Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1899-05-25
The Qrads
WOMEN AT WORK.
a Dem ocratic New spaper.

country.
Few persons would haye su
posed that there were so many,
and the number is steadily IN
creasing.
The variety, as we'll as the ex-
tent, of the employments of wo-
men is surprising.
The report referred to gives
the following interesting informa-
ton on this point:
"Female teachers and profess
sors number 100000. exclusive of
teachers of music, who are "a, SIC
strong, and 10000 artists and
teachers of art.
There are LAB women clergy
men.
Journalists number 1888, with
2,725 authors and literary per-
sons.
"Of chemists, assayers and
metallurgists there are two score,
lacking one.
Lawyers who r not men are
2o7.
"Female detectives are 279 in
number.
Only two women have been
discovered who are veterinary
surgeons.
HIn Texas a woman has the
contract for carrying the mail
from Kife to Serirnal Hall.
Georgia has a woman mail
carrier; she travels a fortyAmile
route tri-weekly, This young
woman also manages a farm.
1.-THE chamber of commerce,
Cincinnati, has a restaurant run
by three Scotch women, and they
clear about $4,000 yearly, all
though their annual rental is
$4,000.
"In New Orleans one of the
finest orchestras Is composed
entirely Of women.
packing trunks is a ST. Louis
woman's industry.
GA conservatory and rose gars
den in EImira, N. Y, is owned
and managed by a woman.
"At the Young Women's
Christian association, Philadel-
phia, two young women r in
charge of the elevators.
women writ servers are
employed with success.
"B ufalo has q woman c%ontrao-
tor. who is also a quarry owner;
she is the only female member Of
the building exchange.
"A Jersey City woman makes
her living by painting signs.
"A Louisiana woman supports
herself by raising mint.
"The woman manager of q
California insurance company is
credited with the largest salary
paid any woman-$10,OO0 a year.
ga French Canadian girl is
making her bread by cobbliDg
shoes at Lewiston, Me.
ga successful ranch owner in
Kansas is a woman. There is a
saying to the effect that in Kan
sas there is no interest, no pro-
fession, no trade and no deal with
out a woman in it.
'tIn Boston are two large adj
vertising agencies, the members of
both firms being women and all
their employees women"
The Galveston News makes
proper comment on the remarks
of a northwestern newspaper that
the report from which the above
facts and figures r taken shows
s'a lamentable condition. The
News says:
"Our contemporary seems to
consider that woman's mission is
to hide in the rose bushes and be
gracefully caught and spirited
away by some dashing and daring
knight-errant, to be subsequently,
crowned queen of the fairies in a
blooming dell, far, far over the
mountains, solemn and wild. Many
women of the present generation
do not 9 it this way. They con-
slider the knight-errant the very
scamp who has rendered it nec-
cessary for them to earn a living.
In fact, some of them express the
opinion that the knight-errant of
old was little better than a rowing
horse thief and woman thief. Take
away his horse and all opportun-
ity TO run somebody through and
get another, and he became a
wandering poet, a Weary William
OF course, women who thus look
upon the gallantry of man with