The Weiser Signal

Work For Young Women.

There are trades open to young women in which they not only would be experts, but could add largely to the comfort of others, which will never be filled because they would be either laughed at or perhaps set aside by unreasoning and weak minded companions. For instance, there are many girls who have great judgment and skill in cooking who could earn easily $40 a month and even if very clever $60 or even $70 and who would rather stand for weary hours subject to the exactions of ill bred buyers at a counter, travel home in wet and cold and receive from $5 to $7 a week without any allowance for their food.

Servant is not a pleasant name, nor is obedience to commands a pleasant thing, and there are both mean and selfish employers, but I have personally employed one of the prettiest girls I ever saw, notably refined and delicate, whose dainty taste and touch made her skill wonderful. She had little education and no accomplishments, she knew that she had great talent for cooking. she had a widowed mother without income and a sister dying of consumption, she had to relieve her mother of her own maintenance, and she had to make a certain amount of money. She was kind without familiarity to others in the kitchen. She kept her leisure hours to herself, working much for an exchange, enjoyed her neat and comfortable room, had access to good books and in a year earned the money she required. Her only defect as a perfect servant was that she was so attractive and delicate in appearance that she was often embarrassed by too much attention as she came and went.

Having attained her end, she returned to her home, freed from debt by her efforts, and then made preserves and delicacies which sold well. Had she been afraid of being called a cook she could only have attained by great effort and exposure about $20 a month by incessant toil and had to support herself out of that amount, leaving not more than half her savings free. She saw what she could do and knew it was right and was not afraid to live out her own life in her own way.—New York Ledger.