The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-07
THE COUNTRY GIRL IN TOWN.

IT believe the country girl in New
York is a fake; a hoary tradition,
without foundation in fact" said an
observant woman the other day, to the
New York Sun. II mean the girl
who has left the farm or the village
home to seek her fortune in the great
city, and arrives at point where she
is trapped, without money, home,
friends or position.
81 never saw one like that. All
the country girls I ever met in New
York were doing we'll.
II sat the other day in the office
of the woman who is at the head of
the woman's department of one of the
biggest insurance companies in the
world. She makes an income of $4,000
a year.
"She was an Iowa school teacher,
originally, glad of a place at $50 a
month, 1 fancy. Some enterprising
agent managed to insure her, and she
got so interested in insurance that
when the summer vacation came
around she began to write insurance
herself.
"She did so we'll that when Septem-
Der came she did not go back to the
school room. She wrote insurance
steadily. and in ever increasing
amounts, until when the company de-
cided to open it's womans branch it
brought her to New York and placed
her at the head of it. In fact,
think it was her arguments largely
that induced them to establish the
new department"
But isn't she an exceptional wom-
an?" asked the listener.
Evidently, since there are few of
us who make $4,000 a year. But the
remaining four who sat in her room
that day were all from the West, and
all were doing reasonable well. One
was an insurance agent, one was
doctor. one was a teacher of physical
culture, and the other was a news
paper woman; $1.60 was the lowest
yearly income represented, and they
had all met there quite by chance.
Il know another young woman in
New York who began her business
career as secretary in the office of
the Board of Education in city of
the Middle West. All her tastes were
for art.
This led her to take an interest
in the work of the agent who came
to introduce a new system of drawing
into the city schools. Eventually she
started to sell drawing books for the
same firm.
"She Travelled for ten years for that
firm, introducing their system into the
schools of different cities. At the end
of the decade she was ready for an
other step up. She came to New York,
opened offices on Broadway, and
started an advertising agency.
She understood artistic advertising,
and has done we'll. She has four as
sistants already, and is making money.
There is another successful woman
in New York who was born in a lit
tie mining camp in Wyoming. Her
parents were the only Gentiles in the
place. All their white neighbors
were Mormons, and the mine laborers
were Chinese.
Later her parents moved to Cali
fornia and her first wages came as a
reporter, at the age of II. on a local
paper. Five years ago she came to New
York and got a place In the business
Office of a leading magazine. She
went from there to an advertising
agency. where she had charge of the
correspondence with out of town cli-
ents.
"She devised for her department a.
following up system which is consider
ed a model of cleverness and simplic-
ity. Then one of the biggest electrical
companies in New York invited her 10
edit monthly bulletin which II pro-
posed to start.
"Since then she has been one of the
busiest women in New York. She
edits a little advertising monthly. de-
signs cards and signs and turns out
folders and booklets, and with all this
original work gets through an amount
Of routine which would appal a good
many men.
There was another young woman
who was teaching In a town I'm the
Far West. She had been teaching a
number OF years and wanted years
vacation. which she could not afford.
Also. she had never been east OF the
Mississippi and wanted TO spend
year in New York which she also
could not afford.
'she got a years leave OF absence.
oane 10 New York and went 10 some