The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-09-08
ALL HONOR TO THEM.
P~ittsburg Lassies Who Nobly Fight
the Battle of Life.

There are more women in Pittsburg
than one would imagine, who have
bravely taken up the gage of battle
cast into the arena of their lives, and
are making splendid fights for success.
At least. there are enough of them to
warrant the assertion that the aver
age Pittsburg girl is bound to make
her way in the world, writes Josephine
in the Pittsburg Dispatch. And these
women are not all working with the
needle or at stenography. Many have
found they cannot endure the confine-
ment of Office life, and are engaged in
odd callings, which to them are more
congenial and often more remunera-
tive.
At the age of twenty a fair Pitts
burger has taken hold of brickyard,
which was about to pass out OF the
family at the death of her father. She
knew nothing of the manufacture of
brick, but she had business ability of
the highest order. Experienced men
were engaged by her to look after
the manufacture of brick, while she
attended to the finances and exercised
q general supervision over the work.
She is a brunette of very progresses
ing appearance, and has a head which
many a business man might envy.
| Undaunted by the dismal prediction
of failure made by her friends, she
has gone boldly onward, and her sue
cess is now assured.
Another young woman some time
ago felt that her spare hours could be
utilized to the benefit of her family.
| Monxr xtyarn fhn n1onc farYnnI for tho
capture of the fugacious dollar, but
all were rejected. Finally a visit to a
wealthy relative brought forth the
successful idea. She had listened to
many a tale of woe resulting from the
carelessness with which Bridget han
died priceless bric-a-brac. Article
of vertu which, on account of
associations, could not be replaced,
were very apt to be broken when the
maid of all work invaded the parlor
with her destructive dust brush.
Why should not these people be will
ing to pay for the services of a person
who understood the value as well as
the handling of precious articles of a
fragile nature? So this creature pre-
pared a dainty cap, which set most
bewitchingly OF her brown curls and
gathered around her the various par
aphernalia to be used in the cleans
ing of rare old china, etc.
Then, all ready to gather in the
dollars, she sat down to think. Alasl
as the thought sprung into her mind
of what she would do should she In
spite of all her care break some pre-
eious keepsake entrusted to her, she
faltered and-the vision of crisp bills
and Bland dollars vanished, and her
plans were abandoned for some other
young lady to carry out.
More successful has. been the bust
ness career of a lady in the East End.
She possesses exquisite taste and this
she has turned to good account. To
people of wealth unblessed with an
eye for effect she is a jewel. For a
consideration she undertakes to fur
nish a house in the most complete
manner, e to filling the cellar with
fuel and lighting a fire in the range.
OF course the future occupant of the
house thus furnished supplies the
w~herewithal for the purchases. For
the young couple just stating into the
grave business of keeping housen
she is a godsend. A hundred cares
and headaches are spared the bride
that is to be.
Two Pittsburg gentlewomen of
shattered fortunes find, in what was
in happier and more prosperous days
an amusement, a mean of mainte-
nance. They have for some time
been engaged in the sweet pursuit of
manufacturing French candies.
These sweetmeats are sold among
friends, and of such excellence are
they that these two dispose of some
sixty pounds daily. What their prof
its are you can judge from the follow
ing:-At a church sociable recently
held in one of Pittsburg's more pre-
tentious suburbs, some ladies made
seventy-five pounds of the candy,
which sold at the reasonable price of
fifty cents per pound. The total cost
of all the ingredients was $40.
A modest little widow of this city
has solved the question of how to OBJ
tain a good living. At the death of
her husband she was left in straitened
circumstances. She had a number of
friends in business life here, and to
them she went and asked to supply
them with stationery. When she OBJ
tanned an order she had it filled at
wholesale houses and charged her
customer the regular retail price. She
has now quite a large and profitable
cll6Atele duu Is III COmlOrUaDle clrculu-
stances.
For some time past one of the large
downtown grocery houses has made a
speciality of a certain kind of cake.
This was the work of a young New
Yorker. Twice a week she sent to
this firm large packages of the tooth
some dainty, and the profits arising
therefrom are handsome. The only
drawback to the marketing of articles
Of food made by fair hands is the
price. The maker fails to take into
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