Show miss ys work it la is now nearly thirty five years a since ince miss virginia penny begun began her labors for or the working women of this country sha she was then a resident of louisville her birthplace thrown upon her own resources by sudden financial reverses she had become a teacher in a seminary for girls during that period she realized liow how few ew avenues of employment were open for women especially c in the south where social pride closed to them most of the few branches of work that they could without loss of standing enter in the north when a legacy enabled her to go back to a life of ease easo the she concluded to investigate for herself tho the question of womans comans labors and aa far back as 1858 she began the work to which slie lie devoted the greater part of lier her life at that time only seven occupations were open to women in any part 0 of f this country now owing fix li a considerable degree to her labors there are nearly her work waa of the severest and most trying nature she visited the libraries of new york doston and philadelphia spending four years in preliminary investigations she sent thousands of circular letters to merchants and manufacturers employed assistants and visited bet between een and sho shops ps and stores new york sun |