The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-10-23
NOVEL WORK FOR WOMEN
Odd 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.

ize an institution that will give the new
woman a decidedly new field.
The 1vomen'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 calIings 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 apd 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 a dog
Aand trot him about the streets twice
This gives the dog an outing of an hour
day, and as the charges rarely exceed
three shilings 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 ill
tempered charges. Such cases are ali
the more sorrowful, because the dog
walker makes an agreement that if the
Eog bites her she will make no fuss
4bout it, 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
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 we'll.
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.
Tt 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
strength than brains could make eN-
cellent hvings. where now they are
quite likely to lack the necessaries of
life.
The institute members claim that
woman has proved to be a 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 he young,
strong and rather inclined to worldly
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