New-York tribune., 1903-07-27
OCCUPATIONS OF WOMEN.
Different Lines of Business Where Women
Have Won Success.

There seems to be scarcely any field of human
effort which women have not invaded in these
davs and any one who has occasion to investigate
the occupations of the fair sex will be surprised
bv their variety and oddness. Not only are women
found in callings which are generally thought to
be the exclusive property OF meH but they nave
invented many occupations which were never
thought Of before their advent into the business
world.
One woman who thinks her work quite new
one makes several hundred dollars every year by
selling soup stock, which she makes from the waste
meat from her husbands butcher shop. Butchers,
&C a rule make no attempt utilize these scraps,
but the sight of such waste VeNed the lhTlty sour
of the butchers wife in the case under consldert-
ton and she tried the experiment OF making STOCK
OF the scraps and placing II IN tG % SHOP br io ben l
The result was complete stSceS III, te 10 ~ Ill if
as glad TO get the stock as the maker was 10 sell It
woman who utiiizes the waste of half dozen gro
ceries She made pFoP9S1}hI pP }IoI her to take all
vegetables and fruits that were not Iresn e@n4Ign @
them on shares the grocer dsposing of the stock
in his shop The enterprise mas Deerl 3 % OrIiteG
substantially by the arrangement Tor ne mas e; af,
Guired the reputation of always having fresh fTult
and vegetables Tor SAFE. as |be woman gradnay
the left from six groceries ana tu G9olo CO.
II any traveller ever meets with an ideal railroad
restaurant in a neghboring state II Tlll uaGTn a
for' = second never existed. These women started
the business sS[de a5 four times as much
business the man who had Sandwiches
cir oN
to those Who were under the painful necessity Oh
applying TO him for food. -, .Lo,oo .,,o,,,,
The women effected this magical cnange iGse sp5g a9
bv serving few clean and appetizIng edIpieS sIiu
dTinkabies many of which were prepared in their
homes. - or,,ai,,ad tba idea
of reproducing historical houses for dolIS iouIS S
Vernon LongfeIlow's house, Whituers mouse Az a.H
other famous homes are copied in miniature win
great fidety The decorations are as IKE Lle @
original as possible and even the virginia NANNY a. ny
IS found at her post the old nrepiace III ti'e
Mount Vernon kitchen. - .,,..,,,yb1,, sc,ap-
THE first laundry 10 be run on thoTousHg PoH
tine principles is probably the one STARED 81 Ian
ton recently by two Vassar graduates. I5II- 10
aries have long been OF the banes OF ,S noaSrn
existence this hygienie ana az atranee thai
ought a great success, ana II ID st4o44e0 '-N
no one ever thought Of IL before -. -. %
Erhe woman funeral assistant Is a sredt A.
mourning households She takes messases, 70 TI
and relatives sees reporters, arIanses ,ha 9oyars
ing garments for the family. arranses me ie FneTa
and rooms the funeral and aIter tie 49,,
she puts the house IN order. cares for tne Gi fbe
rrensres meals, If necessary, ana heIPs anus
d,aeging machinery until the ordinary Ioulie -
The @ wedding assistant is employed at almost a al
Ia zoe 0eddlngs and is almost indlspehsaple.
hacks the BRIDES trunks giving her an ioai1ss
f,st OF where everything can be FOUND recei.eSs rS
presents sees reporters arranges the hoWe[s anu
when eysrythiag Is over sees 10 ths G40--4N- ~