The Portland daily press., 1899-08-24
WOMAN HANGS PICTURES.
A ProatabIe and Pleasant Occupation
Discovered By a New York Girl.

eyes, hang pictures for living, and
enjoy my work very much. said New
York young woman Of ideas. 81 never
consider job for less than $40, and often
receive ten times ten. You see, few per-
sons understand the proper hanging Of
Iictures. OF courss, where they have a
lot Of money ana can employ distin-
guished artist or frst@class decorator they
have-no need for me. Bot IL Is the people
of moderate means to whom l am useful.
Do you know, as rule such persons
hang pictures according to their eys. put.
ting them In space where they will fit and
make rs much show as possible.
1t seems Impossible to make them I'M
derstaud tfat each room or part OF q
room should be invested with an idea
that can be attained By the artistic ar
ranRement Of pictures on the wall. En-
cravings should be hung with engrayinqs,
etchiEgs with etohings, photographs
with photographs, and paintings with
paintings They cannot be distributed
simply as regards size, colors or framing.
Last week was called into house, and
found a superb collection OF Japanese
prints simply killing some 1ne specimens
Of famous water colotists' work The
0 wner explained that he knew the pic-
tn res were all good because they had cost
big prices. and bad heen bought nt the
advice Of friends whose artistic taste could
not be questioned. Then he complained
that, as visitors never seemed impressed
with the beauty OF bis collection, he had
sent for me
"There were number of printe and
water-colors ia every one Of his rooms all,
grouped together according TO sizs, and
no two OF them mounted the same style.
Taken as "a whole the frames were not
had, so ! managed TO uss them, separat-
| ing and rehanging so that they followed
\ up the idea given to the apartment by the
pictures. One can readily see how differ.
ent the hangings In a room decorated
with water colors should be from one
decorated with Japanese prints. Thai
man was the most grateful customer
have ever had, and l am sure would have
| paid double the amount asked The job
took one and one-half days for myself
and the oolored boy who works MS my as.
sistant, and / received S55 for IL. So you
see my work pays we'll.
II am not an artist, and really don'i
believe could ever be taught TO DO cred.
itAbls work as such. / began life as tbs
youngest daughter Of we'll to-do people In
Boston. received an ordinary Boston edu-
cation, and travelled a little abroad.
Then we had reverses, ann when my
father died my mother and did not have
enough to keep holy and soul together
l knew that for all big places open to
women there were ten applicants to one
vAcsncy, SO Inade up my mind to think
up some little field all untried by other
women and attempt to climb In and ill
| the niche, / knew [ could arrange fuyni.
ture in a room In a manner to pleass the
most artistic. NY friends wese always
after me for advice. So went TO girl
who had recently married and set up
housekeeping, told her my plans, and
asked to be allowed to arrange her fur
nitnre. She consented, but said the ar
arDgement of her furniture suited her In
every way except the hanging OF her
| pictures. So undertook to rehsng her
| pictures, and did the v ork so satisfac-
torily that soon had several other orders.
after my second year In Boston de-
oided that New York was the better field
SO came here and have worked near '
four years AZ a rule my time Ia AL
taken. and am well paid. I, I,reosi' @ aii ny
orders from out-of-toTn people who ars
willing to pay for the time consumed in
going back and forth. People ia New
| homes, and each such change is an open
Ing for me. Then. too, many women like
their rooms TO make different APPEAR.
ance each season, SO they employ me tc
move their furniture around and rehanp
their pictures.
81 think there Is room for other women
in the work, ard l would recommend
them to give my idea consideration, for
support my mother ard myself comf1rta.
bly, by 1t, and that Is the main tsst.''