The morning times., 1895-09-01

up with the orders that fairly pile up at
her door Her patronage is Of the most
fashionable description, and to secure
her services is considered an advance agent
OF success for the entertainers.
This being the case there is no reason
why some bright, energetic young woman
with a talent, real or acquired, for cook
ing should not enter the field. 1t is large
one. There is room for half a dozen aS
least, and there is money in it for each
and all, For some young woman, especially
If she happens to have any traditions OF
past and gone glory In the way of family
as backer, there is a chance for bowling
success.
GIVE UP TEACHING.
Try IT girls Be done with teaching
wrestling with the young idea is far TOO
wearing on the nerves and pays far too
little for the amount of brain and physical
endurance expended thereon. Turn your
attention to cooking and serving luncheoIS
and dinners for the fashionables. There
is money in it. What if those same fashion
ables should look down upon you?
What need you care as long as you
secure the orders and payment therefor
The opinion OF the fashionables is Of very
little consequence anyway to man or
woman who has her living TO make. The
fashionables hold no special cinch on the
heaven OF to-day or hereafter. Use them
for all they are worth in the way OF finally
allowing you to retire on competency.
They are, after all, very well In their
way, especially If you happen to under
stand just how to meet them on their
own ground and see just what that way is.
There is no use in going into any such
work as herein outlined with the idea that
however proficient you viii enjoy an
immunity yfromsnubs andatt times mortifying
and trying experiences.
There are snobs the world over, and there
always VIII be for that matter. Ifthcre were
not, probably one would never appreciate
what it is to come in contact with thoroughly
well-bred people, whose position is so Sc
cure that they have no quRlIns about ac-
cording the just need of rank 10 Otlers,
who unfortunately belong to that large
family Of has beens." That snObs should
exist is undoubtedly natures plan Of equa-
tions in the social sphere
It was not so many years ago that per
feet epidemic OF cake-making broke out
in Washington among the "decayed gen
tlewomen" Of the District. 1t was quite
the rage for several persons to make cake
for the rich and fashionable Of society
and L paid so well that the leading adyen-
turers in this field were enabled to hire
several stoUt-armed women To do all the
manual work OF beating mp eggs and mix
ing the ingredients. One OF the ''deCayed
| gentlewomen' even instituted radical re-
forms in her kitchen, and built in an anna
teur bakers oven.
At the present time there are several
women depending upon their own efforts
for living who manage 90 exc out thatliv-
ing bymaking cake andpuuing tppreseryes.
| What initiates largely against success 10
many Of these cases is the fact that ihecakc
makers aim only to do such work for the
! coterie of their especial friends. decmiug
| it something perfectly "awfsl" 90 nave any
! intelligence Of their work be uulscd abroad
| among the vulgar herd.
| Ifyou are going 10 bea med Of working
| for your living, keep out OF it altogether
! Don't live Cease to exist from sheer mani
/ ton, aud the world VIII be well rid Of you
| Whatever you do, don't allow yourself that
absurdity of being ashamed OF 1t. That is
! not only nonsensical, it is absolutely yul-
/ gar.
! II you start out with any such ideas Of
/ being ashamed of your work or of the
| fact that you are compelled to work for
your living, you VIII have a lhard time
of it. Before you get through you viii get
laughed at and ridiculed from Hudson Bay
to the Gulf OF Mexico, and from the Atlantic
to the Pacific. Don't be ashamed about
anything in connection with your work.
It never has succeeded yet when such has
been the state of the case, and thank heaven
it never viii.
WASHINGTON WOMAN'S SCHEME.
There was a Washington woman who
went TO the Worlds Fair and striking out
in new line, made fine paying thing
of the experiment. She was a Southern
woman, born and brought up among slaves,
with several of her very own to do every
thing but actually breathe for her. It
happened in late years that fortune and
she fell out and were so sadly at odds that
it became a positive necessity for her to
work for her living.
A Government office was not to be OBJ
tained save for a short period when there
was a great pressure of work to be accom-
plished. Then she tried keeping boarders.
| They ate her fairly out of house and home
Then she rallied and tried renting rooms
but somehow that failed and she was about
at her wits end when the Worlds Fair
began to engage eyeryone's attention.
Some how she drifted to Chicago and
secured work OF some clerical nature
in the Administration building. Her
health was not strong and the work was
about killing her when somehow there
popped into her head sonesfine day an idea
which she followed up TO such prac-
ticaI good that even now She is making
a good living out of it. AS the idea was not
patented it can be used by others if so de-
| sired, since it was nothing more nor less
than the making of q Maryland hand
beaten biscuit.
Being n Southcrner, the Washington wo
man knew 10 perfection just how these
beaten biscuits should be made, and, there
fore, when her first supply was ready she
put them on sale at several of the eating
houses in the Worlds Fair grounds. Then
as the call for them increased she widened
the field Of her operations and placed them
on sale elsewhere outside, of the grounds
In the meantime, of course, she had pur
chased q discriminating machine and hired
a stout woman to do the work. AS the bust
ness increased she made regular business
arrangement with several of the bakers
in Chicago, and at last accounts was OF
the fair road to attaining fortune out Of
the sale of those Maryland biscuits.
Still another business for the plucky
go-ahead young woman to succeed in il
this city is that of professional duster OF
fine china and bric-a brac. There are il
Washingt ton any number of elegant houses
where the dustino of the bric-a brac cannot