Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-15
HOME MONEY-MAK|NG
Pin Money Tips for the Coun-
try Woman.
UNDEVELOPED TALENTS
THE FIRST STEP rs TO STUDY THE
POSSIBILITIES AT HAND.
Some Old Ways Which Have Turned
Small Talents Into
Cash,
UNDEVELOPED TALENTS

Written for The Star by Anna s. Richardson
A farmers wife wrote to her city cousin
somewhat after this fashion:
1T does seem as though ought to be
able to turn my long winter evenings 10
account. 1t don't take me long 10 read the
few papers and magazines we get and i
thought 1 might be able to do some copy
ing. Do you know of firm in your city
that would send me envelopes or circulars
to address?'
The city cousin wrote back:
You would not pay for the oil you burn
addressing envelopes at the rate girls do
them here. and / don't know where l could
get you work from such distance: but IL
you can send me some birch bark baskets
like the one you made for my birthday /
know where / can sell them for s. 80 each
Don't try to do city work on a farm"
There are hundreds OF women just like
this particular farmers wife, who are try
ing to compete at long range with city
workers, and neglecting the opportunities
nearer home. This little woman acted on
her cousins advice. and made not only the
scrap baskets, but calendars, frames and
pretty boxes, all from birch bark, which
sold well at woman's exchange. Next
she sent a rustic dish to a city florist and
received all the orders she could I'LL In re-
turn. The fern dish or tub was a cross sec
ton of a lichen-covered tree, about six
inches high and foot in diameter. 1t was
followed out to hold tin lining, and then
set upon four rustic, stubby legs. When
summer came she filled these low tubs with
moss and ferns and sold them direct to
boarders at the nearest village. saving ex-
press charges and the commission she had
been paying the city florist.
If there is one person who cannot be
blamed for getting into the proverbial rut.
it is the farmers wife her daughters. her
sisters her cousins and her aunts. Cook
ing three meals a day for hired men 800
days in a year, with good measure for leap
year is not conducive, as a rule, to the
sharpening Of wits. But If the woman on
the farm will get away from beaten lines,
such as her husband and her neighpors
follow she will not only make pin money,
but she will take a new pleasure In life. III
her time is spent largely in the kitchen.
then let her look outdoors for means or
making money. little more fresh frult
for dessert and less pies and cakes will add
to the family health and income. Her
earnings from her own particular vocation
may be small at first but In time even her
soothing husband or brother Will respect
her earning capacity.
She Found Way.
Colorado ranch woman, whose nus
band was making a bare living raising
wheat, discovered, while roaming through
a nearby gully one day some odd-shaped
pointed stones. She took one home, and
the next time she met the district teacher
she asked some questions and found that
She had a fine Indian arrow head. She sold
not on,y,that arrow, but many more, TO
Denver curio and souvenir dealer-enougn
to buy her the first all-new dress she nad
had in wears to say nothing OF sundfy
housekeeping conveniences.
a Massachusetts woman who loved brlSht
coIors planted dahlias all around her kltch-
en- doors and windows ITO keep her eyes
from her tiresome round OF duties, sne
said One day city woman riding past In
her touring car stopped to admire ana then
to buy some of the gorgeous deep red
blooms ,
You could get q fine price for these In
Boston" she said in patronizing way
"Where?" asked the farmers wife,
quickly.
man carelessly. -,
Twill you give me the name of yours!
said the owner of the dahlia plants.
She secured the address, sent box OF
fresh blooms to the florist and secured his
order as long as her flowers lasted This
year she has added chrysanthemums to the
dahlias and next year she will take up vio-
let culture.
But" says a reader, II have no flower
garden started this year, and l want to
make the money quickly
They Did Washing.