WOMEN WHO EARN £2,000 A YEAR.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 107, 12 November 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)

WOMEN WHO EARN £2,000 A YEAR.

This war has brought out the best iat is in woman, and to-day she is lowing in ft hundred-and-one different aya that she is capable of occupying lerous positions from which her sex is hitherto debarred her. It must be ►nfessed, however, that American woen seem to have shown themselves ore enterprising than their sisters in ngland, due, no doubt, to the fact mt greater opportunities have been forded them. Thero was Mrs. Mary S. Halhdaj;, r instance, the woman railway presi>nt of St. Louis, who, through busies aptitude, raised the value of the ock formerly held by her husband to ose upon £500,000. Another remark, tie railway business woman is Mrs. uWidosia Beccham, who for some years said to have made £B,OOO to £IO,OOO \ear profit out of railways; while a iss Hattie Coggin carries on a farm 0 000 acres, and, in addition, is presi. -nt of a successful bank with a capi- | of £IO,OOO. One of the best paid women m the Jd of advertising is Miss Jane Johnim Martin, who earns £2,000 a year, though she began life as a stenoapher in the olHce of a patent mediae firm. At the present time she is ting as advertisement manager to ie of the largest commercial houses m B w York. An equal I v enterprising business woun is SWAlice Carpenter, who nian•«l her own investments so well that New York bank has put her at the ad of its women's department. This ,rticular bank wanted a level-headed •man of discernment who had experice in managing investments. Miss irpenter filled the bill, and is now in urge of this work. In addition, her mio is well known in connection with jn y social schemes, and she was at e last Hague conference as a delete.