CAREERS FOR WOMEN

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4011, 4 August 1931, Page 7

CAREERS FOR WOMEN

SELLING GOODS OH THE DOORSTEP Unknown to the majority of.its inhabitants, Glasgow is becoming a city of feminine business enterprise. A lucrative trade is being done at present in old-fashioned dishes and other antiques. hut these are not shop bought. They have been t a Id'll straight from village cottages to West hnd homes. Women have “adventured into the country ” and bought fine old porcelain and carvings “at dirt-cheap prices,” and sold them at a handsome profit to housewives whom they have discovered to be “ sweet on such things.” Keen then the buyers realise they have done well when they come to ■ • -mpa c ?»•!'• s in tlie antique shops and sale rooms.

Other enterprising women have organised jazz bands for hire at dance assemblies. There is a woman catering for the equipment and “ commissariat ” of youthful hiking bands, and another making a fair profit by selling in the suburbs supplies of seeds, plants, and garden accessories. Recently, too, a woman lias taken to hawking remnants and cheap dress lengths, so that she may obtain the wherewithal for a summer holiday for herself and familv.

There are also women organisers and directors of rag-picking and scrap metal collecting hands, who carry on quite an extensive trade, often in cooperation with large firms.