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1915. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
New Occupations for Women 
- ... - 
M Y husband has been a reader, and 
subscriber of your paper for a num¬ 
ber of years, and we enjoy it very much 
•Hid am very much interested in all its 
pages. I have some pictures showing 
what my brother, who is a farmer, did to 
TnE Unimproved House. 
improve an old house on my father’s 
farm, which my father used as a tenant 
house for his help. This brother was the 
youngest of the family, 21 years old ; he 
was married a year ago, and fixed over 
the house for himself to live in, doing 
most of the work alone. 
The first picture shows the house front 
view before he touched it. the third shows 
the back, and one end of it before im¬ 
proving. The second shows the front, 
after he painted, put new shutters, and a 
little porch on it. The fourth shows the 
same end as shown in the third and how 
he built an extra little wing on the back 
of the house, to make one more nice large 
living room. I could not get this back 
view around (ptite as far back as T did 
in the third picture, because if I had. the 
large maple tree back of the house would 
have shut otf the camera’s range entirely 
on getting the new wing in the picture. 
MRS. JOHN A. 8METHURST. 
Columbia Co., N. Y. 
It. N.-Y.—The pictures show what an 
industrious farmer’s boy can do with an 
old building which many would abandon. 
Women as Rural Mail Carriers. 
There being some question about the 
employment of women as mail carriers 
we sent to the Post Office Department 
for the facts. The following note ap¬ 
pears to settle it: 
December 12, 1914. 
In answer to your letter of the 25th 
ultimo, in which you inquire as to 
whether any women have been appointed 
as rural carriers, you are advised that 
prior to 1913 women were appointed to 
the position of rural carrier, but since 
then the rules have been amended so 
that women are no longer appointed or 
admitted to the examination. The De¬ 
partment is unable to furnish any data 
relative to women still in the service. 
For your information, there is inclosed a 
copy of the instructions to applicants for 
the rural carrier examination, which 
gives the rules in regard to this matter. 
JAS. S. HLAKSLEE, 
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General. 
Thus it appears that women are no 
longer appointed or admitted to examina¬ 
tion. The document referred to is “Form 
1977, June, 1913.” It covers eight pages 
of fine print and cannot of course be 
till printed here. Among other applicants 
Front After Improvement. 
besides women who “shall not be ex¬ 
amined” are the following classes. No 
explanation is given tor refusing to ap¬ 
point women. 
(d) Who has any of the following de¬ 
fects : 
Insanity, tuberculosis, paralysis, epi¬ 
lepsy, loss of arm or leg. loss of hand, 
badly crippled or deformed hands, arms. 
feet, or legs, uncompensated valvular 
disease of the heart, locomotor ataxia, 
cancer, Bright’s disease, diabetes, hunch¬ 
back, seriously defective hearing, sight, 
or speech, asthma, hernia, or any other 
defect which would disqualify him for the 
service. 
(e) Who is addicted to the habitual 
use of intoxicating beverages to excess. 
Women on the Police Force. 
I S it true that there are policewomen 
in the large cities doing much the 
same work as men? MRS. J. S. I. 
Women are working into all lines of 
labor. The last census shows that there 
are women blacksmiths, veterinarians, 
carpenters, masons—in fact all lines of 
manual labor are occupied. There are 
many wood choppers—many of them un¬ 
fortunately working at home. As for 
policewomen, several large cities employ 
them. Rochester, New York, reports one 
such woman. She performs the same 
duties as a man except that she does 
not patrol a beat. In New York City 
there are several police matrons. The 
following reports from Chicago, Pitts¬ 
burgh and Baltimore speak for them¬ 
selves : 
We have four police women in this 
service. They do not wear any uniform, 
and are attached to the criminal investi¬ 
gation division, and their work is con¬ 
fined chiefly to the handling of women 
and children. They visit large stores, 
Back of Unimproved House. 
dance halls, etc. Salary is $75 per 
month. W. N. MATTHEWS, 
Pittsburgh, Pa. Superintendent. 
There are five policewomen in Balti¬ 
more. They are regularly appointed as 
the men are, but are under a special act 
of Legislature. They are called matrons 
to the police force in contra-distinction 
to the matrons in the station houses. The 
policewomen visit dance halls, moving 
pictures, parks and any other places 
where young people frequent. One police¬ 
woman is detailed to two station houses, 
of which houses there are eight. They 
also bring girls to and from the Juvenile 
Court as well as the Criminal Court 
from the various institutions. Their 
work is not to take the place of the men. 
but to assist in work where a woman is 
needed, etc. They work under the direc¬ 
tion of the Marshal of Police. 
ROBERT D. CARTER, 
Baltimore, Md. Marshal. 
