The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-30

| anu eue pTOmiS6 OF mere, anu sue WOulC
soon have her other dress out of pawn
and then she could make q better ap
psaranee when she went 10 her lessons
Brave, courageous, pure-hearted chile
that she was, making COED use Of her in
heritance, the love of music, and the one
good thing which her parents had don't
for her was her education therein.
Visiting Cooper Institute recently, on,
of the young ladies in the engraving de
partnaent said to me, 'My mother wishes
me to give up everything else, and de
vote myself entirely to this engraving
and acquiring it as profession, 81
that l shall be provided for as we'll ~
my brothers, in case have ever to worf
for my living.
Wise mother l thought to mysef. ant
more loving and tender than wise.
Nevertheless professions are filed t
overAowing. The land is flooded with
teachers Teachers of every known art
and accomplishment under the sun from
high art, down 10 the pasting of piet
ures on soap boxes, and plenty of artists
who know knething about art. So nov
let us have some good housekeepers
cooks and artisans
Let us have some healthy men auG
women. Send our boys cut of the of
fees and on to the great farms getting
| ready or waiting for them, and educate
our girls to be their helpmates.
Is it not in every good mothers power
to instruct her daughters in the mys
teries of housekeeping, a craft which
might well be named high art, and the
preparation of food, which is absolutely
| the finest of fine arts and the graceful,
delicate arrangement the most esthetie
Of them alig
Is IL not Emerson who says "TeN me
where you live and will tell you who
you are, " for people inevitably grow like
their neighbors and their surroundings,
So with even more justice l might say,
"Tell me what you eat and | will tell
you who you are" for just a. inevitably,
if you have been eating greasy, heavy,
ill-prepared food, you are becoming, If
not already, gloomy, misanthropic dys-
peptic, having no good in yourself and
seeing in and making none for others.
While if you have been blessed with a
cheerful, tidy wife, able and "knowing," !"
on "hospitable thoughts intent" TIL war
rant you happy fellow, good-humered
and hopeful.
Thank heaven, cooking Is now the
fashion, and our wives and daughters
must inevitably join the innumerahe
throng now rushing to the Cooking
School. Housekeeping is bound to be-
come an honorable vocation, with always
room in the ranks for more.
"Chatted food is haf-digested;" a
wholesome, cheerful breakfast, with
smiles and kind words, at least, will
send out a set of happy people. The
father has a CHEEKY word and God
speed in his morning salutations-that
brightens up and cheers on his way, not
only the acquaintance that he meets, but
the stranger il the better for glimpse
Of human sunshine. Lite is sore enough
for the best, at best, so don't grudge your
smile. The children study better, and
are more easily managed than others;
while the wife and mother, happy in the
happiness of her family, makes her house
keeping the first care. "
Perhaps she has skilled help and needs
only to order, bat she knows how to
order Alright.
Again, she may not have "a fine French
cook" only Bridget, and she knows
what Bridget does not, and under her
skilled and delicate hands dinner and
dessert will soon be prepared, and Bridget
taught beside and time to spare.
The artists in the Young Mems Chris
tian Association Building recently gave
a day and evening reception to the pub
lie. The various studios were thrown
open and some good pictures on exhibi-
ton. In future letter we will speak Of
some of its artists and their work.
The Salmagundi Club has Just given
its second exhibition. Among some 220
pictures, there were no very large ones.
Owing to some mistake, there were no
catalogues, which left the pictures to tell
their own stories, which in most cases
they could do remarkably well. There
was a portrait of Thomas Edison, by
Francis Lathrop, a study from life, taken
at Menlo Park. The artist has done his
work we'll. 1t is face to win you, with
sort of boyish freshness about it--just
such face and expression as he showed
to his audience last fall in Saratoga, at
the Science" Convention, face which
each one will read and classify according
to his own opinion Of the great inyen-
tors ability.
A young artist from Ohio. but who
works as if to the salt water born, Mr..
M. J. Burns, exhibited among others, an
admirably executed picture, "Handcart
off to the Wreck" on which is the breath
of the sea, as we'll as the spukle of the
water. Among the members of this noted
club are the principal draughtsmen and
engrayers for the various magazines, &c.,
which now by their fine presentations of
art make every spare moment delight
to the beholder. There are the Trinity
Church Infrmary pictures by Muhrman,
by Clifford etchings fseh nature full of
life, Charles Volkman, one of the finest
etchers Of the day, also gives from nature
some of the most spirited and beautiful
etchings that we have ever seen. We