Many of the businesses owned and managed successfully
by women are connected with food, clothing, health, physical, mental and
moral training, and personal well-being. The woman's advantage in business
has to do most frequently with perfection in detail, personal supervision,
knowledge of the highest home standards, and with making her commodity a
little the best on the market. The best women in business excel in making
conditions for their employees ideal. They plan to give their workers
opportunities for education and training, and sometimes help them to start
in business for themselves.

CHAPTER XXII

NEW WORK FOR WOMEN

One of the best known doctors in the country has chosen a special trained
nurse to act as his anesthetist, that is, she accompanies him and assists
in giving his patient the anesthetic when he is about to perform an
operation. This girl when she entered the training school of a hospital
had no idea that she would specialize in this way as an assistant to a
famous surgeon. Her work is but one of the many examples of the usefulness
of the trained woman worker. Varied opportunities in employment may be
discovered by girls who are in earnest in finding the best work they can do.

A number of the new employments for women are connected with food, clothing
and home making. The woman who fits herself to be a food expert may make a
good income as a writer or lecturer, provided she has the necessary gifts
as well as knowledge and skill. A food expert is sometimes employed in
large departmental stores. Such a specialist is often found in charge of
the dining-room of college residences. Dietitians are a necessary part of
the staff of a hospital. The woman who qualifies as an expert on food is
entering an occupation which is being recognized as of the first importance.

A visiting household expert who is competent to advise in the arrangement
of household work and who is skilled in household accounting is a new
worker in the oldest occupation for women. A food demonstrator is sometimes
sent out by the government to teach canning, preserving and drying, and to
explain new household processes. Women experts in poultry keeping and
vegetable growing are also in government service. Women specialists have
made a study of public marketing. Many women have made a success of the
business of catering, of tea and lunch rooms, and of food specialties such
as mushroom growing, raising squabs, preserving, pickling,