The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-01-19
New Business fer Women.
[Albany Journal.1

Within year q new art has been de-
veloped calculated to relieve the pressure on
the embroidery and painting business. High
art has been introduced into the preservation
Of fruits and the baking of cakes and sweet
meats. This. too, has become popular 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 stuffs on exhibition, made by ladies for
the most part who do it to emf 10y 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. I see advertised in the Albany
papers the wares of lady resident in city
in central New York, who supplies cakes to a
vast number Of customers. She made her
self famous by baking what is called "An-
gels Food" She is q member of family
who were once immensely wealthy, but are
now reduced to straitened circumstances.
Her business is worth S., 600 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 very handsome
revenue from the work.
A Misfortune Rather Than q Fault.
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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 a useful relation to life.
Girls are not subjected to ths formative pro-
cesses that strengthen and qualify their
minds, develop their handicraft, or fructify
their talents, so that they generally step into
womanhood totally unfit to be helpmates to
men, and quite without practical knowledge
of means by which to maintain themselves.
The lessons of their lives have been con-
fined to the cultivation of social graces, not
extending to the acquisition Of principles Of
domestic economy or home exaltation. They
become mothers before they have learned
what it is to be wives, and 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 large proportion Of women
are SO entirely devoted to dress and amuse-
ment that 1t is question IL they are aware
that matters OF greater Importance concern
other people. Il is the misfortune rather
than the fault Of most of them, the result of
foolish notion that it is unnecessary for the
girls OF wealthy parents to know more than
how to entertain agreeably and appear to
good advantage in the fashionable world.