The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1880-04-15

heretofore Dy young laQleS. cull uiouiu
ing bonnets are made OF Grape, arranged
in fiat folds upon close-6tting turban
frames. Gypsy hats will be worn far
back on the head, the front projecting in
poke shape end the sides turned down.
Striped petticoat skirting has been
lately turned to new use, and that is
for making neat plain bodices to match
the skirts, with o broad scarf twisted
round the hips and looped long at the
back. This material is warm and
thick, but answers very well for skating
and tennis dresses. The bodice is tight
fitting, without trimming, except bows
at the throat and wrists, and is made
after the style Of the Jersey bodice. 1t
is either opened and neatly hooked up
halfway down the front, or up the
back, and is joined to the skirt under
neaththe broad scarf, and just below
the hips.
Tho Working Girls OF New York.
Mrs. DR.. Jennings has been talking
with reporter of the New York Tsle-
gram in reference.to the health of work
ing girls in the metropolis, and the en-
ploym ent which is best suited to their
mental, moral and physical condition.
The lady has made the subject a study,
and this is what she says: '-'
The average health Of the working
girl is, I think. better than the average
health of the idle young lady. Ply
sicians encounter their most puzzling
cases among the latter class. Work in
itself is healthful. I often have oc-
casion to recommend it to my rich
young lady patients-sornething to do,
some definite purpose to be worked
out. On the other band, I formerly
found many cases of gout among my
poorest charity patients. proving that
that malady is not the exclusive luxury
of epicures and well-nourished people.
Reporter-What are the most health
full avocations for womene
DR.. Jennings-Household service /
consider the most healthful of all the
employments of women infinitely pre-
ferable, on the score of health, to sew
ing, teaching or doing nothing. The
vocation of the nurse girl is very health
iul, inEspite of its lifting. 1t gives a
variety of outdoor exercises and plenty
of sunshine, and then the companion
ship of bright, young, beautiful children
is health-giving influence. There is
need intelligent, educated hndsuperior
women in this department of labor, and
it would be well all around if many OF
our over-tasked and over-crowded
women in the factories and the trades
would seek it. The reluctance of girls
to go into housework seems strange to
me. It arises from a false idea of the
degradation of work. Any labor that
is well done dignifes itself. Bright,
intelligent, capable girls are needed in
domestic services. Intelligence and
capacity to learn are needed more than
experience, and are well paid. Good
cooks command from Sl2 to $22 month
besides a comfortable home. This sort
of work gives a girl good food Gf her
cooking IS bad it's her own fault,
variety OF movement, xercise of all
parts of the body and generally a rea-
sonable time for rest. It's very diff
ferent thing to walk about kitchen or
house from standing with ones dead
weight .on the feet all day, as the poor
girls behind the counters have to do. AS
a physician 1 have had to advise good
man5 girls to give up sewing or stand
ing in stores for household service of
some kind. One work is not moro
menial than the other when it is done
in the proper spirit. Our American
working girls have something to learn
in this direction. The laws of demand
and supply regulate everything. 1t is
useless to clamor for higher wages for
women SO long as so many are crowded
into very few yocations. The only way
to osettle this whole question is for women
to qualify themselves for skilled labor
in many directions.