The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-05-11
WOMEN AS DESIGNERS
FOUR THOUSAND OF THEM
EARNING GOOD LININGS.
They Make Designs for Everything
From Silks 10 Houscs---Do We'll IN
Competition with Men--ENperi-
enccs OF Some.

When woman founded tho
School Of Applied Design for Women
In 1892. it was work Of faith on
her part, says the Nrw York Times
Ever since the world began to till,
about women al all one thing that
was always insisted on was that they
had not the inventive or creative
faculty,
To-day there are women regularly
employed TO design silks, rugs or
other goods which are extensively
advertised as imported wares. The
goods are imported, for they arc
made in foreign countries, whore
thcy can he made bettcr and cheuner
than in America; but they are made
from designs by New York women.
One graduate u the school worEa
for Turkish firm ia New Nork.
She IL constantly designing patterns
ana color schemes which are suited
10 tie New YORK market These ara
sent to the Orient and made up !nto
Turkish and other Eastern Rugs
The same is true OF French ana
japanese silks and various Other
goods The American designers may
not excel the foreign ones, but they
understand better what Americans
want
Four thousand former pupils az
this school are now earning q living
IN designing They are scattered ali
over the country but The majority
arc in and around New York Nest
OF them are employees OF manufacJur-
ing firms at salaries ranging FROM
$40 to S25 week, few receiving
less than SIS
A firm which makes very fashion,
able tailored garments sends out on
each one d label with special de
sign woven in, Two girls set s15 a
week for designing these labels
Everything connected with fomin-
inc fashions Offers All abundance OF
well paid work All fashion mag1-
ziuea employ designers for th-as
plates
Designing for trade catalogues og-
fers in almost iueShaustible field
Girls under twenty make see and
So a week at this An independent
worker makes a good income by de-
signs for shirt waist fronts. aIloyee
lace and embroidered dress patterns.
The sIowest OF all offices TO open
to these women have those Of the
architects. for here they encounter
the only disability attendant upon
their sex It is customary for tho
architect who desingna building to
supeyintend its erection. ana this
is difficult for women There are,
however, about fifty women me-
chanical draughtsmen In architects
Offices in New York
One Of them. recently designed
court house for Long Island town
Her employer viii snperintand the
erection Of the building but the de-
sien-was really accepted as she sub
mit,cd It,
As to the differences between the
work Of men and women In this line
the management of the school has
noted only two. Women excel in col
or rather than drawing and are
more interested in beautiful color
schemes than in the line work.
Women are inferior to men In free
hand printing. a qualification so de-
sirablc that a woman possessing it is
nearly always sure OF employment,
As for pay, special orders given
1ut TO lnlependent workers have a
G@e5 price, whether a man or wom-
an ayacutes them. Among regular
employees women generally receive |
less han men but not always
Nearly all these women have some /
one dependent upon them Some are
supporting parents OF invalid rola- |
tiyes, some educating younger broth |
ers or sisters. Many of them were |
poor girls who supported themselves /
while taking their course.
Girls have fought their way /
through the school by typewriting, /
sewing, or keeping books at night 10
get money TO 1--we on