Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-04-28
HOUSE AND FARM.
Woman and Her Sphere,

A wife makes a great mistake when she is
too lavish in her endearments. A little reti-
cepce in the conduct of his wife is to a.
mans love like salt in his soup, and lemon
in his cheese cakes. Husbands love to be
loved, but they hate to be bored; and a very
demonstratiye, perpetually administrative,
and profoundly abject wife clogs by excess,
chills by the mere force of repetition, and |
repels by the very strain of monotony. II
A glass dress is being made for Fanny
Davenport in Pittsburg. 1t will be full |
toilet evening suit, and the process of max !
ing it is such as to give the work the ap-
pearance of fine French satin, only that it is
much more brilliant The dress will have
what is called the glass CLOTH from which
this suit will be made, the glass is first spun
into fine threads and then woven. There
is nothing to compare with the progress of
this age.
A fashionable dressmaker tells the Gin
cinnati Enquirer that the chief trouble with
women's forms is their irregularity. "The
number whose two sides do not correspond
is wonderful. Sometimes one shoulder is
higher than the other, sometimes one hip is
bigger, and sometimes the whole figure is
awry. Women's dress, in this era of cling
ing garments, reveals every imperfection,
unless art comes to natures help"
| There are decided changes in the styles
of jackets for early spring wraps. Those of
last year were English and masculine look
ing, with coat collar, double breasted cut
away fronts, side pockets, seams across the
hips, open seams with flaps at the back,
and many large buttons The new jackets
are essentially French and feminine, as they
are fitted to the figure, are single breasted,
! Is<ho1 o,,k -, sc 1o,>
around, quite far below the hips, with every
buttons and in many cases are completed
by belt, to which bag is attached.
A new culinary society, consisting of
organized in Boston, under the name of
Boston Culinary and Confectionery Society.
The objects of the new association are:
"The development and progress of the
whole art, the advancement and improve
ment of it's members, the elevation and
promotion of it's social fellowship, the pro-
lection of and providing for the interests of
the employment, and the raising and the
uplifting of the professional standard to a
higher level and more exalted tone and
spirit" The society will soon occupy per-
manent quarters.
Says correspondent of the Woman's
Journal: II knew gifted woman who
wrote books to aid in supporting nine chill
.dren. With five boys and four girls she
has enough to occupy her time, one would
think; but she said to me with a quiet
dignity which had not the least conscious
ness of sacr fee in it: I rise when the
house is quiet, and by the time the chill
dren come down have finished my daily
task She wrote familiar science for chill
dren. Think of sitting down toa desk in
the early morning morning when the birds
are twittering and the sweet breath of the
new day is comming in at the window, to
write about strata or coal and iron! Yet
it helped to send the boys to good school,
and kept the girls well up in their music.
An acquaintance of mine, the mother of
four children, stitched IA tucks into
pair of pillow shams the other day. Take
your choice!"
1t is both pleasant and novel to read the
comments upon the recent action of Cam
bridge admitting woman to fuller privileges.
1t has already had remarkable effect in
liberalizing opinion. In the past ten years
there has been marvellous advance in the
popular ideas concerning woman's educa-
ton. Those who have long supported her
claims to intellectual growth may we'll be
permitted little sarcasm over the blind
prejudices of the past. ave doubt" says
Mr.. George William Curtis, in the last
EASY Chair, If mothers will love their
children less because of this opening of
the university gates, and we do not fear
that even in this spring the young man 8
fancy will refuse to turn to thoughts of
love because Cunigunda may be more de-
voted to Newton than to Worth, or more
observant Of a star in Lyra than of the soil
taire in her own ears"