WOMEN WITH UNUSUAL JOBS

Northern Advocate, 11 January 1938, Page 8

WOMEN WITH UNUSUAL JOBS

Women who have made good in unusual jobs show how they have done it at the Alpha Club exhibition, opened by the Duchess of Kent at the American Women’s Club. Mrs Brocklebank is a tea merchant. She built up her business by concentrating on supplying English travellers abroad with their favourite brand of tea.

“I believe in specialisation for women,” she told the “News Chronicle,” “because then they can give the personal touch which makes such a strong appeal to customers.”

Disguised as Man. T Wen ty-flve-y ear-old Maud West, junior, has been a private detective for six years. She will shortly succeed her mother, who founded the first woman’s detective agency in 1905. Disguise of the old-fashioned sort is no longer advisable in detective work, she said. “New eyebrows and makeup and a different style of dressing can change a girl so much that her friends won’t recognise her.” But she has “worked” disguised as a young man in emergency cases. Once she acted as a male chauffeur for a week without being detected. Miss Elsa Vagnolini is an income-tax consultant. Most of her clients are men. £2 to £200,000. From £2 to £200.000 capital by hard work and faith is the record of Miss E. A. Browning, who has made it her business to create pleasant, quiet, selfcontained fiats for women of moderate moans. Miss Janet Merchant supplies weekly to her clients 400 super-sandwichmen —clean, collared, well shaven and shod. Pretty Judith Salz, of Vienna, capitalised her gift for cooking by introducing to London some of Austria’s famous cakes.

Other women members of the club include a dental surgeon, police inspector, film producer, silver fox farmer, plastic surgeon, and an alpine plant collector and sculptor.