Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-03-21

Some of the Occupations In Which Males
DO the Work of Females.

Some of the Occupations In Which Males
DO the Work of Females.
While it is true that women have t" II
great extent of late years taken to doin-
mems work, it is also true that some
men do women's work. In California
Chinese men are largely employed as
domestic servants, and wherever China
men go they are chiefly employed in
laundries In many large laundrcs
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 laundered, and few
women have the strength todo the work
properly. In the State prisons men are
commonly employed at laundry work,
mainly on shirts 1t is curious, by the
way, how differently a Chinaman uses
an iron from the method employed by
women. When woman uses an iron
she begins with it at the right heat for
use, and consequently it soon cools, and
she consumes much time in changing
her irons. The Chinaman, on the con-
trary, 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 mo-
ment. The heat from tfe interior then
begins to come to the surface, and con
tinues to do so for some time, about as
fast as it is cooled by use, so that the
tlo cl, pf
irons is obviated.
WORTH the man dressmaker of Paris,
has counterparts in other countries. The
largest producer of dress patterns for
women in New York is 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 man miIliner is proverbial.
In the department of nursing, which
is considered specially women's work,
many men are employed Where pa
tients are helpless and require much
lifting, it has been found necessary to
procure 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 gener-
ally as women's work, the best paid
cooks are men. In the great cluls S,
hotels, restaurants, and private houses
where fine cooking is required, the Lest
cooks are men. Ii is the men who have
made cooking one of the fine arts 1t is
true, however, that the great artists i'll
food disdain to he called cooks, and are
known as chefs, and they command
salaries of which the average lawyer
would be proud.
women's Nork, yet there are establish
ments that will clean the house from top
to bottom and put it in order, and EN-
ploy 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 a 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.