The sun., 1912-07-14
HOW SOME WOMEN
HAVE WON FORTUNES
A Chance for Any One Who
Knows How to Make Some.
thing Good to Eat.
DOLLARS AND COOK STOVES
Rig businesses in Pickles.
Olives. Preserves. Grape Juice
and Candipd Flowers.


how 20 make. and TO make we'll anything |
good 10 eat That simple knowledge is n !
capital Groater than the capita on which |
rost Young men start in business For |
never before. says a writer in the House
k'Sper. was 40 much ready made food In |
demand Never before was such hu. and
cry about adulterated food
Yet how many young women rea lie all !
this when casting about for way Of earn |
ing a living? Within a decade or two n
few older women have come uron the !
knowledge accidentally. and have been
much surprised 10 find where il has led
them
In a Richmond. Va. kitchen, for in
stance. woman once began making a
few more little cucumber pickles than
she needed because shp want ed more pin
money than she had Sho sold them 10
her neiShbors and then to her neighbors'
neichbors. and from that >ma II he ginning
a great business has grown. and t'.lt pin
money pickle ia now household word
About the same time California woman
began canning fruit to self to- friends who
liked 'he way she did IL Her friends were
back in Indiana. but thcy had tasted her
canned fruits and preserves and had
heard Of the wonders Of California fruit
and were willing to pay the freight
The first year she did her work on
California cook stove for which she had
great contempt. fo- il burned wood ns, "a 4
OF coal and had to he rciilled every few
minutes, The second year she had To
supplement IL with a Gasolcne stove and
also hire several women to prepare the
fruit. because the two stoves took all her
time and attention. By the end Of sum-
NOR her jars of fruit flied car and that
made the freight cheaper
Then she offered certain amount Of
canned fruit as commission to any one who
would send in a certain amount Of orders.
and women got To work soliciting and the
result of 1t all is that to-day she is at the
head Of a business that amounts to s1oo 900
wear. Her annual output avern ce,' 300
pns
By the third yea~ -he business had out
grown the home kitchen and there was
built few steps from the back door sop
arate kitchen. which has beer enlarged
from year TO year until the kitchen j.
really big factory. with rows of stcari
kettles and whole battaiions of electric
stoves. with tables on whecls and 4 great
packing room with tracks and trucks for
handling the packing cases. and a railroad
track at the door.
Mrs. r. A. lnghcn Of Ii. Mcrda Park
has worked up business of this kind
amounting TO between $4,000 and : ..AI
. year. Born in New Orleans. to q li.c
of ease hut not of ,,selaSsness. Mrs lngnam
had stored awGy in ner thr- la.ent cbiiity.
common among SOi.h"rn women. whch
necessity rouses To positive efficiency
With chnnge Of circumstances following
the war she Termed all the household a'1s.
and of these Mrs lnChGn took most pride
In her jelies. preserves end nGrinaiadcs
Sh" showed thon "a St,;c fairs in the
middle West and in one sr1son nctted
3'5 in prizes from three exhibitions.
This was for pleasure End hoIscwifely
pride. Then. end for yeS-s T'ter. she
made only wha: she needed for her oEn
tahle But after the boom of the !G's
'sos the inghsms were Ind poor end
saw their fruit rottlng on the ground
because there was no market for IL
Then Mrs Inghem remembered ~ pr
20 she had won in iowr. and Missouri cnd
Illinois She made some eiv end took
ii 10 q Los Angelo. grocer te &C." h"r
an order a nj agreed 10 furnish th" gla .Ses
This VIZ , d godsend; for funds Wore sr9rcr
ana it takes money tn buy srger and
L lasses and lars. even though fruit is
'Neap Lacking money. Mrs. lnSham could
q " creep along fer several seasons.
In time she ont grew her on" stove and
ad to build a larger kitchen end store
rooms. but she did this only a. she must
and could. and she did il alone for her
husbands health hal failed and she bed
no one else to shGre tn" responsibility
She hired helpers for preparing the fruit :.
but all the buying. the e'tuHl brairwork
OF making. and the marketing we're Mrs
Inghem's share. The result of her work
Is a good home and an income sufficient
for her needs and pleo nires; and in her
pretty. sweet smelling kitchen. set Tmong
the trees in her garden, she finds an
interest that challenges tho years.
Half dozen years aEo Louis" cary
Smith put up h,indrei ho,tl les of unfer
mented grape juice for fcmilv use She
took great pains with il and the friends
70 whom she gave n bnt'l" now end then
were so loud in its praise thu. the next
year she put up two hundred bottles. so
that she would have more to give away.
Then her friends asked il she would make
more. so that she could sell them some
And Mrs Smith began 20 hay" visions OF
paying on the mortgage on Fl Verde. he
pretty hundred acre ranch Of the Smiths
bottles-then. in successive y"crs five,
ten. twenty. forty thousand bottles
Instead Of paying on the mort ga 60
ut once. Mrs, Smith found it necessary
TO build factory ont under the palms
and peppers IN her backyard queer
looxing factory that grew by means Of
leantos and extensions a. the bus mess
grew. And the few hours required for
picking and pressing n few hundred
pounds of grapes and stra ming and clari-
fying and sterlizing few hundred nua1s
~ juice. which one could do alone.
stretched "a days for cuti ingto ons of grapes
and handling thousands Of gallons of
juice. which required severa ass sis'anis,
II was not on cookstove but in son p
wine casks on the back porch that Ms.
Freda Ehmann of Orovllle got her start
picklng olives She had cone INTO ros-
session Of an olive orchard which at the
time required money for it, care but
brought norhing in return. Rirc olives
were Ia hah lepute' beca,is" no ua"'hod
had been found for making them keep
in cans. When she began her "xl"ri-
ments Mrs. Ehmanr had never even
tasted a ripe olive. hut she was Ternunh"
to believe that they had futu.e. SI"
secured the hest iecir" known for p'chling
olives and set To work.
She had to carry wafer 10 her casks IN
buckets, hut she did not falt"r. paN and
night she kept an eye on har oiiv"s To not"
tho chan that took plare i'm them. for