Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-12

without help. and how long, think YOU,
will he refrain from getting nervous
Ii women in private were given the ad-
vantages OF men in public, there would be
no carpers who cry without knowing
whereof. If as much were required of
men cooks in public as of women workers
IN private, this protest against imposition
had not needs be written, and there would
be no men cooks.
BY THEIR WORKS SHALL YE KNOW THEM"
Aside from the comparative few whom
they have fed, how has the world at large
been benefited by those men who have ac-
quired culinary brilliancy? A few French
men have taught fancy cooking at fancy
prices to the rich. Show us man who
has gone out of his sphere" to teach the
poor and middle class people how on small
sums they can prepare wholesome,
attractive foods. Juliet Corson and Miss
Parloa have for years been doing that
dltfuslng at uitiing cost, in classes for
children, grown girls and women, ex-
tensive knowledge in family cookery
Show us a man who knowing wines or
other beverages, has taught the public to
mix healthtul, cooling drinks for the sick.
Florence Nightingale and Clara Barton did
so. ShoT US man who has given TO young
housekeepers any instructions on the best
methods dreaming fruit, making bread or
general house management. Jenny June
and Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher publish
papers on such subjects Show US a man
who has all his life been known as a novel
list, and suddenly astonishes the public
with cook books and home help that show
him well versed in domestic economy.
Marion Harland was such one Show MS
any man cook who publishes frequent arti-
cles IN papers as do numerous women writ
ers, describing how to cook and serve pref
ty birthday, Thanksgiving, Christmas and
common dinners. Show us housekeepers'
column intelligenty edited bv any man
cook.
THE WORLD MOVES. CALLED.
Women make no improvements. Won
say Are you aware, professed old bache-
Tor, that married women do not own what
they earn ? That they are not educated in
ethics of house-building? Are not con-
suited as TO what they want about their
houses And that their expressed wishes
for alterations are generally denied with,
" We can do without that too hard
times?P A wife works as many, often
more, hours day than her husband.
For society to assume that men support
their wives is, in most cases, presumptu-
Gus. If her labor represents no productive
money value, take heI out or the house
and see what it will cost to hire her work
done. To fill her place is impossible at
any price.
When a fine horse is bred. does its trainer
require no credit? After house is built
is nothing due the one who takes care of
it? Though factories turn out the cloth. is
it no work or worth to cut and sew gar
ments? Is it not as necessary that food
shall be properly cooked as well as sup
piled? Give women means due TO their
earnings, and see how soon they viii pro-
vide improvements for their own convent
enee. Look at the army, every year in
creasing its ranks, of women who support
themselves by telegraph operating, type
writing newspaper work, practicing law.
medicine, teaching painting, as book
keepers, florists, dressnakers, etc. Most of
them have been married. Where are the
husbands2 Discharged as non-supporters.
because they could not even cook. much
less furnish their own o. their wives meals.
In conclusion, fellow Bohemian, let me
call your attention to the fact that women
are marching toward millennium of
equal pay for equal work, and that in the
good time coming we propose to tell you
just how and wherein men have failed as
cooks and otherwise. CAROL GROUSE.