The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-08-27

ness admirably suited TO feminine strength hnt
adaptability, Just the proporuoning OF water ane
physics, the right reading Of the Latin Dymboli
| and directions and the keeping OF things orderly
and ship shape, as any housekeeper must &c
every day. But the public prefers man Tor TINS
| purpose and apparently would rather have women
ministers and women real estate agents, women
stock brokers than women druggists rms dis
elimination is all the quccrer because woman from
old Colony days down was always an acknowl
edged professor Of herbs and stepped tea helps
| and health nostrums In days when drug stores
| didn't pay or hadn't been thought OF, Grandma
| Goodheart's collie mixture, or Mother Bigiam
| ily's cure for rheumatism or swollen limbs OF
heart faintness was known and applied for locally,
| by all sufferers and their friends Indeed, there
| was 80 much demand for these panaccas that men
! got 10 making them and disposing OF them on a
regular business basis Now the public won
| let the women do this work. no matter how many
| diplomas they may take or how plainly they may
| prove their ability TO run drug store
1T has been my observation that thorough
| schooling In pharmacy fits woman admirably
for success in other lines" the speaker continued
| There's a young woman running q pure-food
delicatessen shop on an up town avenue who
| makes twice the income she could get in phar-
macy. Her course at college instgated further
study in chemistry especially when she found
exactly how limited her chances would be in the
drug branch of the science She made study
OF preseryatvcs also OF mould, fungi and the con
ditons that belong especially 10 food chemistry
She probed into all the matter Of adulterants
Tho pure food faddsts are thick in the land. The
rich residents send their servants TO order from
the delicatossen shop keeper. but they drop in
often themselves for talk their favorite hobby,
and she has goods and ideas to suit the case
oh oh al dana rfD In heF
stock TO suit individual orders One customer
she has lives at an expensive apartment house
In tho neg hborhood, but he eats nothing on the
regular caterers list only health breads, health
soups health milk, butter, cheese, especially
labeled and dated eggs, and even health grapes
and fruits received through Miss b. 8 clients
woman who graduated in tho same class with
Miss B. has dclicatessen business on the same
order in a Western town. They both write 10
us for knowledge OF experiments made by Berlin
and Vienna professors as TO the proof or rcfuta-
ton OF certain facts in their line. And this knowl-
edge is not so much for actual in their bust
ness as for hints to their patrons when they come
In TO chat serving TO keep up interest in the pure
food campaign
"A young pharmacist graduate is now sole
agent for a big medicatsd soap syndicate She's
a bright girl and her sole agency is no two penny
affair She sits IN pleasant efurnished
Office and plans circulars and advertising hits.
A number OF young men and women Of her
picking. hustle for her through such territory as
she directs and altogether she is a Isuccessfu
woman agent and getting big salary. Il knew
I'd never get anywhere in pharmacy, in big
city" she told me once, land wanted TO live in n
big city. so got this chance and put into il all
tho knowledge had and could get. and all tho
business tact and influence | could command
should like to have a business of my own, of
course but this is next door TO il and have
good deal my own way
"A number OF women pharmacists can be found
In the cleaning and coloring business Up 10 a
few years ago tho cleaning Of fine goods shops
were few in the big towns and were mostly in the
hands Of foreigners French women and Germans
with a taste Tor panstaking work of the sort
Womens and chidrens outer garments especially
have become more and more costly and CONNER
cialiy valuable of late years, and gowns and bon
nets, nantes and walking jackets that cost from
S25 and $50 all the way 10 hall a thousand are
well worth being cleaned and renovated. The
business offers twice the field il did a while ago
and American women, some with knowledge OF
chemicals and taste Tor experimenting in that |
line. have gone into II with success. The secret |
processes in the cleansing trade are guarded as |
carefully as more important formulae New |
time for trial on delicate light coored silk or kid |
and new washing powders and dirt vanquishers |
to be used on fine wool goods How to take out |
out blcmishes and grease spots without destroy |
Ing color OF texture or what 10 use TO make the |
tint come back and the new gloss return after
are questions well worth study and |
energy. II is not an embarrassing business nor
as small a matter It used to be- Curtains.
upholstery and rare carpets all come in for at
IGNITION and the women propretors have a good
held
Some women graduates in pharmacy, have
Won a success in the inventions and patents line
setting out bath, toilet and curative apparatus
md attachments in all rubber goods that have
paid fairly we'll They didn't study rubber nor
practical workings Of this sort in their pharma
eutical course but their being bailed in sue.
ess that way turned their wits in another direc-
ion and they accomplished something Others
lave got out cosmetics skin healers and youth
rcservcrs and an acquaintance, a middle aged
roman who studied pharmacy after she was a
Tidow, was in here only yesterday TO say that
he had had great success with an insect EXTERN
1ator that she originated AMI was selling She
aid II wasn't strictly pharmacy, but touching
n II as near she could get
A few woman pharmacists have evolved into
aimed nurses all the better and more thorough
'r their schooling. A few have gone further
nd become physicians ana Of course the usual
lumber have been headed off by matrimony and
ecome pharmacists extraordinary to the house
old"
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