Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-04-26
: TooL-cHEsTs FOR Gin, 3
Ie' fhem Have an Opportunity 20 Dsve,o,
Mechanical Gsuf.,s

ihem Have an Opportunity 70 Deveio~
:. Mechanical Genius.
PARENTS do not object to see saw and
MANNER gimlet and serew-driver n
.neir sons hands at very tender AGE.
ihey look upon tools as q boys birth.
lght Bat little girl is hurrIedlv
told to put them down. ito M,
touch" that she will cut herself mr.
pound her fingers. and "get hurt gen.
orally.
| nut the time lis not far off when there
VIII De room in the house set apart
lor the work bench, and that bench and
70 'oois Will be as free to the daugh-
eers as the sons. In their fashionable
nrass-nammering and Woodworking
the girls have ''got TASTE of it. We
may expect to yet see the carpenter
come TO give lessons as regularly as
the music teacher. Why not? That
eight children out of ten would like it
better there is no doubt.
| A dozen years hence certain branches
OF many trades will be largely occupied
py women. We shall see young women
az study and work In architects Offices.
In the wallpaper designing rooms.
mixing paints and stains and finishes
ara fresco washes. We shall see the
student at the Harvard annex emerge
from her long companionship with the
higher Mathematics with the "plans
and elevations" of house in one hand
and bill OF lumber" in the other as
applied mathematics" At present
the training. in geometry say. is SO I'M
applied that the sweet girl graduate
lays the tea table with the cloth awry.
and the plates at all angles and dis
tances; and is serenely unaware tn al
she has hung her water-color draw
ing crooked until some distressed occu-
pant OF the room points it out.
The modern female hand and eye are
so far unframed that not one yonng
woman in five can take shears and cut
straight across breadth OF goods un.
less she fold and crease the cloth, OF
SLOWLY cuts by thread"
For myself, l have saved many a
dollar first and last by being '.handy
with tools"
When | was little girl and held &
mortal objection to allowing my Older
brother any accomplishments which
had not, | conceived the brilliant ides
one summers rainy day of making my
self churn, which was to be an exac
reproduction in miniature of an old
fashioned instrument my grandmother
| i
churn."
A gentleman called at our house ant
found me under the shed dilligentl,
boring hole into round piece 0
wood. Wishing to make himself agree
able to me, | suppose, he inquired
what was making. / replied in tn
most matter-of-fact way. as if it wer
the most common matter in the worl,
for seven-year-old girls to manufacture
household goods. "A churn;" an
great was my Indignation as he wen
. away laughing as if he had heard tn
, greatest joke in the world. After tina
, l never met him. even after l ha
grown to the dignity of young lady
hood and trained gowns, but what h
inquired with most aggravating r
terest If my churn was done.
1t never was, am bound to say; bu
l learned my lesson just the same, an
, whenever | want nail driven in,
shelf put up, or window-shade &C
: iusted, do not wait for a carpenter
. Instead. thank my stars that / eve
. practised on churns and wooden sew
ing machines; and If it We're necessar.
, | think / could-with all the contident
/ once began my churn-build hou:
: after a fashioni-Wide Awake.