The Republican journal., 1903-05-28
ODD OCCUPATIONS FOR WOMEN.

Although but 10 years of age, Miss
Agnes Jameson has complete charge of
the Alto Pass. Ull.) Progress. Her labors
do not consist merely of telling others
W hat work is to be done and how they
shall 60 about it, She is not that sort
of newspaper woman. for she is a
thorough printer and knows the bust
ness of conducting a country paper
from 4 to 4.
Mrs. Mignome Nicholson of Chicago
has chosen for herself life calling,
a profession seldom included among the
possible opportunities for women. She
is tile only woman veterinary surgeon
in the world "A New York woman
once ATTEMPTED to qualify herself i'll
this direction, but failed to study more
than short time. No other woman,
so tar as known, has done work of this
kind.
| In France there are 1919 women en-
| poyed as gatekeepers at the railroad
crossings They get very small salary,
but the railroads provide each one with
a house and a small garden patch rent
free These women work every day III
the year. They may not leave their
posts for a day off, even Oh Sunday and
| holidays, and their working days are
! from fifteen to eighteen hours long.
| Anna Lawyer, d Seventeen-yearol
girl of Greenwood, a suburb of Phlla-
dephia, comes to the front with the
most peculiar money-maklng occupa-
| ton on record. On the hills back OF
Greenwood rattlesnakes. vipers and
racers abound. Her youthful training
made her acquainted with the habits and
haunts of the reptiles, and now she is
one of the most expert snake catchers
in the country. Recently she made
big catch of rattlers and sold them at "a
handsome profit to Eastern dealers.
An important part OF the craft OF
| diamond cutting is now done almost
| exclusively by women. The first pro-
cess of diamond splitting-that is, sep
| arating large stone full of flaws into
several tlawless stones-is done by men.
Women then handle the diamonds,
which they round with little pearl
| shaped tools tipped with diamonds, re-
moving all angles. AS some of the dia-
monds are so small that several hun
bred of them weigh less than a carat,
| the work is very hard on the eyes. The
last process by which the stones are
facetted is done by steam.
The strangest position filled by any
woman in the country is probably that
occupied by Mrs Mary Preston Slosson
chaplain of the Wyoming penitentiary
For two years Mrs. Slosson has had
charge of the moral and spiritual wei
fare of Wyomings convicts. She has
endeared herself to nearly 200 convicts
some of whom are notorious Western
desperadoes with many murders on
their heads, and such an effect has this
slight little woman eXerted over the
men since her appointment that
breaches of discipline have decreased
nearly so per cent.
Women have taken up work III nearly
every profession, but Cleveland prob
ably has the only woman stationary
engineer and fireman (or tireWoman( IN
the United States She has taken the
place of her husband, recently de
ceased and fills the position acceptably.
She had often been her husband's right
hand man in his work, and so learned
the ms and outs of his trade. The day
after his death she went to the office OF
the building and asked for the position
that had been her husbands. The own
ers Of the building, knowing that the
family was in poor circumstances and
that the woman, from her familiarity
with the engine, was capable OF holding
the position, gave her the place, at the
same salary that had been earned by her
husband. There is a janitor in the build
ing who carries the coal, bnt the woman
handles the shovel and does not shlrk
any task. She keeps the engine room
as spotIess as such place can be, and
the engine shines like a new piece OF
machinery.
In recent years women have engaged
in many novel occupations, but perhaps
not many would have the courage to
follow the one chosen by Miss Emily l..
Marden of Milwaukee,. WIS, Tins
young lady is a full -hedged game buyer,
and for this purpose travels extensively
through the woods of the northern part
of the State A writer in the Chicago
Chronicle tells of this young Womans
achievement in this way: ''For three
months each year she goes from ship
ping point to shipping point, buying dl-
rect from the hunters when she can or
from the dealers to whom the hunters
bring the game they have killed; This
has to be done as rapidly as possible ana
there is little rest or sleep for the
young woman until she has gathered up
sufficient quantity to make 1t worth
while to take the long and tiresome trip
back to the city. Under the game laws
no shipping is allowed and this mean
that every time consignment OF game
reaches town some one with hunters
license has brought it down from the
north as personal baggage. With MISS
Marden this personal baggage is at
times excessive, and she has brought IN
at one trip as many as 1000 BIRDS Whlch
she had gathered up in the course OF
three or four days travel through the
woods"
"Ah, mel" sighed the nervous author as
he trimmed the midnight lamp. "l've just
been reading an article which says the SUMS
light will be extinguished in million years
from now. Amt that terrible to cOntem-
plate?"
at certainly is" replied the wife. ''But
YOU won't take my advice"
"What do you mean"'
"About saving money. Now is the time
to lay by, with view to taking stock in the
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