Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-22
WOMAN'S CHAFF And CHATTfR
English, French and American Women in
the Basars Of Paris.
HOW THE pArls SHOP GIRLS DRESS so WELL
Mrs. Beeoher's Advice to Young House
neutrality-suspicious. Rsforn--
VIII Wed n Jap-Fem-
iuine lettings.

IL Thhlt ltoh NOlihh H""NS '
feel. more than any other type, the
esthetics of tailoring. She want not
only to be clothed; she wants to DO made
charming. A gown to her Is not q
single creation; she looks Mt it in all its
parts and understands it. She requires
more than mere figure and has n very
fine taste in tints.
"Thc French woman is much less salts
factory. AS q rule she cares for moth
ing but fit. She is immensely fond OF
her waist and q wrinkle there will put
her in q passion. But as for shade,
cording, braid or buttons, she has no
taste of her own. She throws herself
entirely on the ~tailor's hands and takes
what he gives without comment. When
the American woman orders she wants
to know Just how much braid will be
used and how much fur-just what cord
ana how many yards-and she insists on
seeing and commenting on tho buttons.
Now, one can dress up a stick and his
practical eye may tell him that 1t is
dressed as perfectly as it is possible Tor
q stick to be, but at the same time 1t is
much more satisfactory, though perhaps
more trouble, to suit a woman who
wants to know the why Of everything.
no matter how minute.
w.
Care does not sit lightly on young
bnOuluerS, says MIS-. bceCucTs anu II oui
daughters marry after graduating, with
very little instruction from the nome
college, they will of necessity find their
first efforts at housekeeping dishearten-
ing, but they may be well assured that
time and a reasonable amount of
patience will soon make the crooked
ways straight and the rough places
smooth"
A few weeks of extra time and thought
~ A. IDr,,,t,r Of f1,nip nnyu life Iyil1
II they faithfully try it, teach them how
to work methodically. 1t will of necces-
sity be uphill work until this lesson has
been mastered, but by perseverance and
q little planning for each days work
every step will be easier. 1t is a very
good idea, every evening when all the
work is finished, to sit down and quietly
PLAINTIFF work for the next morning and
Tor the whole of the next day as far as
possible. Bring before your mind just
what ought, what must, be done and fix
the mode and time of doing it distinctly.
While dressing the next morning re-
view the last nights plan. that all
through the day it may be like a map,
spread out before your eyes. To be sure,
many things may occur that no fore
sight could provide for-sickness, unex
your control-but it is hardly possible
that anything will wholly derange a wei
and carefully adjusted plan for the day,
duties.
Many of our young housekeepers are
discouraged and repining because the,
have not beer taught before marriag,
to work methodically. Nothing cal
tighten labor like method and regu
larity. Let this lesson be we'll under
? stood and faithfully practiced, and Their
are but very few that canno find leisur
for a little reading and some recreation
certainly all they need If in a position
where the toughest and hardest worl
can, undor suitable supervision, be LEI
TO q servant.
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A pretty young Salem, Mass, girl ha
recently become engaged to a native {
Japan. and intends so far to make HI
people her people and his ways her way
that their future home in Salem is to /
built and furnished in Japanese styl'
The building materials have all bee
shipped from Japan, and by the time tn
house is ready for them, art tiles, pc
there's, wall paper, wood carvings, ma
tings, rugs and rare pottery will hay
arrived to fill it. The vestibule is to
paved with art tiles, its walls hung wit
stamped leather, and it will be reache
dows like those in the Buddhist tempt
There will be no doors at all except
the kitchen, but instead open archwa
formed of beautifully carved panels.
The chief characteristic of a re
Japanese room is it's baroness, since
contains no furniture in our sense of Il
word, but this Japanese-American dive
ing will be so richly furnished wi
cabinets, screens, curios and hangin
that the absence Of the customary chat
and tables will not be felt as q lac
Upstairs the sleeping rooms will be fl
nished IN comfortable American styl
For" says the pretty bride-elect, sc
thusiastic as l am over ~everythi
Japanese, l do not intend to sit on Il
floor in my own housed"
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Some one has said somewhere that t
mania to learn everything, from Gle
E%tarching to political economy, eau.
women to break down long before thu
time. This sentiment was at one til
uncomfortably true, but at the prest
we feel that the most hopeful presage
excellence in woman's work and I
safeguard of her powers, mental a
physical, is that she is learning to 81
cialize instead of wasting herself in
dozen different directions. One of
many beneficent effects of the Worl
fair of '93 is hat it has accumulated t
specialization of work by placing won
In charge OF exhibits and upon conn
tees for which their individual train.
has fitted them. When women "
manage farms of their own were
upon juries in the agricultural deps
ment, and when these who nave &C
as factory inspectors, or have made
especial study Of various textiles, +
preparations and decorative objects, W
called to be judges in the manufactu
department.; and hen such schol
and workers as Miss A
G., Fletcher, Mrs. leila Nut
and Mrs. Cornelius Steven
were invited to serve in the departing
of ~ethnology and archaeology; or wi
Miss Emily S~artain, an artist by inhe
ance and training, Mrs. Mary Hall,
Foote and Mrs. Candace Wheeler W
placed upon the fine arts jury, one
only feels that these selections h
been wisely made, but that, in these
other instances, specialization
woman's work has been given recol
ton ana encouragement.
Some one who knows her we'll has
that the reason Mrs. Potter Palmer