WORKING WOMEN.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1031, 4 January 1882, Page 2

WORKING WOMEN.

. *, Under the above heading, an American paper gives an account of the women in new York who are solf- supporting. They numlier some seventy, five thousand, and not including servants, and many of them belonging to highly respectable family and may be considered comfortably offl • This shows how the prejudice* which ' formerly existed with regard to ladies working for themselves are gradually wearing off, and the fact of their so working does not cause then in any way to lose caste, as years ago would have been the case. There are women lawyatty ministers, physicians, one of the ablest in NewYork being the wife of Dr Jacobi (Mrs Plitnan Jacobi), and in every way bis equal in the profession. Female reporters, critics, and editors of papers "are also ,to the fore. One of the leading illustrated family papers (Harper's Bazza) has a lady editor, while present constituted, a elver woman has in it decidedly the advantage over clever men. Decorate art opens many new fields of employment for ladies. Wood carving and wood engraving are peculiarly well adapted to the delicacy of touch women possess, as also to their artists tates. * One woman wood-carver St Louis earned last yeir as much as LSOO, so, expert is she in art In decoration of pottery in china painting, panel painting dress, parasol and tapestry painting, women — those with talent especially — excel, while there are other and less well-known employments which have been taken up by our clever cousins across the water. For example, one lady earns a very decent livelihood by teaching privately, ladies of neglected education who are desirous to supply the deficiencies of early life. This lady has many pupils from whom she receives from 12s to 20s. per lesson. Another lady educates birds instead of women, and in training canaries finds a pleasant and pucuniarly profitable employment Another designs bonnets and dresses, and adds considerably to her income by offering 'suggestions' to leading milliners and modiste who pay handsomely for the said suggestions.