Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-15

sleeves for underwear. etc. The city women
bought up every piece on sale ana induireo
eagerly for the address OF the worker Her
prices were so absurdly low that the bars
gain hunting fever seized upon the fair
tourists They found her to be n farmers
daughter. whose home was eight miles from
the village. Being a clever girl, she soon
found that her prices were too low but
raising them did not disconcert her Gus
toners. They not only gave her orders TO
il and deliver by mail. but they ecquaint-
ed her with the methods of reaching ex-
changes for women's work. and now she
has established trade.
Wild-Flower Booklets.
A girl who has gift for drying and
pressing flowers has paid her way through
normal school each year by selling little
booklets of pressed wild flowers to guests
at nearby summer resort. and her press
| ed autumn leaves go to city florists for
| funeral wreaths
Now the woman who wants 10 mako
business of raising flowers her only
nope lies In rotation OF crops and utilizing
every blossom that grows. She will have
| violets under glass and she will gather
arbutus and the later wild flowers from the
woods. She Will pot ferns and gather moss.
She Will keep her garden in constant bloom.
from tulip beds to chrysanthemum days.
| Old-fashioned flowers are now In vogue
mignonette. wall-fowers, dahlias, peonies.
ragged robins, or bachelor buttons they
~ SeiiitttsitS II Sne raises them ia
large quantities she will do we'll to deal d.
| rect with city florists. II she Is near a
| thriving city or town she can sell them I'm
the market having regular stall or she
can reach customers through a greonsrocer
or a fruit stand.
farmers daughter who lives Just out
side of Omaha, Neb. writes that she has q
regular trade in bread. doughnuts and flow
ers, which she delivers from door to door,
twice week, driving to the city herself.
A woman living near Harrisburg. Pa. has
built up large custom I'm cottage cheese.
made from sour milk and she. too sells
flowers In summer. She raises nothing but
mignonette and geranums, and is famous
for her bouquets.
Herb beds profitable and women who
raise lavender. mint. parsley. thyme, etc,
In quantities can deal with high grade
grocery stores and commission merchants
who handle green groceries.
Sweet Glover Pillows.
A farmers daughter who wanted to go to
college started her nest egg by drying
sweet-scented clover and lavender for pill
lows and sachets. She made the covers for
the clover pillows of crash, outlined with
four-leaved clovers and deep pink blossoms.
These she sold directly TO summer boarders
in the village. five miles from her home.
The lavender she sold through the village
druggist to a larger firm I'm the city.
The country woman who finds that the
fruit Is going to waste, ripening faster than
1t can be marketed or that the market
price is absurdly low, will do well to dry or
preserve it. Preserves. jellies home-canned
fruits and relishes of all sorts. notably
sweet pickles and tomato ketchup can be
sold at a good profit through womens ex-
changes If a woman makes them In guam
titles she will do just well and have less
trouble If she deals with frst-class grocery
firms In the nearest city. Hand-dried fruit
commands better price than the ordinary
brand obtainable at groceries. but should
be offered through exchanges or select
shops such as fancy groceries or delica-
lessen stores.
1t was farmers wife with knack for
making bows and setting feathers who ar
ranged with the owner of a village store TO
spend two afternoons of each week behind
his counter. trimming hats. 1t was not
kitchen and spend half of each day In the
store Now she has small interest in the
very store where she started.
A farmers wife was threatened with con-
sumption. You must live outdoors said
the doctor. Take long walks and drives.
Keep out of the kitchen"
Great advice, that, for a busy country
woman. But 1t was exercise in the fresh
air or confirmed invalidism and death. She
hired a neighbours daughter and turned her
back on the kitchen. For her walks and
drives she needed an objective point. She
began to solicit subscribers for cheap mag
aznes. First she visited her neiGhbors.
Then she invaded the villages all around.
When she had secured all the subscribers
she could she dropped maya zines for mex
pensive, small-payment life insurance. To-
day she is district agent for a large insur-
ance company She has good income,
better kitchen, in which a girl works regu-
larly-and not a sign of consumption.
Look Around You.
The country woman whose tastes run
toward the making of pretty trifes should
not feel disheartened because the village
store offers her so small a field for her
work. Let her investigate womens ex-
changes in the cities nearest her If she
does really good work she can market It
here. Write always to the secretary or SUI
perintendent of the exchange and ask for
the rules and regulations governing con-
signers You will have to pay fee in order
to enter your wares whether they are
pickles or Renaissance lace Read the
rules and follow them. If you make lace
collars and cuffs and the rules say that such
articles must be mounted on cardboard,
properly and clearly marked with your
name and address, do this. Do not imagine
that because you are busy or tired or have
no cardboard the secretary Of the exchange
will do It for you. Make everything look as
dainty and attractive as possible. And in
the meantime do not neglect your village
store. Send some of your simpler and less
expensive work there, such as pretty stocks,
embroidered beads for shirt waists and an
occasional doyley or bureau scarf. The
shopkeeper may ask you to take 1t out in
trade, and then sell it for money but you
are making profit on your work, just the
same.