The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-25
WOMAN'S WORLD.
INTENSITY or "A WoMAN'S STRUGGLE
TO EARN A LIVING.

Divided Si<irts-Sne Tells Ghost Beor1ess
A COsored Woman Lawyer.
The following instance is an illustra-
tion Of the difficulty girls find every
where obtaining employment A wonn-
an of 80, with considerable experience
in sickness and nursing, IS advised by
doctor whom she meets in q sickroom
in Cincinnati to take the course for
trained nurses in the hospital there.
This she does; but, being obliged on &C
count of family affairs to return to BOs-
ton, she meets the discouraging news
that there are in that city alone so
trained nurses out of employment, and,
as she says, there would probably be as
any more before she could complete her
course.
This struggle for q living, in spite Of
all the new avenues open to women, is
everywhere evident. Says one bachelor
girl, IT have accomplishments, but
find as o rule they are Of less value than
a strong specially" Such a girl may
sometimes use an accomplishment to
advantage in connection with a special
To-, and so she should not despair. For
instance, if one is conversant with
French, German or Spanish, she should
at once learn typewriting and stenogra-
ply. With this business equipment
On the other hand, q first class stenog-
rapher and typewriter may strengthen
her hold on the business world by learn
ing as soon as possible one or more mod
ern languages. a girl who lost her po-
sition in a lawyers establishment be-
cause her services could no longer be
afforded owing to the hard times rented
desk room in a large building devoted
to offices and business headquarters and
advertised by circulars distri buted to do
typewriting. She now employs an as
sistant, and both are making a good 1iv-
1ng. The employer who could not afford
to pay her for her whole time was very
glad of her services at different times
and was also glad to recommend her to
others in the same predicament as him
self, because her work was invariably
good, and she could be relied upon to
keep an engagement
Promptness and energy will conquer
no end of obstacles in the commercial
world Of a large city Women with new
ideas must also have the courage to
carry them out a girl needing money
1aughingly suggested the other day that
she put out a sign, Cats. dogs and
plants boarded for the summer. The
idea suggested itself from the dilemma
of many city people who do not know
what to do with their pets during their
vacation tours. OF course she was
laughed at, but the scheme might pay
we'll if tried This is not more novel or
fanciful than many schemes for making
money which English women under
take. Such advertisements as the fol-
lowing are frequent in English papers,
where they cause no surprise: Board
for several young ladies' Lessons in
housekeeping given if desired. n" ssOr-
ders received for furnishing dolls
houses artistically.'' Or: Fruits pre-
served Orders received by mail. -
There are agricultural schools in Eng
land where pupils may take advanced
courses in dairy work, making such an
announcements possible, Miss R. NJ
Armstrong has been appointed senior
instructress in butter making to the
Cumberland county council. =
Tutoring is not new way of earning
money for educated girls One college
graduate, however, in New York city
has a plan which makes tutoring only
"a means to an end She came to the city
from a county town and gave the best
of references to several school agencies
where she applied for chances to teach
private pupils. While engaged in this
work she herself is taking German in
well known school of languages, in
hopes to find finally in Paris or some
German metropolis position to teach
her own language Through Pratt and
other similar schools in Baltimore and
Boston women capable with the needle
and well enough educated to teach
classes in sewing are finding such posi-
tions lucrative. A woman just gradu-
ated from the advanced course in dress
making at Pratt has been offered posi-
tion as teacher in a new school in an
other city at a salary of 500 q year,
her duties requiring her presence in the
classroom only so many hours a week
Brooklyn Eagle.