The duties of policewomen consist 
principally of ascertaining violations of 
the laws in restaurants, cafes, public 
dance halls, railroad depots, etc., in cases 
involving women and children, the sale 
of liquor, tobacco and cigarettes to 
minors and locating gambling devices in 
candy stores and other places where chil¬ 
dren of tender years are wont to visit. In 
these lines of work we find their services 
invaluable. .tames gleason, 
Chicago, Ill. Gen’l Superintendent. 
Two Back-to-the-Landers. 
HE VISION.—When my subscrip¬ 
tion ran out in December, I told my¬ 
self I was going to quit; but I put 
off notifying you, and the “call” for the 
paper was so strong I could see no way 
out but to send the coin for another year. 
You see I am a grocer, one with visions, 
and on account of those visions have 
been a member of the Rural family for 
several years. I am always dreaming of 
the time to come when I can walk out 
of the door of a modest little home and 
look around on a few acres of my own, 
where I can work out my living raising 
small fruits and truck, which is my .nat¬ 
ural bent. And so, as long as The R. 
N.-Y. furnishes the inspiration and gives 
the needed help and advice, I am again 
sending you one “buck” for the paper 
during 1915. May success follow you in 
your efforts to make The R. N.-Y. the 
perfect farm paper. e. g. w. 
The Realization. — I have pleasure in 
renewing my subscription and assure you 
that The R. N.-Y. is welcomed by every 
member of our family. We are city folks 
—“back-to-the-land” votaries—and your 
journal is a most valuable aid in direct¬ 
ing our thoughts and energies in the 
right direction in our farm country. The 
writer is past 50. born near the Bowery, 
lived in Baltimore and did business for 
a score of years with the big men of 
Broadway—and has traveled extensively 
—Lut never enjoyed such content, com¬ 
fort. health and happiness as we find 
in this beautiful Berkshire Valley. We 
thought we were really enjoying life— 
when living at Brown’s Chop House, and 
discussing grand operas schemes with 
Oscar Hammerstein at night in the 
Amen corner of his Victoria Theatre 
lobby, but after locating here we discov¬ 
ered we were only fooling ourselves. 
Broadway and dramatic journals may 
be all right for some—but the farm and 
The R. N.-Y. for mine. J. J. N. 
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"You've been the right medicine for 
Nate,” Mr. Rodman commended Norm 
warmly. “Where he was weak you were 
strong and—” 
“Oh. I don’t know,” Norm demurred, 
“I reckon Nate's done more for me than 
I have for him. lie’s been the making 
of this partnership from start to finish. 
I reckon it’s Nate.” 
“Don’t listen to him,” Nate warned 
as lie dished up the third cooking of ba¬ 
con, for the second lot had also burned 
to a coal. This however was crisp, and 
delicious. “There’s no doubt that Norm 
saved my life more than once, And as 
to my morals he’s sustained them and 
braced me up generally, and made a man 
of a pretty poor piece of modeling clay, 
but even with all this, I want to tell you, 
Mr. Rodman, that this country itself is 
the land of fulfillment. A man can’t be 
low-down and little and mean and nar¬ 
row in a place as broad and great and 
grand as Dakota is—unless he’s shriv¬ 
elled small beyond all hope of expansion. 
This is the land of fulfillment.” 
Mr. Rodman found the situation better 
than he had even hoped or imagined, 
and with ,his keen business abilities, 
Norm’s practical strength and Nate’s in¬ 
tuitions and insights into opportunities 
unseen by others, he believed that a 
thoroughly paying business could be be¬ 
gun. 
Nate had a whimsy to collect in all 
who had helped him in his old hard life, 
and Mr. and Mrs. Fraser, who had given 
him his dinner on that never-to-be-for¬ 
gotten day five years earlier—and who 
had first inspired him with the ambition 
to become a landholder, weu the first 
to be asked into the new company. They 
had always had a hankering after adven¬ 
ture and their family had grown up 
and their boys were running the old 
place, so the old folks were at liberty 
to do as they pleased, and it pleased 
them both to look over the situation and 
finally to locate near the shale bank. 
Later a modern house was built, where 
the Frasers lived with Nate and Norm 
as part of their permanent family. 
Mr. Mansfield and Mr. Homer were 
gathered in, and the good-natured but- 
Rear With Addition. 
cher, who had sold their buffalo bone 
meal for them, while Tom Miller became 
one of the most active workers in the 
enterprise. 
The brick-yards materialized and the 
kilns were put in, and this proved beyond 
all doubt that the shale was of that per¬ 
fect texture to make the best product, 
and today the shale bank is furnishing 
bricks for fine buildings and bids fair 
to go on, and on to a great and ultimate 
prosperity, in this great land of ultimate 
fulfillment. 
(The End.) 
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