The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1899-09-02

At cot!ese, take medals and class honovs for
prcnc'ency, graduate with great credit and
eAen-)ust 40 nothing apparently or next to
nothing with the knowledge gained You
can walk all over this town, for instance %
lhto all the main streets and side streets ami
SUBURBAN streets and you won't find single
creg store In which a woman is serving ex-
cept IN the capacity of cashier -.-
TWO sisters Kept an apothecary shop in q
far East Harlem district in New York for
Wnlle, but they quit, either went into some
tnlng else or got married There was another
shop handed down to a woman pharmacist at
ner fathers death, and she ran it for two years
with fair success. Nov her husbands name
Is over the door. One woman is assistant
manager Of the drug department in depart
'nent store. She sees the drummers orders
goods, Keeps track of stock, and looks after
the salesgirls under her, but every bit of this
could be done without taking degree in
pharmacy The medicines and tonics. and
the pills and plasters, lotions, creams, and
ointments that she deals in all come sealed
ana ready for sale just as packages of made
up petticoats, or lemon lozenges, or spool
thread would come 1t takes only business
knowledge and method to do what she is CO.
ing. Another woman pharmacist is employed
in chemists supply house to superintend
the girls who seal and stopper, be-ribbon
pack, and tie up the perfumes and dentists
-o'1s. and also make attractive the household
eIueules, pain reviewers, Infants s4rLl-, NJ
glassed and canned powders and toilet acces.
series. She has no chance at the important
compromising part of the work. . Az
Minnesota's Crack Woman Druggist.
"Now, the Northwest and Middle states
boast of some woman druggists" he added
'"Tho star woman dealer in the business is
located in one of the prominent buildings OF
big Minnesota town, and, from her letters,
the questions she asks as to new goods and
methods, take her to be 'wfdeawake, and
thriving. She is % years old, unmarried, and
all for business, the drummers report. An
other well-established woman druggist has
good trade in a Connecticut town, and there's
one in Illinois. A young woman keeps small
drug shop in her own cottage at a. summer
resort. She shuts up each winter, but does
good business in summer, especially in teeth
ing drops and mosquito lotion.
Thousands of girls and young women are
employed steadily in the wholesale drug and
patent medicine houses all over the country.
There are whole factories full Of them, some
situated in country settlements where rent is
cheap for the plant and its working people,
and some in crowded city quarters, but ell OF
these women are at the merely mechanical
end Of things, doing the outside adornment
work for which their small fingers are espe-
:ially fit. They work at long board tables
with little fame lights in front Of them, con-
venient for the sealing and FASTING. They
have delicate tools to work with and are more
or less dexterous and Indispensable. Some
Of them work for fifteen and twenty years at
the trade. beginning when mere children In
short frocks, but they have fixed limit for
| wages, little chance OF advancement, ana nave
no more idea of the character and COMPOSE
ton of the fluids and solids they are seaEng
and packing than the girls who work IN the
silk factory next door or VINO Sc" Oh cioahs
| or make bonnet frames.
"Peop1e don't take to the idea of a woman
| druggist, There's 20 accounting for 1t, but
| they don't. The public at large likes to have
| a man put up its prescriptions and would
take exception at having to ring up a woman
druggist at night or go to her for tho hundred
and one things outside Of the business that
drug store stands sponser fer. On the surface
| 1t looks as il pharmacy were business ad-
mrably suited to feminine strength and
| adaptability, just the proportioning OF water
| and physics, the right reading OF the Latin
| symbols and directions, and the keeping
! of things orderly and ship-shape, as any
| bousekeeper must do every day. But the
public prefers a man for this purpose, and
| apparently would rather have woMsn minis
! tiers, women real-estate agents, and women
stockholders than women druggists.
This discrimination is all the queerer be-
cause woman from old colony days down was
always an Acknowledged 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 Bigfamily's cure for rheu
| matism or swollen limbs or heart faintness
| was known and applied for locally by all suf-
ferers and their friends. Indeed, there was so
| much demand for these panaceas that men
! got to making them and disposipg Of them on
q regular business basis. Now, the public.
| won't let the women do this work, no matter
how many diplomas they may take or how
plainly they may prove their ability to run
| q drug store. .-sl.
| 1T has been my observation that a thor
ough schooling in pharmacy Ats a. woman ad-
| mirably for success in other lines" the speak
er continued. There's a young woman run
ming q pure-food delicatessen shop on an up
| town avenue who makes twice the income she
could get in pharmacy. Her course at coll
lege instigated further study in chemistry,
! especially when she found exactly how lin
tied her chances would be in the drug branch
Of the science. She made study Of preserva-
tives, also Of mold, fungi, and the condi-
! lions that belong especially to food chem
istry. She probed into all the matter Of
i adulterants. The pure food faddists are thick
i in the land. The rich residents send their
servants to order from the delicatessen shop
keeper, but they drop in often themselves
1 for talk on their favorite hobby, and she has
goods and ideas to cult the case Each sea-
| son she adds a new department to her stock
! to suit individual orders. One customer
she has lives at an expensive apartment
house in the netghborhood, but he eats moth
Tug Uu Luc Regular caterer IisI, oAAy Aeai"A
breads, health soups, health milk, butter,
cheese. especially labeled and dated eggs, and
even health grapes and fruits received
/ through Miss BIS clients A woman who
/ graduated in the came class with Miss B.
I.as ade!icatessen; business on the same order
I'm a Western town. They both write to Us
'or knowledge Of experiments made by Berlin
i and Vienna professors as to the proof or
reputation Of certain facts In heir line. And
1 this knowledge is not SO much for actual use
IN their business as for hints to their patrons
l rhen they come in to chat, serving to keep
lup interest in the pure -focd campaign.
Things Bright w oEs n Eo.
i IA young pharmacist 81 sduate is now sole
lagent for big medicated-soap syndicate.
SKIES bright girl, and her sole agency Is no
4 two-penny affair. She sits in a pleasant, we'll
furnished Office and plans circulars and ad-
yertising hi:.. A number Of young men and
women Of her own picking hustle for her
through such territory as she directs, and al
i together she Is a successful woman egent.
aid getting big salary. i knew I'd never
get anywhere, in pharmacy in a big city, she
.oid me once, and j wanted to live IN 2 big
4 efty, 80 got this chance and put into 1t all
he knowledge had and could get, and al
Ishe business tact and influence could com-
d r.and. I. should like to have business Of
II ny own, Of course but this Is next door to | j,
II ard have good deal my own way.
II "A number OF women pharmacists can lie
Il fornd in the cleaning and co!oring business.
tip to a few years ago the cleaning OF dne
foods shops were few in the big owns, and
were mostly in the hands Of foreigneTs-
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