The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-06-18
QUEER WORK FOR WOMEN,
ODD INDUSTRIES FOLLOWED BY
SOME OF THEM.
A Woman Who Finishes and Fur
nishes Houses-One Runs Livery
Stab1e-Souie Shoe Horses.

all sorts of hammered silver goods to |
the Exchange for Woman's Work. She
made her reputation by a tea -caddy, hum
dreds 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 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 sup.
port. The little women are pretty aud
bright, and under twenty-four years of
age. Aside from being self-sustainlng,
they have several small brothers and sis
ters depending on them for motherly
care and education.
Mrs. Sarah L. Wright, of West Forty
first street, runs a livery stable; Miss
Ferne has a boarding house in West
Twenty-frst street and gets time to
manage boarding and lodging bureau
located in West Twenty-third. There
are no less than 130 female bakers about
town, and the largest tobacco factory in
the vicinity of Rivington and Cannon
streets is the property of woman.
In Chicago there is a Miss Neeler en-
ployed 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 fixtures, 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 Neeler is
young lady whose success has been
phenomenal considering the short time
she has been engaged as an interior
artistic.
Chicago's Central Music Hall building
is filed with bright women, who give
medical treatment, physical and ethical
training; build up voices and broken
down constitutions, make bonnets, col
lect rents, teach music, pull teeth and
right the wrongs of their timorous sis
| ters.
Out on Larrabee 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 q
pair of rubber sleeves, and, taking @
horses foot on her knee, will shoe it as
well and almost as quickly as any smith
in her employ.
Miss Hattie Butterfeld, the principa
of one of the large Chicago primary
schools on the North Side, runs board
ing house, from which she clears as mucl
as her school salary amounts to. She il
a daring trader on the call board, and
notwith:tand the risks she takes
manages to buy bit of property every
year or so.
Miss Theodosia Stiles, daughter o
General /. n. Stiles, has a school on thu
North Side, where she teaches domesti
economy, and Miss Jane Willard, who's
fa.her has had the chair of history in the
Chicago High School for the last twen
ty-three years, returned from Smitl
College after years study, rented hal
on West Madison street and undertook t
teach the wild Western damsel how t.
swing clubs, manipulate dumb-bells ant
turn somersaults from n spring board
She began with class of ten, put ther
in blue blouses and divided skirts, wen
in debt for a supply of bells, clubs
wands and hanging apparatus and be
fore the term closed had three classes o
thirty-iive each. That was in 1886
With the proceeds of the years work sh
went back to Smith, finished the cours
and is again at work teaching the bud
and blossoms of smoky Chicago how t,
be WE'LL strong and graceful.
A Matilda l.. Scott, living in Mort
May street, has kennel and dog farm
where she raises toy terriers that ne
5000 a year, and she pays all her eA
penses with the proceeds of the canin
sick ward.
Miss Bessie Bole, of San Francisco,
twenty years of age, and a lady of raj
beauty, being 1.-THE blonde with dark
brown eyes and a very pretty figure. A
the Mechanics Institute she exhibited
set of horseshoes which she made in on
of the industrial schools. Her hand
became at once a subject of interest an
large inducements were offered by ente
prising photographers for the privileq
of.sellIng them in cabinet cards. Mi
Bole belongs to a good family, the OF
position from which is all that restrain
her from opening a shop Of her own.
Mrs. Mary Miller, Of New Orleans, is
steamboat captain who learned the bus
ness while travelling up and down IL
Mississippi with her husband. At h
death she applied for license, having n
other means of support, and it VIZ
granted.
Miss Carrie Burnham Kilgore, of Phil
delphia, has just been admitted to prat
tice before the United States Suprem
Court. She is the fourth one of her Sc
who has sought for or obtained this di
tinction. The other three women prat
titioners are Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood
Laura De Force Gordon, and Mrs. Al
NJ. Bittenbender, of Nebraska.
One woman has made the silk gowr
of the Justices Of the United States 81
preme Court for the past forty years, an
she gets 500 for each one of them. Tn,
are all made alike, the only differen,
being in the material, the Chief .Justi,
. wearing black Chinese satin, while h
associates are robed in black silk. II
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