| Show HOW 4000000 WOMEN I EARN THEIR BRE4D Four mIllion women In the 1nlted I States earn their own bread They have invaded all occupations and one third of an persons engaged In professional profes-sional services are women Feminine teachers and professors number over onequarter of a mIllion exclusive of teachers of music who are 34519 stong and 10000 artists and teachers of art There are 1143 women clergymen Journalists number Sit with i725 authors au-thors and literary persons Of chemists assayers and metallurgists metallur-gists there are two score lacking one Lawyers who are not men arc 208 FemInine detectives are 279 in number num-ber Nineteen women brave the dangers of wilds and forests as trappers and guides Only two women have been discovered I discov-ered who are veterinary surgeons In Texas a woman has the contract for carrying the mall from Kiffe to Selrnal HaIl I Georgia has a woman mallcarrier She travels a fortymile route tri weekly This young woman also manages man-ages a farm The chamber of commerce of Cincinnati Cincin-nati has the best restaurant In town It is run by three Scotch women and they clear about 15000 yearly although al-though their annual rental Is 5000 In New Orleans one of the finest orchestras or-chestras is composed entirely or women In Astoria L 1 many of the largest hothouses are managed by women In New York a blacksmiths shop is managed by three young women An the salted almonds sold by one of New Yorks largest groceries are prepared by a woman who Is conduct tag a profitable business thereby A fact foundrydi an agency for supplying facts upon any subject at a short noticeIs the Industry of two Chicago damsels Packing trunKS is a St Louis wo mans industry The most flourishing conservatory and rose garden in Elmira N Y is owned andmanaged by a woman At the Young Womens Christian association as-sociation Philadelphia two young women wo-men are in charge of the elevawrs Women writservers are emploYed with great success Buffalo boasts a woman contractor who Is also a quarry owner She Is the only feminine member of the buildIng exchange A Jersey City woman makes her livIng liv-Ing by painting signs A Louisiana woman supports herself by raising mint The woman manager of a California insurance company is credited with the largest salary paid to allY woman10 000 a year As agents for selling lawbooks women wo-men occupy almost the entire field A pretty FrenchpKnadlan girl is making her bread by cobbling shoes at Lewiston Me The most succesful ranchowner in Kansas is a woman not over 35 years of age There is a proverb to the ef j f el oi re t feet that In Kansas there Is no intereSt no profession no trade and no deal without a woman in it I In Boston are two large advertising agencies the members of both firms being women and aU their employees women 0 In a New England factory women are employed as pianomal As switchmen women are employed by seem western raIlroads Upholstering is a trade women are learning Writing love letters at so much per letter Is one way of earning a livelihood I liveli-hood Consulting fashIon expert is a St Louis womans occupation One of the largest flower Importing establishments in New York Is managed man-aged bj a woman The largest typewriting business In the world is in New York and conducted con-ducted by two sisters An entire block of houses in Nesr York was papered by a young woman who takes the contract for such orders from large builders One young woman in Gotham is employed em-ployed as a prescription clerk in a drug store About 300 girls are employed In the harness trade In New York |
