The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-10-25
tar the Housewl1e

.For the Tousewx1e
All communications addressed to this
department must be written in ink and
accompanied by name and address
Both will be held confidential.
Correspondents will please write the
names Of their places of residence in
full. Letters go astray daily because
the address is given merely as City"
There are forty-five of these United
Sattes and many cities in each State.
1 have just read your request in behalt
Of Mrs J. w. NJ" for information con-
corning womans hospital in Philadel-
phia and hasten to send with some 9th
ers. the following addresses:
Wcman's Hospital of Philadelphia.
North College Avenue and Twenty-sec-
ond Street: Presbyterian Hospital. No. 9l
North Thirty-ninth Street: Hospital OF
University of Pennsylvania. NO SaD
Spruce Street; Pennsylvania Hospital.
Eighth and Spruce Streets: Phlladeipha
Hospital, West Philadelphia: Episcopal
Hospital. MIS- -. Nl. w.
No. 2.
I have noticed a query In your columns
Of this week in regard to the study OF
telegraphy, and take pleasure in giving
you a little of my experience ana oplnlof:
in regard to same. I am an operator os
twelve years experience, and can say
that am as fond of the business and
more SO now than years ago. and WOULD
dislike to give it up very much.
TeIegraphy is not we'll understood 1t
| is 4 most wonderful study, as well as
| mos, interesting and profitable, for either
| adv or gentleman. 1t brings you into
| contact with the most Intelligent ana ed
ucated people only, and you are respected,
and it gives you an opportunity OF adj
advancement in every way. Lady opera
| tors who are efficient can command from
So to $50 per week, and / know OF several
VINO draw a salary of $50 per week. Men
get considerably more. Then the work Is
| clean, and you can wear. good clotnes
| with economy. Another grand feature
about telegraphy is that when once mas
| tereG it is never forgotten, enabling one
| t, retire from the business for years at
! a time and return to work at any time,
! we never know when the day may come
| that we may be called upon to earn i've
| lihood. no matter what are our present
/ circumstances How grand it is, then,
70 know that you are ready when that
| time shall come to earn a good living
/ yithout taking up some years of study
! If more people realized. as l do, what
q blessing this profession has been to me.
/ then would thousands study 1t without
! delay. = - =
/ No 3.
| ..H. NJ S." asks how she can no her
! house of black ants.
! Having had very trying experience
| alony this line quite recently myself,
! would like to tell her of a simple remedy.
i Get five cents worth of tartar emetlc
/ divide it into equal parts, put 1t INTO TWO
/ or three sauce plates. adding a ilttle stl-
\ s,,r and a small quantity OF water STIR
/ s,,,ti1 dissolved. set in your cupboards
er or YOUR pantry shelves. and the pests
| vii, quickly disappear. |. have never
| known it to fail. w. x -.
n wish to say have had some expert
| euce. as telegraph operator on the raii.
/ roaI and would advise Mrs. L. d. not
~ send her daughter to telegraph
school. as it is going to a great expense
4 eor nothing. Telegraphy cannot be taught
| IN q telegraph school. The best way 10
! 70 20 into some Office right from the
i st mi; and get an instrument or your own
| end practice all you can at noms' ~ du-
/ di1ion to what you get at the once.
| know of several young undergraduates
from a telegraph school-come to set
! tbeni into a telegraph office they could
| note 7eyen get their call have heard or
| n,ne that could hold job without tnree
10 nine months. and some over year.
in a telegraph Office. with good. nara
| nra ct;ce. before they were tit for WORK.
In the first place. l would no. a t,,a.e
| = Young lady to learn telegraphy, as there
| very little show for a woman on the
=, :,rnad thew do not use women for rail-
| road work.
i Ir,;cn or Postal Telegraph office, but
wages are so small that it would hardly
veil educated woman to learn teles-
s,I,,1- sGI,nIess she happened to be lucky
enough to get job as manager. and that
i hardly probable, as they have very lew
i women managers. - I.hs-A ~
i No. 5.
i Tn reply to a recent request would
i ~. that there is a home for soldiers
,,,idows in Wilmington. III ! had the
i &c. sire of visiting it a few weeks ago,
4 a,,a ~, much pleased with it; the ladies
i all seem very happy and contented.
There has been an addition built to 1t
/ quite recently. so that number can be
1 admitted Gust how many DO not
know). but If your correspondent VIII
call at America w r. c.. which meets
4 in Masonic Temple, she Can OBTAIN luii
particulars. =. e =.
No.&6
.w'' asks for the address OF woman
publisher OF music Il will give you the
i address Of publisher and composer OF
i music. II have several copies OF her
work Mrs Florence McPherran, care
Of Ellis Music Company, No. 81 East
i ThiNy-seventh Street
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NO 2
In reply to the inquiry from the Law
3 stenographer as to the best method OF
& obtaining a knowledge of the law. allow
me to submit the following, as the result
4 of fours' teaching and daily work in a
81 Law Office:
J. should advise the ambitious la~