The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-12-18

when build house | also decorate
and furnish IL if the owner desires me to
do so-something men do not count on in
their work. Last winter and this | have
been very busy remodelling and decorat-
ing famous ball rooms in New York and
Washington; Just now | am superintend-
ing the altering of the Calvin Brice and ID.
i. Morgan houses in the latter city. In
the Morgan house l changed the whole in
terror by enclosing a veranda, walling up
certain doors and opening others, and
now the ground floor can be thrown into
one magnificent suite of rooms. The col
oring of the work in this house received
special attention; / got up on the scatlold-
Ing myself and painted for hours at
time to get the effect | wanted. They say
woman has little staying power, but
when ! tell you that | have done ceiling
work for eight consecutive hours you will
be able TO confute that story"
Agnes Murphy Mulhgan is the only
woman member of the New York Real
Estate Exchange, and was taken in as
member because of her extraordinary sales
of property in the annexed district"
81 began by entering my fathers office
as an assistant because of his ill health,"
she explained, and after three years APP
premiership assumed entire control of
the business. | bnilt this cosy little office,
as you mightkuess. because il looks like II
reception room, except for the business
like safe and typewriters. ! like to work,
hut L want TO do so in as comfortable. ar
tistic surroundings as possible without de-
tracing from the dignity of the concern.
There is some knowledge 10 be acquired
before one can safely buy and sell prop
erty with 4 long abstract OF title back of il,
you know--so while | was learning the
business | studied law after office hours.
/ was the first woman 10 enroll in the law
school of the University of New York.
and the only one To pass the examination
last Nav. In this dry as dust routine |
found the romance that belongs in every
woman's life. In the same class with me
was the man have since married. and the
degree of bachelor of iaw IVES conferred
on both az the same time. Ny husband
combines his business with mine, and now
work is a positive pleasure with SO able an
associate
This plucky, wideawake little woman il
only p years old now. but her success
has been phenomenal. While other agents
were specuiatInS en- two tracts near the
outskirts OF the city she quietly stepped
in and sold one for SOS. ON1 and the other
for Sil5. coo. iust half an hour before the
land was hUi eUued in the real estate ex-
change. When the men found they had
been circumVeute3 by woman they
cheered her right heartily ana then unani-
mpus.y elected her to mem bershlp with
them. The SIlh.opo tract she at,erward
subdivided for the purchaser and resold
for 500 600: so you see she has the true
business grit.
Mrs. f. A. Lynch Is the woman jeweller
in New York ana her bag corner building
on Broadway is brilliant testimonial 10
one woman's knowledge of d}amonds-ios
that is the cornerstone OF her success.
Women are proyerbia.ly fond Of the
sparkling gems" she smiled. pleasantly
land not few Of them nat money into
them instead OF banks and bonds. | not
only make money out % their value. but
pleasure out of their beauty, and you may
fud me in their midst AZ Try store at al
most any time Of every dav. cycert sun
tay. 10 no. care for social ife-tAat =
the means oI existence TO other women. |
have large family aad We are happy
within ourselves, but II there - any en-
torlainiuC and keeping M d calling .lst 20
be done nay children have ~ do II Tor me
How DID | happen n 50 into the bust
ness Nel, my first venture was N 4
single diamond that | bought a. i child
with my spending money. Nv father - as
q fruit dealer and did not approve OF Eew-
gaws. hut when ! sold the germ TOR twice
what il cost me he sanctioned the trans
action an encouraged nv later efforts At
others. ! - aproaa and select III person
tie gold ana silver curlos, the carvings set
wiJa Jewels and the antique, a. we'll Is The
Newest PATTERNS In leYesrv. They say 10
taxes a jew - have 4 nose fer bargains "a
jcWerv. hut / an All IRISH woman from
Dubtn-AmericanEe Of course-and /
have res>aa "a bsiisye sha5 the Irish
Ame-.C1a seas e-a2ilen ~ business ab-4ty,