The morning times., 1895-09-01
WORK KFORPLUCKY WOMEN
Need Not Be Confined TO the Old
and Beaten Tracks.
SOME PRAC ICAL PO INERS
Story of an Eastern Lady Who La
Earning Good Living in California.
Hints Which District Girls Can Fol-
lOw-Experienceo of Some who Have
Made Great Hits.

There are all sorts OF ways of killing a
cat besides hanging it, So there are all
manner of ways for a woman of pluck
and energy to make a living, and good
one at that entirely outside of the beaten
tracks.
If one has a notion TO stick absolutely
to the old methods and exc out possible
living through the time -honored channels
Of teaching, governessing, sewing or GO
ing through the soul-harrowing expert
ences that usually fail to the lot Of those
who elect TO let themselves out for the
princely sum OF SO or $40 month, TO be
bully ragged out OF health and temper as
companions, there is nothing TO be said, no
advice to be offered.
Nothing short of actual experience and
nine times out of ten of absolute failure
attending the experiments will suffice for
such persons. They must learn through
the hardest OF all schools-experence-
before they are willing TO even listen to
anything others with a wider, more eX-
tended opportunities may have to say on
the subject.
Somewhat less than a year ago 1 met in
one OF the beautiful health resorts ON the
| Pacific coast a bright woman who a L that
| time was staying at the same hotel, re-
cuperating from a severe illness. Her hus-
band and children were with her, and APP
! parenuy the worldly affairs Of the fam
/ lily, while not such as to rank them in the
! list Of millionaires were such as to make
them able TO enjoy at least the comforts
Of life.
They were Eastern people, and up to
] the time that the woman married the
/ young lawyer she had never known what
/ it was TO do the slightest thing in the way
Of work for herself Pampered, petted
! and brought up in wealth and luxury, she
cast in her lot with the man she loved
and went with him to make their home in
the far West. Their fortunes had been
during the years OF their married life Of
the most fluctuating description.
When ] met the bright and attractive
woman there was even at that time all
| unknown 10 me a cloud no bigger than a
mans hand looming up in the horizon,
II she dreamed that such was the case she
| braveIy withheld all such knowledge from
me and gave not the slightest sign to out
| siders.
quite recently there came a letter from
her all the way across the continent that
not only goes to prove that woman can
! make her living out of the beaten tracks,
but that she can make big success Of it
without the least capital to start on.
As the plan operated in this case is quite
as applicable 10 Washington or any OF
the large cities of the East, and is indeed
far better adapted TO succeed here than
elsewhere, such portion of the letters as
relates to IT, viii be given for the bene-
fit Of any woman who has been or who may
bein some future time thrown upon her O wn
| resources.
DEAD BROKE.
I've have never been rolling in wealth,
but just before we returned here from -,
we learned the pleasantnews that our small
but sure competency was a thing of the
past, and we We're left absolutely-not
relatively-sans money, sans home, sans
everything, in fact, that is usually con-
sidered essential to the continuance Of life.
In vulgar parlance, wewere broke-strapped.
So we packed our trunks and came on TO
this place, stayed with a friend until we
could hunt up some rooms, and having
found two that answered the description
Of neat, bItn gaudy, in q business block,
set up life again.
IAN day l am soothed by the yowls OF
women learning to sing, Save the Mark,
and the Uum Ii tum ii ii 70 FUN Of creatures
learning to play the piano, together with
the soul-stirring scrapes and squeaks Of an
amateur violinist, who should rightly be
committed TO an insane asylum.
'Wen to go on. DO you want TO hearall
about it? One room is the sitting room
in front Of a big screen and in a large
packing box at the end of the din
ing room reposes the kitchen. This
latter is an oil Etove, a few skillets and
a shelf of priceless china plates which
cost five cents and cups, two for a quarter.
A small square table outside of the front
door furnishes the antechamber where
my crowding jostIing guests wait their
turn for admittance into the triune apart
ment
"And now what do you think my pro-
fession is? I can best convey to you the
intelligence through the medium Of a tiny
anecdote which came near proving the
death Of my dear husband. I engaged a
snau negro boy to come and zee me on
business. He came while 1 was out and
not remembering my name asked my hus-
band for De lady what did de caterin
business
Yes, that # is it, am in de caterin
business This has been evolved gradual!
from "A person in reduced circumstances
if you can call that reduced which ii
absolutely indistinguishable or visible t
The naked eye-who did some not altogether
bad work with pen and ink, dinner cards
| 60 for rTrbi i1l, I
have a knack, the a gentlewoman' (
oversee the proper serving of entertain
ments; then Experienced cook to go tC
houses and reign supreme in the kitcheI
and get up menus and cook the wonderful
croquettes and cream, the elusive sweet
bread, put deviled lobster in a tissue
entree dish and glorify 1t by the name o
'Newburg,' and keep a watChful eye on
the twoIegged things they dignity by tn,
name of walters, who will, under loud
mouthed protestations, wear a cap anC
apron, rebelling against it the while al
a badge Of servitude.'
'These latter try me sorely at times. A
one house the mistress simply told the
servants that they could do one of TIVE
things-mind me or leave the place.
For these services I get SO for a lunch
con and the same sum for a dinner-$3 70
all night work at big functions, So a da.
for decorating from early morning until th
wee small hours. Well, upon the whole, i
is interesting work, lets one in for side o
human nature one would not otherwise see
It's amusing in a way, but tends TO maxi
one cynical, except that am not built tha
way.
RUNNING A COTILLION.
CT made A00 favors and oot nm a sumo