LADIES’ GOSSIP.

Otago Witness, Issue 3613, 12 June 1923, Page 63

LADIES’ GOSSIP.

WOMEN IN ODD TRADES, Mincing Lane, the home of wholesale tea has a woman tea-taster. She has hundreds of samples of tea to taste, and in wonderfully short time gets through the sampling of thirty cups of tea. A ci , > ovkshire town has as its coroner's clerk a girl of twenty-four. Her father has been the coroner’s officer for more than thirty years, and his daughter, who attends, on the average, three inquests a day, has written the depositions in several murder cases. A woman shipping agent, the only one in Britain, is to be found in an office in the Strand. This enterprising woman began business with her brother, and after his death in the Great War, she. came to London, and started business alone. / The managing director of a machinery supply firm is a woman, who travels all over Europe and America. London has two women goldburnishers, one in the West, and one in the East end, who follow their interesting and delicate occupation as skilled crafts women. A woman sweep is mentioned in the London Directory, and there is a solitary woman bookmaker, a white haited, elegantly dressed woman, who, employed by a firm of West-end agents, takes bets in Tattersall’s ring. In Hammersmith there is a woman who makes a living by the sale of perfumes which she has distilled herself. There is a woman wine-taster in a chief City restaurant in London. A more feminine business has been adopted by a woman who lias set up practice in the West-end and gives advice on all matters relating to housekeeping Some women specialise in getting lid of the insects in valuable old furniture that has grown worm-eaten, and number's make a living by caring for pets and exercising dogs.