River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-06-14
FARM AND HOUSE.
For and About Women,

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| 1t is never good plan for newman
ried couple to have anybody, except
their servants, live with them during
their first year of housekeeping. Even
a wife's or a husbands sister is apt to
create discord in such case, and If she
does the only thing to be done is to send
| her away.
Mrs. E. A. Burke, wife of Mayor e.
A. Burke, editor of the New Orleans
Times-Democrat, has accepted the sti-
| perintendency of Lafayette Square, the
| most beautiful spot in that city, where
| upon the New Orleans papers are re-
| ioicing, as Mrs. Burke is public-spirit-
cd lady, and will discharge the duties o
the position faithfully.
$50 write to any one against
the expressed wishes of your parents, is
certain to do you harm in one way or
other. If you defy your parents au
| thority and write openly. YOU will caus Q
them much pain, and If you are at all
good girl this will make you unhappy
and spoil all your home-lIfe. If, on The
| other hand You correspond secretly, you
will commit yourself to course of de-
ception towards those who love you, and
whom, we hope, you love, which will
lower your whole moral tone, and which
may be the first step in complications of
| folly, to which it would now seem I'M
possible that you should ever stoop.
Saxony has some very curious laws
concerning servant girls. For instance,
the mistress is required to allow the
servant one pound of butter and one
pound of coffee per month, or the equiv
alent in money. Ifthe servant furnishes
her own bedding she receives one and
half cent per night for so doing.
Seventy-fiye cents per month is allowed
the servants for her washing, and she
receives five per cent. on all purchases
she makes. She must give a months
notice before leaving her place, and
must keep a book for recommendations,
in which, upon leaving her place, her
mistress is compelled to state the cause
of the servants leaving, and also what is
her character.
German papers comment upon the
strange fact that Italy seems to have
taken the greatest stride in the political
emancipation of women. A movement
is on foot to reorganize the provincial
and district electoral laws, with view
to insert therein the right of suffrage
for women. Like the men, they must
be of the age of twenty-one years.
have the possession of full civic
rights, and also to be expected to con-
tribute taxes of the minimum amount of
five francs, besides furnishing the
proof Of being able to read and write.
AS an act of courtesy, women comply
ing with the foregoing conditions will
be allowed to send their written votes
in a sealed envelope to the commits
sioner at the polls. their signatures be-
ing attested by Syndic (Mayor).
Education calls attention to the fact
that in the technical schools of Paris
girls are taught various trades. among
these" it says, "are bookkeeping, in
Guiding everything else necessary to a
commercial education, painting on
porcelain, wood engraving, artificial
flower making, designing patterns, paint
ing window shades, and other industrial
and decorative arts. Millinery and
dressmaking are taught, and IN such a
way as to make of them fine arts. All
the work is done under the constant in
spection and criticism of the ablest and
most artistic masters that Paris can
furnish. Cheap instruction would neces-
sarily be second rate, and second rate
teachers would produce second rate arti
sans, injuring permanently the character
Of the schools. The course of study en-
braces three years; the literary course
is that laid down by the French govern
ment for schools Of the second grade,
corresponding somewhat to our grammar
schools. Price of tuition in any one OF
the handicrafts taught is 81 a month. If
the pupil takes also the literary course
the charge is about $3.50