Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-02-03
woMAN,s WORLD IN pARAeRAPHs
Woman and Flowers Happiness an
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Woman and Flowers - Happiness and
Money In Horticulture.
Mr.. Henry Baroillet died some years
ago in San Francisco, leaving behind
him nothing except the remembrance
among men that he gave mp his entire
fortune to his creditors on the failure of
q bank in which he vas q large stock
holder Mrs. Earoillct, with the pluck
that crops out III woman when it is least
expected, resolved to earn her own liv-
ing as q florist. She is now one of tho
largest florists in the Pacific city, hay
ing no less than 40 acres under cultiva-
ton. She supplies immense quantities
Of cut flowers to the San Francisco mar
kets and is winning back the fortune
her honest husband gave up. The Sc
cret of her great success is that she per-
sonally supe,intends every detail Of her
characterization, cultivation and the
still more difficult task Of finding profit
able sale for her products. The leading
florist of Cleveland is q woman who be-
gan the business of foriculturewhen she
= was a girl and in the face Of all
kinds of obstacles, of which the OPP
position Of her own family was not
the least, and carried her chosen work
through ID success splendidly. ! know
young woman in mere country vii.
lage who earns enough 20 clothe herself
neatly through the flowers she cultivates
mornings and evenings, as she is engaged
III another occupation during the day.
She has no greenhouse-only flower pit
in town lot-yet she sells all the plants
she can rear and could sell more if she
had more room and more time. She has
worked up that much Of trade in three
or four years. There are now over 9, O0O
women florists in the United States, and
the business has doubled i'll the past
three years. Instead OF locIing ngreat
armies to work for somebody else.
hanging your hat on another mans
peg" as they say, why should not girls
and women who must earn money &c
into foriculture2 OF course it will not
do to jump into it, depending on it from
the first to reap a fortune, but where
you have enough to eat for the present
and roof to shelter why not feel. your
way cautiously toward an occupation
which often nets 81 COO TO 81 Goo u year:
A few specialties are the things to aim
at. If you are near market, cultivate
roses, carnations, chrysanthemums, VIC
lets, lilies of the valley or ferns and sIni-
lax mostly There are books that will
show you how to begin.
If you are ambitious to do some great
thing, do not wait till great oppor.
tunity comes TO you. Make the best usl
of the small ones that pass you every day
and fit yourself for the great one when
it comes. Ii you need to earn money. dc
not wait till you can get the highly paid
place which you think you deserve. Take
whatever employment comes nearest ia
your hand and do that while you arg
waiting for the highly paid place.
There is always . way 10 do a thing il
we only think out what it is.
The largest amount Of personal earn.
ings by one individual in a year is ac.
cumulated by woman, and that woman
Adelina Patti. She gets 5000 for ~.
gle concert.
The superintendent Of the Central Dis
pensary and Emergency hospital ol
Washington is a woman, Miss Roberta
West, trained nurse.
ELIZA ARcHARD CONNER