Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-25


Even hammer would not break a thin piece
OF 1t. Doors, bath tubs wardrobes, water
pipes, all kinds of ware now usually made of
WOOD, metal or terra Gotta, were made of
glass.
NO sERYANTs-THE COOKING QUESTION.
There Were no longer any servants, each
member OF the family doing some portion Of
the work, but this was reduced bv machinery
to almost nothing. When the family was
seated at the table the head of it pressed q
small knob. The centre of the table rose by
concealed mechanism, exposing a dumb
waiter. In one compartment were nankins-
roll, forks and spoons of solid gold. which
metal had become as cheap as silver is now
There were also soup tureen and set of
plates. The dumb waiter disappeared, and.
at the end of the soup course came up again
In another compartment was covered dish
with plates. This dish contained fish. a
third rise of the waiter to a greater hight
produced exquisitely cooked vegetables and
a roast The viands were all so well cooked
that they did not require cutting, and knives
were not visible.
All cooking was done on the cooperative
plan. The country was laid OF into districts.
In the centre of each was building for cook
ing. Bills of fare for each day we're carefully
prepared some time in advance by a super
vlsory committee, and the dishes prepared
with great care. The skillful preparation of
food had become fine art. The telephone
sent in the orders of each household on the
preceding evening. There were only two
meals each day, the slight lunch at noon re-
quiring no cooking. Punctually at the ap-
pointed hour every day dinner TT aims left the
cooking depot to carry each household the
lnn1n tlar. fl,o
member of the household received at the gate
the dinner case, carrying without loss of heat
the inclosed meal Of each dish only care
fully estimated amount was ordered, partly
from a dislike of waste, partly to avoid excess
in rich food. The last course at dinner con-
sisted of fruits, grapes being kept in perfecc
ton throughout the year.
NO DRESSMAKING.
Dressmaking, that source of human slavery,
had become a lost art. Dresses not being
made to display the figure, their cut and
makeup was entirely a matter of machinery
Dress did not take up more time than is now
devoted to it by a man of decent regard for
his outward appearance. Not that wives and
daughters were Indifferent. Their toilet was
brief, because so sensibly devised that each
was put on as easily and required as little ar
graceful folds and harmonious coloring of
the feminine attire of that period, would re-
greet the gaudy frippery, the costly and elab-
crate combination of shreds and patches that
now disigures more frequently than it
adorns.
CHEAP DIAMONDS OUT OF FASHION.
Of jewelry, except few pins and clasps of
the simplest form, there was none. The
of hor,, of
metal or glittering stones would have been as
repugnant to a young woman of that day as
tattooing or the wearing of a nose ring. A
wreath, few flowers in her hair completed
her costume for dinner or breakfast The art
of crystallizing gems had long been brought
to perfection. The diamond, the ruby could
be produced of size and beauty astonishing
to the people of to-day. So gems had ceased
to be precious. The wearer of the most
costly diamond parure ever produced, would,
among these people, have been regarded with
the same good-natured contempt excited in
us by the gaudy tinery of the savage owner
of some strings of bright colored beads.
THE BEAUTY OF THE WOMEN.
The women were beautiful and graceful
beyond any of their distant ancestresses of
the present. Long ages of intellectual Gull
insipid peril ction of feature. Could women
of the present but see for once their free and
elastic step they would throw aside the shoes
which now torture and distort their feet.
PREPARATIONS FOR MARRIAGE.
Even within q few weeks of her wedding
day young woman was entirely free from
the petty cares, the delights and worries as.
ISOLATED with the words "milliner" and
cir
comprising nearly all the clothing she would
quire during the rest Of her life, had long
since been prepared by her own hands, The
collection of china, plate, etc, had been a
labor of love for her mother ever since her
daughters birth, and had grown at each
anniversary. Not an article but was asso-
ciated with some happy memory of her girl
hood. BY pretty CUSTOM each girl friend
contributed piece of porcelain decorated by
herself. The execution was unequal but
none fell below a fair standard Drawing
was practiced by all from infancy with even
greater assiduity than writing, since there
were many substitutes for writing. Every
stroke was as characteristic of the donor as
are to us the letters of familiar handwrit-
ing.
ONLY ONE LANGUAGE.
The children had many advantages over
those OF the nineteenth century. BY the aid
of rational alphabet they acquired the power
of spelling any word as pronounced. Not be-
ing obliged to fritter away energies on the
study of other tongues, they were able to de-
vote the more time and care to themastery Of
their own. There was, in fact, only one liv-
ing language founded upon the English and
Gpoken everywhere Latin, Greek, German,
and French were mere traditions
INTEMpERANCE AND UNCHAsTITY.
The laws governing the family relations
were very stringent Many had become need
less-such as laws against man-stealing and
cannibalism are with us The influence Of
woman was directly felt in legislation, es-
pecially indoing away with the two evils from
which their sex has suffered the most-intem-
perance and unchastity. There was total
prohibition of the manufacture and posses
sion Of intoxicating beverages; while offenses
against chastity were punished in a fashion
that prevented those guilty from ever offend
ing again.