Show SUCCESS KNOWS NOT HOT SUES SEXES women of ef brains and serve irre who male gait big honey SOME OF THEM WHO JIBE ARE FAMOUS they ey are at the th bead of lations trades trade nod and how they started and what thay are now about too copyright left by J A J joblon A great many people labor ibor under the tha delusion that woman does not carry corr s business busl nea bead h md upon her shoulders ibo alders that at bot best she ho la Is a bid bad schemer a worse executor and nd only capable ot of routine work they have an impression also that a very general prejudice against woman in business prevents preveat bar develop went meat oven to congenial lines these people will learn leara something from this article because tharo thare are ra woman with ideas who tra are 0 of carrying them out and a clover clever woman to ta la in last just as much demand as a a brainy nian man knows no sex originality and force forca of ideas count always women in now new york are re doing something besides being journalists doctors docton dentists and hard handlers hardgers lers of supplies peculiar to their sox soi they bays gone into the counting ro am and gotten down on their elbows to the big ledgers lavt gone into manufactories manu factories and known tb touch toach and smell imell of 0 machine greaso grease and they havo have presumed to organize stock bloch companies lor for producing buying and selling quite as if they wore to the busl busi ness mass born president ot of the th mary F seymour publishing company miss seymour li Is tho the founder editor and pa publisher bUsher of bl the Dust bustness ness journal and the head bead ol of a stock company corn piny compo composed ged entirely ot of women woman they intend to make enough money out ot of their venture to own an entire block to bo be occupied exclusively by women ot of the different professions and to their president la Is duo much ol of their enthusiasm in this direction miss seymour la Is an enterprising woman just la in her prime vivacious and sensible and very try much interested in the dovel of her bar tei sex 1 I was bout bent on being a scribbler said she sad and began making rhymes when aca I 1 was 13 the first money monay I 1 ever earned was tor for a poem sent lent to jennie jeanie june and I 1 tell you yon that sa 5 looked very bis big to me I 1 bad to go to teaching finally but bat it agree with me and I 1 was an invalid lor for a year atler after it while I 1 was in bod bad I 1 began to write tor for the papers again and studied stenography as an abaid rad to journalism when I 1 got about I 1 went to work tor for the only woman stenographer ogra pher then in now york tor for nothing a month and the exper experience lonce I 1 did an office boys bays work oven to sweeping out and running errands but I 1 learned a business routine that is ot of vital importance to a women I 1 work on sunday though and that stood blood in the way tray ot of me being te taken kea into partnership then than I 1 set eat UP op as a stenographer lor for myself tay but bat I 1 WM was to so nervous over the tha work that I 1 tainted fainted dead away at tho the first reference case I 1 took by and by when I 1 was accustomed to it I 1 got so much work I 1 had to sit bit up half tho the night to finish it and once I 1 worked twenty six fix hours at a stretch to elaish a case I 1 had bad promised at a certain hour As my grow grew I 1 became interested in helping other women and all told I 1 suppose I 1 have taught a at least fire hundred era I 1 had bad six ix copying offices at one time in the different big office buildings but I 1 gave them up to tako take hold ot of the journal 1 I believe in business women they are more faithful thin than men iran dont tike take advantage ot of business secrets to steal tips and speculate ipe calate on oa their employers employ ars interests and ol of tho the hundred and one embezzlers who have violated confidence and the ten commandments not kotono one has been a woman though there are hundreds ot of them in now how york handling other peoples money and I 1 want to say fay one thing with extra emphasis that Is that any woman who knows what she sh wants to do and how bow silo bhe Is going to do it can find and or make a place tor for herself just as successfully as it if she were a man mrs fernandez Is the only woman in now kew york who Is the manager ot of a theatrical adrical agency and tho she has about the prettiest offices in the business it you want to te see splendid representatives of tho the human race there Is the th place to go ifer her walls walli bra are pape rod with pictures ol of handsome actors and beautiful actresses with bore and there some som ol of the sweetest babies that ever grow mrs fernandez has bai long doan been known as the alio mother ol of stage children bud and she ehe looks it A comfortable bodied whole kindly faced woman Is the she with arafat store ol of 1 I have been in the profession all ray my life she said and nd my parents before zno me so eo whon when I 1 found myself obliged to stay at home and take care ot of three to lc stead ot of one tho the only thing I 1 had bad to turn to was some branch ol of stage work my little daughter was playing childrens parts and I 1 made a specialty specially ot of preparing children lor for theatrical