The herald., 1896-06-28
Woman Has Made Her Conquest
There Also
BREAKING DOWN BARRIERS
Overcoming the Disapproval Of the Other
Sex
fishers and Electrical Engineers, Snow.
Ing They Can Play . Winning Game

maintained in the past, she has yet to
encounter the obstacles she cannot with
patience and perseverance overcome.
She can manage a livery stable, run an
express wagon, pilot a Mississippi
steamer, preside over a "tonsorial par
lor," defeat justice as a professional
burglar, be the architect Of her own
house as well as fortunes. electioneer
for herself at the polls and make grace
full and efficient mayor of a city If her
electioneering proves successful.
The business woman" Is at last an ac-
complished fact. 1t is several years since
her evolution and she has had rather
lively time, not only In breaking down
the barriers of a masculine disapproval
but in uprooting a few feminine char
acteristics which proved to be superb
luouos possessions. The business wo-
man of today has acquired the habit of
thinking logically or preferring justice
to sentiment and of facing sharply
outlined fact without displaying the
slightest tendency to Mysteries. And she
is everywhere, this nineteenth century
business woman, dignified. well groomed
and tailor-made. She Is very often a
pretty woman, but she never f1irts-in
business hours.
Women have been lawyers, physicians
and college professors so long that these
occupations have grown to seem legiti-
mate and normal fields of activity for
intelligent ambitious young women, but
1T is only within the last few years that
the woman dentist has appeared strong
in her integrity, biceps and diploma, to
smilingly assure tortured patients that
she pulls teeth without pain," and will
chat volubly with man whose mouth
is damned up with rubber and unex-
pressed adjectives.
SUCCESSFUL AS A DENTIST
One of the most successful dentists of
New York is Dr. Josephine Maude Ran
Kin. Miss Rankin graduated with a
class of seventy men from the Philadel-
phia dental college three years ago. She
at once started in business for herself,
ana now occupies an entire building on
Sixth avenue near Twenty third street.
Her patronage has increased to such an
extent that she now employs ten men as
assistants, all college graduates, and has
actually established q company called
the Worlds Dental association, of which
she IS the manager When asked why
she did not employ women as assistants
and SO aid the sisterhood, Miss Rankin
replied.
Why, I would like nothing better:
but do you know that since began busi-
ness not a single woman has applied to
me for position. think women are
too ambitious to start that way All the
women dentists l know are in business
for themselves"
Miss RANKIN is a Brooklyn girl
young, vivacious, thoroughly in earnest,
q graduate of the Brooklyn High school
and probably the most successful of the
200 women dentists in the United States
The women photographers, insurance
agents and lecturers of Boston share
their progressive honors with Mrs. Alice
T.. Cram, one of the most PROSPEROUS
contractors Of the busy hub. Mrs. Cram
was originally in business with her hus-
band, but soon determined to manage
her own business affairs. She is now es-
tablished In offices next door to her hus-
band and has met with unqualified sue
cess. Although an unusually pretty
woman, Mrs. Cram possesses a keen
business sense, is brisk and decisive in
all dealings with men and women, and
as she says, believes in leaving all pref
udiceS, sentiments and personalities at
home;" and, being womanly woman,
she has a very lovely home at which to
leave them.
The woman real estate agent is.
strange to say, not new development.
The first real estate Office superintend-
ed by woman was opened in New York
on West Thirty-fifth street the day of
Lincoln's assassination. Miss Elizabeth
A. Daley was the agent, and is still
doing lucrative business in the same
house.
ONLY WOMAN CUSTOMS BROKER
It is remarkable thing that Cincin-
natis only customs broker is a woman
and that she is the only one of her sex
IN the United States. Her name is
Helena Regina eraser and she does
business in the prettiest kind of a lit
tie office. She is a! fine looking woman.
tall and dignified, and is a lively and
entertaining talker. Her work is of a
nature that demands vast knowledge
OF detail. In assessing duties on imports
she has need Of an accurate knowledge
OF the tables Of weights and measures
and for all lines of her work must be
abreast of the times even to a perfect
understanding of tariff and the money
question.
Miss eraser was born in Montreal.
Her parents were Swiss. She came to
Cincinnati when quite little child and
has lived in a brokerage atmosphere
all her life. Her father was a broker
and at his death, when Miss Helena
eraser was only sixteen years of age,
his work was taken UP by an older
daughter. She taught Miss eraser the
principles of the business. After year
and half the sister sold her interest
and married DIR. Roethe, a Well-knoWn
Cincinnati physician. Two years later
Miss eraser started out for herself as
customs broker, and many of the old
patrons of her father and sister returned
to her. After an experience of seven
years she has a thriving business and
is the only licensed broker in the city.
Women lecturers who are their own
business managers and impresarios form
an ever increasing list. There is Miss
Kingsley, who talks all about Africa;
Mrs. Custer, who knows all about buffa-
los and camping in the west; Mrs. ].
Wells Champney, who Is in touch with
the latest developments in literature,
art and politics; Miss Clarkson, who
tells you what Emerson and Browning
meant" or what she thinks they meant;
Mrs. Olive Thorne Miller, the feminine
Audubon-women who are trying to
reform politics, and women who can talk
with airy nippancy of the latest fads in
china or bonnets, or who can fix you with
an eagle eye while they convince you
that the Mahatmas have at last domes-
ticated themselves in the "tenderloin"
district Of New York.
STAR-GAZER IN PETTICOATS
Miss Mary Proctor is the woman as
tronomer who has arranged to give SER
les OF lectures on the heavens during
the summer on shipboard, for especial
beneht of the pretty college maidens
who sail with her in June to witness the
eclipse OF the sun in Norway.
For the women who like to lecture but
not to manage their own tours, there is
the female impresario, Miss Anna Miller
Miss Miller has been business manager
for Theodore Thomas for three years
During the first years Of Miss Millar's