News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-10-16
HER PROFITABLE IDEAS.
a Young Woman Who Keeps Four-in-
Hand ON the Designs She Invent.

! A Young Woman Who Keeps n Four-in-
Hand ON the Designs She Invent.
If a certain young woman in New
York was not so fond OF her four-in-
hand there might be fewer attractive
candy boxes, cotillan favors and sim
liar articles dear to the feminine heart
than there are to-day.
This young New Yorker has gen.
Jus for suggesting to confectioners'
| bakers and caterers what the trade
knows as novelties. These are always
very much in demand, and the pro-
prietors of the candy stores are al
ways particularly anxious to get hold
of new and fanciful designs for bon
bon boxes. Original ideas adapted to
their use are especially valuable to
them at Easter or Christmas time and
are bought at liberal prices.
1t is her skill in thinking of and
making these attractive articles that
enables this young woman to keep her
horses. She devotes to maintaining
her own stable the money she earns
in this way. She is luckily provided
for in other particulars and can at
ford to spend her money as she
chooses. AS horses are her weakness,
the profits of her interesting vocation
go toward supplying her with the 9TH
erwise impossible luxury of a small
lot of very choice horsefesh.
81 always had a knack for designing
cotillon favors, boxes for ices and such
things she said the other day, land
for years made them for my friends,
and family. One Easter I designed
some tissue paper boxes to hold ices.
which my friends thought particularly
| pretty on the lunch table. They were
made of little yellow rabbits standing
each in cabbage and each held in one
| paw lily branch. ] made them en-
tirely myself, buying the animals at a
toy store and arranging all the rest
with tissue paper.
"One of the girls at the luncheon
the only married one-said she had
| looked all over town for some boxes
| and asked me why in the world
didn't try to sell some of my designs
| to the dealers who never had anything
| half so attractive. | was very anxious
at that time to buy new runabout I
had seen and couldn't do so because
l had spent all my allowance for the
next three months. 1t was then that
7 thought of trying to make some
money by selling my designs.
81 went first to the confectioner we
| had always dealt with and showed him
the rabbits. He told me they were
beautiful and said he would take all
I could make and gave me a very
| good price. l took the order and
| cleared in the month after Easter
while my rabbits kept in season 1913.
l had to work very hard because I
foolishly tried to make the boxes in
stead Of merely selling the design as
always did afterward.
81 made more of the boxes and then
tried other things. They were always
bought and began to charge more for
the designs and got my price without
trouble. | find it now easy to sell all
the things | can make. One firm Of
tered to take all | could make and for
awhile l had that arrangement with
them. but found that could do bet
| ter by taking them from one to the
other until found the highest bidder.
Il have no particular method of
working the things. l think of them
at all times, Once I invented one of
my most successful boxes at we'd
ding. 1t was suggested to me by hat
the woman in front of me had on.
Sometimes I have sudden inspirations
at dinners.
| manage to make several thousands
of dollars every year without very
much work as l make only one model
and sell my design from that. I do
not charge fixed rate, but whatever
| think the design is worth and
whatever l can get"