Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-10-14
WOMAN AND HOME.
PIN MONEY, WAGES AND THE EF-
Feet ON BREAD WINNERS.

How Hindoo Women Are Regarded-The
Details In Good Cook Book-To Fight
Cockroaches-Tiow to Care for the Little
Ones In Hot weather Other Good Things
There was time wher il was thought that
= married woman who orked for money in
some way reflected discredit upon her hus-
band, by an implication )f his lack of ability
10 support her as she " ished TO live That
period Is past, both happily and unhappily
Happily, because many L. man has had cause
70 bless the slender hand of the wife, which
by their skill in welding the pen, the brush
or the needle, or In doing other womanly
work, have, backed by the willing brain,
Tended off want and d saster when he. the
usual bread winner, has 1een disabled or pre-
vented by loss of employ ment from supply
ing the family with bread and butter
But the change of pa bile opinion on the
score OF home living women working for
money has been unfortunate, because, in the
struggle for funds with which TO indulge a
taste for dress, or for otl er luxuries not war.
ranted by their husband incomes, some wo-
men have taken the sewi lg that should have
been given TO those poor creatures who find
In it their sole means If subsistence The
sheltered wives and dat ghters whom hus-
bands and fathers support can accept work
70 pick up at odd nom snts" at rates that
would mean semi starvation to those women
20 whom such work is the only means of SUD-
plying themselves with lodging, food, fuel
and clothing
The wife of a small farmer was heard not
long ago recounting complacently the success
she had had in laying asi ie a neat little sum
y the bank during the p'lst winter
I'VE had good deal of spare time even
hgs, she said, land Jare and Sarah and l
thought it was a real shame we shouldn't
make something by It. SO when father went
down to NJ we made him go to store
there and get us some things TO make. He
brought us mems shirts and little BOYS
knee pants. They were ali cut out and
stitched, and it was ca " enough TO finish
them of, though 1t was kind of tedious
work. There were five guSsets and nine but
ton holes to each shirt, aud it took the three
of US pretty near all day working steady all
the time we could spare { -om our housework
TO do dozen OF the shirts Icould do two
pair OF the pants in n day."
And how much were you paidiT queried
an interested listener.
'Oh, well, it wasn't much" admitted the
other; "only thirty-five cents a dozen for the
shirts, and dollar sever ty five a dozen for
the pants. IL did seem rather little 10 me at
hrst, but says to the girls If we weren't
doing this, we wouldn't he doing anything to
Earn money And by keeping at it all win
ter we'd made forty dollars by spring, be-
tween the three OF us, and that was a good
sight better than nothing"
II should say so!" CALCULATED the auditor.
81 declare 10 goodness, believe I'll try that
same plan myself next winter only wish
I'd thought Of it before
To neither speaker dill the idea seem to
suggest itself that in the city there were
struggling women 10 who m that forty dollars
would have meant thrice the sum that it did
TO the well clad. well fed wife and daughters
who gave only their leisu % moments TO shop
work. The degraded order of humanity pos
sessed by the proprietors of sweating estab-
ishments is of sort that makes them ready
to take advantage of their ability to have the
work done at the lowest possible terms. Ev-
erything that by causing the supply 70 exceed
the demand has a tendency TO reduce wages
s hailed with joy by these human sharks
Still II seems rather hard TO veto the earn
ing of all wages by wo nan simply because-
she has a husband or ia her The gifts. the
charity that the gains from her labors enable
her TO bestow, grant her double the gratifica-
ton she would derive from anything bought
with money that had ben given her. But
let her seek some other outlet for her indus
try. That is an exceptio nal woman who has
not some speciality, be It never 30 humble To
this let her turn a ms ans for earning her
extra funds. Sometimes she may possess an
accomplishment, oftener a knack at some
branch Of handiwork out of the common line
Of labor, the practice of which takes employ
ment from nobody.
One deft little woman, who had no income
except the slender allowa ice that was all her
husband could afford her, used 10 make the
money for his Christmas and birthday gifts
by crocheting silk shs wis in a peculiar
| stitch OF which she alone held the secret
Another earned all her d lnations to charita-
BILE enterprises by putting up picked man.
goes, by an old, family recipe, for friends
who could not obtain these dainties else
where and were glad to pay her literally for
her trouble. Still another, young girl, as
sumed the concoction Of bouillon for a Ger
tain caterer, achieving preparation that
became famous in the little city where she
lived. Home made Frenci candies and sal.ed
almonds became the inc ustry of another
Such avocations as these impoverish no one,
and their practice enablfs a woman to feel
that Independence dear 20 all who are not
content to fill only ornam sntal places in life.
-Harper's Bazar.