The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-08
NEW BOOK NEWS
CONDUCTED BY MARTHA YOUNG

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 1gomen's Ways of Earning Money, x IT Cynthia Westover Alden, president 3eneraI of the International Society. 3rrk AIden's practical experience, per- n6nal and oficial is probably unequal1- od Her imfnence. acquaintance and wide observation have resulted in a look covering the fields of woman's ! possible activities.
 It is book full of definite sugges- Hons. and of the practical direct ad- vice which really helps.
 Her book is indispensable to every woman Interested in earning money.
 It provides a varied and most sug- xestfve picture of ingenuity and pluck. It is filled with anecdote and incident. alive with interest for the general reader and suggestive for any student of social and economic conditions.
 1frs Cynthia westover Alden, the president general of the Internation- q Sunshine Society, is native of Iowa and grew up among the pioneer < aurroundings in Colorado whither she was taken by her father at the age of four. She learned to ride and to shoot and to take care of herself in the wild country before she was ten. She grad uated from Colorado State University, Normal Department, and taught for a year In Boulder. Then she went East 70 make her own way in life.
 For several years she sang in New York as church soprano. but she had . fad of trying all the civil service ex- nmfnations and finally became inspec- tor Of customs in the United States service. Several important seizures are put down to her credit. For long time She was private secretary to the street cleaning commissioner, being the first woman to be thus appointed in the Dtafe of New York. Leaving politics she entered newspaper work and be- came one of the editors of The New York Recorder. There she began the Sunshine work that has developed into she International Sunshine Society.
 She was one of the incorporators of the Woman's Press Club of New York city, and is one of the best known club women in America. She spoke for New York at the Atlanta exposition and was named as one of the States Representative women to go to the Chattanooga exposition. She was one of the American speakers at the Lon don Congress of Women in 1899 as well as at the Worlds W. c. T. U. In Toronto.
 As an author she has written two books, Manhattan Historic and Artis- tic, and .Bushy," story of child life In the Rocky mountains. Her father is Oliver S. Westover, an expert mineral ogist. now living at Santa Monica, Cal. She is the wife of John Alden, a Brooklyn newspaper man. MT. Alden is lineal descendant of the Mayfiower John, and nephew of Henry Mills AL den. the editor of Harper's magazine.
 Tn this latest volume from her skill ed pen, Mrs. Alden takes pages right from her own experience. She makes a claim. to which facts will prove her right, that ''she has probably earned money at more various occupations than almost any other woman in America"
 Some of her occupations have been unusual, some wholly out of range of any other woman's work. Here is recs ord of them:
 Cooking for sixteen farm hands on Western ranch.
 Teaching a borderland school
 Singing in concert.
 Singing in church.
 Matron in a great tent factory.
 Superintendent in a candy factory.
 Inspectress in the New York custom house.
 Secretary in the street cleaning de- partment.
 Reporter.
 
 As president and founder of the In- ternational Sunshine Society. she comes into contact with women at work in every line of endeavor. As well as with women of the leisure class who are ever alert to help the women who work. Her book is written especially for wo- men who are thrown suddenly upon their own resources for a livelihood.
 To these she makes many useful sug- gestions, the first and foremost being: Do that which lies nearest you If you have been good housekeeper for your own household apply for place as paid housekeeper for anothers household.
 If you have been that most comforting of creatures, good cook, and how many of our Southern women rival the pre- coeusis of old time French court in their delightful concoction of dainties, then make dainties for sale.
 Thus she suggests sewing, designing clothes, trimming hats. making quilts from a skilled amateur photographer be- coming a professional one and so on through a hundred or more available things to do.
 <. Her best advice is this: