The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-06-19
to hear that even as a wife and mother she

TO hear that even as q wife and mother she
hasn't been n success.
it takes the writer only two columns to ami
hilate woman's claim to any lofty niche in litera.
ture. Hc bows indiffcrontly to Sappho. in pass
ing, and mentions casually that Jane Austen
aud George Eliot did some p~assablO work, but
declares firmly that so far as great creative
literature is concerned woman is n fiat failure.
The average woman may not resent being
barred from the fine arts, but when II comes to
BcorninR her prowess In fashions and cookery
she rises in her wrath. Ono knows so well what
OF the world famous chefs have been men: ergo.
men have more genius for cookery than women.
cooking. OF course all the most famous cooks
nave been men. A woman with intelligence
S %lSSH',&bs Is c snG ! With IL T it1m Ror inSh stay a P IN e.
Women have u natural talent for cookery.
some ~womenImany. in fact--have heNven-sont
Q public, chef; and then there Is another
barrier In tho way of gastronomic, fame
taste. a genius for cooking, but they have
a more pronounced tasIs, a more Developed
can a cook be EXPECTED to run run the enc GAUNTLET aunt of
coachmen, walters. buffers. all Of whom wor-
ship at the shrine OF her culinary geniusl Her
works her 1ndoinE. Her s HIs se move eG her pG mus.
euline associates to ,frenzied devotion. She
herself that inspires impassioned wooinE.
,Mhhen the butler, moved to tears BY the
LnOuRnU Oh n Ire whlCh would be one
continuous round Of game pates. implores
her to be his, she thinks the ardent lover
wants a queen, not a cook. II she reslsts
the butler, she goes down before the policeman
who samples her cookery ut the area door. I
she lives In the country, safe from buffers and
policemen, n neighboring farmer knows a good
thing. Sooner or later she falls q victim to her
own genius. marries. and Is lost to fame. alb
sorbed in general housework. All the famous
cooks have been men, but there are scores Of
women catering to small families who could
give the far-famed Joseph" odds and b at him
II the fates had been propitious and ambition or
love had not crushed Reniua At least that is
what women say.
As for fashions, II women fail there. there 10
no salvation for them. Naturally, Worth and
Felix will be cited triumphantly In proof OF tho
superiority OF men In matters pertaining to
gowns, and the list of men milliners 10 long and
impressive; but the fact remains that the sue
cess Of those men is more q question of business
ability than Of taste. Many of the most COM
monplace gowns imaginable come from Worth;
and. given carte blanche as to price which he re-
ceived, any number OF Partisan dressmakers
could rival him. Another important point Is
tina. nine-tenths of tho designing and almost all
of tho execution In the est adjustments bearing
mems names arc done by women, and the exec
utivo management is the mans share of the en-
terprise.
In business matters women are willing to &C.
knowledge masculine superiority, but in mat
ters Of taste and fashion. no. There woman will
take her stand and claim supremacy willis she
has breath and being. The line must be drawn
somewhere, oven by the meek woman.