The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-07

friends while she was looking about
her. She did not feel herself at lih-
erty TO stay with her friends more
than few weeks; and, like most
school teachers, she had only a lin
tied number of dollars ahead. So -
she was to spend a year in New York
II was incumbent upon her to find
something to do speedily.
Before her friends knew what she
was about she had hired a little az a
month fiat away down in the tenement
region, near the business district. She
put in a gas range and a telephone
bought cooking utensils, paper hoves
and a small stock of groceries. and
started into serving noon lunches in
the business offices. Eventually she
had her year in New York, with a va
riety of experience which proved a
perfect rest from teaching.
She got back her capital and oui+
with as much money in her pocket as
she had when she began She n,igbt
have gone on and extended her bust
ness and made real success of it,
why didn't she?"
"Well, she decided to go back IN
Montana and marry a man who had
been wrathfully waiting for her to
finish her years vacation in New York
1t was a disgraceful capitalization hut
she had proved that a woman could
come to New York a stranger and
make a years living without finding
a lob.
zone Of the fashionable flower stores
uptown is conducted by a woman who
started few years ago with one
greenhouse in a New Jersey village.
Now she has eight, from which She
supplies her own store.
"Some years ago there was pirl
e10nl0V6d in a candy in DE
She had a genius for decoration. Julia
Marlowe happened to play AS You
Like it. in Buffalo
''The girl dressed the candy store
window to represent the forest scene
in the play. 1t attracted the atten-
ton of an Englishman who was wan
dering around Buffalo in search Of
Niagara Falls. He was a member of
an old London confectionery Arm. He
sought out the girl and made her a
good offer to go to London.
"She went, and introduced Ameri-
can window decoration into his shops.
Her methods We're successful. Her
table decoration work became so fav-
orably known that she was called on
to decorate tables for the Princess of
Teck and other swell personages.
But after two years she heard the
West a-callin' and returhed to Amer
lea to travel for drug and candy
firms. She made one of the few sue
cessful saleswomen on the road.
"One day an employer who had re-
Gently added canaries to his stock ask
ed her to find out, if she could why
his girds were all dying off. From
that she gradually came to devote all
her time to birds, and now has the
best known hospital and boarding
house for birds in New York.
There is a clever little woman
uptown who does beautiful things with
leather. Each year, for several years
past, she has brought out holiday
edition of the 'Rubaiyat,' consisting
Of a very few copies, each bound by
herself in leather. She decorates
rooms with magnificent panels of
stamped leather, makes splendid
screens and all sorts of things for
plutocratic patrons.
She was California girl whose
father lost his money and then died.
She began to sell for money the beau
tiful leather things she had been MAX
ing for love OF the work.
"She made a success Of II in San
Francisco, and then she came to New
York, because she was convinced that
she would find larger public here
that understood the sort of wares she
had to offer. She keeps a room full
of women now busy in doing the rou-
tine work, while she simply makes the
unique designs and furnishes the per-
sonal touch which makes her work
Characteristic ="