Daily camera., 1897-08-11
NOVEL WORK FOR WOMEN
Odd Occupations Followed by the
Fair Sex in London.
There Are Dog Walkers and POr.
teresses and Female Cabbies Are
Looked for Next New
Fields of Labor.

1t has been left to London to organ
ize an institution that will give the new
woman a decidedly new field.
The womens 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 callings is as novel
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 all about
dogs. She calls at houses where she
has learned CANNES are kept and pre-
sents 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 a
day, each trip to consume 30 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 all
the more sorrowful because the dog
walker makes an agreement that if the
dog bites her she will make no fuss
Nbout it, but accept the bite in the
sRirit in which it is offered.
The dog walker is required to give
security for the animal she takes tenn
porarily under her care, and this diff
Guilty has been remedied by a bond
given by the women's institute and in
dorsed by one or another Of the patron
esses, whose name is as good as gold.
The pleasant-faced dog walkers have
met with very good success, but those
with apparently unkind dispositions
have found their new profession very
Improbable.
Experience as hotel porteresses on
the part of the proteges of the women's
institute have not as yet produced any
great results. About the only class of
women who can handle big trunks and
matters of that sort never heard of the
women's institute and were not partic
ularly anxious to make its acquaint-
ance. Where women have only found it
necessary to carry hand baggage they
have succeeded very well.
Other lines in which the proteges of
the institute have begun to engage are
billposting and paperhanging, in each
OF which they have achieved fairly ex-
cellent success.
1t is the aim of the institute to fur
nish to women new fields to occupy.
The members believe that woman
should invade the domain of man to
a far greater extent than heretofore,
and that there are very many callings
at which that type of woman with more
strengthsthan brains could make ex-
cellent 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
er, 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 a 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
wisdom.-N. Y. Herald.
A Boy Whipped by Owls.
An Illinois hoy went hunting one day