Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-01-09
Concerning Working Girls.

Much is being done in New York to
train young girls SO that they may
have no difficulty in earning their liv-
ing. If one must work, trade, or
knowledge of half a dozen, is the best
Of educatiOns The Pascal institute,
576 Lexington avenue, which has done
a great good during its life so far, is
being made still more useful this sea-
son. It's president, Miss Margaret
Pascal. and its patrons among whom
are Mrs. Coils P. Huntington, Miss
Grace E. Dodge and Mrs. Russell Sage,
think best to form a board of mana
gers, and several women we'll known
in work for philanthrCpic purposes will
serve The sole object of this excel
lent school is to train girls who natur
ally q to work at IA, as cash, errand
or shop girls. to fit themselves as
dressmakers or to do plain sewing.
Some Of the church sewing schools
have sent their graduates to the Pascal
school for further instruction. An eX-
cellent feature is the formation Of an
alumnae association, designed to main
tain friendships between the gradu-
ates and foster interest in the school.
An institution very useful in more
ways than one is the immigrant girls
home at 8 state street, New York city,
carried on by Methodists; as another
home, differing in many respects, but
also excellent, is carried on by Roman
Catholics The Roman Catholic
home, however, interests itself mainly
in seeing that the immigrant Qrish)
girls are kept from harm and started
rightly fol- their several destinations,
while the Methodist home is really
training school, where girls are taught
to eat properly, to dress themselves
neatly, and it is hoped that school
where homework in its various
branches may be taught them for a
few months is one of the possibilities
of the year. Miss Corbin, deaconess
of the home, has been bending all her
energies toward such a home She Is
auoted as saying that Finnish girls.
now coming to this country in great
numbers, make the very best of serv-
ants, with a little training, being hon
eat, trustworthy and willing. They
are healthy, and, as a general thing
pleasing in their appearance. With
Russias restrictive rule, it is reason.
able to suppose that the immigration
of Firms, both men and women, will
continue.
Total Abstinence Growing Popular.
Mrs Mary H. Hunt, the head of the
education department in the w omanS
Christian temperance union, has re-
turned to Boston after a trip as speak
er at state conventions in the eastern
states, and says that the evidence
shows that a wider intelligence as TO
the evil nature of alcohol is beginning
10 toll against its beverage use" To
the question, is the Woman's Chris
$ian temperance union losing ground 2"
Mrs. Hunt replied: ooh, no, it is quite
the contrary. There is everywhere
evidence of it's growth and increasing
strength, especially in the most hope
ful of all temperance work, that of edu.
cation Of the young in the phySiOlOgi-
cal reasons for total abstinence and
obedience 10 other laws of health"
Fall Coats.
The designers have evidently not
only been studying historical cos
tunes, but old fashion plates of the
last century, to find hints. They have
borrowed largely from the Louis XIV.
period, and, again, loose pelisse, with
enormous sleeves, popular about the
time Of the Franco-Prussian' war,
seems to be the source of inspiration.
This latter shape is perhaps better i'll
velvet than in silk.
1t is such a simple shape that it
need TO be made of rich materials.
The sack part, reaching halfway 20
the knees, is shaped to the figure to
suggest. if not to define it. The
sleeves widen until they reach cir
conference of a yard or more at the
bottoms. where they turn up in large
cuffs There is a high, turnover col
lar, and the fronts of the coat turr
over to make revers. A most notice
able model in this shape is made OF
purple velvet with the large cuffs ant
the revers of white satin on which
white velvet figures are appliqued
The same shape in a heavy black sill
has revers and cuffs of ermine.
The Louis Nv. coats are more co
questish. They are pretty in tucked
silk, with the tucks released about {;
foot from the bottom of the carmen
to allow the silk to flare out excessive
ly. This garment fits the figure, ant
over collar-New York Tribune.
Spring Chicken.
SINCE and draw a nice spring cnick
en-. Cut it into four pieces. Melt on
tablespoonful of butter, and blend wit
it one teaspoonful of salt and one sal
spoonful Of pepper; roll each part c
the chicken in this and afterward /
beaten egg. Have at hand half a pin
of white bread crumbs.
When Dreaded, put each piece c
chicken in a well-buttered pan, an
pour over one tablespoonful of melte
butter Cook in a hot even 20 mil
utes. The lettuce should be prepare
beforehand. Cut two white hearts {
lettuce into four parts, trim, wash an
drain them we'll. Be sure that ever
particle of sand is removed. Tie thel
up so as to give them pleasing roun
shape. Put them into plenty of salte
boiling water. Cook for Is minute