The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-19

"\O DO the thlng which taxes her
the shortest step from her pres
ent occupation is often the sal
walton Of unframed women, SO many of
whom have at heart that question Of
how to become partly elf-supporting.
The business life of women has Gre
ated need Of which there is no end for
responsible domestic work from other
women, and the difficulty does not seem
so far to have been IN their coming to-
gether. Where this kind of work fails
to make living it is usually because
the woman who has the skill has not the
strength to do enough Of it. For the
reason that it is domestic such work
brings small pay for the time involved,
and the best plan for the woman who
can start in some special line of it is
to study the problem Of how to apply
help.
A woman who started in to make bread
succeeded beyond her widest expecta-
tions as long as it was matter Of pin
money. Soon her business increased be-
yond the pin-money age, and she
stopped "because, as she said herself,
she had too much work. ~ @.->
1t she had any men belonging to her,
either dead or alive, or anybody else
interested enough to weep for her, they
must have wept then, when the begin
ming of a nice little bakers business
tumbled down because she had too many
orders. ,@. ~ -. a.. ;.
A woman rented an office in one of
the large buildings, with only the price
OF month s rent and payment for a
small amount Of help back of her. She
makes over, repairs, rebinds, turns, rips
and combines with new, changes the
shape of sleeves, and puts new ruffies
on petticoats. She began by simply
sending cards, which set forth her work
clearly, to everybody she knew, and
now she has her six girls working stead
lily and has a nice; little income from
the percentage she makes from the busi-
ness which she handles.
For the woman who can do work by
the month for a few people there is a
richer field in being wardrobe keeper
to the business woman than to the busi-
ness man, as the woman who has no
mother or sister to do these things for
her is in dire need unless she has time
to do them for herself. ~
Another case, and one in which her
help has been her salvation, is that of a
walking housekeeper who takes her boy
and girl with her after school hours.
She spends three hours at each place,
cleaning, or cooking, or doing the more
skilled part of housekeeping, and does
the main part of the work needed in
that household for the day. She gets
-%the high price of dollar for the three
hours, and always is engaged, because
she gets SO much done for the time
spent.
A talisman to which she gives credit
for being inseparably mixed up with
her own good luck is admitted by Mrs
Ella Rawls Reader to have been an
almost superstitious belief in never
missing chance to help.
There are not many women or men
whose words should have as much
weight as those Of this Scotch woman
Of finance, who has had everything that
/ both sexes hold dear. Her financial
achievements, worth while even in the
world Of men, have been wonderously
mixed up with friends, influence and
magnetism, besides that greatest of all
things that can happen to women, being
swept off her feet by love, and having
the husband she would choose from all
the universe.
The only policy that this hard headed
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