Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-05-17
What Can She Do?

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It dlsgraceful for young woman to earn her own
living, says writer in the New York World.
There are to-day in the city of New York 131
industries for womans work, to which may be
added one hundred lines of profession work, in
cudlng music, the arts, telegraphy photography,
photography, medicine dentistry, nursing and
modelling, besides 400 different kinds of clerical
work. Add to this 302 agencies, in which women
appear as foreign and domestic buyers, travelling
saleswomen, collectors of rents, revenue and in
surance premiums, almoners in private and church
service, inspectors in the employ of real estate
and room-renting agencies, appraisers hired BY
furniture dealers and clohers, and the legitimate
occupations are close to one thousand exclusive of
the various openings that lead to the lyric, dram
attic and lecture stage, and the more numerous
avenues by which the fields of literature are ap-
preached
Large as is the total it does not cover the curl
GUS means of support in which thousands of
women are engaged with more or less profit.
Mrs. Eleanor Davis, a member of the Woman's
Working Club has family of children that she
is educating with the money earned from salad
lessons.
In Sixth avenue, near Fourteenth street, there
are two sisters who conduct a jewelry business
Both are expert watchmakers having learned the
trade with their father who is now in feeble health
and dependent on them for support. The little
women are pretty and bright and under twenty
four years of age. Aside from being self-sustain-
ing, they have several small brothers and sisters
depending on them for mothery care and educationl
Mrs. Sarah L. Wright, of West Forty-frst
street, runs livery stable; Miss Ferne has
clearinghouse in West Twenty first street, and
gets time to mango boarding and lodging bureau
located in West Twenty third There are no less
1870 female bakers about town, and the largest to-
bacco factory in the vicinity<of Rivington and
Cannon streets is the property woman.
In the sporting world there are scores of book
makers, and those of the petticoated sex who fol-
low the races have shown persistency Of purpose
as we'll as a financial success which entities them
to be cassed among the professional hackers.
Inquiry and mercantile agencies have long since
realized the necessity of employing women in GER
tain lines of personal business.
Many of the inventories required by brokers
and money-lenders are made by women, but the
idea of putting the fair creatures TO the task of
serving writs is of later growth.
In Chicago there is Miss Neeler employed by
local firm, who takes the house from the builder,
decorates it throughout, and after the ornamental
touches have been added in the form of gas fix
lures, sconces, faucets, door-knobs, hinges and
bell-pulls she Individually selects the furniture,
upholstery goods, carpets, cushions and rugs, and
prepares the entire house for the reception of the
family. Even the nursery is appointed, the cook,
butler and maids provided, the table spread and
the meal prepared for the house warming. Miss
Neeer is young lady whose success has been
phenomenal considering the short time she
has been engaged as an interior artistic She fur
nished many of the new houses in Bellevue place
and Scott street, among which is Minister Robert
T. Lincoln's Mrs. Lincoln had great deal of
historical furniture when she moved into the stone
castle on the corner of Scott street and the Lake
Drive, which she insisted on using, but her own
suit and those of her daughters and eldest son
were appointed by the young artistic.