The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-11-06
WOMAN'S O
@ REALM.
WOMEN WHO MADE MONEY.
Hints to stay -at-Homes who Desire 10
Become self-supporting.

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Hints to stay -at-Homes who Desire 10
Becoine self-supporting.
When there comes to n woman
sudden necessity to become sclf-sup-
porting, If she is living in one of the
smaller cities. she often finds that posi-
tions for women are not easy TO hnd.
and the large cities seem so alluring,
so full of golden possibilities-until
she personally investigates and finds
that for every vacancy there is long
waiting list" and sees many other
applicants at the door when she ar
rives.
Some women. however. have stayed
at home in the smaller towns and
earned comfortable incomes in unusual
ways. There was one who came to be
| known as the Little Biscuit Woman"
! because she so excelled In making
beaten biscuit" and which she dis
posed of through the Womans Ex-
/ change. In few years she had earned
/ sufficient money to build small
pretty home Some people smilingly
speak of It as "the house built of little
/ biscuits"
They don't stop TO think OF the
| amount of womanly skill. hope deter
/ minatlon and energy that went into
/ every one of those biscuits. She sue
/ ceeded because she made such good
! biscuits that every one wanted them
\ teachers health became so serious
/ ly impaired because of the strain OF
her duties in an Overcrowded country
school that she was ordered to give up
teaching and live an outdoor life. But
how to do it, that was the question.
Her widowed mother was dependent
on her. and though they owned and
lived on Il small farm they could not
make it pay.
One afternoon. in the early spring,
while walking about the big front yard,
she noticed n quantity of hyacinths
sproutlng. and found that they had so
multiplied that they were sprlnging
up in the barren fields. 1t suddenly
occurred to her. why not have hya-
cinth farm and raise the bulbs for
sale.
After discussing the possibilities of
such business with number of for
lists. she undertook the raising of bulbs
and so shrewdly disposed Of them that
she now has comfortable income and
meanwhile has reganed her health.
\ little old woman in the West sup
ported herself by the combined efforts
Of raising lilies of the valley, sewing
a little and taking few lodgers.
She had been thrown upon her own
resources early in life She was a
dressmaker, and. longing TO own a
home, she had sewed early and late
and had denied herself many comforts,
and after long years of unceasing toll
had saved enough to buy an old,
weather-beaten two-story frame house
on side street. 1t looked rather
gaunt and spare. like its toil-worn
mistress. but all within was so cosey
and clean and homelike that she never
lacked for dodgers. She raised guam
titles of the lilies with loving care,
which she shipped to florist in a
nearby city.
She only sews three days in the week
now. for old patrons, and she said that
left her plenty of time to rest and take
life easy.
Two sisters make shrt-waists and
necktes so well that they command
large remuneration and have time to
20 out and enjoy themselves.
Another young woman, whose mother
had had her taught to do beautiful
needlework when school girl, be-
cause she thought it such n womanly
accomplishment, now makes infant
wardrobes (all hand sewing), and hel
skill commands large prices.
\ girl trimmed her own hats so be
comingly that neighborhood friends
asked her to trim theirs, as they found
they often looked rights in the hats
some milliner persuaded them to buy.
She succeeded as well with her neigh
bors' hats as with her own, and nov
has millinery parlor in her own hom'
which she laughingly calls her "cha
)eau atelier."
one who achieved simple and modes
dresses for herself from inexpensive
muslins and ginghams was besough
by her friends to make them dupli
Gates. This she finally consented Il
do.
She confined herself 10 the one spe
clalty - dainty, inexpensive cottol
| frocks-and made a financial success
of the enterprise. New York Herald.