The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-12
FIVE new CALI |NGS FOR WOMEN
HOW SOME MAINTAIN THEM.
SELVES WITH CREDIT.
Various Plans For Success Adopted,
All With Gratifying Results
Unique Ideas Bring Returns.

One of the latest of unusual avoca-
tons entered upon by a woman is the
raising and training of native song
birds. Miss Louise Cheatam lives near
the popular winter resort of Aiken, S.
c., and the idea was suggested by the
sole of a pet hooking bird. This bird
came to her through a negro boy whom
she caught robbing the parent nest.
The fledgling was the weakling of the
flock, and for that reason the boy con-
sidered it worthless and left it on the
ground to die. Miss Cheatam rescued
and raised it, intending to free the lit
tie captive when it could care foritself.
But that time never came, for no pet
is more helpless than a mccking bird
reared in captivity.
The second winter of the birds life
it was purchased by northern visitor
to Aiken, who, CHANGING to pass the
house, heard it singing. This sale gave
the younS woman an idea which she
was not slow 10 follow, and now she
does a thriving business with native
song birds of the south. Miss Cheatam
does not attempt to hatch them her
self, but watching her chance goes
boldly to the spot where the parent
birds have made their homes and lifts
the nests, with their young brood, off.
This is the best and most humane
method, especially with the hooking
birds, for if a human hand once en-
tiers their nest the parent bird will kill
every remaining hedgling, and accord
ing to Miss Cheatam, her greatest enc
mics are these same parent birds. for
they try in every way to poison a bird
which they find Gagged.
MONEY IN BEAGLE KENNELS.
Beagle raising is the means by which
Miss Asch earns a good living. Her
home is also near Aiken, and her work
began by the sale of a pet dog. One
of the favorite amusernents of the Win
ter visitors to Aiken is rabbit coursing.
and the best dog for that purpose is the
beagle. AS both the game and the dogs
are small, the hunters, men and wo-
men follow on foot, and as a rule end
their chase by a breakfast or luncheon
at some picturesque spot in the woods.
1t was to one of these hunters that
Miss Asch sold her first dog, and the
price paid was $35. She at once saw an
opening, had kennels built and invested
her little capital in dogs to breed from.
Now she has thriving business, which
not only pays well, but is both health
full and pleasant, since she is fond of
dogs and out-of-door exercise.
Another southern woman, Miss Ida
Norrell, near Augusta, Ca, is earning
a fair living by distilling cape jas
mines. The process is her own diScoV-
cry, and still a secret. She has re-
fused good offers for her recipe.
The cape jasmine, as everyone who
has visited the south knows, is easily
grown, and blossoms in the greatest
profusion. Miss Norrell, therefore, has
no difficulty in getting all the flowers
she can use. The result of her distill-
ing is a delicate perfume, but she
claims that at present the supply
equals the demand and it is unneces-
sary to publish her formula.
SWEDISH PLUCK.
Miss Marie Christensen came from
Sweden to work as a masseure, but
finding no work Immediately took the
first thing which presented itself. To-
day she is the first woman-and I fancy
the only one-whO earns her living by
exercising dogs. Every hour of her
time is occupied airing and exercising
pampered canine pets whose owners
are glad to pay good price to have it
done. OF course, Miss Christensen is
obliged to go out in all sorts of
weather, and take what, to an American
woman, is an enormous amount of eXer-
else. But being q Swedish girl it is no
more hardship to take a promenade on
Fifth avenue in driving rain that it is
to the two or three dogs that frisk by
her side.
A California woman, Mrs. Henrietta
Mcdonald, claims to be the only
woman who earns a living as a wine
tester. She is the daughter of one of
the most extensive wine producers of
California, when wine making first be-
came an industry of that state, and
until her widowhood she was the wife
of g. wine merchant. Consequently when
Mrs. Mcdonald came to earn her liv-
ing, wine was really the only thing she
could count on.
Through a New York merchant she
received her first job. 1t was to stock
the wine cellars of a family moving
into a new house, as neither mistress
nor master were sufficiently familiar
with wine to act for themselves. Now
she has a regular clientage in a number
of the largest cities of this country, and
makes trips to the various wine pro-
ducing countries of the world from time
to time, making direct purchases to fill
her many important orders. E. l.. NJ.
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