The sun., 1904-07-31
TIE COUNTRY GIRL IN TOWN.
THAT SHE IS ABLE TO
TAKE CARE OF HERSELF.

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a fake; q hoary tradition, without founda
tion in fact" said an observant woman
the other day. Il mean the girl who hal
left the farm or the village home to seel
her fortune in the great city, and arrives
at point where she Is trapped, without
money, home. friends or position.
Il never saw one like that. All the corn'
try girls I ever met in New York were doing
WE'LL
Il sat the other day in the Office Of the
woman who Is at the head Of the woman 4
department Of one OF the biggest insurance
companies in the world. She makes an in.
come OF 5000 year.
| "She was an Iowa school teacher. origi.
nally, glad OF a place at So0 a month, fancy
Some enterprising agent managed to insure
her, and abe got 30 Interested In insurance
that when the summer vacation came
around she began to write insurance her.
self
"She did 30 we'll that when September
came she did not 60 back to the school,
room. She wrote insurance steadily, and In
ever increasing amounts, until when the
company decided to open it's woman g branch
it brought her to New York and placed her
\ at the head Of it. In fact, think 1t was
her arguments largely that induced them
| to establish the new department
! But isn't she an exceptional woman?'
! asked the listener.
Evidently. since there are few OF US who
make 5000 year. But the remaining 6
four who sat in her room that day were
all from the West, and all were doing reason
| ably well. One was an insurance agent,
one was q doctor, one was a teacher OF
physical culture, and the other was news
paper woman; 81 900 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 Edu-
cation 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 q
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 another step up. She
came to New York, opened offioes on Broad
way, and started an advertising agency.
She understood artistic advertising. and
has done we'll. She has four assistants
already, and is making money.
There is another successful woman in
New York who was born in q little 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 California
and her first wages came as q reporter, at
the age of H. on local paper. Five years
ago she came to New York and got place
in the business Office Of leading magazine.
She went from there to an advertising
agency, where she had charge Of the corre-
spondence with out Of town clients.
"She devised for her department follow
ing up system which is considered model
of cleverness and simplicity. Then one of
the biggest electrical companies in New
York invited her to edit monthly bulletin
which it proposed to start.
"Since then she has been one of the busiest
women in New York. She edits q little adj
vertising monthly. designs cards and signs,
and turns out folders and booklets; and with
all this original work gets through an
amount of routine which would appall
good many men.
There was another young woman who
was teaching in a town in the Far West.
She had been teaching a number Of years
and wanted a years vacation. which she
could not afford. Also, she had never been
east of the Mississippi and wanted to spend
a year in New York which she also could not
afford.
"She got years leave of absence, came
to New York, and went to some friends
while she was looking about her. She did
not feel herself at liberty to stay with her
friends more than a few weeks; and. like
most schoolteachers, she had only limited
number of dollars ahead. So il she was to
spend year in New York it was incumbent
upon her to find something to do speedily.
Before her friends knew what she was
about she had hired little SIS a month
fiat away down in the tenement region
near the business district. She put in a
gas range and telephone, bought cooking
utensils. paper boxes and small stock
of groceries. and started into serving noon
lunches in the business offices. Eventually
she had her year in New York. with va
riety of experience which proved perfect
rest from teaching.
"She got back her capital and quit
with as much money in her pocket as she
had when she began. She might have
gone on and extended her business and
made a real success of it,"
"Why didn't she?"
"Well, she decided to 60 back to Montana
and marry a man who had been wrathfully
waiting for her to finish her years vaca-
ton in New York. 1t was a disgraceful
capitulation, but she had proved that a
woman could come to New York st ranger
and make years living without finding
job.
"One of the fashionable flower stores up
town is conducted by a woman who st tarted
a few years ago with one greenhouse in
New Jersey village. Now she has eight,
from which she supplies her own store.
.Some years ago there was a girl en-
ployed in candy store in Buffalo. She
had a genius for decoration. Julia Mar
lowe happened to play AS You Like It.
in Buffalo.
1.-THE girl dressed the candy store window
to represent the forest scene in the play.
1t attracted the attention of an English
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