The suburban citizen., 1902-11-08
Hints to stay .at-Homes who Desire to
Become Self-supportlng.

Hints to Stay .at-Homss who Desire to
Become Self-supporting-
When there comes to woman a
sudden necessity TO become self-sup-
porting, If she is living in one of the
smaller cities, she often finds that posi-
tions for women are not easy TO find.
and the large cities seem so alluripg
so full of golden possibilities-unti
she personally investigates and finds
that for every vacancy there Is a 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 Woman's Ex-
change In few years she had earned
sufficient money to build small,
pretty home. Some people smilingly
speak Of 1t as the house built of little
biscuits
They don't stop to think of the
amount of womanly skill, hope, deter
mination and energy that went into
every one of those biscuits. She sue
ceeded because she made such good
biscuits that every one wanted them.
A teachers health became so serious
ly impaired because of the strain Of
her duties in an oveTcrowded 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 a small farm they could not
make it pay.
One afternoon, in tie early spring,
while walking about the big front yard,
she noticed a quantity of hyacinths
sprouting, and found that they had so
multiplied that they were springing
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 a comfortable income and
meanwhile has regained her health.
A 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 dodgers,
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 twostory frame house
on a side street. 1t looked rather
gaunt and spare, like its toll-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
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 shirt-waists and
neckties so well that they command
large remuneration and have time to
so out and enjoy themselves.
Annthor uOuny 1pntnan tunoca nathan
had had her taught to do beautiful
needlewOrk when a school girl, be-
cause she thought it such womanly
accomplishment, now makes infant
wardrobes (all hand sewing), and her
skill commands large prices.
A girl trimmed her own hats so be-
comingly that neighborhood friends
asked her to trim theirs, as they found
they often "looked frights" in the hats
some milllner persuaded them to buy.
She succeeded as we'll with her neigh
bors' hats as with her own, and now
has millinery parlor in her own home
which she laughingly calls her "cha-
peau atelier."
One who achieved simple and modest
dresses for herself from inexpensive
muslins and ginghams was besought
by her friends to make them dupli-
Gates. This she finally consented to
do.
She confined herself to the one spe-
cialty dainty, inexpensive cotton
frocks-and made a financial success
Of the enterprise. New York Herald.