The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-17
HOW TO EARN MONEY
MEANS EMPLOYED BY WOMEN
TO MAKE A LIVING

No Woman Should Be Left With
Necessary to Have a Trade or to Be
Accomplished.
Surely no woman who desires work
these days should find it difficult to at
tain her object, for there are innumer-
able ways of turning an honesty pen
ny besides the regular work in which
women engage Shopping on commits
sion is very good way to make mon
ey, more particularly if you can work
up good number of out-of-town
buyers. One st. Paul girl is doing
very well at it at present, and even
does good deal of buying for women
in town who are too busy to attend to
1t. AT this time of year there is SO
much shopping to be done for the girls
who are going away to ~~i-ool that
woman in the busin rs can make
good bit.
Then there is catering; not much is
done in this way in ST Paul by wom-
en-, but in the East many women who
have been society girls and are obliged
to earn something are taking this up.
The hostess who wants everything
just right and has the money to pay
for it sends for the girl who gets up
parties and dinners and puts the af-
fair entirely in her hands. She hires
a caterer if she cannot do the cooking
herself-some of these women have
cooks and walters of their own-ar-
ranges the house and tables, buys
what is needed and the hostess need
not have a qualm about the whole
matter. 1t is easy for the hostess
also expensive-but if she has plenty
of money and wants to entertain with
out firing herself to death there is no
better way
One clever woman went to Newport
this summer and sent samples of
Very delicious candy that she made to
the big houses of the millionaires and
1t became so popular that she made
money and had a pleasant summer
besides. Another young woman at the
same place wrote to woman who was
giving a large ball, and asked if she
might come and write up the affair,
promising absolute correctness of
names and costumes. The hotess al
lowed her to do it and paid her. then
she sold the story to a paper and
made something on both sides. Still
another girl gathered wild flowers and
decorated luncheon tables for the elect
of Newport. Indeed. wherever Million
aires foregather there is many penny
to be earned by the enterprising. An
other woman advertises to pack
trunks, and in New York makes good
living doing it, and pretty nearly al
ways breaks her back at the same
time.
Then there is the girl who thinks UP
new forms Of amusements, figures for
the german. etc, is ever in demand
and is well paid particularly by the
blase Newporters, who would give
their kingdom for a new sensation or
amusement. In fact, it must be very
stupid girl in these modern days who
cannot turn her talents-or lack of
them to account and earn enough to
live decently.
The woman who has no trade and
yet wants to work should take account
OF her stock Of accomplishments, no
matter how homely they may be, and
turn her attention to what she does
best, even if it be only darning and
intending. Washing and mending of
linen and women's underwear Is done
by some New York women and they
have no reason to complain of their
patronage. Reading aloud to invalids.
taking charge of the annual house
cleaning. or of the closed house when
the family are at the seashore are a
few more ways that women can make
themselves useful. All these are bet
ter than hat trimming or dressmaking
and other things which compete some
what unfairly with those who are le-
ultimately in trade. These are the
days of the woman worker, and let her
make the best Of them.