The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-13
PRINTING AS VONBE'S WORK
4 FIELD WESTERN Girls ARE
FAST MAKING THETR own.


many Omess n whisS Few men Are New
FmpAseedA|T@s WsglS aAaa 60 Ne Wen
Suited 10 Experteaoe sG .
WOmaa whS owns Ser OWu shsp-
Last year I cleared o. 100 in'my buai-
ness.' aid q young woman who owns
and manages q printing establishment
In Q large Western city. That Wasabove
my own salary 80 manager and all sx-
psnsss. There may DO men in the buni-
but don't bslisve there are many
$50 far a. I con judge printing h about
90 suitable for q woman a. a man. In
the West there are very few men printers
In the country towns these days. Almost
every bit Of work In the printing oGfice~
In tho smaller places 10 done by girls. I
know personally Of nearly ono hundred
such ofiices where there are only one or
two men. who are kept simply on account
Of their physical strength. to do the heavy
lifting
Il began in aIch an ONCE My flasher
had owned q small job printing plant in
the city and was ordered into the country
on account OF his health. He settled
near q small town aud began doing print
ing in q small way in Q back room oT our
home ! was his only assistant from the
time I was until his death when I was
y In the meantime his business had
increased to such an extent that he had
built . frame printing shop in osr yard
We had "a much - ne could do.
AT his death Ave wears ago I deter
mined to move into the city and push the
buainess. II took me two years 20 find n
suitable place. and since then things have
been moving ahead.
when I FIRST opened had a foreman
aud seven mon Bsaicsa managing the
business did all the cAnVassing for WORK
Il want very easy "a walk into q business
house and tell the manager you wanted
him to give Won a trial at his printing
Many women have told me they Just
oouldn't have done that part % IL. So
far a. ! am concerned Il was not harder
than approaching a strange man on any
other business I had 10 cOnvincs him
that IL was to the advantage Of his houae
10 give me his work that ! could and
would do just as good work for HIM as
any printer in the city.
IL there was any printing To be done
I usually got q small share OF IL. and that
was all asked. knew u got tho chance
10 show my work ] could gradually sin
in and get all they had 70 give out About
the onIy thing ! am proad Of is that
have never loot q customer ~~s
There isn't bat of work that couldn' {
do myself excepting the heavy lifting
and that is one reason I ind the work
50 much 60 my taste. Where ,eonap
understands every detail % her buslhess
can do il with her own fingers. sho ap-
prsciates the good or bad work Of her
smployeaa When the men and girls who
work for ne turn out poor Job know
whether IL 10 cNrelesneSs or accident:
when they do good work. which they
generally do. ! know the ehOrt IL cost
under the circumstances Because ~
, nat I found IL was best 20 become nav
own manager and hire wome@ To canvas
for me.
-Yos. I employ both Eirls and men a
very few msn. Printing - not necessarily
he dirty husins~p thEt 40 many imagine
II The Old printing Offices certainly did
look pretty dinGy and the printers wsr.
about a. ssntidy ss frsn-n and o.
.Zreasers. I rememn%r when my father
and his once looked Just that wav bat