Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1907-05-03
Fair Woman.

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lind There seems to be nothing under
40 spn that the American woman
ant do if she but makes up her mind
t0it.
When the last census was taken 100
d,Aerent occupations were given, and
women were represented in all of them
.veent in the army and navy and as
street-car drivers and telegraph line
,oan. There are several hundred woman
hlaeksniths and plumbers, quite a
number of woman undertakers, and
thousands of lawyers, preachers, dem
fists. architects, commercial travellers,
and physicians who are women.
Twenty years ago if woman had to
make her own living, about the only
chance she had was to become school
teacher. Then she began going into Of
fees and stores, and now she has tried
almost all the jobs that formerly be-
longed to men, except soldering and
climbing telegraph poles.
CYNTHIA Westover Alden, president
and founder of the International Sun
shine Society, has probably earned
money in more different ways than
any other American woman. She once
cooked for sixteen farmhands on a
ranch in the West. Then she taught
borderland school. sang in church
choir, appeared in concerts, was fore
woman of a tent factory, was superin-
tendent in candy factory, inspector
Of street-clean1ng department, re
porter with notebook and camera, and
finally editor of family newspaper.
1t is said that the only woman bank
PRESIDENT in the!United States is Mrs.
Alice S. HaIderman. of Girard, Kans.,
who succeeded her husband after his
DEATH 1t was first private concern.
but it is now incorporated as a State
institution Mrs. Halderman is the
sister of Miss Jane Adams, of Hull
House, Chicago.
There is a woman cashier in bank
at Joplin, Mo-, who handles on an
average $4,000 every Saturday, that
being the miners pay day. There are
four other women holding posts OF re-
sponsiblity in this same bank, and the
institution is often referred to as the
T'w0man's bank"
AT recent amateur championship
shooting contest at Travers Island, N.
Y, Mrs. William X. Park finished
fifth in big field. She outclassed most
of the men, as she has freq uenuly done
in other tournaments.
Miss Marion S. Parker, De troit
girl, and a graduate of Ann Arbor, is
by profession civil engineer. She is
responsible for the architects work on
several New York skyscrapers, doing
nearly all the designing alone and plan
ming the steelwork and everything
from sub-basement to roof.
Mrs. d. G. Johnson, of Maxwell,
Iowa, has won for herself the name of
The Chicken Queen by raising more
domestic fowls than any other woman
In the State.
Several years ago her husband died
and left her large farm with Sl4 900
mortgage on it. She decided to raise
enlckens, and succeeded so well that
we mortgage was long ago paid.
one now ships her poultry to market
by the carload.
Miss Lou B. Clore, of the bluegrass
region of Kentucky, manages her own
iafm, buys and sells real estate, bosses
ner own workmen, and finds time to
write forpapers and magazines.
The only woman fock-keeper or
owner of sheep among the members of
'ne National Wool Growers Associa-
oon, which met at Salt Lake City not
iOhg ago, was Mrs. e. Bonnemort.
Mrs. f. NJ. Holland, of Chicago, Is
Nachlng the police of America to iden-
Wy criminals by finger prints. For
ni'een years she studied this science
under Fernier, the finger-print expert
VI scotland Yard, and she is said to
Anow more about this subject than
@nS other man or woman in the
United States.
E'iss Grace N. Wishaar, of San Jose.
Val Is the only woman theatrical scene
pam Ter in the United States. She was
'uucated IN Paris, and painted the
sVenery for three New York theaters-
VI, M Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, and
Herald Square.
-ne nrst woman to be appointed an
-" A"nlner in the United States Patent
rilce Is Miss Mary A. Sandes, of Ok
suOila, lawyer who made good in
NJ nome State before coming East.