Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-29
NO END Of WAYS
For the Woman Who Must
Add to Her Income.
HOME MONEY MAKING
PRACTICAL HINTS FOR THE Ex-
BUSINESS WORKER.
Success Almost Certain With Prompt
ness and Accuracy
Followed.


Written for The Star by Anna s. Richardson
This article is compiled from a mass of
questions and answers on the tonic of
money-making a home. Scores of women
have written asking how to turn their tai
ents. equipment and environment to ac-
count, while fully many more have
written to me ,he details of their hard
wrung successes.
A young woman from a New England
city wrote:
Before my marriage l had been a sue
cessful stenosrapher and general office
worker. Ny dear husband died, leaving
me with a home nearly paid for a two
thousand-dollar life Insurance and a lovely
little three ear-old daughter. L could not
bear to leave the home around which clus-
tered 50 many associations and happv
memories and | knew that the insurance
would not give me the needed income T
had 40 relative who could make her homo
with me and care for my baby while T
went back to work, so / secured the serv-
ices of an elderly single woman with excel
lent references, and secured a position with
wholesale house. My house was beautifuIIv
managed, my meals were well cooked nv
little girl looked well and was always bean
tifully dressed. My work downtown went
swimmingly l thought l had everything
" oe HhIul IOF. Inen one evening when
/ was sitting my side porch. a sheet
or paper blew out of the dining room win
cow, and picking it up absently / read a
Few words: IN be over tomorrow afternoon
or Wednesday, but you needn't worry I
attic IA 'iie
1t IS hardly necessary to say that
iound out just how my capable housekeeper
Iulnlled her duties as caretaker to my baby
girl. who was too young and too frightened
10 tell tales. She actually hated the child.
why. nave never been able to understand
MY nrst instinct was TO resign my position
out that was impossible. l must work For
a Few weeks sent baby home to her grand
mother, and during that time secured the
city Tor copying, home work of any sort
AS my niue nome was not far from the
business section of town. l found | couId
get nome work from four firms two being
lawyers who wanted typewriting done hut
VINO could not afford to pay for the regular
ail-day services of stenographer Then a
few weeks later a real estate firm onenad
an Office on the block Just above and I an
piled for their work. Among them all
earned TWO dollars more week than / had
earned with the wholesale firm but part of
this Went for telephone calls extra car
fare. etc l had a typewriter at home and
turned my spare bed chamber into a den or
office. OF course l lad to be much away
from home but my hours were irregular
and the new housekeeper never knew what
moment | might pop in. that good treat
ment was assured my baby girl and she
S.
work was much harder than when | was
regularly employed in office but the as
surance OF my baby's happiness and safety
was sweet.
Rather Work at Home.
How many mothers forced into the busi-
ness world, have tried to solve this problem
of protecting their babies from ill-usage?
There are day nurseries and churches. to be
sure. but the average mother in moderate
circumstances and of refined tastes does not
incline favorably toward any institution
Acting on this woman's suggestion of
doing typewriting and stenography at home
i talked with a number of independent type-
writer's. The most successful, because an
pareHtly. the most contented woman of all
is about twenty-five years Old and lives
with an invalid mother in suburb of New
York. She does copying of any and all sorts
and twice "A week runs into the city and
drums up trade. She takes the work home
with her and sends 1t back by mail or ex-
press. according to the size of the parcel
She copies manuscripts for editors and pub
fishers. legal work. inventories and mailing
lists, writes circular letters and addresses
envelopes In quantities. Every morning at
o o'clock she goes to the Office of the lead
Ing real estate firm of the little town and
takes dictatton. This mall she transcribes
at home and returns the letters to the firm
In time for the afternoon mail. The rest Of