Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-01-04

early teens.
Il never consider job for less thar
! $40, and often receive ten times ten
You see, so few persons understand
the proper hanging of pictures. Oh
course, where they have lot of money
and can employ a distinguished artist
or first-class decorator, they have nc
need for me. But it is the people OF
moderate means to whom | am useful
Do you know, as rule, such persons
hang pictures according to their eye
putting them in spaces where they will
| fit and make as much show as posi-
BILE.
1T seems impossible to make them
understand that each room or part OF
room should be invested with an idea
that can be attained by the artistic ar
rangement of pictures on the wall
Engravings should be hung with en-
cravings, etchings with etchings, pho
tographs and paintings with paintings,
They cannot be distributed simply as
regards size, colors or framing. Last
week was called into a house anc
found a superb collection of japanese
prints simply killing some fine speci-
mems of a famous water colorist's
work. The owner explained that he
knew the pictures were all good be
cause they had cost big prices and had
been bought at the advice of friends
whose artistic taste could not be ques-
toned.
Then he complained that, as Wis
itors never seemed impressed with the
beauty of his collection, he had sent
for me.
There were a number of prints and
water colors in every one of his rooms,
all grouped together according to size,
and no two of them mounted the same
style. Taken as a whole, the frames
were not bad SO / managed to use
them, separating and rehanging so
that they followed up the idea given
to the apartment by the pictures
One can readily see how different the
hangings in a room decorated with
water colors should be from one dec
GRATED with Jap prints. The man was
the most grateful customer I have
ever had, and l am sure would have
paid double the amount asked The
job took one and one-half days for my
self and the colored boy who works as
my assistant and l received $65 for it.
So you see my work pays we'll
Il was not an artist, and really don't
believe | could ever be taught to do
a | fo
as the youngest daughter of well-to-do
people in Boston, received an ordinary
Boston education and travelled a little
abroad. Then we had reverses, and
when my father died my mother and
did not have enough to keep body and
soul together
Il knew that for all big places open
to women there were ten applicants to
one vacancy, so ! made up my mind to
think up some little field all untried by
other women and attempt to climb in
and fill the niche. | knew | could ar
range furniture in a room in a man
ner to please the most artistic. My
friends were always after me for adj
vice So I went to a girl who had re-
Gently married and set up housekeep-
ing, told her of my plans and asked to
be allowed to arrange her furniture.
She consented but said that the ar
rangement of her furniture suited her
in every way except the hanging of her
pictures So undertook to rehang her
pictures. and did the work so satisfac-
torily that | soon had several other
orders.
after my second year in Boston, l
decided that New York was better
field, so | went there and have worked
for nearly four years. AS a rule my
time is all taken, as ! am well paid. |
receive many orders from out-of-town
people who are willing to pay for the
time consumed in going back and
forth. People in New York are con-
stantly changing their homes, and each
change is an opening for me. Then,
too, many women like their rooms to
make a different appearance each sea-
son, so they employ me to move their
furniture around and rehang their
pictures.
81 think there is room for other wo-
men in the work, and | would recon-
mend them to give my idea considera-
ton, for l support my mother and my
self comfortably by it, and that is the
main test"