Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1901 — The Woman Without a Trade. [ARTICLE]

The Woman Without a Trade.

-For the girl whose parents have recognized the changed conditions, and allowed her to fit herself for a profession or trade, the question of sustenance has no terrors; but it is the woman with no particular qualification, with a meager education, who, when suddenly brought to the brink of necessity, cries, in-bitterness and alarm, “What can I do?” When her hour of need comes she finds herself a competitor with a few millions of women, each one of whom is by schooling made mistress of some one art or craft, and is thus safely launched on a career. For such a one, provided she has sufficient money, probably the true solution of the difficulty is to qualify herself to enter the lists—go at once to one of the training-schools, such as Cooper Institute, in New York; Pratt Institute, in Brooklyn; Drexel Institute, in Philadelphia; Armour Institute, in Chicago, where, thanks to the perfected methods of instruction "and a thorough understanding of the needs of the applicants, a working knowledge of the useful or the fine arts may be had in an amazingly brief space.— Woman’s Home Companion.