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WOMAN ND HONE.
I'm MONEY, WAGES AND THE Eff
Feet ON BREAD WINNERS.

FEC ON bHEHO NFINbN-EhOs
How Hindoo Women Are ReSarded-The
Details in a Good Cook Book-To Fight
Cockroaches-How to Care for the Little
Ones in Hot Weather-OFherG Good Things.
There was tire when It was thought that
q married woman who worked for money IN
some way reflected discredit upon her nus
band, by an implication Of his lack Of ability
10 support her as she wished TO 1--we. That
period is past, both happily and unhapplly-
Happily, because many a man has had cause
TO bless the slender hands Of the wife, which,
By their skill in welding the pen, the brush
or the needle. or in doing other wcmanly
work. have. backed by the willing brain,
Tended off want and disaster when ne, the
usual bread winner has been disabled Or pre-
vented by loss of employment from supply
inc the family with bread and butter.
But the change of public 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 other luxuries not war
ranted by their husbands incomes, some wo-
men have taken the sewing that should have
been given to those poor creatures who find
IL it their sole means Of subsistence. The
sheltered wives and daughters whom nus
bands and fathers support can accept work
70 pick up at odd moments at rates that
would mean seni-staryatIon 70 those women
10 whom such work is the only means Of sup
plying themselves with lodging, food, fuel
and clothing.
The wife OF a small farmer was heard rot
long age recounting complacently the success
she had had in laying aside neat little sum
in the bank during the past winter.
I've had a good deal Of spare time even
ings," she said, and Jane and Sarah and /
thought it was a real shame we shouldn't
make something BY it. So when father went
down to NJ we made him 20 TO store
there and get US some things to make He
brought us mems shirts and little boys
knee pants. They We're all cut out and
stitched, and it was easy enough to finish
them Off, though it was kind of tedious
work There were five gussets and nine but
Ton holes to each shirt. and it took the three
OF us pretty near all day, working steady ali
the time we could spare from our homework,
to do dozen of the shirts. Icould do two
pair Of the pants in q day"
And how much were you paidF7 queried
an interested listener
oh well. IL wasn't much admitted the
other; "only thirty-five cents a dozen for the
shirts, and dollar seventv-five dozen Tor
the pants. It did seem rather little 10 me at
first but / says to the girls, If we weren't
doing this, we wouldn't be doing ANYTHING 10
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 good
sight better than nothing"
81 should say SOP CALCULATED the auditor
81 declare TO goodness, / believe IN try that
Eame plan myself next winter. l only wish
I'd thought Of it before"
To neither speaker did the idea seem t.
suggest itself that in the city there were
struggling women to whom 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 leisure moments 10 shop
work. The degraded order Of humanity pos
EeSsed by the proprictors Of Sweating cstab-
lishments is of a sort that makes them ready
10 take advantage Of their ability TO have the
work done at the lowest possible terms Ev-
frything that by causing the supply to exceed
the demand has Il tendency to reduce wages
Is hailed with Joy by these human sharks.
Still it seems rather hard to veto the earn
Ing of al. wages by woman simply because
charity that the gains from her Iabors enable
her to bestow, grant her double the gratitica-
hon she would derive from anything bought
with money that had been given her. Bat
let her seek some other outlet for her indus
try. That is an exceptional woman who has
not some speciality, be it never 50 humble. To
this let her turn a means 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 allowance thar was all her
husband could afford her. used to make the
money for his Christmas and birthday gifts
by crocheting silk shawls In ii peculiar
stitch of which she alone held the secret
Another earned ali her donations to charita-
bic enterprises by putting up picked man
goes, by an old, family recipe, for friends
VINO could not obtain these dainties else
where and were glad to pay her literally for
her trouble. Shl another, n 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 French candies and salted
almonds became the industry of another.
Such avocations rs these impove-ish no one.
and their practice enables a woman TO fec
that Independence dear to all who are uol
content 10 I'll only ornamental places in life.
--Harper's Dazar.
To Get Rid of CoCI,roaches.
A correspondent writes rs follows. l beg to
forward YOU an easy, clean and certain