Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-12-01
NEW SOURCES or INCOME.

In everyday life everywhere one
hears Of women who have built up for
themselves business which means a
comfortable living earned under the
home roof. One instance that occurs
to me is that of a young woman with
the familiar story of being suddenly
thrown on her own resources. She had
no talent Of any sort: she could not
sew or cook. and the future looked
ominous. She thought of her only
capablity. that of keeping her clothes
in good order She could make a
she could use hot iron on a cloth
suit as ably as any tailor.
The pressing club was an organi-
! cation which grew out of this idea.
The club members were the owners
/ of natty tailored suits, girls who would
rather pay money than care for their
clothes. The fee for keeping hand
/ some suit in excellent condition.
| sponged pressed. and with unbroken
/ stitches. was ten dollars year. That
insured visit to the presser twice a
month and a well groomed appearance.
/ The work was all done under the home
/ roof. and now the young woman who
I organized the pressing club" employs
strong armed assistant for club
/ members are many. al
4 l know a young woman who does an
/ excellent business framing pictures in
passe- partout style Every housewife
I has AN accumulation of pictures which
she would like to hang on her walls if
expense did not deter. The passe-par-
in,
/ pretty style for sums ranging from
! twenty-five to fifty cents. and she sell
/ dom has a vacation week. girl who
began to develop pictures for amateur
/ photographers to keep the wolf from
| the door has actually hung out her
Single and a woman who enamels old
| furniture finds her business growing
into lucrative one. A high school girl
who is preparing for college finds her
time outside school hours fully taken
up in playing pro TEN nursery maid.
| For twenty-five cents she stays two
| hours at a house where the mother has
no one with whom to leave her chill
i dren. During the winter. when theatre
cal attractions begin. she is en-
gagged for weeks ahead. Her task then
| is usually an easy one spent In pleas
ant sitting room with a book or her
studies. the house quiet and the chill
dren fast asleep.
In IA New York town | knew u woman
who like the mother of Beanstalk Jack
was reduced to selling her last bit of live
stock, Il sturdy old horse behind whonl
she, had Travelled hundreds OF mics.
last journey from the old home when an
idea struck her. an idea on which she
spent one of her few remaining dollars.
The picturesque old town was filling up
with its usual quota of summer board
ers and when her advertisement APP
peared in the morning paper Offering
shady river road. the dollar brought
quick returns. Jerry began to earn five
or six dollars Il day and the old carryall
bioomed out In fresh paint ana yarm ISM
men is finished by hand. the narrow edge
/ of crocheting in silk or cotton being piece
work This alone provides employment
for many hundreds of women. The rae
tories which produce ready-made under
clothing give employment to hundreds IN
button sewing. Button holes can be made
not vet devised anything to supersede hu-
man fingers in sewing on buttons. Hooks
and eyes are stitched on cards by hand
and many Of the hat factories IN Con-
necticut employ women in their homes to
sew ribbons on sailor hats. \ woman
who can accomplish the difficult task of
separating gold leaf can almost any
where command good wages and steady
employment at home. The majority OF
| the painted novelties one sees on the
Christmas bargain counter is done by
women In piece work. and the artist If
quick and Ingenious with the brush can
earn good income eight months of the
wear in this way. The large potteries Of
america employ thousands OF women IN
/ decorating china. although the larger
lamo,lnt Of the work Is done in factories.
MANY linen stores engage women to fill
orders for monographs to be worked on
fine tablecloths and napkins.
one can glance about them In any
community. wherever they live. and find
Instances OF a woman's quick ingenuity
when prodded by poverty. The unsuc-
| cessfui woman who fritters away a
precious nest egg and equally precious
| Tim, in efforts that prove failures may
! he sure of one thing, that she has not
discovered her one capabilfty. Excellent
! bread making is as fine an art in its own
way as painting tapestry, ana as
worthy OF honor and of payment.-Good
! housekeeping.
| Attempts to express the meaning of
! slang phrases in use in this country have
produced two amusingly curious words in
| Europe. one in German and the other in
| French. The German word Is ''spredeeg-
/ lisme,' our ''spreadea gleism,' and is used
| for the Emperor's policy. The French