The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-27
EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN
Many Fields Are open to the
Fair Sex.
NOT NECESSARY TO CLERK
Hundreds of Washington Girls En-
10y Large Incomes In Various Lines
of business ana Perse
verance Necessary Requisites
Rapidly Entering Mans Field.


dependent circumstances do, who does not
want to be a clerk, or rather what can
She do?
since she has thrown conventionality TO
the four winds and stepped forth upon the
platform of wonian's rights, demanding
that a standard of equality lie established
between her and her brother, in regard to
vocations and their remuneration, there is
nothing under the sun that a man does,
which Il woman cannot, may not, indeed
it were better to say has not done.
Aside from theeveryda calling ofteacher,
typewriter, drcssnaker and niilliner, there
are myriads of lucrative openings, both in
Washington and elsewhere, whose advan-
tages have been grasped by the up-to-date
century girl, with all of her accustomed
energy and ingenuity, and she has, and is
making them pay, To tin time OF good
Sound dollars, and plenty of them, too.
Many of the most prominent and progress
sive business women of the day do not owe
their success to steady training, half so
much rs TO genuine pluck aud the truth
in the old axiom, Perseverance wins
success"
In many Instances, they were women
whose lives always lay in pleasant places.
until the wheel OF fortune in turning forced
them to face lffe's battles and solve the
problem OF food and shelter. with nothing
more TO depend upon than the super
fetal accomplishments of the average So
ciety girl. Consequently pluck, and pluck
alone is the keynote to their prosperity.
VALUE OF SMALL THINGS.
1t has been left to woman, and to her
entirely, to discover the monetary value
of the small things, which man, often
times i'll his lorily superiority; passes over
with contempt, II indeed lie ever notices
them at all Hundreds OF women liv-
ing III ease and luxury, are forcible ullus-
trations OF the fact that ii is the littl.
things that count
1t was left for Mrs. Edward Leavitt.
"A woman OF shrewd business capacity,
to prove to her sex that there is a prac
teal as well as an ornamental side to
the possession of flowers.
Perceiying the none v making POSSIBLE
tiles in the growing OF violets. she devoted
the most fertile portions OF her Connect
cut farm TO the culture of only three
kinds OF plants, violets, carnations and
roses. She now owns and manages the
most perfect and scientific gardens in the
country.
Under acres of glass she raises violets
the size of silver dollars. and her carna
tons are said to be as large as roses.
With genuine business system, she is up
at daybreak to gather her blossoms, and
is perfectly devoted to all sorts of lore on
plant diseases and fertilizers.
She employs only the most expert Of
workmen and personally directs and in
structs their work. When in her green
houses, one would never take her to be q
practical, up to-date horticulturist, as
she always wears stylish gowns, dainty
bonnets add immaculate gloves. She re-
alizes alarge sum every year from her sales,
and has her farm and all its workings so
thoroughly systematized that she believes
she could conduct her rOwerraising as Won
Moltke did his battles, by telegraph. Her
example has been followed, Oh smaller
scale, by young ladies in this city and
number of them are enjoying comfortable
income.
Another prosperous feminine gardner is
Mrs. George Stanton Floyd-Joues, of Long
Island, who not only drectsthe management
of her place, but armed with rake and hoe,
turns in and works for four or five hours
each day among her flower-beds, berrE
vines and melon patches.
Closely allied to farming is the dairy
business, which, though heretofore almost
untrcd by the gentler sex, has been proven
profitable career for women by formerly
wealthy girl of Pennsylvania, who, upon
finding herself thrown upon her own re-
sources. with her parents dependent upon
her for support, determined TO make an
experiment in this line.
MONEY IN BUTTER
Her fathers farm, with all of its stock,
having been sold, she resolved to lease
the creamery for a year, and by COIN
mencing with boy on a route, work ii
up Though the capacity of her creamery
was five thousand pounds of butter, yet
she was satisfied to make small beginning
on four hundred pounds.
During this, her first year, by her industry
and unTlagging zeal she has increased her
business SO rapidly lat she is unable TO
sunply the demands for her butter. She
has acquired u complete knowledge of the
requirements of every department, ana
oversees everything herself, even to the
shipping, and thus is always cognizant OF
the exact condition OF her affairs In the
course of four or five years she expects
To buy back the old homestead and farm.
Very similar in some respects, to sthe
dairy business and equally as remlmera-
tive, is poultry raising. For some, the
speckled Dorkings, white legborns, and
stately Plymouth Rocks possess peculiar
fascination. Queen Victoria, among her
other domestic tendencies, numbers pas
sion for chickens She owns a large
aviary filled with fowls OF all descriptions
and breeds, and there is no possession of
her royal ma jesty, over which she is
more enthusiastic Fifty eggs per day are
the average and they go to the Castle.
Buckingham Palace, and Osborne House
only.
While few women can boast OF such an
extensive or elaborate an affair as the
queens hen-coop, yet there is no reason
why any woman cannot make money. and
plenty of 1t, in raising chickens, both
for the eggs and the tender, young birds,
for which there is always an immense de-
mand and n fair price.
Here In Washington the number of girls
and women, supporting themselves and
their families by their own exertious. are
legion.
The frequcnters of one of the down
town restaurants, who are enthusiastic
consumers of the delicious soups. little
dream that one trail little woman, by
raising the ugly green croakers. which
form such an important part in the in
gradients. supplies herself and her invalid
mother with the necessaries, and a few
of the luxuries OF life.
CARED FOR THE ANIMALS.
Through the chaos OF doubt and despair
which followed her misfortune, the only