Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1881-11-03
The Wives of the Future.

! sometimes catch myself wen
dering how many of the young Ia
dies whom ! meet with are to per
form the part of housekeepers when
the young men, who now eve them
admiringly, have persuaded them
to become their wives.
We listen to these young ladies
and hear them not only acknowl~
edgiEg, bnt boasting of Their igho-
rahce OF all household duties, as if
nothing would so lower them in
the estimation of their friends as
the confession of an inability to
make bread and pies or cook a
piece Of neat, or disposition to
en gage in any useful employ
ment
Speaking from my own youthful
recollections, | am free to saw that
taper fingers and lily hands are
very pretty to look at bnt | have
lived long enough to learn that life
is full Of rugged experience, and
that TIE rncst loving. romantic and
delicate people must dive on cook
ed or otherwise prepared food, and
the house be kept clean and tidy
by industrious hands. And for all
the practical purposes of married
life it is generally found that for a
husband to sit and gaze at a wi!e's
taper fingers and lily hands, or for
a wife TO sit and be looked at and
admired, does not make the pot
boil, or put a piece of fcod there
Iii.
would advise ycang ladiea who
have Just left school to make use
ef your leisure in taking lessons
from your mothers. There is an
absolute feeling of Independence in
knowing how to make perfectly
light, sweet, substantial bread.
Toast seems a simple thing enough,
but it is frequently so i'll made that
it does not deserve the name. Cru
ell, necessity os tic siel. room, is
often a hopeless mystery to women
who have the vaguest idea of how
it is evoITed from the raw materi :
al. After you have mastered the
bread question try meats and vege.
tables. Any intelligent girl can
learn to cook, and take pleasure in
her task.
Gol&en cake, deiicately browncd
bread quivering 5eiiies5 mrl'in2
creams, and the whole set OF mate
rial things glorifsd, because made
f,r loves sake and ftr the good of
ones dear ones, and fit expressions
for any woman. would not be
contentcd to be a mere cook, only
that and nothing more: bat reme-
Der, these husbands tire OF the
sweetest singing, of the lovelinst
poetry, of the finest painting, and
of witty conversation, bat Of g>o.l
cooking. The good cook is always
welcome.
Fashions in Stockings and Shoes.
"Embroid erers for shoes wanted
was the advertisement which led an
inquirer in f1ew ! ork up 6 long fIgLt
Of stairs in tall bniIding, through
the room that was filled with shoes TO
an office, where sat benevolent fac
ed gentleman, who said: "Shoea arc
now embroidered fo' ladies. We have
orders for line Of cloth-top shoes
embroidered in chenille, and tor low
shoes embroidered at the instep. The
.e1s broidered stockings have become
SO popular that now embroidery is
wanted on the shoue, too. We have
artists who make the patterns, and
we expect to turn out some charming
bits OF art embroidery In shoes for
next Summers were. We had an
order recently for embroidered white
slippers for bride to match a pair Of
white elk stockings with chantily
lace let in from the instep, end an
other pair OF white silk embroidered d
with floss silk, the design being pale
| blue forget-me-nots and pink roses
| Clock stockings are row superseded
by embroidered stockings. We follow
| the fashion in stockings and shoes,
and stockings Will next year be solo
to match. Open work is getting pop
ular. Black silk stockings "are made
witt a plain stripe, and ,here are
open work stripe with white feet
which show through open work in The
shoes. There are now twelve hundred
new designs in sii.Z stockings, and we
have to make shoes to suit The most
popular styles. We make the tops oI
cloth or leather to match the color o
the stocking, aud then we embroide
tue top to match the stocking embrci
derry, so that ct a glance the lad.
GEMS to have on Newport slipper!
With embroidered stockings. 1t vii
add about 81 a.pair to shoes to em-
broider them, but we can make then
to $50 pair. Some of our up
town danes don't seem to mind wha
1T costs to beautify their feet
.Freckles are not so bad after all