The evening world., 1889-12-13

trousseau, q domestic department and q
teachers bureau. The latter, under the man.
aRement of Miss Werner. supplies private
pupils, schools and colleges with experienced
professors, tutors and teachers in every de-
partment OF art and learning; teachers with
positions; families with resident or visiting
governesses competent to teach music, Eng
lish, French, German, Spanish and other
languages II required. Also Provides mu-
sicians, readers. elocutionists. housekeep-
ers, chaperones and travelling companions
for city, country and Europe. and furnishes
Offices with competent and experienced
bookkeepers, stenographers, typewriters,
telcgrapbers. copyists and cashiers.
In the domestic department Miss Redhold
is queen, and from her list Of contributors
one can be furnished with q chicken sand
witch or a solid mahogany table on demand,
or leave orders for q college box, old-fash-
Toned molasses candy or q menu, cards,
viands and all, You can buy cook-books.
hints on teas, lunches, napely and china;
secure rare old pieces Of Wedgwood, crown
Derby and etched crystal; you can buy old
candlesticks, old buffcts, potted palms and
trees, and unthought of fancies in guests
cards, favors and forms for individual
courRes-all the work or pride Of some re-
duced gentlewoman.
And then the j%ellies. clear as amber; the
golden jams, the appetizing marmalades,
the spicy preserves and the vegetables and
fruits in pickle, brandy and sauces, the
rarest and most palatable that ever went
down the red road to the region Of gustatory
delight. .
OF the homemade wines, the bottled
bouillon, the minced meat and delicacies for
tina eipk nyorv OnnOa ia N Rtan1ar1 IF aNnal.
lence and every vial, bowl. glass and quart
measure the key to a chapter in q living
novel, Some come from the garrets in South
Fifth avenue and East Broadway: some
from clustered knickerbockers in the
suburb; some from adjoining States. and
some from the boundary lines ofsthe Union.
From q quiet home in Vermontis capital
consignments of maple sugar are sent as
neatly wrapped in tin-foil as the celebrated
chocolates OF Paris. A breadwinner, who
hides her identity behind q MINERAL, sends
preserved figs and guava jelly from Florida.
Hundreds of pounds Of election cake are
received every month from q Hartford con-
siRnor. A citlzeness of Wallingford. Conn.,,
sends jumbles trimmed with wine, hickory
nuts and vanilla. and preserved ginger,
citron and walnuts afford q Californian the
means of support.
A little woman. who Is q famou cook. Is
educating her sons on the proceeds OF pies,
and another. the wife of an invalid, has
built a house in Newark with chicken sand
witches. This particular bread and butter
combination is rolled in oiled paper and
devoured in hundreds by the patrons who
give teas and lunches.
Besides the English PLUM buildings and
fruit cakes-antiques every one of them
the wedding loaves. salads, jellied tongues.
Boston baked beans, fruit buffers, bBned
game and spiced meats and cookies, there
are patrons who fill riders for birthday
cakes and lunches for travellers, business
men and school children.
Together with the manufacture of these
articles the department is ready at all times
to supply attendants-not the dish-cracker
Hercules Of the household order, but sweet
faced, soft-voiced, snowy-haired women to
spread the table, arrange the courses, man.
age the servants and handle the guests.
The outlay OF beauty and brains in the
other departments Is even more remarka-
BILE. A woman seventy-ive years Of age is
kept busy the year round making baby
dresses. which she is able to sell at IS each.
using thread lace and tho finest English
nainsook. and finding the material here.
One young lady supports herself making
baby sachets that sell at 81 each. and an
other who designed q Christmas stocking is
N the highway to fortune. This particular