Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-01
MEN WHO DO woMENs WORK.
Some of the Occupations in Which Male
Do the Work of Females.

Some of the Occupations in which Males
Do the Work of Females.
While it is true that women have 10
great extent of late years taken to
doing mems work it is also true that
some men do wolnen's work. In Cali
fornia Chinese men are largely employ
ed as domestic servants, and wherever
Cinnamon 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 en-
ployed on new shirts is because the new
shirts require more 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. 1t is curious, by the way,
how differently Chinaman uses an iron
from the method employed by women.
When a 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
cools 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-
ated.
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 milliner is pro-
verbal.
In the department of nursing, which
is considered specially women's work,
many men are employed. Where pa
tients 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
" as wonen's work, the best paid cooks
are men. In the great clubs, hotels,
restaurants and private houses where
fine cooking is required the best cooks
are men. 1t is the men who have made
cooking one of the fine arts. 1t is true,
| however, 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 as wom-
ems work, yet there are establishments
that will clean a house from top to bot
| tom ana put IL III oEuel, anu euPloy
mostly men to do it.
Boarding house keeping is mostly
women's business, but there are many
large and successful boarding houses in
New York that are 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. 1t is rare thing for woman
to keep hotel
There are even men chambermaids.
On steamboats, 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.