Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-06

that these old-fashioned brushes are
so popular, and many of the hand
soonest country homes Of the North
erners who visit the South have at
east one specin>l.
In New York there are half dozen
md more girls who are engaged as
.runk packers at the large hotels. Two
ears ago this profession was thought
ut by girl who thrown on her own
esources, had neither business train
1g nor sufficient education to earn
oney in a profession. She knew how
pack trunks and, offering her SER
ices to the manager of a hotel where
many wealthy people stop, she was
employed, and in less than a month
made herself SO indispensable that she
was requested to secure an assistant
and takes rooms in the hotel that she
might be within call at a moments no.
tice.
She has regular schedule of prices
and when trunk is turned over to her
it is understood just what the cost will
be, The manager of the hotel says
that he is puzzled to know how they
have managed to do without just such
a woman all these years, and that once
knowing her usefulness he does not
see how the hotel could get on without
her. She often has trunks turned over
to her by a party leaving in hurry to
be packed and sent after them.
For woman to remain in the last
few hours to see to her packing is now
unheard of in that hotel They don
their travelling suits, call in the trunk
packer and leave the trunks in her
hands, stating when and where they
are to be shipped. The one feature
that all her customers remark is the
little book that goes attached to each
trunk key. In this little book she has
given an inventory of every article in
the trunk and stated just where it is
to be found.
In Chicago, as well as in New York
and Boston, there are several women
who have some artistic taste and
training who make a business of hang
ing pictures. They all have assistants,
and make a good deal of money. Few
people know how to properly hang pie
-ures, and it is when they are wise
enough to acknowledge it that these
women are called in and the friends
of the picture owner blesses them. One
who claims to be pioneer of the pro-
fession says that the idea came to her
when visiting the apartments of
wealthy bachelor in this city.
He has quite a famous collection of
Japanese prints, and, according to her
account the way these prints were
hung and mixed in with oils, water
colors, engravings and etchings was
enough to run an artist mad. She was
compelled to close her eyes the greater
part of her visit. and finally, when
goaded to desperation, suggested that
her friend would allow her TO make
some changes in the way of hanging
| his pictures.
She rehung one side of one room. and
! the owner was SO much pleased that he
! insisted on her doing the same thing
/ for all his rooms. That was the be-
! ginning Of her business, and in few
weeks she received so many requests
| from persons who had either seen or
/ heard of her first Job, that she decided
| to give up her art work by which she
was earning the barest pittance as an
illustrator, and devote her time and
talent to hanging pictures. She now
goes abroad each summer for her rest,
and Is enabled to study the arrange