CHANCES FOR WOMEN

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 360, 2 April 1903, Page 3

CHANCES FOR WOMEN

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Vti* waya fa which New York women who are dependent apan their own efforts soaks both end* meet are varied. A woman who has bean forced to look for work made memorandums ef what she found others doing. She did not try far ordinary clerical work, air stenography, typewriting or employment in stores, aays the Sun. "X found one woman," the said, "who U making a comfortable living for herself and supporting an invalid husband by selling gloves which have been thrown aside at the glove counters for apparently trivial reason*. For example, in fitting a glove the saleswomen may break off a button or rip a seam or soil it so as to spoil a sale. This woman has a contract with several stores to take all such gloves at a reduced figure.

"She skillfully repairs whatever damage has been done and sells the gloves at less, of course, than the store price. Ido not know what she pays for. the damaged good*. /That., depends, I fancy, upon the extent of the damage. But Ido know that in some eases she sails a pair of $1.90 gloves for, one.dollar, maybe less, and' so on. I know she has built.up quit*lT a business in this way. A number of her patrons now have'orders with her frequently in advance for from one to a half doaen pairs. The saving of 50 or ?8 cents on a pair of gloves is quite an item. •■«'£§ "Another woman who had tried in * vain to make a living at millinery, in which she is an expert, calls at a number of houses in her neighborhood and takes the daily market orders. She is paid for this, of course, and I am pretty sure she is smart enough I to get a commission besides from the < ; butcher and the grocer. "Sometimes when the mistrese of the house wants something extra fora special luncheon or dinner the order- » taker makes more. On one occasion a woman who had lived in Washington wanted some Lynnhaven oysters. Now it is a fact that you can't find a Lynnhaven oyster in New York suoh as you can get in Washington. ' "This order-taker knew exactly how to get the Washington Lynnhavens at a redueed price, and how to have them shipped, and she made a handsome profit on her order. She told me,she would not exchange her work for a place in the biggest millinery foundry, as she called H, in New York.

"Another woman buy* nil the theater tickets lor a colony away uptown. Her patron* call up on the 'phone and name the date and play, and ahe doe* the rest. • * "I found another who, in addition to some other little jobs, tarnish** *sveral churches with communion bread. Then there is.another who sends out samples of new goods to customers in the country. She is not exactly a purchasing agent, for there are many such; she simply sends out the samples, naming the house where the goods may be obtained. The name and the address of each person receiving the samples are furnished to the house sending but the samples, and in case of a sale the woman is notified by the house, which pays her a commission. "This sort of business, she told me, pays better than a direct purchase by an agent—if the woman who send* the samples has a good list of customers, for tbe reason that many customers in the country rather like the idea of dealing with the house direot in purchases. The stores, she added, are not so apt to send samples as a woman who makes a business of it. "I found a woman in a drug store in a fashionable part of the city who is a graduate in pharmacy. She fills only such prescriptions as are brought in by women. She receives a salary, but she gets a commission on all the trade she. secures from women. "And so it goes in this great city where so many women have to make their own living. If a woman can only find something novel she will find plenty of people to help her out." ~ Atnev&atc * Cousvtrr of Bride?**. The market for bridges is far" greater in the United State* than elan* where. The states have now 190,0t» miles of railways, and it has been *•• timated that there is an average'of one span of metallic bridge for every three miles of railway. This gives 68,000 bridges on existing line*, without including those required for new line*. The increase in the United State* oi the weight of car* and engines ha* rev suited in wonderful economic change*. This increase of weight of rolling stock ha* led to the renewal of the 83,000 old bridges by stronger and heavier one*. This demand ha* brought into existence many bridgabuilding companies, and they can well afford to equip themselves with the best labor-saving and accurate work* ing machinery, regardless of firatcost, as they know it would seldom, if ev*fr lie idle). —Engineering Magazine. -^ Vp in <bv« i&Jff, '"- '••*■ It it on* of th«p*eulieriM««b* travtf by balloon, eay* the Idler, that you Q* not feel anything; all is still with yen, no matter how fast you may be going. Ton see, yon are riding with the wind; you move a* fast at It moves; jva. are part and paroel of it, whether you wins in be or not. It takes yon in lis a«v brae* ao firmly, yet so softly, you 8* net know it in there. Ton may be In Abe teeth of a aurdoaa*, but yon nerav know, it; all it calm and plneM *yi«& gen, \