Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-02-02
New business for Women.
ALBANY Journal.l

Within year new art has been de-
veloped calculated to relieve the pressure on
the embroidery and painting business. High
art has been introduced into tho preservation
of fruits and the baking of cakes and sweet
meats. This, too, has become popula ar en-
ployment with people who are able to acquire
the skill necessary. At the various art rooms
now you will find canned fruit and fancy
bake stuifs on exhibition, made by ladies for
the most part who do it to employ their leis-
ure time. These goods command the highest
prices, being bought at rates which dealers
in these stores would not dare to ask. The
ill-success Of SO many people in making their
preserves make this business supply some
thing of want.
Cake-baking, too, Is an equally profitable
venture. l see advertised in the Albany
papers the wares of lady resident in a city
in central New York, who supplies cakes to q
vast number of customers. She made her.
self famous by baking what Is called can
gels Food" She is member of a family
who were once immensely wealthy, but are
now reduced to straitened circumstances
Her business is worth s., 900 year to her at
present, and Is growing all the time. An
other case is that of a lady who putsup canned
fruits. She is the daughter of an ex-congress-
man, and is married to the son Of the greatest
diplomat America has produced in recent
years. There is no need Of her applying her
skill in this manner, but she was induced to
make business of what was pastime by
the urgent solicitation of friends who ate her
preserves. She now gets a very handsome
revenue from the work.
A Misfortune Rather Than q Fault.
tChicago Inter Ocean.l
Through fault of discipline when the char
acter was forming, women. who happen to
come within the charmed circle Of moneyed
plenty are predisposed against work Of any
sort that is more serious than pertains to the
toilet, and do not have the joyful experience
Of life that comes of useful relation to life.
Girls are not subjected to the formative pro-
cesses that strengthen and qualify their
minds, develop their handicraft, or fructify
their talents, 30 that they generally step into
womanhood totally unfit to he helpmates to
men, and quite without practical knowledge
Of means by which to maintain themselves.
Tho lessons OF their lives have bcen con-
fined to the cultivation OF social graces not
extending to tho acquisition of principles Of
domestic economy or homo exaltation. They
become mothers before they have learned
what it is to be wives, AMI consequently let
their children follow the same unpurposeful
way themselves have struggled along, unless
those children are blessed enough to be boys,
and come more directly under the paternal
management.
The lives Of largo proportion Of women
are SO entirely devoted to dress and amuso-
ment that it is question il they are aware
that matters Of greater importance concern
other people. 1t Is the misfortune rather
than the fault of most Of them, the result Of
q foolish notion that 1t is unnecessary for the
girls OF wealthy parents to know moro than
how to entertain agreeably and appear to
good advantage in the fashionable world.
Concerning WALLPAPER.
[Clara Belle In Cincinnati Enquirer.J
Rooms are being beautified or made hid
cous according a. the tastes of the family
boss vary from good to bad. The results de.
pend largely on the selection Of the wall
paper. The use of paper for decorations OF
the walls and ceilings Is increasing. Ceilings
are rarely now frescoed, but left plain, that
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