The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-31
Practical Side of a woman's Life.

Women may be emotional, and vivacious,
while men may be more self possessed and
grave, yet in the matter of work woman
proves her worth as compeer. 1t is easy
to agree with one who so recently wrote on
"Woman's Work. as pertaining to fancy
work Some phases of fancy work that
have dropped into:oblivion may have shown
some ingenuity, but no art in its truest
sense. This matter of fancy work, how
ever, is but a side issue as compared to
womanss work. There are women, how
ever, who do earn their daily bread in this
line. With them it is a serious fancy work.
The most artistic part of it is done for
wealthy private patrons. The choicest de-
signs and combinations Of colors and ma
terials are not seen in the average parlor
In the particular acceptation of the term of
fancy work 1t Is not necessary to regard it
in the light OF high art. Home art may in
clude fancy work in its simple pretentions;
but If high art is sought, one muStgo higher
than the average means will permit.
High art may be seen but not. pos
sessed by the average beholder. A
Vanderbilt may pay $1,000 for two sheep
and four cows on canvas, and consider it
but small purchase in the realm of high
art Another person, wishing for some
thing akin to high art, is blighted in the
kwish for the real, so buys plaster paris
| figure containing some pretense to symme-
/ try of form, Grapes it with d gossamer
texture, and places it in a shady corner ON
dark pedestal. This is a compromise be-
tween high and home art. The decorative
art has. indeed, deluged some of our mod
arm homes with Wearisome amount of
''crewelty." Flosses, whole and split
stemmed and knoJted, shaded aud plain,
have found places on everything from a
foot rest to the lamp shade. Whatever
cruels and fiosses have left undone paints
/ have finished. Yet we would not es-
chew the use of them. There is
scarcely a home but that needs
Egoblin tapestry and Turkish rugs, it may
| be well 10 have the next best that we can,
1 There is ajudicious use OF taste to be ex-
ercised in the realm of fancy work, to Sc
cure service and durability in color and
| material. The woman of leisure'' is not
the average woman. The greater number
of women do not experience
the relaxation that piece of
fancy work may offer, so urgent are
their daily duties. A company of ladies
4 frustrating at any one country resort is not
ltthe fac simile OF the world of women at all.
IL is not probable that women of any meri-
/ torlous degree carry their better energies
to any summer resort. What fancy work
may be to women there, the narcotic ele
menus Oh The cnClc5 Havana may be to ouI
gentlemen friends. in their moments of
leisure. One may be as absorbed in breath
ing wreaths into the air as the other is in
weaving colors into canvas, and both be OBJ
livious of a fine sunset. One may rise early
and tramp miles for trout, and be singu
larry unmindful, ignorant, probably of the
, attractive fauna and fora OF the surround
Il ing locality. Women do sometimes plan tt
II wake early and from the open window
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mountain, but do not always mention tn,
, fact. "A woman does, sometimes, in fac
oftentimes. commune with nature, and de
, light in the sunset hues that dye the SIX,
, and sea. Her eye for color is not all TO
iworsted. The two months that come in tn
summer are an important epoch to the aver
, age woman. The ten preceding month
have been filed with cares that follow tn
changing seasons as surely as night follow
day.