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Show WUMH2JN US tfUSIJNESS. THEY ARE TAKING UP MANY MASCULINE MASCU-LINE AVOCATIONS. Large Commercial Enterprises Successfully Managed by the Gentler Sex They Are Also Engaged at Callings Which Kequire Skill and Physical Endurance. Women are found today in many an employment which until very recently was regarded as the exclusive privilege of man. For instance, one of the most successful ranch owners in Kansas is not a robust and ablebodied man, but a woman fair of face, petite in form and not more than 30 years old. Advertising is another business in which women are beginning to figure prominently. There are two very large advertising agencies in Boston, the members of both firms being women and all their employees women. They make their contracts and attend to the most intricate business problems themselves and have large contracts con-tracts for entire railroads and street cars in the largest cities in the United States. One woman in this city who had an excellent musical education in her youth took a thorough and systematic course in the theoretical study and practice of piano tuning and soon proved her capacity ca-pacity in excelling the male competitors in the establishment She has now a very large number of patrons and comfortably com-fortably supports herself and two children. chil-dren. The first woman railroad president presi-dent in this country succeeded her husband hus-band on his death. He was the president presi-dent of the Pennsboro and Harrisville railroad. The First National bank of Lexington, Lexing-ton, Neb., has for its president Mrs. H. R. Temple and for vice president Miss Temple. The recent election of the wife of a senior member of a large New York firm of short line railway builders as president of the Hains Medina Valley Railroad company in Texas makes the second instance in this country of a woman wo-man appointed to fill this position. There is only one woman railroad engineer. engi-neer. There is a little stretch of road known as the Cairo Short Line, and on this the daughter of on f its chief owners rode to school daily, and at a very early age seemed deeply interested in machinery and always had. the workings work-ings of the engine explained. Finally she manifested a greater interest in mechanical me-chanical and railroad engineering, and as all things come to him (or her) who waits a chance arrived. The engineer of this narrow gauge road became ill, and during tliis illness the young woman wom-an in question took his place and made the runs without any mishap. Upon the death of the engineer she assumed charge of the train, which she is still running, to the entire satisfaction of all parties concerned. In Texas there is a female contractor In the employ of the United States government gov-ernment Her contract is for carrying the mail from Keith to White HalL Georgia has a woman mail carrier who not only delivers the mail on her little black pony over a 40 mile route triweekly triweek-ly in a bleak and sparsely settled region, but manages a large farm as well, doing do-ing much of the manual labor and supporting sup-porting her aged parents and crippled sister by her indefatigable industry and energy. She is but 22 years old. In Cincinnati an excellent restaurant is in the Chamber of Commerce buile1 'ng and is patronized exclusively by the foremost fore-most business men in that city. It is run by three Scotchwomen and upon strictly temperance principles. Every one predicted their failure when it was announced that positively no liquor was procurable in their restaurant, and people peo-ple scoffed to think they could not even get a glass of beer with their meals, but their predictions proved erroneous, for besides paying an annual rental of $5,-000 $5,-000 for their magnificent premises they clear annually from $10,000 to $15,000. The lady guide is an institution in London and an innovation now being introduced in American cities. In London Lon-don these guides are for the express purpose pur-pose of supplying women tourists with members of their own sex to pilot them safely over the well known tours of England Eng-land and the British islands in general and in fact anywhere they wish to go on the continent. These guides are refined re-fined and cultivated, speak French and German fluently, else their application for this rather agreeable position will not be considered, and have excellent credentials as to character and sobriety. They are supposed to work eight hours a day, and their charge is but 10 shillings shil-lings equivalent to $2. 50 of American money. When one considers the aggravations aggra-vations one is spared by having a guide, and the surety one feels of not having scent too much for anything tmrchased. it win Da round tnac tms amiaDie courier cou-rier has saved her employer fully the amount of her salary. In New Orleans one of the finest orchestras or-chestras is composed entirely of women and the leader and her corps of well trained musicians are seen at every entertainment en-tertainment of note in that gay city. In Astoria, N. Y., many of the largest hothouses hot-houses are controlled and managed by women. In Gotham is a blacksmith's shop managed entirely by the three daughters of the blacksmith, who are intelligent young women. The father died some 12 years ago, and the mother took charge of the establishment, and looking to the future she had her girls instructed not only in the art of horseshoeing,, horse-shoeing,, but in everything pertaining to the trade. Since the mother's death one pi the sisters married, and now the married sister and the two young girls employ five men, but personally superintend super-intend every horse that is shod. Among their patrons are numbered the wealthiest wealth-iest owners of horses in this city. New York Tribune. |