Middletown transcript., 1895-07-20

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Ms eye%~< charge of the
-<!>-=S.A.. drug rooms of
various hospitals or are engaged as
dispensing clerks. A few have drug
stores of their own, and to their credit
be it said, none of them have as yet
been held responsible for errors in
compounding prescriptions, which
has SO often happened to apothecar-
les who have had inefficient or care
less assistants. Women are generally
more thorough in whatever they un-
dertake than the opposite persuasion
and are endowed with tact and a
facility for calculating results with
wonderful rapidity. 1t is these things
which help to make women druggists
successful. The salaries for dispens-
ing clerks are graded according to
the place they fill; the average is
from $40 to $75 per month. Women
occupying the position of chief phar-
macist in large hospitals are paid any
where from 5000 to 5000 per annum.
AS yet the demand for women drug
gists, particularly as dispensing clerks
in, either drag stores or institutions,
is far in excess Of the supply. A large
wholesale drug house has in it's en-
ploy a woman buyer. She travels, in
Europe in their interest and is re-
ported to be one of the shrewdest
buyers in the foreign trade. She is
the first and as yet the only woman
to fill such position. Several manu-
featuring chemists employ women
pharmacists in different capacities.
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If woman would only have the
good sense to do that for which she is
really fitted and will do it we'll and
conscientiously, she will have no rea-
son to complain of want of employ
ment. A lady, newly widowed, was
offered position as clerk and urged
to take 1t. "Indeed," said she, "I
appreciate your kindness, but would
only make an Indifferent clerk; I feel
sureI would make a good dressmaker!,
"a dressmakere!" reclaimed the horri-
fed. 80, my dear, it would be SO much
better for you to be clerk" "Not
if I would be a'poor clerk" replied the
widow, smiling. 81 would rather be
good dressmaker than a poor clerk
any day." And a dressmaker she be-
came, making herself name and rep
utation that put many shekel into
her Golfers. But then she was good
dressmaker. Another woman finding
herself in straits. cast about her for
means of living. She could take refuge
in that resort of the many thus sit
uated-taking boarders, but she did
not wish to. She was an excellent
housekeeper and cook, but she did
not wish to spend all her days in this
way. So she finally decided that
she would try making doughnuts,
nothing else but doughnuts, but
those she would have perfect of their
kind. In short time, her custom far
outrun anything her fondest hopes
had imagined and her business was
on firm money-making basis.
If women would only consult what |
they could do, rather than what they
considered "genteel," (abnominable |
word), their path in the work-a-day |
world would be much more satisfac-
tory, both to themselves and to others.
Ladies Every Saturday.
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Miss Julia E. Underwood has been |
teaching in the public schools of
Quincy, Mass, for forty years. She
began at the age of sixteen, and has
kept at the front in the progress of
educational methods. AS a model
teacher in model school town, she
has received offers from nearly every
State in the Union, and from the fam
Gus school for the blind in London.
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A woman is happy inst in proper
ton as she is content. The sun has a
way of changing the spots upon which
it shines. Especially is this true of
our land, where one is up to-day and
down tomorrow, and vice versa. The
wisest woman is she who trusts in a
to morrow, but never looks for it. To
tit down and wish that this might be,
that that would be different, does
no good. 1t does her harm in
that it makes her dissatisfied with
herself, unpleasant to her friends, and
makes her old before her time. Hap
oiness is not always increased in pro-
portion to enlarge success. This may
'ound like and old saw, and think it
s, but there is world of wisdom in
many an old proverb just the same.
is a wonderful thing to
cultivate. There would be fewer pre-
old women in the world if it
we're given more of trial and it be-
anne a more universal quality in i.
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KISSING MOTHER.
A father talking to his careless
laughter said: 81 want to speak to
'ou of your mother. 1t may be that
ou noticed a careworn look upon her