The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-29
WOMEN IN TRADE.
Smart Society Leaders Who Are Sue
cessfuI Business Managers.
New York Letter in Florida Citizen.

New York Letter in Florida. Citizen.
My lady. the countess. and her grace.
the duchess, behind counters, have long
since ceased to be nine days wonder.
In this country, by slow degrees, the
same conditions are beginning to prevail.
One no longer tries to exc out scanty
existence by doing fancy work in secret
to sell at a womans exchange. She plunges
boldly in medals res and establishes a flor
list or a millinery shop Derchance, or
dairy.
"Nestledown" is the charming and at
prising young society women who have
just opened a florists shop in the Asso-
the Nestledown Flower Company are Miss
Redmond. q relative of Edward Cooper;
Miss Sallie Tucker, and Mrs. Candace
Wheeler. president.
The place is artistic even from the ex-
terror, where glass-inclosed case holds
many wild flowers and old-fashioned bios
SONS. which one is accustomed to see at a
city florists. One of the heads of the firm
makes early start in the morning to give
her orders for the day at a wholesale deal
er's. and from o'clock until O'Clock the
shop is open and business lively.
Other society women who are de6utantes
in trade are the Misses Cottenet, who are
silent partners of their brother. Rawlins
Cottenet. the young man who. although in
great demand as best man and usher at
instance. still finds work a necessity TO
keep the wolf from the door. So diligent
has he been that his floral establishment
has become d great success.
The aristocratic Misses Van Rensselaer,
were also SAD TO nave DeeH Unforeseen III
the dairy of their brother. young Mr.. Van
Rensselaer,. started rot long ago.
The young society women who 60 In bust
ness from necessity are almost eoualed in
number by the young women VINO take up
a profession for pleasure. pure and simple.
For instance Miss B@atrix Jones, daughter
of Mrs Rhinelander Jones, who a few
wears ago. became so much interested in
forestry and landscape gardening that she
set to work systematically TO make thor
ough study of the subject. After learning
ali she could in this country. she went
abroad and put herself under the best in
struetion. Just at present she is engaged in
the pursuit OF her profession and working
away with great zeal and energy. She has
two contracts her hand, and two large
into beauty under her skilful direction.
Miss Jones puts on rubber boots and goes
right into the mire and mud TO superintend
the clearing. draining. and arranging OF the
four hundred or more acres of land upon
which an army of men at work.
To hotel seems hardly the province
of a woman. yet summer or two ago, Miss
Annie Corbin. daughter of the late Austin
Corbin. managed small hosiery down at
the Shinnecock hills, Long island. where her
family and several friends spent the sum-
mer. Miss Corbin is said to have displayed
remarkable executive ability and the work
was not dispIeasing 10 her. Far from it. Il,
fact and she declares that Il ever called
upon to mako her living, she VIII keep n
hotel or a boarding house,
Two daughters of Bishop Potter, who. by
the way. Is not rich man and has a large
family made respectable income from
their small inn in the Adirondacks where.
for several summers. they TOOK in a num-