The Arizona champion., 1891-05-09
DOING WOMEN'S WORK.
Occupations in Which Men
 are at Home.
THEY GAN DO THs FINEST SEWING
Why Men can Iron Shirts Better Than
 Women.

While it is true that women have to great extent of late years taken to doing mems work, it is also true that some men do women's work. In Cali fornia Chinese men are largely employ ed as domestic servants, and wherever Chinamen go they are chiefly employed in laundries. In many large laundries where new shirts are done up expert men. are employed who make good wages. The reason why men are em- ployed on now shirts is because the new shirts require moro strength to iron them properly than shirts that have been previously laundried. and few women have the strength to do the work prop. erly.
 In the state prisons men are common ly employed at laundry work, mainly on shirts. It is curious, by the way, how differently Chinaman uses an iron from the method employed by women, When q woman uses an iron she begins with it at the right heat for use, and consequently it soon cools, and she con sumes much time in changing her irons. The Chinaman, on the contrary, gets his iron very. hot--much too hot for use. When he begins to use the iron he plunges it quickly into cold water. This oools the surface for moment. The heat from the interior then begins to come to the surface, and continues to do so for some time about as fast as it is cooled by use, so that the necessity for the frequent changing of irons is obvi- gted.
 Worth, the man dressmaker of Paris, has counterparts in other countries. The largest producer of dress patterns for women in New York is a man, although his business has been for many years conducted in the name of his wife. The most expensive and best fitting dresses that women wear are tailor made dresses which are made by men. The designs for new dresses are mostly made by men. The most expensive ladies' hats are made by men. The man milhner is pro verbal.
 In the department of .pursing. which is considered specially women's work, many men are employed. Where pa- tisnts are helpless and require much lift ing it. has been found necessary to pro- cure strong men, because women are not equal to the hard labor
 Sewing is especially women's work, but the very finest and best paid sewing Is done by men in fancy tailoring. Since . the introduction of the sewing machine the proportion of men sewers has. in- creased in those branches where the work is heavy and requires strength for . long hours of labor.
 Although cooking is regarded general ly as women's woxk, ths best paid cooks are men. In ths great clubs, hotels, restaurants and private houses where fine cooking is required the best cooks are men. It is the men who have made cooking one of the fne,srts. It is true, ..owsS'vef, that the great artists in food disdain to be called cooks, and are known as chefs, and they command sal aries of which the average lawyer would be proud.
 Housecleaning is looked upon ss wom- en's work, yet there are establishments that VIII clean house rom top 70 pot tom and put 1t in order, and employ mostly men to do it.
 Boarding house keeping is mostly vomen's business, but there are many large and successful boarding houses in New York that arc managed by men. Often they get two or three houses to- gether. and the tendency of men in that business is to enlarge it so as to make these places approach the character of hotels It is rare thing for woman to keep hotel.
 There are even men chambermaids. On steam boats and steamships most of the chamber work is done by men. Even in large boarding houses it has been found expedient to have men to do the chamber work.--New York Sun.