Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-05-12
A UNIQUE ENTERPRISE.
Peculiar Business Established by
Bright Chicago Woman.
Instead OF Bewaiiins Her Lot in Life,
she Went TO Work with Enthusiasm
ana Founded Laundry Coo
Quoted on Novel Principles,
Especial Chicago Letter.l

wonder who that particularly fine
looking woman is who is coming in
here? asked one gentleman of anotl,-
or as they sat chatting at their club.
That" said The gentleman of whom
the question was asked, sis the aristo-
cratic washerwoman OF the new dispen-
sation.'
What do you Incaa?" said the first
speaker, leaning forward and regard
ing interestedly the dignified. grace
ful. Acknowledgment woman who
had halted to greet an acquaintance.
only this said the gentleman,
smiling, that Mrs. Judd is conduct
ing IN way so unprecedented as to
make the undertaking unique. high
class laundry. While, on account of
these trying times, music teachers.
Deisarte instructors, and in TACT all
women who make their living by any
thing which may be classcd 4 luxury.
which can, when occasion requires. be
dispensed with, are finding the strur-
gle Tor existence unprccedcntedly diff
cult this woman is making an income
winch many tirst-class business man
Is unable to command. She is one of
the first to demonstrate what & we'll
born, weil-bred, well-inforrned woman
can do in this line, ard although 7 pre-
sumo that in time she win have iEnita-
tors do not think they viii very soon
DC numerous company, for but &c W
women are possessed OF her acquire
mcnts, are rs independent as She is.
She has the contract for keeping the
n ll-rnT, Of Il, \
inughingly declares herself wash
erwonan;' yet one meets her at the
opera and also at some handsome func-
tons. So. yen see, in these last DAYS
Of the old century when women vote
and are elected 10 cfiice. one meets his
laundress in the drawing room as his
social equal"
The story of the aristocratic wash
crwoman OF the new dispensation. y as
this gentleman styled Mrs. Isabel
Judd, is an interesting one. although
IN many respects it is not exceptional
Like her, many women have been
reared in luxury and lived for wears
with every wish cratiiied to suddenly
find themselves without tbs means of
subsistence. When misfortune comes
they, as did Mrs. Judd, usually try TO
make such accomplishment as they
stand Po1Sesscd OF bring them some
pecuniary return. They do not, how
ever, rs did this woman, even after
much bitter experience, pat aside all
false Standards and proceed 10 Dignity
n commonplace. lucrative occupation
BY bringing to it all that makes any
one thing more desira bic than another
1t was not until she had cl,ed ont Il
precarlous living by giving instruc-
tiun in physical training and other
things, and even had tried 9 clerlzship
which she obtained by assuming that
although she had never been behind Z
counter her long experience Us n pur-
chaser had given her knowledge Of
what shoppers demand, only to find
herself unequal TO the work that she
quite accidentally determined To I'm
dertalle the laundry work OF which she
has made pronounced success.
In speaking O. It she says that when,
after q life of opulence, she was con-
frouted with the necessity Of making q
living for herself and daughter she
could not have, at first, been induced
to consider work OF this kind. After
years OF contact with the world as .