The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-01-12
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when neeQ6Q Dy tuelI mOIuSIS, IL IAaS
vain ambition for more money and
gayer times. And yet ] know how
natural it is ior girls to want pin
money without having to ask for It
and it indicates kind heart not to
wish to burden the parents, who
perhaps they see are already over
loaded.
I should like, If / could, to help
these kind, home-loving daughters
to some way of earning their own
money, for it would not only give
them feeling of independence, but
would make them more self-reliant
and better able to cope with "the
butcher. the baker, the candlestick
maker" and all others with whom
they will be obliged to have dealings
when called to manage homes of their
own.
There are lots of young girls going
around selling soap and indigo at
higher rates than the grocery man
does, for the sake of moiety of pro-
fit. The country seems to be full Of
people wanting to sell things that
somebody else has done the hard
work and sweating to produce in
deed, if we had few less agents the
people would have more money. So
I only wish at this time to talk to
those girls who are industrious and
energetic and willing to work and to
make the things they ask people to
buy.
In every neighborhood there is
more or less demand for transient
help, for farmers wives are mostly
doing their own work, and need an
occasional lift. There are two rea-
sons for this state of things; one is
because they can not get help, and
the other is because they can not af-
fore to pay the price that regular
help demands. So if there were ca
pable girls in the neighborhood who
could be called in once in a while to
help when company swoops down on
a lone woman, or when threshers or
silo filters yawn at her gate, or when
something else happens and she
doesn't know how to get through
with all that seems to be required of
her-what godsend it would be to
have some neighbours reliable daugh-
ter to help over the hard place |!
And it would add to the girls PIN
money at the same time. If the
girl knows how to work, and doesn't
burn and break and destroy things
generally in trying TO be helpful, all
that she has to do is to let it be known
that she can devote a day or two each
week in such neighborly services, to
have all that she can do in that line.
A woman doing her work all by
herself would sometimes like to have
some one to come in once a week or
once in two weeks, to sweep and
clean up things for her. She might
like to have help at making and
mending clothes, or taking care of
the baby while she is busy or to
keep house for few days while she
takes a little outing for rest. One
has to wonder how the country homes
are to be cared for in the future, if
this farm exodus continues that is
now raging.
The farmers daughter might earn
many a penny by canning small
fruits strawberries, ras p berries,
gooseberries, currants, grapes and
also rhubarb, asparagus, string beans,
tomatoes, etc. All would find ready
sale if warranted to be good.
There are commission men, or
market men, if her own folks do not
attend market, by whom she could
sell such canned goods, who would
like to have their counters ir the
market place adorned with home
made eatables, and which would be
sure to sell well, for homemade
things free from poisonous adulterants
are more popular than the timed
goods of the factories, but she must
be master of the situation, to be sue
cessfu1. There must be nothing
haphazard about her work fruits
must be fresh, jars perfect, prices
reasonable, and then her skill will
not be without reward.
If she has opportunities for market
ing them, she could grow potherbs,
lima beans, flowers and such things
as are always in demand. Good
homemade pies, cakes, mush, apple
butter, or any other eatable, would
also find good customers. Ifshe can
not market these things in the cities,
she could find considerable demand
for them in country towns, for, be it
known, there is a sort of light
housekeeping" craze abroad that
seeks to supply table without labor,
and the farmers daughters may as
well profit by it. Everybody must
eat it is so ordered and there is
more money in catering to this need
than to any other.
Those who are handy with the
needle and have a gift for cutting
and fitting, could earn considerable
with their needle and their shears,
making "auld claes look amaist as
weel's the new" or in dressmaking
for the neighbors. Many discarded
dress skirt could be made into a suit
for the little girl, or a waist for a
grown-up and old coats or pants
could be turned into trousers for the
little man. The mother who does
not find time for such alterations and
repairs, would no doubt be glad If
she could get such things done at
reasonable rates by some reighbor
who is companionable and agreeable
to have around, and who is willing
to take held wherever there is any
thing needing to be done.
There are many other ways which
will suggest themselves to an active
mind, whereby a country girl can
earn from $50 to $1oo a year for her
self and be respected and esteemed In
so doing, and at the same time be the
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