The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-09

After three months the chief difficulty
was the lack of oven facilities The
range of a small fiat is not calculated
to turn out work by wholesale. This
trouble was partly overcome by the pur-
chase of large gas range. BY dint of
burning two fires the output was mate
rally increased, but long hours and
hard work were involved, especially at
the weeks end, to keep up with the
Saturday and Sunday demand.
Certain delicate biscuit and rolls were
particularly successful. So was Boston
brown bread and Italian fig bread. Two
little girls have been kept at school for
some years on the proceeds of this mod
est enterprise, the only advertisement
of which is muscular small boy who
pushes q handcart with q warm and
fragrant load through the streets of a
quiet up town quarter mornings and
evenings.
Mrs. B. @. Miller keeps { bicycle re-
pair shop on upper Broadway, Brook
Ign. So far as heard from she is the on
ly woman in Greater New York who is
chasing the nimble dollar in this bust
ness. Her qualifications are certain
common sense i'll practical matters and
! u hardness with tools
Mrs. Miller rides wheel and takes
four children out on the road with her.
Five bicycles are almost enough to keep
Il repair shop going. but Mrs. Miller
| does not depend on the punctures and
bent spokes Of her own household. She
says that from childhood she has enjoy
ed tinkering things, and that clocks and
other objects have suffered from her de-
sire to ''see the wheels go round. " But
| the bicycle gave her the chance Of a
| lifetime. Here were wheels worth see
| ing. She took care of her own from the
beginning, tended it faithfully with oil
| and graphite and was never tired of
rubbing up her handle bars. Yet she
was glad when squeak developed or a
pedal refused to spin, for then she could
unbuckle her tool bag and pry into the
bearings. When her husband entered
| the business she is now carrying on, she
made it her business to watch him and
| his men, and one day, when wheel
| with punctured tire was brought into
| the shop in his absence she set to work
and turned out neat job Of repairing
From this time Mrs. Miller made the
workshop her headquarters. She learn
ed to take a bicycle apart or put one to-
| gether. She became able to make han
die bars braze the functions of tubing or
| lace wheel. To lace wheel is to put
| in the spokes and not to run the cords
of the skirt guard, as might be imagined.
Given the manufactured parts, she
could assemble them and turn out a
good bicycle. This apprenticeship
| proved its value when she opened re-
pair shop on her own account, and the
| venture has been successful. Mrs. Mil
| Ter is to be found in the workshop often
er than behind the counter. She takes
| into her own hands the most delicate
and difficult pieces of repairing.
Mrs. Miller is slender woman, al
most fragile i'll appearance. She has
| blue eyes and light brown hair. She
| looks out of her element working away
at foot pump or doctoring sick pedal,
] but it is evident that she finds her work
likable. In answer to inquiries she said
81 thoroughly enjoy what l am do.
! ing. One reason is the novelty of the
! occupation another is my enthusiasm
for the wheel. Every bicyclist is a