The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-10-22
NOVEL WORK FOR WOMEN
I'D Occupations Followed by the
- Fair Sex in London.
There Are Dog Walkers and Por-
teresses and Female Cnbbies Are
Looked for Next New
Fields of Labor.

It has been left to London to organ
ize an institution that will give the new
woman q decidedly new field.
The women's institute promises TO be
the most unique institution that ever
was created for the gentler sex.
Among the chief occupations which
those who place themselves under its
protecting wings will be trained in are
those of dog walker and hotel porteress
The first of these calhngs is as move!
as it is surprising. Certain families
have dogs which need exercise. There
are no grounds attached TO the homes
OF these dog owners, and therefore the
only way for the pets to enjoy fresh air
is TO be walked up and down The side
walk, after the fashion OF the dogs be-
longing to the fiat dwellers in New
York.
Now, the dog walker knows al, about
dogs. She calls, at houses where she
has learned CANNES are kept and pre-
scnts card, on which is printed in neat
script: Miss Dolly Periwinkle, Walker
of Dogs"
To the person who receives the card
the lady states that for so much per
month she will guarantee TO take dog
and trot him about the streets twice 4
c,s,y, each trip to consume 80 minutes.
This gives the dog an outing OF an hour
day, and as the charges rarely exceed
three shillings a week it is believed the
dog walker will, find her occupation
both profitable and pleasant, provided
the dog permits it.
Some of the feminine dog walkers
whom the women's institute has al
ready placed have been bitten by i'll
tempered charges. Such cases are al
the more sorrowful, because the dog
walker makes an agreement that if the
dog bites her she will make TO fuss
about il, but accept the bite in the
Spirit in which it is offered.
The dog walker is required to give
security for the animal she takes tenn
porarity under her care. and Ibis diff
Guilty has been remedied by bond
given b. tbe women's institute and in
slDrsei by enc or another Of Ike patron
csses, whose name is as goc,l as gold.
The pIeasilnt-faced dog WALKERS have
met with very good success, but those
with apparently uplind dispositions
lave fould their new profession very
Improbable.
Experience as hotel porteresses on
TIE part of the proteges Of the women's
institute have not as yet produced any
great results. About the only class of
wcmca who can handle big trunks and
nla;ter5 of that sort never heard Of the
Uomcn's institute ard were not partic-
ularly. anxious to make its ecquaint-
aace. Where women have only found it
necessary 10 carry hand baggage they
have succeeded very well.
Other lines in which the proteges of
the institute have begun to engage are
,,i,lpostinS and paperhanging, in each
OF which they have achieved fairly ex-
cellent success.
1t is the aim of the institute to fur
nsh to women new fields TO occupy.
The members believe that woman
should invade the domain Of man TO
4 far greater extent than heretofore. |
and that there are very many callings
at which that type of woman with more |
strength than brains could make ex-
celleEt livings, where now they are
quite likely to lack the necessaries of |
life.
The institute members claim that |
woman has proved to be good farm
or, and. that being the case, there is
no reason why she should not succeed
in those lighter occupations Of man in
the cities which call for no greater de-
gree of strength in manual labor than
is exercised by the women who farm.
The next step that the institute pro-
poses TO take is to secure u number of
cabs and have them driven by women.
The drivers are to wear divided skirts
and must in every instance be young,
strong and rather inclined to worldly
Y. Herald.
A Boy Whipped by Owls.