Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1890-05-23
QUEER WORK FOR WOMEN
ODD INDUSTRIES FOLLOWED BY
SOME OF THEM.
n Woman Who Finishes and Fur
nishes Houses-Onc Runs Livery
Stable-Some Shoe Horses.

New Ork Is lull OF independent
women; "726S" is the numeral that dis
tingushes Young lady who consigus
all sorts of hammered silver goods to
the Exchange for Woman's Work. Shc
made her reputation by tea caddy, hun
drrds Of which have since been sold.
Mrs. Eleanor Davis, a member Of the
Woman's Working Club, has a family of
children which she is educating with tie
money earned from salad lessons.
In Sixth avenue, near Fourteenth
street, there are two sisters who conduct
a jcwelry business. Both. are expert
watchmakers, having learned the trade
with their father, who is now in feeble
health and dependent on them for sup
port. Thc little women are pretty and
bright, and under twenty four years OF
age. Aside from being sclf-sustanlng,
they have several small brothers and sis
ters depending on them for mothcrly
care aud education.
Mrs. Sarah l.. Wright, of West Forty.
first street. runs livery stable; Miss
Ferne has II boardin, house in West
" IiAN -IiIoN SNltCl NuN gus ll!IlF W
manage boarding and lodging bureau
located in West Twenty third. There
are no less than $50 female bakers about
town, and the la-ges, iobac2o factory
the vicinity of Riyingtou aud Canno
streets is the property Of womtu.
In Chica 20 there IS a Miss Nccter EN-
ployed by local firm, who takes the
house from the builder, decomtcS it
throughout, aud after the ornamental
touches have been added in the form Of
gas fixtures, Scohccs, faucets ,door-knobs,
hiuges and hclI-puii>, sac individually
selects the furniture. upholstery goods,
carpets, cushions and rags, and prepares
the entire house for the reception Of the
family. Even the nursery is appointed,
the cook, butler aud maids provided, the
table spread and the meal prepared for
the house. warming. Miss Nceier is
young lady whose success has been
phenomenal considering the short time
she has been engaged as m interior
artistic.
Chicagos Central Music Hall building
is filled with bright women, who give
medical treatment, physical and ethical
training; build up voices and broken
down constitutions, make bonnets, col
lcct rents, teach music, pull teeth and
right the wrongs Of their timorous sis
tiers.
Out on Larrabce street there is a Mrs.
Jane Jensen, who keep a blacksmith
shop, and when the customers exceed the
shoers she puts on leather apron and
pair of rubber sleeves aud, taking a
horses foot on her knee, will shoe it as
well aud almost as quickly as any smith
in her employ.
Miss Hattie Butterfield, the principal
OF one OF the large Chicago primary
schools on the North Side, runs board
ing house, from. which she clears as much
rs her school salary amounts to. She is
a daring trader on the call board, and,
notwith: landing thc risks she takes,
manages to buy bit of property every
year or so.
Miss Theodosia Stiles, daughter Of
General |. n. Stiles, has school on the
North Side, where she teaches domestic
economy, and Miss Jane willard, whose
fa.her has had the chair of history in the
Chicago High School for the last twen.
ty-three years, returned from Smith
College after years study, rented a hall
on West Madison street and undertook to
teach the wild Western damsel how to
swing clubs, manipulate dumb bells and
turn somerSaults from spring board.
She began with class OF ten, put them
in blue blouses and divided skirts, went
in debt for supply of bells, clubs,
wands and hanging apparatus and be-
fore the term closed had three classes OF
thirty-fvc each. That was in 1856.
With the proceeds of the year 5 work she
went back to Smith, finished the course
and is again at work teaching the buds
and blossoms Of smoky Chicago how to
be well, strong and graceful.
A Matilda l.. Scott, living in North
May street, has kennel and dog farm,
where she raises toy terriers that net
5000 year, and she pays all her ex.
rcnses with the proceeds OF the canine
sick ward.
Miss Bessie Bole, Of San Francisco, is
twenty years of age, and lady of rare
beauty, being 1.-THE blonde with dark
brown eyes and very pretty figure. At
the Mechanics Institute she exhibited a
set of horseshoes which she made in one
of the industrial schools. Her hands
became at once a subject of interest and
large inducements were offered by enter.
prising photographers for the privilege
OF selling them in cabinet cards Miss
Bole belongs to q good family, the OPP
position from which is all that rcstrains
her from opening shop of her own.
Mrs. Mary Miller, of New Orleans, is n
steamboat captain who learned the bust
ness while travelling up and down the
Mississippi with her husband. At his
death she applied for a license, having no
| other means OF support, and it was
granted.
Miss Carrie Burnham Kilgore, Of Phila.
delphia, has just been admitted to prac.
tice before the United States Supreme
Court. She is the fourth one of her sex
who has sought for or obtained this dis.
tinction. Tnc other three women prac.
titioners are Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood,
Laura De Force Gordon, and Mrs. Ada
NJ. Bittenbender, Of Nebraska.
One woman has made the silk gowns
of the Justices of the United States Su
preme Court for the past forty years, and
she gets 800 for each one of them. They
are all made alike, the only difference
being in the material, the Chief Justice
wearing black Chinese satin, while hi,
associates are robed in black silk. Tho
Chief Justice always wears new gowr
when he swears in q President. t.-Nu