WOMEN WHO DO MEN S WORK.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 32, 27 January 1908, Page 4

WOMEN WHO DO MEN S WORK.

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There aic Ihirly-tlnee women who keep lighthouses lor L licit Sam. The oldest of the-c, -Mrs. Nancy Kosc, lias liail charge of the lighthouse at Stony Point, Hudson Kiver, iw nearly fifty year... Uiit though -Mr.-. Kosc is the eldest, yet- Ida. Lewis i- the most famous ..I women liglithuii-c keeper-. Mrs. icocivo.i from tin- CnicrumciH a niaginliceiit "old medal as a memento. 'The \i.-o are fur the hum part the wiv ■- ui 1 daughters of former keepers, and though the re-poiii-ibilith's of tlieir po«ilion are so grunt, yet thev always |nw« very ell'icicm.

Perhaps one of the la-i occupations one would expect a woman to take up i- that of a conductor on a tram-car, yet in Valparaiso this occupation it, entirely ill the liamls of women. They near a uniform eoii-isliug of a navy-blue gown and a white apron. They were liivt employed in this work during the war .one ten years ago between Chili and Peru, when men went into the army in such numbers that there was a shortage of them for more peaceful pursuits, liy the time the war had ended the women had firmly established themselves in this new branch oi labour, and if must he confessed .that there are ifany women engaged in callings far h-~s agreeable than that of a tram conductor.