New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-31
WOMEN WORKERS.
wOMEN's EXCHANGE CONDUCTED THROUGH
THE NEWSPAPERS,

for co6perative housekeeping instruction. or charity
have barely adjusted the gearing 20 run, after funlna
the farmers idea Of frstrate maohne-one that IN.
broken in every part and been mended till It was per
feet The experiment OF inducing 10 consult TO
gether and arrange their plans in their sOcia
parliament was organized good basis, and stopped
waiting for an earthquake TO set it in motion. AT this
time American women and girls, nervous and active
consider their English sisters as less emancpated, IN
con ,oiousy using French iliO5m the natives say
which sounds horribly to who has fathoned the
Significance they attach to IT, Few English ladies
wearing blue cloth business suits with gilt buttons and
Prince Teck crayas fewer still have put mp brass plates
in provincial towns and gone into stocks or real estate
and hair Ia Titus, parted one side IL moi
seen In any OF the fashion journals OF mother
country. Surveying and the laws OF storms nrc not
popular studies n their higher semnares, ana very few
young English ladies'. hope would hnd 1t to their taste
to discuss the latest fashion OF French aud German n-
deity against cergymen twice their age. Sti English
women have way Of doing things peculiar 10 them
selves, and they have appropriated a new field" to
themselves not field Of battle won by bold struggle
from man, or wide prairie where they may disport
themselves bat bit OF waste land lying convenient.
which they have fenced off with gilt railing, and made
very profitable pleasureground We allude to the de-
partment OF useful and decorative indurynot art for
by that most people something which Is not work
and gliding pcturerames and fans IL absolute labor
when one must make a living by it. and is working
grounding Berlin carpets and pulpit cushions and
making parlor curtains, network and carving in onyx
she'll and coral drawing embroidery lace designs,
mending camePs hair shawls and fine lace, beside
hundred other empOyments advertised weekly IN tbe
Iades' newspapers and journals Of England This work
is done by ladies ten times tenacious Of their stand
ing and with ten times title TO ii by birthand
breeding, than the grammar school graduates who
are pushing ahead into American society," looking to the
stars or the scalpel II either Will lend them aid on the
way.
The ranks OF art and literature IN Great Britain and
on tho continent crowded with professional workers
with whose training OF lifetime Young woman sud
denly thrown upon her with only partial
cultivation hope to compete so, with true
good taste, resignng the lists when all u so hopeless
these gentlewomen have retired the skill Of their
hands, excellent In needewOrk and dainty device
Since peasant girls and wangmaids are adjoining the
arts, weborn and educated cheerfully descend
to the needle and scissors taking their gentlehood with
them The work done by them ia better and far more
tasteful az rule than that OF assistants TO the needle
bred for it unaccOuntabo how careless people grow
over q handcraft which only yields or is expected to
yield them bread. Only ladies know how other ladies
prefer their work done. And fashionable for ladies' 10
know how and to be useful The Princess Christian
and Princess Louise both make clothing for tho London
hospitals while the Crown Princess OF Prussias skill
as a housewife Is well known. Capabity taken under
such distinguished patronage shows its head with assu
rance and when ladies of honor the trimming upon
their own gowns other woman need be reserved on
the point that she makes all Of her clothes Ii is hardly
the neat delicate seamstress who starves shilling
day. people in NewYOrk would DO only too glad 10 get
such worker for 50 day lat the least. Spite Of all
that Il said and sung about needework, it will be
womans province and yield Astounding revenue forever
People may without statuettes and essays and kinder
gartens their children but they must have clothes
and the richer they the more they want and the
better the business is for one that supplies them.
There's quoting the phrase starving at the
needle" when there many blooming easy, pros
porous young dress and shirmakers asking their own
prices and setting their hours. The sewing girl in
gentlemans family Secondave is paid s. week, has
her pleasant roon meals by herself and the reversion
OF her misresss MORE antiques and works from o'clock
TO 6 with an hours recess at noon. such position
this who is obliged to work ought TO find
fault with my scoreofenement or privilege, 50 far
S she only is concerned. Then the forewOman In a
fashionable dressmakng establishment has s6 to $50
week. and is almost mistress of her devices. The
work OF preparing rousseaux and fine lingerie is fabu
lousy paid nova days. and If needewomen do grow
rich it they choose do less and
leisure. The finer works enumerated are sold at fancy
prices when well sdone; pair OF slippers in applique
which contains less than adays work. selling for s0 and
good carving for much more than oil painting Of the
same mint, on a purely decorative subject Scarcely
can there be a wish of fashion or q caprice
breathed abroad before these clever English
workers have the supply ready Women OF leisure
took to working point lace about five years ago, and
already skful teacher and designer has made hand
profit and opened the for Others who not
slow to take advantage OF It, Medieval work created
demand for peculiarly artistic decorations, and lady
who might have studied the art for pasme adver
tises her warehouse where aarscreens banners, and
vestments wrought to satisfy any demand and this
"not for nothing" for every esal ecclesiastical
stitch tells in the price The art Of gliding and slyerng
has its lady teacher and craftswomen; lacemakng is
revving and revived among Belgravan cOuntesses and
curates daughters alike. What the former
do pleasure, the latter do for pleasure and profit
together Lace-work in NewYork pays we'll as may be
seen from the fact that the fashionable modstes pay
clever hand at lacestitch g. for joining the ends OF
Chantilly hOunce six inches wide. Cooper Institute
mi ght do thing than to make It's next additional
department one OF domestic industry for women
Nor does the practical English woman lose sight OF
other opportunities Where there Is want, there lies
her supply. For instance, "Cssy Redfern Of
the Ladies' Industrial Society advertises plain fred
muslin curtains for sale ready TO put up at about 50
"A pair OF money. Now these plain sheer fresh cur
tains something which every lady likes TO have for
her sttingroom chamber and which she would gladly
buy at reasonable price they brought TO her no.
tce "Cssy Redfern" that here is her chance and
without waiting for dozen ladies to put her forward,
she puts her wares forward through bazaar
mission house but right TO the public in the sraghtest
way she can reach IT, namely, by advertising in the
briefest, fullest words Women have TO learn what a
convenient organ newspaper can be- II Is the great,
quiet compensaton-adjusting agent which brings to-
gether the PARTICLES hch t squares OF work and want
Here English OF the better sort ahead OF the
sharp-sighted Americans, and their advertising ex-
changes and lists OF wants very frank and definite
In this Exchange" II one wants anything from toy
terrier TO point lace apron haf-worn set Of furs,
she says suceinety in three lines stating what she IL
willing to give in exchange In this way quantities OF
ornamental and useful work disposed OF every month
In one weeks exchange we find offered wanted such