by the Plainfeld grocer began to keep
them, a d now there are several groceries
| in New York where tley are also on sale.
| Mrs. Taylor has as much as she can attend
| to, and all without the necessity Of leaving
| her home.
Often it needs but the courage to try and
| results are won in some similar field. The
women all over the country who are ask
| ing themselves almost hopelessly, "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, il not large or
spectacular enough to receive such public
| mention. Here is an instance which has
| come under my notice in Brooklyn. A
woman, mucn Of whose time is occupied in
the care of a number of children, was look
| ing about in quest OF something 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 a 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 market for perhaps half a dozen
loaves assured the experiment was quickly
under way, with no sanguine xpacJations
Of success, but in default Of any better plan
| This was about eight or ten months ago if
remember rightly, 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.
Twenty-Five loaves is about the average
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 leaves are supplied, selling at and
10 cents respectively. tnink the bread is
| weighed to keep the loaf of standard meas
ure, according to the usual custom at bak-
cries. Monday has proved the poorest day
| in the week for bread selling, but good sales
are to be counted on for Tuesdays, Thurs
days and Saturdays. | hope the home
| baker will not think am betraying any con-
| fdence if l say that the aver age profit is
about "a per week clear No fortune GER
tainly, but there are thousands of women
whose skies would be brighter if they could
see way to add that amount regularly to
their incomes.
Two other young married women, whom
l know perso ally, 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
go cents pound, but the candy shrank ma