The Iola register., 1890-10-31
WORK AND MAKE MONEY.
San Francisco Women Who Conduct Pay
ing Enterprises w it'll Ability.

San Francisco Women Who Conduct Pay
ing Enterprises w it'll Ability.
During the past few years women
have begun to discover that they can
keep a remarkably lucid debt and credit
account when they have to, and they are
beginning to do it, too. That stern old
pedagogue, Necessity, has taught them
what could never have been beaten into
their heads by years Of theorizing.
Would be champions of the sex arise in
wordy multitudes all over the land and
rave noisiiy of the down trodden rights
of women, and all the while there are
scores of CHEEKY souls who are going
contentedly about their affairs, doing
whatever their hands find to do, and
doing it with all their sensible might,
without an idea that they are put upon
and abused.
There are women blacksmiths, women
dray-drivers, women barbers-in fact,
women of all trades and professions,
who set bright, brave example to their
timid sisters who fear to strike out from
the beaten path. In this city there is a
small army of self-supporting women
who have chosen for themselves unique
professions, which bring them in a COM
Portable living.
They lead busy, happy, wholesome
lives, and are withal just as feminine
just as refined and just as lovable and
sweet as the young woman who spends
her time making dreadful patchwork
tides with which to distract her unhap-
py friends.
What do you think of a woman bill
poster, for instance? There is pleas
ant little office down in Commercial
street which bears over the door the le-
gend, IT. n. Dunphy & Co., Bill-posters."
Inside the Office there are all sorts Of
bills, from blithe young damsels with
gay gowns and high-heeled slippers,
to daring trapeze riders and tragedy
stars. Behind partition, at a high
desk, sits a trim, well-gowned, stylish
woman. That is the proprietor and man.
ager of this Office, Mrs. 4. n. Dunphy
She is a shrewd far-seeing, business
woman and clever financier. She has
book-keeper, but she keeps all the cash
herself. She is her own collector and
her own superintendent. Never abill goes
up that she does not attend to it. Never
stand" is altered that she does not
superintend the change. She drives
fearlessly through the crowded streets
and goes calmly about her affairs with q
serene Inconsistencies that she is re-
markable woman.
''How came to go into bill posting?"
she says. "Well, my husband was in
the business. used to como down and
help him little. Then his health be-
gan to fail, and / gradually took more
upon myself, until l gained pretty
thorough knowledge of the business.
When my husband died / was depend
Ont on myself. ! had two children to
support, and I did not know what else
to do. / had a good many nervous
qualms when first began to take big
contracts, but found that knew more
about it than l realized. / like the
work; it's hard, of course; so is any real
hard work for that matter; but / made a
good income out of it, and that's the
thing that counts, after all" And with
jolly laugh Mrs. Dunphy turns to her
accounts. She has no end of clever lit
tie ideas. This is one of them: On the
9th she built stand and sold seats for
the parade. In one day she cleared
500. She is as CHEEKY and good-humor-
ed as sunny day, and her friends all
know her for devoted mother and true
woman.
Adainty calling and feminine, though
not largely followed by women. strange
ly enough, is that of Mrs. Jerome Deasy.
She is florist, and she owns and man.
ages pretty shop on Geary street. my
husband failed in business" she said,
and then he met with an accident that
crippled him for some time. l shall
never forget the day determined to go
into business for myself. All our little
savings were dwindling away in doctors
bills, and one bright morning 1 found
myself with just S10O in the world, some
bills coming due, and no prospects of
any money coming in. was always
fond of flowers and knew good deal
about them-my father was landscape
gardener-so 1 determined to try this.
Pm glad did. like it and I'm doing
we'll. Women don't know how simple it
is after they once get started. They
could make more money, however, if the
rich people didn't sell their flowers. OF
course, florists and gardeners can not
compete with millionaires, and we get a
bit discouraged sometimes.
Up in a tiny shop on Broadway sits
q little woman with pair of brave
brown eyes and crinkly locks of brown
hair. She is always very busy. She
makes umbrellas and parasols, and
mends them, too, when they break. She
can mend fans when she likes, or repair
q broken walking-stick.
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