Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1912 — She Mends Baby Carriages [ARTICLE]

She Mends Baby Carriages

Yoting Boston Woman Makes Her Living Repairing Damaged Vehicles. Boston. —“My work is caring for 100 baby carriages at the rate of 31 a month a carriage, so you can easily figure out my income,” said a young woman, whose home is in one of our lesser eastern cities. “My mother owns our home. Though bur house is small, there- is a large, old-fashioned stabler which for a number of years we have rented. I had mended ray Bister’s baby-carriage so successfully on several occasions that several of bur friends bad either asked or hinted for me to repair theirs. Having five carriages on toy hands, the thought came to me, how much bettor those carriages would look and bow much longer they would wear if they had a stitch to time and also didn’t have to be battered by bumping up and down tbe stairs of the apartment houses in which many of their owners lived. “With the money earned recushioning those five carriages I had a hundred cards printed, setting forth the fact that Miss Mary Blank would be glad to repair and care for baby carriages at 10 X street These cards X sent by mail to mothers having small babies, beginning with those living immediately around me. “Of course, I spoke to friends who had babies. Fortunately, I had already gained toe confidence of the people whose baby carriages I had repaired, so I started to with those live and my sister's, making six in gJJ, As 'time

passed the number Increased until IJ. could enjoy the feeling of having morej offers than 1 could accept. When! there were more than I could accommodate on the floor of the barn I had an elevator built by which I could take them up and down and so use the loft"