The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-30
he Business
Woman at Large


iii these days earn an honest and often Q
|E luxurious living are daily enlurging
and increasing In numbers and any
II woman of ordinary ability and good
esrp can ind means by which she can not
y keen the wolf from the door, but lay by
"a enough to maintain herself when employ
4 * no longer to be had. One cheerful little
|rrun earns an excellent stipend as a profess
|rl brica brac duster. She arrives at stip-
"a time with an equipment OF silken cloths,
edns fluids and little brushes and cleans
! 5atunTy, the choice plaques, rare vases and
kits picture frames, which would be endan-
"a By unintelligent handling.
|lsothsr bread-winner chooses exclusive neck
b ie gentlemen too busy to hunt what they
u in the shops. Thrown suddenly upon her
j resources, with no business specialtics at
E EnEer tips, she thought over the situation
<Ro days. Then she visited wholesale house
a y makes and imports mems neckties, and
1t two dozen of just the most stylish, stun
i ties they had. They were not loud. But
we're elegant, smart. Thus equipped she
ea her best bib and tucker-looked the lady,
~ you nothing else-and started to sell her
.&ia in Offices They went like hot cakes.
HErre delighted TO get such neckwear with
= hsmg to hunt for it. 1t was gentlemanly,
lave and she only asked fair profit. She
II BOW built up nice business. She not only
- The neckties she carries, but she takes or
n for special kinds, and, if necessary, will
h them,
'H y what one woman, a siclily one at that,
7piahed in an occupation which was certain
odd one for a woman TO undertake. She
N express business and runs it uncommon
Ftu Many men have run express businesses,
conceivable that some women could do
quly we'll, but this particular proprietor
'ne and wagons manages her affairs largely
Der sck bed. Hers is curious case, in
10 situated, few women would have had
1ase enongh to attempt more than the man.
ny OF their medicine bottles, but that sort
y dld not suit her energetic mind, what
lz body had to say about it.
woman express manager inherited the
Pcs from her husband He had made some
2; at least she might have sold her horses
sssons and lived the life of n sofa invalid.
ne knew something about her husbands
and felt that she could run the business
Well ns it had been run in the past m
o. aeling, she bought. Her management
Euct, and she watched details carefully
INST thought was merely that she could
sae business at the same level as before;
sae soon proved herself better manager
M husband. Her patronage increased and
w ner staff of workers increased, Her
s rumble through the streets and are
" ol all men, but few suspect that the sur
panied across their great sides belongs to
~ a'tle woman, who, as likely as not, Is
q uoctor's hands at the very moment.
s'nen are energetic, and can attend to de-
NY M " Is rare that one possesses the exccu-
-slIy necessary TO run great business
peng actually on the spot continually,
se' ms woman exprcssman has good sub"
s's' ont It is not, with her, a case Of some
- aolng the work while she remains pic
sSe head' She knows we'll exactly what
% In her stables.
,.as lEhealth this woman has had to con.
"A a' 'l orsauizations far larger than her own
.@ great express companies of the country,
= i've OF which send wagons into her ter
n ;ii' anu even with the street car company,
Sp.rates n', trolley express almost past her
on'y acute management could enable her
Nv " mold her own, but to prosper, in the
: 'nls rivalry. She does not expect ever to
- Ap,ess business as large as those of some
nais. but 20 long as there is comfort
ua' increase In the amount of business
n. ~ ~ 'ne number of dollars on the fair side
|.es,sa.a,uuee accounts, she is content to remain
"A ~ s'scess, be it added ns a last word, has
my any especial luck as an important fac
- nc,. s a,s ~ found herself "up against" misfor
- "se Than once A fire, an accident 10 her
<l,t ,ns olner calamities have fallen to her
= 'aa made inroads ON cher profits. She
| Y nil, u0a being a fnvorltc OF fortune that
Mt msa1 Iaye posed as poor thing" if she
k am,ss aue UP her mind that she was going
I'd ls'.er a.; Of her iate,' and, incidentally, Of