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0X1*; WOMAN’S K KM A UK A15 L K SITCESSOur many women routers will be interested to learn of the signal success of awestern wionan whv had the initiative to test a new ajjfl somewhat unique Idea—-teaching dressmaking by correspondence. Only a few years ago. Miss Pearl Merwin. now supervisor .»f the American On liege of Dressmaking, was modestly but successfully. ib-ing such sewing as came to her fromher friends, as a natural result of the merits her work. A college-lred woman herself, she c*»:i wived the idea of putting her knowledge and experience into the hands of those less favored, by crystalizing it into a series of lessens which could easily and practicably lc taught by mail. Pfco commenced advertising in a small way. until the practicability of the idea was fully demonstrated. Her advertising may now be seen In all the leading magazines. She has over 2.00 students ar.d graduates scattered throughout the country, and the product of her pen is sought after by the dressmaking departments of a number of the leading fashion magazines, whereby she Is a striking example of the new woman —not. however^ of the mannish sort—who has come up out of the ranks largely by her own efforts, and that by confining her efforts wholly within the generally conceded province of feminine endeavor.Clipped from the December, 1907. issue of Human Life, published at 23oston, Mass.
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Des Moines Iowa State Register and Farmer
Des Moines, Iowa, US
Fri, Feb 21, 1908
Page 14
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