Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-08-31
Women in New Fields.

1t is Il difficult matter in these days
of Woman's activity i'll many fields of in
dustry and usefulness to say what is a
new field for woman. The sex are SO
rapidly, though quietly. invading SO
many occupa tons that only Il little while
ago seemed reserved for or to belo&g eX-
clusively to men, that comment can
hardly be made on one step forward be-
fore so many follow that the new field
becomes ali old and well occupied one
In the professions and in the trades it
has long since been accepted that prac-
ticallv nothing is closed to women, and
while they do not always excel in every
calling. they are seldom actual failures.
But interests now attaches not so much
to the wide range of womens work as
compared with the work for which she
was supposed to be fitted only few
years ago, as it does to the industries
and callings in which women are pi-
oneePs.
The older walks of activity and means
of gaining Il livelihood have already be-
come crowded with women. and they are
mapping out new paths and investigating
and experimenting i'll new directions.
The success the sex meets with in this
direction confirms the modern belief that
women are resOurceful. and the old idea
that woman could not originate. but
had to follow some beaten path is as er-
roneous as il is obsolete. As proof of
this take the case of the young woman
in an eastern city who. on being thrown
on her own resources, and sizing up her
stock in trade as to talents and training.
found herself as she thought. almost
BANKRUPT Accustomed to wealth and
the security that wealth brings in mate
rial things, she was ut first in a sad
plight from being entirely without any
sort of qualification for earning her
own living. She had a knack at story
telling. and she studied out Il plan that
resulted in the organization of a number
of story clubs She read the latest and
hest novels. digested them. and at stipu-
lated times met with her clubs and told
the stories. 1t proved popular and she
soon had all the clubs she could possibly
serve and ut good compensation.
Somewhat along the same lines is the
work of a young philadelphia woman.
She was at her wits ends until she lit
on the reading club idea. She turned
her attention chiefly to lonely old ladies'.
and for a couple Of hours each day. ut Il
| stipulated time. she reads to them by
! tplephone II isn't even necessary Tor
these old ladies TO go to the trouble OF
/ going to club meetings, or even to dress
/ as women must dress when gong out,
| They can sit i'm their own bed rooms and
/ hear the reader She can have as many
( Il
many different wires nj the same time,
! and they all pay her generously.
! Looking towards somewhat different
/ fields. il is said that a woman IS one
! of the best sugar beet raisers in Califor-
mia. She has broad fields. and supcrin-
| tends her beet growing herself From a
very modest beginning she has butt ny
a great business. There is a woman
| in Nevada who supports herself and sew.
/ oral children raising and selling panpa
plumes. At Pasadena. Cal. several Ia
/ dies make a speciality OF preparing as
| trich feathers for the market
With these examples before uS-anid
tbev are only a few of many 1t would
he folly for any one 10 say that any
field Of industry or any occupation OF
usefulness is closed to women II seems
there i always something new. and tht
sex no longer has cause to complain at
the narrow limits within which they are
permitted to compete with mcn.-N ON
ans National DAILY.