The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-04
True STORIES
SUCCESSFULWOME
~ EDITH MORiARTr v


Jacob Schneider was never so disap.
pointed In his life as when fate de-
clded that his only child should be
Il girl instead OF a boy, Although he
idoliSed his small daughter he could
not help saying to her nov and then,
oh, II you could only grow up to be
a fine tailor like your father and
could put Schneider & Son, Ladies
Tailors, on the door OF my shop
Little Emily would promise that she
would be a tailor and that he could put
Schneider n Schneider on the shoI
and that 1t would be just as nice. The
two lived all alone In the small apart.
ment above the little tailor shop. EN-
ily's mother had died when she was q
baby and when she grew old enough
she kept house for her father, but unit
then Jacob Schneider was both mother
and father to Emily and nurse anI
housekeeper as well ASA ladies' tailor,
The little tailor shop which was To-
Gated In n of h small business Sec
tons which one always finds nears Tho
outskirts Of amy large city did a flour.
ishtng business and 10 Jacob decided
that he would send Emily 20 high schoo
after she finished grammar school
When Emily finished high school she
wanted to enter her fathers shop as
oi appISItltta nut ne W0ulu not neal
TO IL, He tried to talk her into gums
to business college, but Emily insisted
that she was going to make good her
childish promise to be a tailor. Her
father finally consented, but he ad-
Nised her to 10 to a dressmaking school
first to learn the elementary things
about the trade,
Few months and then she left to work
for her father. 1t was hard at first
because Jacob Schneider believed Ia
perfection and he expected his daugh-
ter to be more perfect than any of his
other help, But Emily did not progress,
very fast. She could do all Of the diff
ferent operations, but she could no,
mat she did not like the work as well
az she thought she would and after d
suit or coat was designed and palnne,l
and cut out she lost all interest in the
rest of the work. she hated the finish.
ing and that was what she usually had
to do, The buttons, and buttouholes
the hound seams, the faced collars and
curtis all had to be done and 1t was
such close and fine work that Emily
began to wish that she had gone ID
business school,
Choosing the styles and buying the
materials she really enjoved and moth.
ing pleased her more than to have hel
lhinef eau nef into the 'front.' OF Tho
shop to help some customer choose tn,
material, lining or style for her new
suit. Often Emily would suggest som,
little alteration in the cut Of the Skin
or the coat or she would offer a new
and effective color combination and al
ways her ideas were accepted. Afte
three years spent In this fashion sh
became discouraged and she asked he
father II he would mind II she trie,
something else. Jacob said no he woul
not mind, but he would like to hay
her stay with him another year and
she did he would let her keep his book
and do just the things that she like
best about tailoring, Emily was please,
at This and so she remained with he
father another year.
During that year she designed an,
cut most of the small trimming part
OF the suits as the collars, cuffs. belt
and pockets, She decided what lining
and what color trimmings should b
used with the different materials an
she was always present at the fitting
TO give n word OF advice as to TIA
length OF the skirt or the tit OF tn
neck, The customers liked II and man
OF them let her decide everything fo
them, Emily was really making ne
patrons for her father. hut he did nc
realize fully Just how much she WI
helping him. Instead OF remaining wit
her father for one year Emily stage
with him two years and she thinl
she would be with him yet II one OF h
assistants had not told the head d.