The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-01
FAIR WOMAN.

Her Notable Advance in the Struggle
 for Life in This Busy World. New York Sun.
 Uncle Sam's daughters have shown themselves to be the most advanced. capable and courageous of all woman kind. There seems to be nothing under the sun that the American woman can't do if she but makes up her mind to it.
 When the last census was taken 130 different occupations were given, and women were represented in all of them except in the army and navy and as street car drivers and telegraph 1ine- men. There are several hundred wo- men biacksmfths and plumbers. quite a number of woman undertakers, and thousands of lawyers. preachers, den- lists, architects, commercial travellers and physicians who are women.
 Twenty years ago if a woman had to make her own living about the only chance she had was to become a school teacher. Then she began going into offices 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 Sum- shine Society. has probably earned money in more different ways than any other American woman. She once cook ed for sixteen farmhands on a ranch in the West. Then she taught bor- derland school. sang in church choir. appeared in concerts, was forewoman of a tent factory. was superintendent in a candy factory, inspector of a street cleaning department. reporter with notebook and camera, and finally edt- tor of a daily newspaper.
 It Is said that the only woman bank president iu the United States is Mrs. Alice S. Halderman of Girard, Kas. who succeeded her husband after his death. It was first a private concern, but 1t Is now incorporated as State instttutton. Mrs. Halderman is the sister of Miss Jane Addams of Hull House. Chicago.
 There is a woman cashier in a bank at Joplin, Mo, who handles on an av- craze of $25.00o every Saturday, that being the miners pay day. There ave four other women holding posts of re- sponsibility in this same bank. and the institution is often referred to as the ''woman's bank"
 At a recent amateur championship shooting contest at Travers Island. N. r., Mrs. William K. Park finished fifth in a big field. She outclassed most of the men, as she has frequently done in other tournaments.
 Miss Marion S. Parker, a Detroit girl, and a graduate of Ann Arbor. is by profession a civil engineer. She is re- sponsible for the architects work on several New York skyscrapers. doing nearly all the designing alone and planning the steel work and every thing from sub-basement to roof.
 Mrs. D. c. Johnson of Maxwell, Ia, has won for herself the name of the Chicken Queen by raising more domes- tic fowls than any other woman in the State. Several years ago her husband died and left her a large farm with a $14.oo0 mortgage on 1t. She decided to raise chickens, and succeeded so we'll that the mortgage was long ago paid. She now ships her poultry to market by the car load
 Miss Lou c. Clore, of the blue grass region of Kentucky. manages her own farm, buys and sells real estate, bosses her own workmen, and finds time to write for papers and magazines.
 The only woman flock keeper or own CT of sheep among the members of the National Wool Growers Association. ago, was Mrs. E. Bonnemort.
 Mrs. E. M. Holland of Chicago, is teaching the police of America to iden- tify criminals by finger prints. For fifteen years she studied this science under Fernier. the finger-print expert of Scotland Yard, and she Is said to know more about this subject than any other man or woman in the United States.
 Miss Grace N. wishaar. of San Jose, Cal, is the only woman theatrical scene painter in the United States. She was educated in Paris, and painted the scenery for three New York theatres the Fifth Avenue, Manhattan and Her aid Square.
 The first woman to be appointed an examiner in the United States Patent Office Is Miss Mary A. Sanders of Okla homa, a lawyer who made good in her home State before coming East. Miss Mae Kennedy was the first woman to go before a board of inspectors and successfully pass the examination for steamboat pilot on the Mississippi Riv- CT.