work but gerry garry interfered with that business to a considerable extent so I 1 branched e Q mg t e ia az fa i 7 f r ates tr frac a L n alge our par 1 V 1 out oat to the placing ot of grown people you know all tho the companies aro are filled died through agencies and though a great ninny many women bad made failures in trying to establish agencies daniel stroh man maa suggested that I 1 son sea what I 1 could do and offered to help me in every pos way for three years it was uphill work although I 1 knew everybody in tho the profession find and when I 1 got away down in the blues I 1 wont went over to froh frob mans and bo be cheered me ma up by tolling me ints what congh times he bo had at first 1 I was glad elal in those days to do the cheapest work filling choruses ballots and spectaculars but now I 1 am in it with the best of them and to stay star I 1 own my own home and hayo havo taken ciro care ot my family all theao years and you yon may be sure that I 1 am one ol of those who believe that a woman can make a go of anything it 1 ashes a mind to trie THE middleman miss elizabeth marbury Is in something the same line ot of work though she deals with plays instead of people instead of placing a heavy villain where ho he can do the most damage and a comely soubrette sou bretto where a trim bigaro and a saucy will be mos most ap p prec miss marbury disposes ot of plays when she can find end ft a good one miss marbury Is intelligent and practical more mora than that she has tact enough to got get along nicely with enthusiasts without letting sentiment run away with her 1 I handlo handle plays on strictly business principles eald amid she bho there la Is no other establishment such at as mine in now new york because the former attempts were wera swamped in sentiment I 1 sit lt down to tho the reading ot of a play with mental scale scissors and blue pencil handy regardless of the endorsement indorsement Indor on the manuscript aud I 1 dont bother a manager with a a play until I 1 have bavo made a study ot of lis his particular wants what wha he ha has haa refused and what ho he has used MAD managers agers aro are busy men inen and they would rather lose the very play they aro are looking tor for than to wado wade through dozens of undesirable manuscripts to find it 1 I do not confine myself to american playwrights you know I 1 am the american representative of every foreign dramatic consequence including dumas and and I 1 act as middleman between novelists and publishers as wella groat great many american writers go to london paris vienna and venice tor for inspiration and they want to bring out their books la in america tor for various reasons including eluding In copyright perhaps they aro are magazine writers and the time to spend pend in negotiating by correspondence and in walting walling indefinitely for a decision by giving me charge of the manuscripts at this end of the line duo the buyers of 0 stories are occasionally kept kepi in mind ot of the valuable merchandise they have in hand and there Is no shelving for mouths and months of the goods I 1 offer them miss mary the famous designer Is the first if 11 not the only woman in america in her line of work she watt wa the daughter of a 16 wealthy nun man who in his palmy days on encouraged enraged her artistic tastes taste by giving her sir all years abroad in the boat beat studios where she worked hard for sheer lovo love of it when the father died the dau daughter ahter was equal to the reverses rover aoi and began giving painting lessons at aleso sa a quarter the tha first money sho she over ever earned then she went late into john laforges lafarges arges studio vIrt virtually nally im aa a partner it was she who assisted ablated him 1 la decorating the Corna cornelius litis vanderbilt loose and received lor for a special tapestry which she had designed aud and patented the next neit wonderful thing this she did was to win the competition lor for the design of the grace church memorial windows and though they hesitated to give the contract to a woman thin thinking k she would not be equal to the mechanical ch bartot part ot the tha construction her bar design was far sad and away anay so superior to the others that art triumphed over sex and these beautiful windows wore were the beginning of 0 many of this ladys designing 11 1 I have studied architecture and civil engineering and am now engaged in the erection ero cllon ot of houses housoe said miss unrolling plans and elevations before me 1 I employ men is as but bat I 1 malto malre out ray my own contracts sad and specifications because became I 1 find thorn them more satisfactory when I 1 do thera them myself this water color Is I 1 of it a recently finished house bouie near dear philadelphia la in elizabeth style and I 1 pride myself on tho the correctness of it as well as the bo beauty that la Is a borts torts church near white while plains with several memorial windows and this hexagonal leva elivs lion alon Is a white marble mausoleum lined with rose rosa Na midian marble it hsi has bra memorial windows sad and I 1 not only design tho the buildings and cars carvings ing but do the stained glass work as well that comes of being an artist as ai well wall as architect when whan I 1 build I 1 also decorate and furnish it t it if