Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-11-16
AUDUBON WOMAN
A SPLENDID WRITER
Tells Interesting Story About the
Business i'm Which She is Inter-
ested and For Which She
is so Well Qualified

is SO Well Qualified
Miss Daisy Frick of this city, who
in times past has contributed a num-
Der of excellent articles to various
publications, has just contributed an
article to the Pharmaceutical Era,
published in New Yorkin it's Novem-
facts. expressed in such a delightful
manner that we thought our readers
would be pleased to read the article
which is given verbatum:
LAS for the advantages a woman
has in pharmacy, they are so manifold
THAT l am often amazed that more
women do not seek them. To begin
with, [ love the work-both the
pharmaceutical and the commercial
ends. 1t is interesting, even facinat-
ing, and if it appeals so strongly to
me, why not to many other women as
we'll?
To be successfully established in
business, a woman must fit herself
for her professional and commercial
duties, although there are splendid
opportunities for her if she perfers
the professional part of pharmacy
alone.
Speaking from the standpoint of
the combination of the professional
and commercial sides, it is not neces-
sary to accrue fortune before start
ing in business. A woman of worth,
as well as a man, can borrow money
with which to open her own phar-
macy. Banks and wholesale houses
often encourage this method to tAe
r;u noopla With Unod rnanapa-
ment, a woman can pay off indebted
ness as the business earns and
grows. If surrounding conditions
are reasonable, she makes good in a
short time, and she is not only a
professional woman but she becomes
successful merchant and very
valuable asset to her community.
When we develop ability to do
opportunities to do bigger things are
always thrust upon us. A community
looks upon successful business
woman as an aid to almost every good
thing in that community. She is
looked up to, leaned upon, and con-
suited by old and young. Her use
fulness grows and grows and with
that growth comes prosperity and
happiness. The more interest we
take in our fellow being, the more JOY
is reflected to us. There is nothing
attractive, lovely, or worthy in a life
of selfishness and pharmacy is no
place for a selfish woman. Indeed
it is a broad field of opportunity to
reap golden harvest of reward. Watch
results. There is something new in
each new customer gained. In phar-
macy, there is lacking the nervous,
high tension, wearing strain which
comes to the woman of so many other
vocations.
We women pharmacists owe it to
ourselves and to our community to
attend as many conventions as posi-
BILE, both state and national; we must
give and do our little part. and we
are bound to take back home infinit-
ely more than we give. if we have the
proper convention spirit so definitely
described by Mrs. Wallace in the
August Era.
OF all professions. it seems to me
that Pharmacy is the one to which
woman is best adapted; of all COM
merical businesses, the drug business
whose patrons are seventy-tive per
cent women and children, the women
pharmacist is in turn, most satisfying
to the customers.
The privilege of boing your own
boss, of having your own purse, of
using your own time (for you can ar
range to have time of your own if you
WILD. are all very pleasing and tend
to make for contentmcnt and happin-
ess. You can be active in church work
for the good of your own soul as well
as for those about you, and | heartily
recommend that sort of activity, also
be active in the commercial club of
your town. whatever name it may be
worked under, and in at least one or
two women's clubs. They need you
as much as you need them. Then
have some outdoor hobby to take you
near to Natures heart, and to bring
you in touch with the great Spirit of
the Universe, as expressed in the stars
the wild flowers. the sparkling waters,
the sunshine, and the fresh. fragrant
air.
A good pharmacy business, a COM
Portable home, and an appreciative
community, of which you are an
active member, coupled with the
desire to please and toserve we'll,
be in city or town. are a combination
that makes a woman feel that she is
filling her niche in the world, IL not
to the entire satisfaction of her Great
or and herself, at least to very
appreciable extent.
ITO have something, be something
to be something. do something;
To do something, study Pharmacy
and begin now!'
l am now in my twelfth year In
the drug business and each year
like 1t better than the year before"