MONEY-MAKING HINTS.

Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19459, 26 December 1934, Page 5

MONEY-MAKING HINTS.

FOR THE MIDDLE-AGED. She may be a spinster whose life has been entirely occupied with keeping house for her parents, or a married woman whose husband dies and leaves her badly off. In either case the middle-aged woman who lias had little experience outside her" own home interests is generally at a loss when faced with the necessity of keeping herself (says Home Chat). A good plan is to obtain a post as housekeeper, or cook-housekeeper in a school, or in one of the numerous guest houses and residential hotels that are springing up like mushrooms all over the country, where her housekeeping experience will be useful. Then in women's clubs and hostels, and in various Public institutions, hospitals, orphanages, and the like 'there are many good openings for women who understand catering for numbers, and the management of staff.

Start on Thele Own.

The majority of middle-aged women are more likely to be happy and successful if they can start some undertaking on their own, rather than take a post -under somebody else.

A small .manicure and hairdressing business offers great opportunities if it is opened in a busy 'little provincial town, or a fairly central village, where there is very little chance of competition. It is necessary, of course, to be trained first in a really good hairdressing establishment, but

this is not an expensive business, and will only take a few months at the outside.

A hoarding house is -sometimes considered a dubious venture, but if it is properly run, and well managed, it should he a great success. An alternative, which possesses the advantage that it is not an overcrowded venture, is 'to open a boarding house for children. Several women with a convenient country house, who have been left in poor circumstances, -have started these_ country homes for children with wonderful success.

They furnish their largest rooms as nurseries, engage an experienced nurse, and cater for delicate children who need country air, or who want a change after illness. They also take ■children for holidays whose Parents are abroad, and give them a really happy Hme. Hostel for Business Girls. The town woman who possesses a fair-sized house, or who can raise suflicient capital to rent and furnish one, would do very well by opening a hostel for business girls. There is an cnermous demand just now tor places of this kind. The average i!a.t or residential club is 100 expensive for -the large army of two and threepound workers, who would gladly Pay J‘2s or 15s for a com fori able room and do their own cooking and cleaning.

Then a lea room can lie very prolllahle undertaking in these motoring and hiking days, especially if situated near a popular holiday centre, or on a road much used by IratTic. A notice ponrd of artistic, design should be placed in a prominent position, and Hie venture should be nolilled to the Cyclists’ Touring (Hub. and the Automobile Association.

A cii'culaling library could also he combined with the lea room, and world he eagerly welcomed if near a small town or village, nvhere people

are often at a loss for “something to read." Anyone who bought a good supply of two-shilling novels, or seven-aml-sixpcnny novels being sold off cheaply 'by some of the big libraries, and some good books for children, and lent them out .at twopence a volume, would soon double, her original outlay over and over again