The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-06
CLEVER GIRLS
WHO SUCCEED
SOME OF THEIR SUCCESSES.
THE GIRL WHO STARTED A DOLLS
HOSPITAL.

She Is Now Making Layettes-The
Meteoric Rise of n Real Estate
CIerk-A New Idea for the Girl
Who Has Taste in Millinery.
Turning knowledge of Lam
Euages 10 Profitable Use.
The business world of to-day offers
great opportunities to the quick-wit-
ted girl who knows how to make the
most of her gifts and carve a COM
mercial niche of her own. The pres
ent-day extravaganza offers a great
field for the young woman who can
evolve new ideas.
young woman who found herself
face to face with the problem of earn
ing a livelihood for herself and her
mother had nothing to start on save
a good family name and an acquaint-
ance with wealthy people. She was
for an office position. when a success
full business woman asked her IL she
had no special bent. The girl replied,
laughingly, that the only thing she
had ever been good for was to dress
dolls. The experienced business wom-
an saw possibilities in this one gift,
and advised her to start a doll hospi-
tai in her mothers pretty parlor. To-
day not only is the girl an adept at
mending dolls, repainting their fea-
lures and restoring them generally, but
she makes elaborate trousseauX for
Christmas dolls, furnishes doll houses
complete. and is now gradually work.
ing into the more serious occupation
OF providing layettes for babies, for
whose lips there awaits a golden spoon.
She simply had a gift for making
small things daintily and effectively.
A bright girl who had grown weary
of her duties as "A stenographer in a
real estate office suddenly decided to
try hunting flats for would-be tenants.
The idea came to her during a con-
versation with worried husband
whose wife was confined to her bed,
just when moving day doomed UP in
the near future. The girl found out
what he wanted in the way of an
apartment, what he could afford to
pay, and on the next Saturday she
spent her half-holiday hunting for the
fiat. The man paid her five dollars
for her trouble. She promptly added
this to money already deposited in a
savings bank and resigned her posi-
ton as stenographer. Then she scour-
ed the daily papers. When advertise
ers wanted a house or fiat she called
to see them and offered to find the de-
sired abode. When she had found just
what she thought the advertiser need
ed, she advised him of the fact. took
him to see the premises, suggested the
paperng and the repairs needed and
arranged everything up to the signing
of the lease. Her first trade naturally
came from men whose wives or sisters
or mothers We're unable to go house
hunting, and who abhored the task
themselves. Later. women-tired
mothers and invalid wives-hunted her
up, and to-day she has an established
trade. She takes a fee only from the
renter and accepts no gratuities from
real estate firms, though she could
double her income II she would throw
her influence with certain large con-
Germs.
Another girl who found herself face
to face with the problem of self-sup-
port, utilized her good taste in mill
linery. She could not face a hat with
velvet or silk, but she could fit II to
a face, which is, after all. the true art
OF the milliner.
When she decided to take up the
work, she went directly to the man
tailor who had made her gowns in
more prosperous DAYS w men ne
made a street gown would he permit
her to suggest a suitable hat to be
worn with it?"
The man saw the possibilities of the
scheme, and gave her a chance. Many
a time and oft he had seen one of his
choice CONNECTIONS ruined by an incon-
gruous hat. The girls idea was to
study the gown and the customer and
then take commission to provide a
hat to suit both.
She would gain some idea Of the
customers wishes, whether the hat
should be large and picturesque In
effect, smartly tailored or in the form
of subdued toque. Then. armed with
samples of the gown and its trimming.
she would visit shop after shop until
she could secure exactly the right
combinations In colors, when she
would place the order and deliver the
hat in person 10 the customer.
Occasionally changes would have to
be made In the hat, but so admirable
was her taste. and so pronounced her
faculty for fitting the shape of the