New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-12-01
PERSEVERANCE SUCCEEDS
HOW NECESSITY FORCES WOMEN INTO
ALL KINDS OF WORK
THE DUTIES OF A BARBER. MILL OWNER. CHAP
LAIN AND ZIMMERMAN PERFORMED
BY THE GENTLER SEX.

THE DUTIES OF A BARBER MILL OWNER, CHAP
LAIN AND ZIMMERMAN PERFORMED
BY THE CENTER SEX.
After all. the idea Of women as BARRIERS is not so
remarkable, once II becomes familiar. In some
country districts women shave their husbands and
sons. and in many remote villages It is a regular
Sunday morning ceremony. usually performed out
side the kitchen door
The deft fingers OF well fitted to
all branches of the BARRIERS work-shampooing and
cutting hair. well shaving, and there will
probably come a time when men Will think no more
OF a woman barber than they do now Of woman
manicure chiropodist.
There are said to be between fifty and seventy
lower end Of the city. There is hourshing estab-
lishment on Broadway. near Forty,eighth-st-. and
Is said to be entirely satisfactory to their patrons
who declare that the women are heater. quicker
ana less laxative than men.
Mrs ]. H. Rowland. of Lawrence Mich. runs the
engine Of her husbands planning MILL and in an
emergency attends to the ripsaw and the turning
lathe. She has been sole engineer OF the mill for
several years: and enjoys her work. Mrs. Rowland
is hftynine years old and raised large family OF
children before she became engineer.
For several years Mrs. May Preston Slosson has
been an interested and unsefsh worker among the
prisoners OF the State Penitentary at Laramie.
Wyo. and when the chaplain left the city his place
WAS offered Mrs. Sosson She IL not an ordained
minister, nor is she especially allied to any de-
nomination. but she has had long experience in
mission and prison work and preach excel
lent sermon Her influence with the prisoners is
great, and she makes her chapel services attrac
tive that prisoners anxious to attend instead OF
viewing them as a part of prison discipline. Music
vocal and instrumental readings and short talks
various appropriate topics intOrsperse the regular
religious exercises
Mrs. Slosson gives her services without any sal
sry, from pure devotion TO the work and II is said
or her by the warden and other officers that her
bright and cheerful influence Is creating atmos-
phere OF hopefuness throughout the institution.
Seven years ago Andrew B. Judson went from St
Louis, where he had been in the lumber business
to Flagstaff Arz., to invest IN timber lands He in
vested some 5000 in sugar pine forests In the
williams Mountains OF Coconino County and built
a sawmill 10 manufacture boxes for the California
fruit trade. The enterprise successful from
the FIRST and the hudson Mills did thriving bust
ness
Last year Mr.. Judson's mother and his sister
Amelia went out 10 Arizona to visit him. Miss Jud-
had just finished course at Cornell University
and contemplated going Paris to study art. A
week before the visit TO terminate Andrew Jud-
ing the mills at a loss Miss Judson determined 10
continue the business and set herself TO the task
of mastering II in every detail. There were several
important contracts left untitled at the time, the
loss OF which would have meant financial embar-
rassment the firm These Miss Judson saw car
red out and has since. by hard work and persist
ent application TO business brought the mills 10 a
high degree Of prosperity. She Is on hand every
morning az the blowing Of the o'clock whistle ana
inspects personally every part Of the day routine