The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-28
BACHELOR GIRL
MAKING MONEY
Pleasing Occupation That Can Be
Made to Pay Well.
DAINTY BOXES OF CANDY
HAD NO DIFFICULTY FROM THE
FIRST.

augusta Prescott in Men and Women
There is a bachelor girl in Gotham
and she is western girl-full of ambi-
ton and bubbling with enterprise She
came to New York to work, and after
looking over the field open to the wage
Garner said to herself: Il must get out
of the beaten track; l must do some
thing new If l am to succeed" Casting
about for an opening her eye fell upon
the dainty boxes of candy that are dis
played in confectioners' windows and
an idea came TO her: why not make
candy boxes?" She knew that candy
is always in demand and that all high
grade candy sells best when placed in
pretty receptacles. And why should
not 1 be the one to make them?" que
ried she.
A few days research among the
makers of candy boxes convinced her
that there is money in such work, but
only when the person constructing the
boxes makes the candy filling as well.
One dealer. good-natured man, said
TO her: Young lady, you have hit
upon the right idea. There is a de-
mand for specialties in candy. We had
an order today for a birthday box. 1t
was TO be filed with candied viOlets
underlaid with chocolates. The box
was to be I'm the shape of a heart with
viOlets painted on the lid. 1t was to
be covered with pale violet SATIN and
upon the sides there was to be the
name Violet worked in silk letters.
The customer was willing to pay fif-
teen dollars for the box complete, but
we were compelled to refuse him, as
We do not take orders for specialties
of this kind"
How a Western Girl Began.
Would you be willing to turn over
such customers to me?" queried the
western girl, with a nothing-venture-
nothing-win look in her eyes.
With pleasure" said he.
And thus she launched her candy
box industry.
II could have succeeded fairly well
in a small city," she said afterwards,
telling of her experience, for there are
always those who are willing TO pay
a good price for nice candy put up as
a gift. But in New York / found an
almost limitless field for my activity.
If I had pushed the business as hard
as was possible, l am sure that l could
have been worth my million by this
time"
However, although she has not
earned her million" she has done
well, and the business is one for any
woman who wants a field that is not
too fully worked.
But, the girl who is going into this
line of work must learn that it is a
business that requires a great deal of
ueatness and considerable taste, also
that it needs much application and
knowledge Of several of the trades, not
to mention the professions. She must
be able to paint little, otherwise she
viii have to hire a decorator for her
silk boxes. She must be able to en-
broider a set of initials or a name, 9TH
erwise she will require the frequent
services of a needle-wOman. She must
be a maker of paper flowers. She must
know how TO select and combine col
ors, and she will require a knowledge
of the new tintS and new fabrics. She
must know what other decorators are
using, both in her own he and in other
lines, and she .ust keep step with the
times.
This particular girl-this western
girl-found il necessary to work few
days In d candy box factory.
Here she learned to take pasteboard
boxes and cover them neatly. II they
were to be covered with satin paper,
she learned how to fold the paper so
that there would be no wrinkles in il,
and how 10 apply il 10 the box with
touches of glue. She learned how to
cut out the paper 10 exactly Tit the box,
now to line the boxes, and how 10 make
the little pastebOard trays that are
part of all handsome candy boxes. And
she learned many other things alOng
this line.
Her next siege of apprenticeship-fo
she is a girl with whom thOrOughness
is a watchwOTd-was in a basket fac
tory, where she was taught to weave
the simple little baskets which, filled
with candies, are sold in all cOnfec-
tionery stores. She also learned how
TO make the tiny little basket favors so
popular for dinners and luncheons.
Basketry is not a difficult thing to
learn. You must acquire the knack
of starting the basket correctly. The
splints must be laid criss-cross in the
hand: the slender thread of splint is
then carried through the basket, weav-
ing it to the right size. One lesson from
a basket maker will be sufficient in
struction for the simpler styles. But
this girl took the matter in its fullest
processes, and when she left the fac
tory she could make fancy little bas-
kets which cost only a song and sold
very well indeed. This she afterwards
explained was one of the best points OF
her apprenticeship-the basketry.
When she had completed her actual
apprenticeship she began the study of
specialties. She learned that heart
shaped boxes are in demand for "en-
gagement" parties and for special gifts. |
She found that tiny lace paper boxes
were cheap and sold well for cotillion
faVo"- cor coming out" parties, and
for d souvenirs. In short, she
studio Ur The subject OF candy boxes, |
and by the time she was ready TO go to
work in earnest she had acquired the
mastery Of the business.
Her First Order.
Her first order read something like
this: lone candy box. shaped like a
heart, covered with lace and trimmed
with daisies. Price. So"
This required a stock box, which, |
when purchased by the dozen from a
paper box dealer, cost about cents. |
On the lid there was set a big rosette !
of lace with a daisy center, which re-
CURED two yards of scent Valenciennes
and one 10-cent velvet daisy. A few
aisies-costing 10 cents per half dozen
surrounded by little wheels of lace. |
were applied to the outer rim OF the
box. The total cost of the box was:
DAISIES ........s...s.ss.s ss'.'..ss 'SV1O
Lace. ....s..s.....ss.s. ...... 20
BOX.......... ............s..ssss $50. .Ol |
Knots of baby ribbon .............. .0S