The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-01-02
LADIES COLUMN.
HARoLINE HAROLD, EDITOR.
COOKING AND SEWING.
The Golden Age for Women Of These
Domestic Accomplishments
The Needle in the Pub
lie Schools.
Enthroned on a Platform Of Flowers.

| Correspondence of the Courier Journal.
BosToN, Dec. 9, 1878.-Of a sure
ty this is the golden age for women
not of literature and the fine arti
alone, but of those beautiful domes
tic accomplishments as well which
have so long been neglected anc
despised. Not only is cooking the
rage among the fashiOnables of the
fair sex now, but the idea is being
carried to such an extreme in New
York, that social patents are taken
out by ladies of certain cliques, by
which each may acquire the sole
right to a particular dish in which
she excels, none of her friends ever
infringing her rights by attempting
the same dish. But am not going
to read you a lecture on cooking, in
this letter, and will only suggest
that you read the very interesting
sketch of the English plan of estab-
fishing charitable cooking-schools
for the instruction of poor children,
which will appear in the Wide
Awake for January. This is a
magazine for children and youth, ]
know, but it is very generally read
with quite as much interest by the
''grown-ups" of the family as the
lIt6le ones. The article in question
is called LADY Betty's Cooking
SCHOOL," and is the best thing that
has been written on the subject In
this country.
the rolling-pin, that 1 would write
to-day. There have been years
during the last quarter of century
when this most graceful and fasci
mating as well as useful employ
ment for feminine fingers has been
so very questionable i'll Weather
circles that it was in danger of be-
coming obsolete, except as q trade,
which would soon have been monop-
olized by few professionals. Not
only the butterflies, but the book
worms among women, disdained to
use the tiny steel implement, consid-
ering a picked forefinger as great q
disgrace as an k-stained middle
finger was an honor, and knowing
scissors only to clip newspapers
herewith
But OF late-very late-years,
sewing has been introduced as an
important branch into our Boston
grammar schools, and with what
good results, the frequent public
exhibitions OF the articles made
give indisputable proof. Even the
cutting and fitting of dresses has
been introduced, but OF course the
time and attention that can be given
TO this complicated art is necessa
rily very limited. Besides, the
children who attend our daily pub
lie schools have more or less oppor-
tunity to learn TO sew at home. But
the problem has been a more diff
cult one concerning those young
girls who cannot receive ample ad-
vantages of education at home, and
who are, therefore, Obliged to spend
the years OF their girlhood at board
ing school. The great majority of
them graduate at eighteen, or there
about, without even the elementary
knowledge of hem or seam.
The Lasell Seminary, in our beau
tlful suburban town OF Auburndale,
has taken a step in this direction,
winch will be very generally appre
ciated, by opening classes under
eminent instructors, not only in
dress making but in millinery as
we'll. IL would be well for the
school and scholars alike, if every
institute of the kind in the land
should follow the example which
Lassell has set in this matter.
Girls in the family at home, too,
should always learn dressmaking, in
a scientific and practical manner, of
some one who thoroughly under
stands how to teach 1T. for there is
no telling how valuable the knoBl-
edge may be to them. Not every
girl. will have home OF her own,
50 that the housekeeping art may
never be needed by them. But
every girl to be clothed as long as
she lives, and in ninety-nine cases
out of hundred, whether rich or
poor, married or single, OF business
or domestic habits. she will be
saved more time, trouble and money
by knowing how tn make her own
clothes, or how to direct her dress
maker, than she could save in any
-.t,or 40 xyay Won unman wbp
are slaves to your nOdistesj who
have experienced the aggravations
of repeated ''tFyings-on;' who are
familiar with the willy ways OF these
modern tyTants, who can only make
twenty five yards of silk do the
work that twenty ought to do; who
are never sure whether a dress will,
or will not, be the dress you or
dered when it is done, and last, but
not least, who pay the bills. You
do not know the delights of being
independent and making yonr
own dress just exactly as yon please,
and when you please, and as eco
nomically as you please.
Did / write you about the beauti-
full singer, who graduated from the
New England conservatory, here at
Boston, about a year ago, and went
to Italy, where she made her debut
on salary of 800 per night, with
out needipg to take single lesson
in that musical land3 We Bosto-
mans are very proud Of her, so you
must excuse me for referring to
Mrs. Darlington again, for re-
ceived letter from Servia, Italy, a
few days ago full OF enthusiastic
praises of the new star, describing
the great ovation which was ex-
tended 10 her in that city, where at
the conclusion OF her engagement
last month. she was borne To her
hotel in triumph, enthroned on a
platform of flowers, which was held
aloft by twelve men in costume, and
preceded by a brass band
This for our home educated Yam
kee soprano. TRIMoSTAINE.