The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-08-31

patronage wholly to apprentices and ''im-
proyers." the "Dorothies'' have become ia
vorite resorts of shoppers. even for "car-
riage' patrons with deep purses
The larger of the Dorothies is in Oxford
street, and devotes its front shop to the
sale Of peaches piled high on beds of fear,
fronds, apricots, grapes and punches of
golden rod, asters and heather. Behind
this are the parlors. where gentlemen are
admitted after o'clock, y" where the decora-
ground, and where one may have ones
choice of two or three descriptions of meat.
nicely served by blooming girls in white
muslin aprons, with vegetables, coffee and
bread for eightpence, making a simple
meal, but one that would be appreciated in
women who work for their bread and who
repealed by the cheap restaurants, which
give them badly cooked food, yet at prices
higher than they can well afford to pay.
The serving of luncheon is bold device
for obtaining custom invented some time
This season the women artists have adopted
it. After couple of hours of wearisome
shopping your eye chances upon the well
come sign of Afternoon tean in the win
dow of a pretty looking studio. You 20 in
and find perhaps charming little picture
gallery where quantity attired child, whom
you at once set down for model doing
extra duty. is handing about delightfully."-
old-fashioned glass plates with cake and
bread and butter and cream, which you pro-
coed to discuss, paying for them a trife,
and wishing, it must be confessed, that a
little variety could be introduced into the
biscuits and tea that Londoners appear to
find SO satisfying, while you look at the
water colors and pastels, the painted photos
and the fire screens with which you are sur
rounded. your visit ending very probably IN
purchase which it never would have oc-
CURED to you to make had not your eye
been allured to leisurely inspection during
the progress of your meal. The English
haven't 1.-THE of the French genius for
making people comfortable, but in the in
terests of trade the women are advancing
by rapid steps in that direction.
SO far as range and variety OF employ
ment are concerned America is still in ad
vance of England. but Englishwomen hold
the outposts they have taken with wonder
full vigor and determination. Only eighty
eight women have taken medical degrees in
Great Britain as against thousands in the
United States, and women are only begin
ming to find their way into daily Journal
quaintance of yellow-curled individual
who looks as if she might be young art
student or musician, but who spends her
days instead Watching the rise and fall of
stocks and shares in the London exchange.
Miss Amy E. Bell has been in business as q
me at the Pail Mall Gazette Office that she
is very fairly successful one. Like 80
many of the women who are markedly sue
cessful in the practical walks of life. she is
a university woman, though her studies at
Newman were cut short by the illness of a
relative. to nurse whom she gave up the
scholarship she had won.
Miss Bell, Is young and fair, with rounded
features that show no traces of worry over
the state of the market. Her Office is a
very comfortable sort of a sanctum. with a
good showing of paper litter and bulky
volumes. A clerk of her own sex writes in
the outer room, and in the inner one. She
told me she was born in Siam, where her
father and mother both died, leaving her
to be sent home to England and brought
up by an uncle. on whose death she came
up to London alone, dependent on herself
for her living, and resolved to make trial of
the one thing in which she had always felt
an interest. stock broking.
Since the stock exchange excludes women
from the little booths within its charmed
portals, Miss Bell does most of her bust
ness through yell-knoWn firm which has
shown her much kindness and courtesy.
This firm has helped her ffola tho begin
ming, and in no quarter. she says, has she
found any prejudice or opposition. Her
clients are mostly women, as might be ex-
pected, but she numbers some men among
them. She does NO speculative business,
keeps rosy and enjoys better than one
might suppose an occupation in which she
holds the unique position Of being, 90 far
a. her own sex il concerned. without com.
The Pail Mall Gazette takes more matter
from women reporters and special writer's
than most of the London newspapers. 4
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