24 FRUITS AND HOW TO USE THEM. 



delicately nurtured and physically weak woman it is well 

 to recall the life and labors of Miss M. F. Austin, former- 

 ly a teacher in Nantucket and San Francisco, afterward a 

 fruit-grower in Fresno County, California. There she 

 purchased one hundred acres of land which she planted 

 to vineyards and orchards of various kinds of fruit. "As- 

 sociating herself in a co-operative home with two other 

 teachers of kindred tastes,'' writes a friend after her 

 death, "this blessed trinity remained unbroken for twenty 

 years. In 1886, 6,000 boxes of raisins were raised, dried 

 and packed and forty-five tons of apricots, fresh and dried, 

 sent to market." 



Through attention to business, intelligence and pains- 

 taking care these pioneer women made for themselves a 

 beautiful home, where books, mupic and friends shed a 

 grace over every function of life. Very lately two young 

 women from Illinois have gone to Pasadena, Cal., and es- 

 tabUshed a Woman's Fruit Preserving Union. They con- 

 duct the business themselves and have been successful, 

 shipping goods to several of the large eastern cities. 



While perhaps no more marked instance of fruit grow- 

 ing by women can be noted at present, it is true that num- 

 bers have been successful on a smaller scale. Others 

 have confined themselves to the mailing of jelly, jam, and 

 mrj-malade. One, residing in Brooklyn, N. Y., keeps a 

 standing adverfasement all the year round in a daily pa- 

 per, offering home-made fruit preparations, which command 

 a good sale and a large price. Her articles, it need hard- 

 ly be stated, are admirably prepared- and attractive to the 

 eye. 



Many others secure an income through the various 

 Women's Exchanges which have come into vogue all over 



