The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1917-07-05
EARNING POWER
How to Increase Your Husbands
Income at Home.
EIGHT WAYS WOMEN TRIED.

What Actual Women Have Achieved
BY Using Their knowledge Of How TO
% Some One Thing Better Than
Anybody Else.
Until the high cost Of living prob
lem Is solved one must keep on living!
Even by most clever planning family
Of four cannot be supported adequately
on ST02 a year. Thousands OF wives
are clarifying their standing" instead
OF hurting 1t by helping their husbands
increase their incomes. Below are eight
actually tried and successful plans.
A California woman sent cards stat.
ing she would make buttonholes at 2
cents each. Hurried and afiluent moth.
ers responded at once. Her work was
neat. She made two average button
holes In ten minutes-24 cents an hour,
$40 day for the five hours day she
could spare.
An Illinois wife had a large back
yard She specialized In cucumbers
She, with her two little boys, kept the
vines In fine condition. Summer GU.
cumbers for salad, smaller fall ones
for pickles, were her stock. What she
did not sell she put up in glass jars
attractiyely. These sold readily for 80
cents per quart. She nettetl an average
OF $25 per month.
A California wife made round, heart
shaped and animal spiced and sugar
cookies, tied neatly in wax paper, a
dozen to package, Is cents dozen.
She began with small oven on her
gas stove and In two years needed and
bought baker SIZE range. She does
all her work Of mornings and clears
$40 to $50 per month.
Why not rabbit raising? An Iowa
wife In snail town found this fine
pay. Feed only alfalfa dry and rolled
barley. With several bucks and $50
does $50 to 500 per month has been
cleared by her. Small capital needed,
as very few will soon start bust.
ness" on a paying basis.
A Connecticut wife advertised her.
self as a skilled fruit Gamer. Her pay
was 40 cents an hour or one-fourth Of
fruit canned. The share plan gave her
enough fruit for her family Of FIVE. and
often she had extras" to sell for spe-
cial occasions. Result, plenty Of good
fruit free and SIS to $25 per month cash.
A little wife in New Jersey "adores'
dainty laundry work. She makes
speciality Of laundering beautiful I'M
derwear, babies and children's dresses,
chiffon and crepe de chine waists. Her
standing Is Of the best. Her winter
work averaged SIS to $50. In summer
she makes as high as SOS.
The husband Of a California woman
made her fine loom. She devoted her
spare time to learning how to weave
and how to create special designs. |
Now, after two years, she turns OF
skilled work and clears 500 or more |
month. Her husbands salary is SIS.
Doll dressing, bean bags made In cute
animal shapes, baby rompers and creep
ers and gingham and hand embroider-
ed sunbonnets for infants Gil in the
spare moments Of clever New York
woman most delightfully."-. Trade among
4 few intimate friends at first, but 80
we'll done as to be quickly advertised.
Income per month always $50 to $40.
Christmas season brought $50 month
for mother, q bonus Of SIS to fourteen.
year-old daughter assistant
In every woman lies the desire to do
Dome one thing. II We stick to It pa.
Eiently through the first slow moments
ne will find the results astonishing for
snort expended and ourselves much
because we are lifting our hus-
lands burdens and giving something
70 life out Of our real best Selves
Pictorial Review.