The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-02-21
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 to O
great extent of late years taken to doing
mems work, it is also true that some
men do women's work. In California
Chinese men are largely employed rs
domestic servants, and wherever China
men go they are chiefly employed in
laundries. In many large laundries
where now shirts are done up expert
men are employed who make good
wages. The aso 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 Numbered, and few
women have the strength to do 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 On 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 o on cools,
and she consumes much time in chang
ing her irons. The Cninamnn, on the
contrary, gets his irons 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 n mo-
ment. The heat from the 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, S o that the
necessity for the frequent changing of
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 a man, al
though his business has been for many
years conducted in the name of his
wife. The most expensive and best-fit-
ting 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 la
dies hats are made by men. The man
milliner 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 gen.
orally as women'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 e 1t IL 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 al chefs, and they COM
mand salaries Of which the average law
yer would be proud.
House cleaning is looked upon as wo-
mems work, yet there are establish
ments that will clean house from top
to bottom and put 1t in order, and EN-
ploy mostly men to do it.
clearinghouse keeping is mostly wo-
mems 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 u rare thing for a woman
to keep a hotel.
There are even men chnmbermaids.
On steamboats, and steamships most of
the chamberwork is done by men. Even
in large clearinghouse it has been
found e~xpedient to have men do the
chamber work.-N. Y. Sun.