New-York tribune., 1903-07-19
WOMEN OF ENTERPRISE.
Old Occupations Reach Success Through
New GuiSe.

Rather paradoxically. many of the new activities
to which the college bred woman is turning-gen-
orally with marked success-are reversiOus to the
primitive occupations of her grandmother. The ex-
ternals may be-usually are-widey different from
those that accompanied the work Of the earlier gen.
Grafton, but the return to the essentially feminine
handicrafts has been the less real The time
is happily past when teaching was the only pro-
fesson which a girl graduate might follow without
loss of prestige. Ingenuity. courage and individual
resource constitute the capital upon which the
educated woman relies, rather than mere
academic requirements and equipment. Perhaps
this fact has something to do with her choice OF
the trades and professions rather than of the
schoolroom.
"A notable example of this is afforded by the
highly successful bakery which is being carried
on in Cambridge. Mass. by two clear eyed, level
headed we'll born and we'll bred college girls says
1.-THE Outlook in discussing New Occupations for
Educated Women" "The furniture in the sales
room of this unique establishment is after the
most approved William Morris standards; on the
walls are quotations from Tolstoyan books on the
dignity of labor and beautiful pictures, tastefuly
framed decorative palms and a handsome rug
complete the equipment of this highly interesting
bakeshop. And here in the artistic setting they
have created for their excellent wares the two col
lege girls themselves kept busy all the time dis
posing of their bread and breadsticks for just
twice the sum charged by other bakers
People il seems. are glad to pay twice the
binary price. because the bread seems to have at
tanned high state of perfection as IS granted
to mundane things The young bakers bake ninety
six loaves at a time. and make three kinds of
bread-a health variety from a formula purchased
by a New-York physician. cream bread and whole
wheat bread. The health bread Mrs. William Dean
HowelIs says saved her life and the Department of
Chemistry at Washington has pronounced it the
only analysed there that is free of yeast
when done
Miss Stevenson. a young South Carolnian. is the
originator of the scheme. At Converse College. in
her own State. she specialized for three years in
chemistry and later she went to Radcliffe in order
to learn how to express herself we'll She meant to
teach chemistry, when several things turned her
attention to the making of bread One of these
% ngr beefihg b WIN MISS Ffnees & EoIi OF toronto,
not. however, until Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer had
financial success attended their enterprise,
similar ideals though perhaps not SO clearly de
Wellesley girls to undertake the management at
grown to be College nn They had had @ no ho3s
or & te 9 when they opened 1 the
eternally hungry, so they hired an old negro
little tearoom. The students of the college last
one corner of which Miss Mary F, Chase and Miss
Caroline Rogers now have their restaurant. The
ly popular with the college authorities and the
students as before its establishment there was no
hostery for the accommodation OF the visitors the
alumnae and the parents without number who are
New-FngIand town The same enterprfsing girls
run successful weekly paper-the first ever made
The Sunshine Laundry is the of a decidedly
domestic venture carried in BrOOkline, Mass. by
two Smith graduates. Another college bred girl
has gone into the employment business From her
experience she has observed that in
constant tribulatiOn because of inability
good help willing to stay in the service continues
''The Outlook" And from her work in a college
settlement house she had come to have good un-
derstanding of the servants side OF the question
She clearly that what was needed a higher
sense OF personal obligation the part of both
people making the contract She allied herself
therefore, with wOman's association of standing
and there she now carries employment
bureau which is going far to solve the problem by
dissoving the difficulties, of the situation
For, while the mistress makes concessions to the
maid in this establishment. the maid similarly