What Women Can Earn: Occupations of Women and Their Compensation |
Other editions - View all
What Women Can Earn; Occupations of Women and Their Compensation Grace H. Dodge No preview available - 2018 |
What Women Can Earn; Occupations of Women and Their Compensation Grace H. 1856-1914 Dodge No preview available - 2015 |
What Women Can Earn: Occupations of Women and Their Compensation Grace Hoadley Dodge,Thomas Hunter No preview available - 2016 |
Common terms and phrases
ability able acquire amanuensis American architectural artistic beautiful become begin better boarders boarding-house branch Church clerks colour cooking cost course daugh Dead Letter Office decoration demand dentistry desirable domestic science drawing duty earn École des Beaux-Arts Emma Abbott employed employer enter experience fact field girl graduate gymnastics hospitals household housekeeper knowledge labour lecture less lessons librarian living Lucy Stone manager Masqueray matter Maude Ballington Booth ment Miss months musical never number of women nurse occupation operator paid patent photographer pianist piano position practical Pratt Institute profes profession professional pupils receive salary sculptor shawl solicitor stenographer success talent teacher teaching telegraphy telephone things tion to-day training school typewriter voice week York City York school young woman
Popular passages
Page 261 - Institute is $75 for the nine months. The student works from 9 AM to i p. M. and from 2 to 5 o'clock in the afternoon every day except Saturday and Sunday. Her expenses, besides tuition, are for board and a certain amount of money to cover cost of the materials in which she works. Part of this expense may be defrayed by making garments for others.
Page 228 - HAVE little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.
Page 46 - it takes a great deal of life to make a little art ; " it may be said, also, that it takes many men to make one great man.
Page 9 - A woman, a dog, and a walnut tree: the worse you treat them, the better they will be. Variation: A woman, a spaniel, and a walnut tree, the more you beat them, the better they be.
Page 198 - Why, it is only seventy-five years since responsible government was granted to Canada. It is only a little more than fifty years since the first experiment in federal government — in a federal constitution — was undertaken in this empire. And from that we went on, in 1871 to representation in negotiating our commercial treaties, in 1878 to complete fiscal autonomy, and after that to complete fiscal control and the negotiation of our own...
Page 66 - I am requested by Mr. Mowry to say that a hen will undertake to crow like a cock at the town hall this afternoon at five o'clock. Anybody who wants to hear that kind of music will of course attend.
Page 258 - ... and the knack of the artist, may reasonably hope in time to be placed in charge of a department in the store, or, under the direction of the proprietor, to superintend the whole operation of the work in a regular establishment. Such women can earn excellent salaries. Beginning with from $12 to $153 week, they may hope to rise to $20, $25, and even to $30 a week, as forewomen. When a forewoman becomes worth $25 or $30 a week the proprietor is dangerously near the point of losing her. It all depends...
Page 229 - ... making knickknacks for holiday presents, illustrated blotting pads, etc. OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN Photography By SG ROCKWOOD IN my long career as a photographer I think I have proved my faith by my works in employing women in every department of my business in which they are available—everywhere except in the handling of large cameras in outdoor work. In the first place, women are peculiarly fitted to occupations in which there is much detail. This is in strong evidence in the sphere of the...
Page 253 - LOSEY TO all those who think of taking up millinery let me say, first of all, you must have taste for combining color and materials. Every woman cannot become a trimmer, but nearly all can be good milliners. "Trimmers are born, not made," is a phrase we constantly hear, but it is possible with practice to become a trimmer, though the style may not be as chic as that of a French artiste. The work is at all times fascinating, though during the height of the season it is often laborious, as the hours...
Page 29 - A young writer should follow the safe course of writing only about those subjects which she knows thoroughly, and concerning which she trusts her own convictions.