The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-04
EVENING CHAT
BY RUTH CAMERON.

What a lot of obliging and generous
folks there are in the world.
am convinced anew of that fact by
the splendid way in which my readers
are responding to my request to pass
along any items of information they
may have in regard to unusual occu-
pations in which women can make
good.
Do you want to be included in that
mplimentary category in the first
line?
1 am sure you deserve to be, so
please give me an opportunity to do
so by sending along some item. You
surely know at least one item of this
sort. Several readers have sent me
two or three.
Here are some of them:
"a lady who was SO fond of dogs
and other animals that she was able
to handle them under almost any cir
cumstances, stop their fights and cure
their wounds and bodily ailments. con-
ceived the idea of making living by
taking care of cats, dogs, etc, when
they were i'll. She also boarded ami
mails while their owners were away
from home. She pets them, feeds
them and exercises them, and has
made so much of a success of her art
that she has built up some splendid
kennels"
That a fondness for babies could be
made as profitable as the above men
toned penchant for animals, is shown
by a letter which came to me in the
same mail.
You asked to hear of out-of-the-
ordinary occupations for girls. 1 am
not speaking of myself. as 1 am most
ordinary busy mother Of youngsters
But have felt a need in my neigh
bOrhood of a girl who could entertain
Youngsters, or at any rate keep them
from killing themselves until they
We're old enough to know better. 1
have talked it over with some of the
women in the neighborhood and have
found that there are children enough
to give a girl $2.25 a day, at the rate
of 25 cents, which I am sure the moth
ers would pay. The hours would be
short. The girl would have to be an
intelligent, refined person. as none of
US would be willing to trust an ordi-
nary nurse girl
Do you know how to buy a silver
baking dish with three dollars when
is the story of a lady who solved that
problem.
A dear little bride I know married
her knight" just out of school, with
little stock in trade but youth and
love. Among other presents she re-
ceived a check for $500 from an aunt.
with the instructions to get anything
she wanted. She wanted silver bak-
ing dish, but there wasn't enough
money.
After due elaboration she pur-
chased two settings of white leghorn
eggs for $3.50 a setting, and a kind
nelghbor loaned her two setting hens.
She began to inform herself on chick
en- culture, sending to Manhattan and
Washington for free bulletins, which
are so gladly supplied on almost any
subject. She raised to maturity thir-
teen pullets besides having about that
many frys. To make a long story
short she took care of these hens the
very best she knew how. kept an egg
calendar with every bit of feed they
ate and also the cost of a chicken run
back of the house, raised over a hun
dred frys each summer for three years,
and when she moved away at the end
of that time she had sold 500 worth
of eggs above the cost of feed, be-
sides their own eggs and chickens for
the table. She sold the hens, eighteen
of them now, to neighbor for $500,
with which she bought her silver dish
and three solid silver spoons.