The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-10-06
WORK FOR WOMEN.
o,erlcULT TRADE BUT 1T is NOT
~" OVERCROWOEO.

Ronnaz WOrk-success Of French
woman in New York.
,rn,le every young lady who wants
. W." no self-supporting should hesitate
o. 70 ~ leaving her own locality, where
DeiOi rnown, to go to a strange city,
sae .bo is obliged to do so she might
y III look into the opportunities af-
Nod W. in Bonnaz work.
lV TSore is no school for teaching Bon
-. work either for instruction In its
SS a departments or in its man
a sIo of the various costly ma
lPT '"as that from time to time have
Gun Gun, invented to tighten the labor.
Ts, RonnaZ worker must get her
lln Inv jot by jot. hand over hand,
!" ,he old fogy school OF experience,
It,b close application for taskmas-
W. Int once proficient, she is sure Of
v,Tovs having g0od-paying employ
ant This year more than ever she
s"s couse for rejoicing that she learn
10 Ronnaz work instead of typewrit-
;nc or manicuring. bookkeeping, teleg-
. ~T or other trades by which wom-
. an earn a livelihood. Highest pay
tnr GOOD perforators and applique cut
.orsn "Best wages for the right kind
" stampers and hand-beaders." "Wiu
Uar sis to $40 week for experienced
panbrolderers on frames" "12 and $14
tor intelligent two-thread corders," are
sOre Of the manufacturers advertise
mants in New York for female help
Inserted in the trades papers at this
lime of year, and work the year
,Onnd guaranteed at good salary" and
slightest wages to first-class hands,"
are phrases appended to nearly every
advertisement.
"But this man can't get his expert
suced hands at $12 to $14 a week."
aid a Broadway manufacturer, as he
canned the list. Good workers might
have been got once for the money, but
NOT now. Wages have gone up in our
line There are not, at the outside,
more than 300 women experts at the
hnspess, and more than double that
number could be used if we could get
them. with fashion setting the way it
does now. Even Philadelphia and
cincinnati firms are sending to New
York for workers, and women willing
n take extra work home to do, or to
teach less experienced hands to help
them, can make big salaries; especial
h FROM now till January. The reason
Thy, when a big year like this comes.
HE manufacturers are put to it for
sSilled help, is that nobody bothers TO
leach Bonnaz work to the young girls
Inst starting out in business. The
machines used are expensive and one
Garner would soon put valuable ma
hne out of order. If girl applies
Ebo is anxious to learn, and already
as some insight into the work, she
hust he next to an expert to have a
nance of learning anything, and that
xpert will lose valuable time oversee
BIZ the beginner or showing her what
DO Each girl who tries to learn
as to pay down $40 beforehand for
be privilege, even If she should get
but Of patience and abandon the work
lfter a weeks trial. This condition
hakes apprentices scarce, except
hereby in the simpler branches of the
BUSINESS
re "itIt-,t and one of the best grade
BOnnaz factories in New York is
Wned and conducted by Fench
oman, who was the first person Ia
trduce the Bonnaz machine in this
untry, Although she has been in
I business for twenty-five years 81
pre- and long ago might have retired
a competence, she still looks aftel
details of her factory herself and
yer misses a day from work. When
came to New York first, girl OF
lMty-one, no description of Bonnaz
Oroidery was produced here, and
little that was seen came from
road at high price. She had heard
this in her Paris home, and, having
pcued a BOnnaZ machine. then q
Velty, even in the inventors coun.
she came to try fortune with the
DE she had been acquainted with
m childhood. Having got settled in
gng somewhere in the lower West
e quarter, she started out on Canal
Ft one morning 10 find out what
rket might offer itself for her hand
fR She had with her some squares
machine-braided white pique to ex.
u as samples, and going into a chill
ns goods-furnishing house, she
ed the manager if he could use
OF decoration in his business. /
y heard her tell how, without so
Ga as even asking her name or
re she lived, the manager prompt
Engaged her services.
Can your French machine do this
Oh work on wooden stuffs or thin
Euies? he asked, when the first
OF newly-completed pique frocks
| placed on the-OO1 iosmthe Wig
IA put in stock, and, on being told
II could, so many orders were
n mat the French girl was over
'Ied with work and had to Sc
nelp She made at this time $18
by working double time, but she
aed her machine carefully. She
permit no one to examine 1t,
stranger appeared In her
pace Tor any purpose, the preci-
Oralder was covered over before
worker went to speak with him.
rev months she had sent abroad
Sner machines, and had taught
i1ozen apprentices the hand part
WORK so familiar to her. A few
n later fifty Bonnaz machines all
y women whom this pioneer had
'u and kept in order by French
whom she had picked up here
uere were kept busy in this fac
ana other manufacturers had
W" ner cue and become apt at
Jug and embellishing American
and garments.
re french woman is still fore
ii, lsure in the Bonnaz trade and
- ysl grasp of the best business.
,nl skilled workers in the best fac
al look refined and pleasantly
uSlanced. There is an army Of
Nv helpers, trained to do the
1rs ~ out of patterns, the clipping
edus, the CT ting away of under