The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-12
for dMo1nen

1t is a rare thing nowadays to hear a
woman say: II can't find anything to
do" English women contend that AmerI-
can women are never at a loss to find EN-
ployment. In view of some of the odd
industries his give a livelihood to Wom-
en- here this seems more than half true.
Mrs. Barotti, in Chicago, makes a good
income by conducting a nut cracking es-
tablishment. This is an innovation, and
one that pays well. Nuts are cracked at
other places in Chicago, but Mrs. Barot-
It's establishment Is the one best known
to confeetioners, street vendors and the
best known society people. At this sea-
son Mrs. sBarotti's business has a boom,
and will continue to increase until aItef
the Christmas holidays. Her place OF
business issa long, narrow room opening
on the street. Down the centre EXTENDS
a long table surrounded by men, women
a square iron slab with nuts piled high on
one side of it. Each worker has a nam,
mer, and pegs away from morning. until
night. Skill is required to extract the
meats without breaking them. A good
nut cracker can crack, out about sixteen
pounds of nice clean nuts a day. For that
amount the cracker receives Y or 8 lldtie
more. In the busy season. Mrs. Barotll
employs about thirty to fifty hands.
A Philadelphia woman has hit on a
novel plan of converting muscle into cash.
When her husband. a laborfng man. dled,
leaving her with four sinai. children with
healthy appetites, she decided to become
a professional cleaner of kitchen floors.
She has worked her speciality to advan-
tage n is so efficient that her regular
customers would as soon think OF allow ;
ing Iumbe to tune a grand piano as
to permit any one else to touch their kit
cher floors.
Many kitchen floors nowadays are made
of hard wood or tiles. or are covered
-S+n off @cfo4h n ~ HI n1nt1r m M A n zpIn1Tfs ca n
clean them with great rapidlty,. as TINS
woman has proved. She makes the aver
age floor as neat as wax in hall an hour,
and charges only 25 cents for doing so.
She carries her own toois.soapsa and cloths
for getting the dirt off tand putting the
shine on, and caves things spick and span
behind her. For each customer she has a
certain half hour on a certain day. She
is an exact woman, and. knowing this.
her customers have the kitchen ready for
her. She earns from s. TO ~ q day, and
says She likes the work better than stand
ing behind a counter.
For some time a number Of women in
New York have been doing professional
mending. 4Experthess with the needle IS
the only preparation necessary for the
business. The members are missionaries
in a way, for they seem out bachelors. at
their boarding houses, apartments and ho-
tells and make a contract TO keep buttons
on coats. vests and trousers, to darn hos
fery and TO close up rents in clothing. The
price charged for such service varies ac-
cording to the sizeSof a mans wardrobe.
4 This scheme of a perambulating repair
shop appeals to the average man for it
means money in his pocket. Tailors
charge good round sums for odd jobs. and
a woman fixes up many things that a
tailor would not touch. 1t is easier, too.
to nave a woman drop in while a man is
away at business. and rid him of all the
worry about the condition of his clothes.
The member visits her customers at stated
Intervals.
1t is worth While to know how to make
roses last, especially at times when the
price of them is almost a fortune. One
instance which thoroughly demonstrates
that these beauties may be kept for many
days might fit in here. although summer
is now gone. Roses need the same treat
ment in the ummer as in the winter.
A woman gave three dinner parties last