Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-20
Women Make
Good in All
EndeQCOrS
Haze Attempted Everything
but Plumbing and Black
sBlitE1ing.
By JULIA @. HENDERSON.


The activities Of women, in a great
measure, seem to be disturbing some Of
the masculine minds Of today. That there
are but three lines OF work which women
have not ventured upon to date-plumb-
ing. blacksmithing and care and con-
struction of macbinery-may be the
cause of such disturbance. The time may
not be far distant when they Will enter
these fields with as much avidity and re-
BourcefuIness as they have entered other
endeavors as hazardous as are these.
1t is with a great degree of satisfac-
ton to those who have encouraged and
forwarded women's interests to know
that women are making good wherever
they have been placed, and that they are
coming into their own through their am
bition and efforts in large way at this
time. That they are showing gradual In
creases in occupaional work in Indiana
is shown by the census bureau statistics
of 1920.
The predominance Of women is shown
in the following Occupations: School
teachers, H. 15 women as against 5-l16
men; bookkeepers, cashiers and account
ants, 1888 women as against 8,1O6 men;
stenographers and typists, 12,709 women
for women are listed as follows: Coal
mine operatives include p women; car
penters. 4; laborers in steel mills and
blast furnaces, POI; draywomen, express
women and teamsters, 49, laborers on
steam railroads, 100; physicians and sur
geons, 1874; clergywomen, u4i women
judges, lawyers and justices Of the peace,
20; commercial travellers, 100.
Dressmakers and seamstresses de-
creased in number from 13,409 in 1910,
to e571 in 1920, this probably due to
ready made garments being so attrac-
lively and cheaply made.
A resume of business women reveals
many new and novel ventures In bust
ness groups in Indianapolis alone are to
be found automobile insurance and sales
women, interior decorators, goldsmith,
farmers, bee keeper, advertisers, wagon
maker, candy manufacturer, abstractor,
anaesthesist syndicate writers, real es-
tate dealers, documentary photography
costume jeweler, partner in service truck
sales company sculptor, legal clerk, arch
itect, dentist, saleswomen for life and tire
insurance, convention reporter, lawyers,
Justice Of the peace, partners in stone
construction and sand and gravel con-
struction, partner in road building, edu-
cationaI directors in large department
stores, authors, physician specialists.
managers Of trust, safety deposit and
steamship department in local banks,
manager Of woman's bank department
owner and manager of letter shop, actu-
ary in life insurance company, music com
poser. These are but few Of the many
activities in which Indianapolis women
are engaged as well as those which have
been theirs for years.
There are still men who contend that
woman's place is in the kitchen. During
the last campaign there was the man
who said, when q notary called to regis
ter his wife's vote, She'll do nothing Of
the kind" and addressing his wife, d.
rected her to the kitchen with the order,
go back there where you belong, III at
tend to this"
But that man viii, II this wife dies,
have a long, hard fight to get another
for the day is past when the so-called
lord and master viii be allowed to think
for his wife and direct her movements
This is a progressive age in which we
live. Women are not quite shut out now
to any vocation. Consequently they are
coming TO the fore, and are proving their
ability in a way not to be questioned.