The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-04-02
THE LADIES DEPARTMENT.

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WY MANY WIVES FADE-How many
pale. lifeless women you see in the West.
and in the East, too, for that matter.
Young, fresh looking women marry, and in
five or ten years you can scarcely recog-
nize them, while their husbands look rs
fresh as on the day of their wedding.
One cause Of this is complicated house
keeping. When a man undertakes
business, be finds learned men ready to as
sist him he knows what there is to do,
and secures help accordingly. A young
woman goes to housekeeping very often
without any help at all, or perhaps, with
one awkward girl.
There are three meals to get every day
that means cooking; and then comes the
dishes to be washed after each meal. 1t
would take about forty -five pieces for break
fast and supper, and seventy for dinner for
family of five, one hundred and sixty-five
pieces to be carried from the dining room to
the kitchen every day, and washed and
carried back. If you have six rooms in
your house, there is one room to be
thoroughly swept and cleaned daily, be-
sides brushing up the others, making beds,
bringing in wood and carrying water.
Twice q week then is breadmaking, twice
a week yeast-making, one day washing, one
day ironing, all your pantries and safes to
be washed out once week, dairy work to
DO attended to, besides innumerable jobs
in tie way Of preserving, jelly-making,
picking, curing hams, putting down pigs
feet, looking over and nipping off your ap-
pies twice in winter and making hogshead
cheese, mince-meat, q thorough house
cleaning twice a year, then sewing on
dresses, aprons, shirts, drawers, gowns, &c,
by dozens.
Then suppOsing the housekeeper has a
baby; an average six months old baby
weighs about eighteen pounds. Suppose
she has this child in her arms thirty times
a day, Ia cross infant is taken up more
frequently, and often she is obliged to
work with the right arm, while carrying
the bundle Of baby about in her left
Who is it that says there is nothing in
gymnastics equal to the endurance Of a
mothers arm? Even when the DAVIS labor
is accomplished and she goes to bed, she
still holds her baby and does not sleep
soundly for fear of rolling on it or its get
ting uncovered she must attend to its
wants several times in the night. and must
be in a constrained position for fear Of lis
turbing it.
have heard women say they would give
almost anything for one night Of undis-
turbed sleep, with no care on their mind. "
Then in the morning up and at it again.
Don't yon sec why women get pale, and
why they are sometimes a little cross, and
bow their husbands wonder that their wives
don't look pretty and dress well, and en-
terrain them as they did before they were
married?
The wives don't reason on the matter,
they think it is all the mans fault, and then
they turn cross, and 80 things 60 at skies and
sevens, and this is the place where woman
rights should be taken hold Of l don't
think voting should help that very much !;
woman's labor should be made a study. In
the first place men must realize that it is a
great labor to keep house.
A great many women sink down under
the weight, then everybody says, poor
thing. she always was a weak good for
nothing creature" and the poor thing"
has been doing more for the last ten years
than two women ought to do.
DEATH or A FEMALE ASTRONOMER
The City Press London, England) records
the death Of Mrs Janet Tailor, who for
many years was teacher Of navigation at
104 Minories, London. By her singular
abilities in that branch Of science, she gained
the confidence and approval of
the Board Of Admiralty and the
Trinity Brethren, as well as several
foreign powers, from whom she received
medals for her various publications on ma
vigation and astronomy, and also improve
ments she made in many nautical instru-
ments, and she was in receipt of a pension
from the Civil List Of the British govern
mept.
ADMIRAL RAMSAY ON WOMEN AS Sol.
annual meeting Of the Cover
resses Benevolent Society Of Scotland was
held the first week in February in Edin-
burgh Admiral Ramsay, in secondiug the
adoption Of the report, said be thought wo-
men should be admitted to study law, medi-
cine, and theology, if they were willing to
pay for it. He did not know bow ladies
would Go to enter his own profession. He
would not like to say they would prove
unable to command fleet, or
that they would be wanting in courage to
encounter all the dangers of naval warfare,
but their existed great deal Of prejudice
against the fair sex becoming connected
with either the army or the navy. On the
coast Of Africa be once saw regiment of
rife women-and, black as they were, be
must say he never saw finer regiment.
All the officers were women, there was not
a single man in the whole regiment. They
were most courageous, and fought bravely
in fact, friend told him that when they
went into action they fought like 50 many
tigresses.
IRoN-BUILT STEAM GOLFERS. - The
New York Tribune says: "Our coasting
trade is on the eve OF radical change.
Millions of tons Of coal are supplied annu-
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