Mrs. G supports a family of five by making jams and pickles. Mrs. H has built up a large business, employing from three to five assistants, in making cake and salad. Mrs. I, in a small Eastern city, began by borrowing a barrel of flour, and now has a salesroom where she sells daily from eighty to one hundred dozen Parker House rolls, in addition to bread made in every possible way, from every kind of grain. Mrs. J, in a small Western city, sells salt-risings bread to the value of $30 a week; and Mrs. K, in the same place, Boston brown bread to the value of $75 a week. Mrs. L, living on a farm near a Southern city, has built up “an exceedingly remunerative business” by selling to city grocers preserves, pickles, cakes, and pies. “One cause of her success has been the fact that she would allow no imperfect goods to be sold; everything has been of the best whether she has gained or lost on it.” Mrs. M supports herself by taking orders for fancy cooking. Mrs. N, living in a large city, sells to grocers baked beans and rolls. Mrs. O, in New York City, has netted $1,000 a year by preparing mince-meat and making pies of every description. Mrs. P, in a small village on Lake Superior, has large orders from cities in Southern Michigan for strawberry and raspberry jam. Mrs. Q, in a country village of five hundred inhabitants, sells thirty loaves of bread daily. Mrs. R and two daughters last year netted $1,500 (above all expenses except house rent) in preparing fancy lunch dishes on shortest notice, and delicacies for invalids. Mrs. S puts up pure fruit juices and shrubs. Mrs. T prepares consommé in the form of jelly ready to melt and serve. Mrs. U has made a fair income by preparing and selling fresh sweet herbs. These illustrations can be multiplied indefinitely. They have come to notice in nearly every state in the Union, and in places varying in size from country villages without railroad stations to such cities as Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York. [308] Mrs. A has for several years gone from house to house at stated times sweeping and dusting rooms containing fine bric-à-brac. Mr. B cares for all of the lawns of a large number of gentlemen, each of whom pays him a fixed sum for the season in proportion to the size of his grounds. Mr. C cares for all of the furnaces and clears the walks in a city block. Mrs. D earns a partial support by arranging tables for lunches and afternoon teas. Mrs. E washes windows once in two weeks for a number of employers. Mrs. F takes charge of all arrangements for afternoon teas. Mrs. G earns $3 a day as a cook on special occasions. Miss H waits on a table in a boarding house three hours a day. Miss I distributes the clothes from the laundry in a large city school. Mrs. J is kept busy as a cook, serving as a substitute in kitchens temporarily vacant. Mrs. K derives a considerable income from the supervision of party suppers. “Her social position is quite unaffected by it.”