Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 289, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1914 — Of Interest to Women [ARTICLE]

Of Interest to Women

Whelessle B—ia—a Bwlt DpiaTea Years By Two Women—Reaelt of aa Original lavestiaemt in Stocks oa a Capital of $1.25 —Travel Together AnaaaUy Through Europe.

Two Philadelphia women of German descent have built up in less ..than ten yearn, an extensive wholesale business as the result of an original investment in stocks that took a capital of exactly 11.26. > * The: Mocks are not ot the kind that are listed on exchanges or dealt in on the curb, but of the kind that women wear about their necks. One of the women was somewhat listlessly making a stock for her own adornment one day when she suddenly exclalm'T wish I could make some money.” **Wny not do for pay what you are now doing for amusement?" said a friend who sat by. • The;idea took. The young women and a cousin bought $1.26 worth of material, made several stocks and had bo difficulty; In selling them. That was the beginning of a business that has since occupied the whole time of both .partners. For a while one of them who drew pretty well was the designer of the firm. As business grew it was more economical to employ a well paid designer who could give his whole time to that part of the work. By this time tbe. partners had begun to employ girls to do the actual making of the stocks. At first the work was done by a few girls in Philadelphia. The number of employees Increased and it became good business to establish branch houses, for by this time the trade of the partners was wholesale Instead of retail Houses were established., In Baltimore, New York, Chicago, St Louis, and the-busi-ness went on growing. By this time the two partners gave themselves wholly to the management of the business and the purchase of materials. They now go twice a year to Europe to study modes and; buy materials, they have several wel|: paid designers and the persistence ot the fashion of wearing stocks has kept the business instantly active and profitable. Success also has given the partners confidence and they feel that they are not at the mercy of the capricious) Parisian milliners who set the modes of the world. If. wpmen quit wearing stocks-the-partners will turn and. take up something else. Meanwhile the partners have had a busy and happy life,, with an almost constantly increasing income and a broadening horlson; They have built for themselves a comfortable home in the upper part of Philadelphia and they see almost, every year a good deal of the European world. They had no more expectation of a business career ten years ago than a-hun-dred thousand other girls in their native city. b