The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-03-27

ment. Not long agoa certain woman.
building upon her reputation for
charming and original designs as
shown Ill her own costume, set up
dressmaking establishment. She un-
doubtedly hada gift of artistic design
ing and color combination, but she
lacked common-sense. To begin with,
she took the stand of one who descends
from pedestal, and it was undoubt-
eel the newspaper talk about ladies of
rank and little opening dressmaking
and milliners' shops in London that
suggested the idea.
Her father, a plodding, salaried
worker, paid the rent of handsome
suite of rooms for her in advance a
French woman was engaged at high
wages to superintend the cutting and
seamstresses to do the sewing, for the
designing alone was all the young wo-
| man herself intended to condescend to
do. Her beginning was brilliant. Or
ders came in sufficient numbers to
promise a flourishing business. But
the absence of good sense laid all such
hopes waste. Cheap materials were
used and expensive ones charged for
engagements were disregarded, and the
much-vaunted ''original ideas were
still kept for the young woman's per-
sonal adornment, while her patrons
costumes were as commonplace as if
devised by home dressmaker at s.
per day.
In a few months the money invest
ed had been lost. The already over
worked father had to do some evening
bookkeeping to keep out of debt and
was worn out and irritable in conse-
quence, and the young woman retired
from business and indulg ged in nervous
prostration. Common-sense would have
led her to take place for short time
as an ''improver" at any wages she
could get in dressmaking establish
ment in order to acquire knowledge
of detail and technique, and the same
valuable quality would have taught
her that the business requisites of
promptness, honesty and respect of
contract are as indispensable in dress
making establishment conducted by Il
woman as in commercial house con-
Quoted by men or a corporation.
A rich woman in New York began
life as girl down in Maine, by collect
ing tripe, which was so plentiful and
so despised that it was thrown away.
She discovered its value as food in
cities and began the work of collect
ing quantities of it and hiring children
to clean and prepare it for market. In
this way she created an actual indus
try which grew to large proportions,
and which she left to others when she
had made enough money to risk COM
ing to New York. In that city she
took an agency for corset manufac-
turer and earned enough to venture
small real estate purchase, which turn
ed out surprisingly well. She stuck
% the real estate business and is now
worth half a million dollars.
One of the largest laundries in Jer-
sey City is owned by a woman and has
Il woman superintendent.
II have lost my nice girl bookkeep-
er,'' said a grocer the other day.
''She had been in the store four
years, hardly ever absent a day and
never had any trouble with her ac-
counts. But she is going to be mar
ried and | have to look out for anOth-
er No. he continued, in reply to
question. II don't want young man.
They are not half so study and relia-
bic or so generally obliging and pains
taking.