atio alo owner desires me to do so something men architects do not count on in their work list last winter find and this I 1 have been very busy remodeling in anil and decorating famous bill ball roomi in new york and washington just now I 1 am superintending super intending the altering of 0 the calvin brice and A P morgan houses bouses la in the litter latter city la in the morgan house I 1 changed the whole interior by enclosing a veranda walling ap certain doors and opening others bad and now the ground floor cm can be thrown late into one magnificent suite of 0 rooms the coloring ot of the work in this house received especial attention I 1 got up on the scaffolding myself and pain ted for hours at a time to got the effect I 1 wanted they say a woman has bes little 8 staying lay power but when I 1 tell you yoa that I 1 have done doaa calling work lor for eight consecutive hours you will be able to confute that story OF YORK BEAT agnes murphy Is the only woman member of the now york real koal estate exchange and was taken in as ai a member because of her extraordinary sales ales of property in the annexed ann axed district 11 1 I began by entering my fathers office as an assistant because of his III boa ili she explained and after three years apprenticeship assumed entire control of 0 the business I 1 built this cosy little as you might guess because it looks liko like a reception room except for the businesslike business like safo safe and typewriters I 1 like ilka to work but I 1 want to do so la in as comfortable artistic sur fur roun soundings dings as possible blo without detracting from the dignity ot of the concern thoro there Is some soma knowledge to tt bo acquired before one can safely buy sad and soil sell property properly with a long abstract 0 of title back of it you know so while I 1 was learning the business I 1 studied Is taw w after boffl a hours I 1 was the die first wo woman m a to enroll in the law school of the university of now kow york and the only one to pass the examination last may in this dry as dust duct routine I 1 found the romance that belongs in every womans comans life in the tamo same class with roo me was the man I 1 have since married and the degree of bachelor of law jaw was conferred on both at the same bamo time my husband cc combines in his business with mine and now dow work Is a positive arts with so able abl an associate this plucky wideawake wide awake little woman to la only 27 years old now but her success has been phenomenal while other agents wore were speculating on two tracts near the outskirts ot of the city the she quietly stepped lu in and sold one for and the other for just half an hour before the land was bulletined bulle bullo tined in the real estate exchange when the men found they bad been circumvented by a woman they cheered her right heartily and then unanimously elected her to a membership with thain the ODO tract she be afterward subdivided for or the iha purchaser and resold tor for so 10 you see she las his the true business busl nesi erl arlt I 1 DIAMOND broken aad ura T A lynch Is 1 the woman jeweler in now kow york and nd her big corner building on bros dway li Is a brilliant testimonial to one womans comans knowledge ol of diamonds for or that Is tho the corner stone ol of lier her sue COSS women woman are ar proverbially lond fond of the sparkling gems she smiled pleasantly and nd dot a tew few of them put money into them instead of 0 banks and bonds bond loot inot only make money out ot of their value but bat pleasure out ot of their beauty and you may find mo me in their midst at my store at almost any time of every day except sunday I 1 do not care tor for social life hie that Is ij the means of existence to other women I 1 have a larre large family and wo we aro happy within but if thero to la any entertaining and looping keeping up calling callin list hit to bo be done dona my children havn have to do it tor for me how did I 1 happen to go into tho the business nesi well my ay first venture ventoro was wan in a single diamond tint that I 1 bought as 0 a child with my spending money monay illy lather father was a fruit dealer and did not ap provo prove of 0 gewgaws gewe gew gaws aws but when I 1 sold the LIM gom gain lor for twice what it cost mo me he ha sane the transaction and encouraged my iny later efforts at others I 1 go abroad and select in person the gold and silver curios the carvings sot with jewels and tho the antique as nl all as the newest patterns in jewelry they say it takes a jew to have a nose for jewelry but I 1 am an irishwoman from dublin americanized ol of course and I 1 have hava reason to believe behave that tho the irish american combination of business ability added to 96 womans comans instinct la Is as good a one as can I 1 run ora MEN mrs mr E r S persons parsons went to work from necessity arid and not from choice but sho she regret the turn her ufa life has taken asa at girl tho she a care to ID the world and when she eha married it a wealthy merchant she he supposed that a future of luxurious rasa ease was assured aisi ired unfortunately bor bar husbands close attention to business brought on paresis par and before they realized that ho he was afflic afflicted tod with softening of the 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