Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-11-05
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efficient for want Of the requisite skill
to make it valuable. Many q woman
counts herself good seamstress and a
fair cook who never uses pair of scales
or a measuring line, and whose work
compared with the standard work ex-
hibited by the professional tailor or
milliner and the trained cook appears
bungling indeed. 1t is a fact beyond
dispute that when men turn their atten-
tion to music, sewing, washing, cook
ing, or housekeeping they surpass
women in the thoroughness and perfec-
tion with which they work taking the
year through, is done. Many a man
commands his 5000 a year as head
cook, but where is the woman who can
compete with him? The reason of this
inequality in the comparative values of
male and female labor lies not, es We
believe, in the inferiority of woman's
brain, but in the fact that in an over
whelming majority of cases she comes
TO her werk entirely unframed.
The great ambition of most young
women is to be mistress of an establish
ment, though they be practically igno-
rant of every detail Of successful house-
hold management. They know when
linen is clean and well ironed, but could
not go through the process of making
it so they know when dress is made
beautifully, but are quite incapable of
making it ; they can Judge of the merits
of culinary triumphs, but cannot tell
how they are achieved. Very few men
are placed IN charge Of business houses
who have not worked their way mp from
the lowest rounds of the ladder. Fa-
miliar with every part of their business
and knowing just how one wheel moves
with and upon another they can tell at
once when anything goes wrong. what
it is, anu how to remedy it. The stan
dard of capability requires this in men.
but does not require il in women, and
that is Just where the trouble is. The
opening of trades and professions to
women will doubtless raise the standard
of excellence in all the departments Of
female labor, and give us in our house
holds better sewing, better cooking, and
management than now obtained. The
kindergarten or system of object teach
ing introduced into many of our juvenile
schools will assist also in promoting
this change, since it educates the OBJ
serving faculties of children, brings
them into accurate acquaintance with
things Immediately around them, and
exercises their powers OF discrimination
and judgment which, by former methods
of teaching, were left to develop them
selves.
There are Just two ways oil doing
everything. One is the right way and
the other is the wrong way. The right
way is always the easiest and il pays
we'll to find it. In thinking that some
other mode of doing than the prescribed
method will "answer Just as well" lies
the fatal mistake of many women. They
"guess it will take about 50 much F"
to make n carpet, and find themselves q
yard short. The measuring tape would
have prevented that error. They"guess"
at the ingredients of cake or pudding,
and it comes on the table stamped with
failure. The use of the recipe book
wonld have made a success of that
Not that cook must always employ the
scales to determine how much sugar or
butter to use, but she should weigh un-
til she can carry the scales in her eye or
in her hand. Let any woman observe
how constantly the mechanic uses the
rule, the square, the measuring line, the
plummet, and then compare the pains
he takes TO make his work thorough
and accurate with the care she exercises
to perform her task, and apply the
moral of the lesson to her own case.
To be intensely practical, the particu-
lar point We wish to make is Just this
To induce young women and girls, if
they have hem to fold, to use a meas
ure and be sure that the hem is exactly
the same width in every part if they
have cake or preserves to compound,
to employ the scales, go by a recipe
and aim at the very highest success
ever attained in this line of accomplish
ment: if they have garment to put to-
gether, to use the gauge, the measuring
tape, the smoothing iron, and when it
leaves their hands, have it look profess
sionally finished if they have a room
to sweep, that they sweep it clean and
dust thoroughly, and give it all those
finishing and tasteful touches that all
persons of refinement so much enjoy.
These little things go as deep as to the
very center of character, and the young
lady who is faithful in these few things
is in a way to become ruler over many
things. Tribune.