The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1904-02-04
CLEVER GIRLS ABROAD,
Way, in Which Americans Earn Liv
i'm, on the Continent,

An American woman who has just
returned from year abroad Is author
ity for the statement that there are
many opportunities for American wom-
en- ou the European continent. A trip
abroad is no longer the impossible
thing It used TO be for the self-support-
Ing woman. The time has been short
ened, accommodations improved and
tn. strain upon finances lessened; but
a protracted stay on the other side of
the water is another matter, and it is
here that the advantage of being able
to earn living there comes in.
One important opening for English
speaking women is in the ranks of the
typewriters, says the New York Trib-
une. Many foreign business houses
have connections in America, and with
technical skill and fair English educa-
ton the stcnographer may count on an
easy victory abroad,
Il remember thinking once with
acute regret of New York's hundreds
of stenographers-m of them, alas /!
unemployed says the returned travel
er. Il had had occasion TO dictate
some English statements to leu
tonic maiden of some IS summers. and
she returned the story with the sur
plising assertion that the ambassadors
wife had a bow upstairs on her
head,'n
There is also, 1t appears, great de-
mand for English teachers in foreign
towns. Many American officials, espe-
cially in the consular service employ
American college girls rs g0veruefses
in their families While living abroad.
ana many calls come. often at mo-
ment's notice, from foreigners who
wish to be instructed In the tongu
that is now SO necessary IN all corners
of the earth. One morning in Venice
an American girl was called into the
hotel salon by caId with a crest. and
met charming woman. who. mistak-
ing her name for that of another had
come 10 see if she would give CONVEX
sation lessons, which she and her hus-
band desired for their own pleasure
To the American the mistake not only
proved profitable but afforded her de-
lightful glimpse into the life of the
Italian nobility.
TRANSACTIONS are constantly in de-
mand, for, though young foreigners are
trained for this work their command
Of the English idiom is at best less per-
feet than that of an American.
Correspondents for American and
English journals find fertile fields. and
If letter writing is not the most lucra-
tive of employments, the remuneration
to one who has the pen of a ready
writer compensates for the small
amount Of time which the work re-
quires,
Women's clubs have their parallels
abroad, with equal activity among tn,
members. A member of one of these
clubs Is a photographer and phases OF
club life alone keep her camera con
stantly employed. For just such pre-
fessional did the American club In Bel'-
lin search .vainly last winter, when an
epidemic Of demands set In for repro
uuCtiOllS VI It's uOIlc llIe lOE american
and foreign journals.
In the ranks IN which special talent
or culture is demanded there are also
openings, though they are fewer.
Pupils Of Leschetizky in Vienna are
serving as his assistants and are thus
enabled to continue their studies there.
Art students in Paris exc out their in
comes by acting as guides to American
friends going to shop in this center OF
fashion. One of the most successful
vocal teachers in Berlin is an English.
man, and down in the very stronghold
of the vocal art, Florence, an American
Is profitably turning to account the in
structions Of world-famous singing
teacher.