The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12
In Moman's World.

SpecialtieS mean dollars Inc
bright woman who gets seriously 70 work
for money works first to discover q
meter worthy of her brain tissue.
To succeed these women must strike
new fields; they must do something or
iginal, and what they make and offer for
sale must be beyond criticism as TO It's
quality, says the Philadelphia Press.
What is more, the craze is increasing,
and there is now a great hunt for speciai-
ties that ave money making quantities IN
them. Nearly all of these new byways
of trade that ave been invented by eleV-
er women and taken up successfully are
unique.
Miss Mary Kilsyth Livingston, of the
old Livingston family of New York, FOR
example, acts as a sort of agent and takes
orders for the reproducing of old family
portraits, announcing in her circular,
There are many descendants OF Old
families who do not possess portraits OF
their illustrious ancestors, only one paint
ing having been handed down; this neces-
sarily can be held but by one of the nu-
merous branches.
while it is impossible for all the de-
~scendants to hold the original portrait, 1t
is, nevertheless, entirely practicable to
have perfect copies MADE.
81 represent artists who will either
faithfully reproduce the portrait, or Will,
if desired give other and more appro-
pirate surroundings consistent with the
period in which the subject lived"
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Miss Livingston is doing famously with
this business, too. A sister of hers, Mrs
Rudolph Shack (who was Miss Minnie
Livingston) takes contracts for furnish
ing apartments and makes a large num-
Der of the articles herself-curtains. sofa
pillows, and centre pieces, being herself
an exquisitely dainty and skillled<needle
woman.
Another sister, Miss Laura Livingston,
who is possessed of artistic tastes and
handles a brush and pencil well, traces
family trees, discovers and draughts
coats of arms.
Making butterfly screens, lamp shades,
sofa cushions, embroidered napkins Tor
finger bowls and prizes for euchre parties.
all on an extended scale, is something
very new.
Mrs. Borden Hartman, formerly Miss
Hurst, and the daughter of Frank Hurst
of New York, knits golf stockings IN
great quantities, and, selling them, de-
votes the proceeds to charity. Her wares
are in great demand.
Puppy raising is the specially of one
bright little feminine. The puppies t""f
come from her kennels are stunning fell
lows and command fancy prices.
Violet growing is the money making
plan of several Philadelphia women.
Their trade is with both florists n pri-
vate families, and they raise the frag-
rant blossoms on a very large scale. From
a dollar and a half to five dollars a bunch
is paid.
Miss Selma Schraeder of the prominent
Sehraeders of New York is a costumer,
employing a half dozen workwomen. She
is only % or %, and much in demand So
cially.
Cooking classes and cake making COM
prise the work of Miss Gertrude Hough-
ton. whose uncle was the late Rev. Geo.
H. Houghton, pastor of the famous lit
tie Church Around the Corner"
Dancing classes, chiefly for very small
children, are managed by the Misses Pres
ton, daughters of the late United States
Minister to Hayti. Miss Harvey, the
daughter of Mrs. Henry Harvey, makes
mince meat and preserves and sells them
to the leading grocers on commission.
A very clever and ingenious skirt clasp
has been Invented by Miss Foulke, sister
of the noted New Yorker, Bayard Foulke.
Miss Carroll, of the CAROLS of Carroll
ton, designs and makes the tea gowns and
dressing sacques of society. These are all
she attempts and she has a complete mon
opoly of the fashionable trade. Silk and
cotton shirt waists and summer gowns
are the specialties of the Misses Con-
stance and Jennie Arden, of Cold SPRING
on-the-Hudson.
Miss Angelica Duer, the daughter of Ed
ward Duer, paints and draws in pen and
ink on picture frames, and sells these to
private individuals and to the Woman's
Exchange.
If there is a blessing always ready for
the man "who invented sleep" there
should surely be another at hand for the
one who first thought of dollhouse
flowers, says the Philadelphia Record"
Here we are in midwinter and old
Mother Natures face is as grim as it ever
will be. and yet as we go shivering in
and out of almost every public place
we come to We are suddenly met by a
BREATH OI midsummer IEdI warns our
very hearts core.
There is the hothouse flower man or
woman and for a few pennies we can
fasten a fragrant bit of loneliness into a
buttonhole and go on our way rejoicing.
The fashion of wearing a bunch of vio-
let's or a rose or two on the street certain
~ originated in some mind of an altruis-
tic turn since the dainty maid who leaves
behind her a delicate odor of fresh sweet
flowers on a cold, biting day is more than
a thing of beauty-she is a joy forever.
But alas! these frail, fragrant blooms
are short lived, and twenty-four hours
will make them lose their loveliness I'M
less they are most carefully watched.
They are worth the care they need, how
ever, and not every one knows that if
any flowers begin to droop a good plunge
into hot water that contains a little sal
volatile will wonderfully revive them.
IF a box Of cut flowers arrives and the
buds and sprays are put into a generous
bow of water they will do very well for a
time if some of the leaves as well as the
stems are under the surface of the water;
but each morning the entire group should
be separated. bathed in tepid water, the
stems cut off about an inch, and then re-
placed in the bowl, where they will as
tonish you with their vitality. If they
ere in a warm room and it can be ar
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