The National tribune., 1882-12-07
WOMAN'S WORK.
Home, and How to Make It Beautiful
and Happy,

Miss Emily Faithful lectured in New York
I last Friday evening on "The Changed Position
of Women in the Nineteenth Century" Among
other things, she said Tho great need of the
time is proper employment for woman. Gradu-
ally those forms of industry best suited to her
have been usurped by man and the machinery
he controls. AS long as the spinning wheel
! buzzed by the freside, woman could find en-
! ployment at home. But the situation has
! changed, and hard necessity has driven woman
from the retreat of the homo circle. She is
found doing some of tho toughest, hardest
most laborious work. 1t is but recently that
! Parliament interfered to take thousands OF
! women from the collieries. Fifty thousand
women hawk fish and vegetables in Great Bri-
tain, and thousands drudge out their lives at
agricultural labor. In hundreds of factories
women are employed at work harder than that
! done by the men in the same establishments.
In the porcelain factories of Staffordshire wo-
men are forbidden TO use hand rests, and are
| thus prevented from turning out work compar-
/ ing with that of the men. Throughout the
| entire field Of labor woman in England is de-
barred from competing with man in the ucra-
tive branches. Is it not silly to tell her that
her proper place is the home circle, in the face
of woman's excess of five per cent. over the
number of men2 Unless we adopt MOrmOnism
we must allow her to support herself To-day
there are $4,000 English governcsses who can
save nothing against the demands Of age and
want and hundreds work for food and lodgings
alone. The only way to work a radical cure for
this crying evil is to begin at home. Let moth
ers see that their girls are thoroughly trained
in some trade or profession. Skilled labor
whether at the loom or at the easel or in the
myriad branches of industry, will afford a live
lho0d. Every one of the daughters in the
English royal family is taught trade. Woman
only wants mans training to assume mans
responsibilities"
SUNLIGHT ON ALL SIDES OF THE HOUSE.
Says Mr.. I. H. Stearns in the Century for
December: "There is one subject of great i'm
portancc, from a sanitary point of view, that,
so far rs my knowledge goes, has received little
attention. Why is it that, in placing a house
or plotting Western town, village, or city, so
much pains is taken, such sacrifices of local
characteristics often made, to have the street
lines conform to the cardinal points of the COM
pass? A moments reelection would show that
every building intended for a residence, if it is
rectangular, should never teplaced as italmost
uniformity is, so that the rooms on the south
ern aspect are sweltering with midday heat
while those on the north are molding for the
want of the suns rays, but should be placed
diagonally with reference to the cardinal points.
or with one corner to the east to receive the
sun on two sides in the forenoon, and the dag
onally opposite corner to the west that the other
two sides may get the benefit of the afternoon
sun. So situated, there would be no disagree
able north side to the house, and at noon, the
hottest part of the day, the suns rays would
not be beating directly upon the walls of the
building 1t would be excellent to plot new
town according to the samo plan, since in the
heat of the day there would always be a shady
side to every street; also the glare toward sun
set on an cast aud west avenue would be avoided
Perhaps tradition has somethingt to do with the
fact that nearly all new towns are laid out as
they are, because, forsooth, King Solomon
erected a house north and south; but his
temple was SO placed that the sun at its merid-
ian height could dart no rays of light into the
a place ofdarkness.'
"The advantages of sunlight in hygicnc
view are very great, and the disadvantages ofliv-
ing on the north side are fully appreciated"
TRIUMPHs OF THE CULINARY ART.
All the culinary talent and genius of New
York city was present in the Teutonia Assem-
bly, Rooms, in Third Avenue, n. Y, recently,
oP D.
gave its grand annual ball. In the apartment
to the right of the dressing hall there was dis
played, upon a square of tables covered with
glossy damask, samples of the achievements Of
the members of the association which fairly
raised cookery to fine art. The first table
supported two samples of the humber manu-
features Of the kitchen-two large loaves of
bread, one a plain French loaf, eight feet long,
the other a French twist ten feet in extent.
The other tables were crowded with fancy pas
try and confectionery of every conceivable
style and description, most of which was manu-
factured by the chief cooks of the different
hotels. There were fruit cakes ornamented
with life-like and life-size fruits in colOred
sugars; candy castles on the peaks of taffy
mountains, with sugar deer grazing below on
green confectionery foliage; wonderful and in
tricately-conceived pyramids of coIored sugar;
landscapes done in confectionery and hun
dred and one other designs of tho same char
actcr. One Of the finest pieces of fancy work
WAS pure white horse shoe, which was studded
with silver nails Of enamced sugar, and WAS
otherwise adorned with intricate ornamentation
Of white sugar. The curve contained large
cluster of Malaga grapcs-a perfect imitation
of nature Another design represented per-
pcndicUlar horseshoe of white sugar; in the
arch a silver marriage bell was hung, beneath
which Il bridal couple stood. A unique group
was a cats party in white sugar, in which was
represented group of cats at a dinncr-tablc,
others wandering arm in arm in a sugar-grove,
in which still others lounged about in various
attitudes. There was a fancy basket and cover,
all Of lacquercd work in white sugar At 10
o'clock the band in the ballroom struck up n
merry tune, and the 200 cooks and bakers seized
each his wife, his daughter, his mother-in- law,
or his sweetheart, and was whired into the
mazes Of waltz which was followed by quad
rifle and polka, and by another waltz and
more pOlkas and quadriles. At midnight the
dancing was stopped long enough to adjourn to
tho room below, where long rows of tables were
spread with dclicaces Of expert manufacture
and where each baker and cook, to man. |
proved himself appreciative as well as creative |
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