The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-27
quired to marry unless there is a mu-
tual falling in love.

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tual falling in love.
the French girl now sees other careers
open to her. Emelie Vaughan Smith.
In the London Chronicle says:
In other respects. too, the French
girls outlook has changed. Formerly
there were but three lines of life
open to her, either she married or she
entered a convent or she gradually
faded or soured into dreary old maid
enhood. At the present time the con
ventional caree Is less available than
it used to be, not only because a great
many religious orders have been dis
persed by the government. but use
the average French paterfamilias with
his hatred for clcricalism, would be
just as indignant as the stanchest
British Protestant at the idea of his
daughter becoming a III To make
up for this one line being practically
closed, however, hundreds of others
have been thrown open to Not
only are all grades of the teaching
profession open to them. ranging
from posts in ecoles maternelles. a IS the
infant schools arc now prettilN called.
to lectureships ut the universities; but
there are women doctors, oma art
lists, women chemists, woman mer-
chants. women writers and women
journalists by the score and the other
day a rause was actually pleaded by
woman barrister. A girl of suffi-
cient ability has no difficulty in quail
tying herself for any profession she
chooses. for the universities arc open
To her as much as to- her brother and
she can compete for the same degree
AS he does.
Freedom is in tho air. How truly
this is sD is indicated hy a French
woman who is quoted as saying: "Wc
French are watching England. and
when YOU have won the vote VIC shall
follow your example,
II is unusual to find an instructor
wi" is practical and methodical.. and
yet is decidedly csthptically inclined.
Such is Mrs. Margaret i. Blair, the
head of til" domestic art department
of tho University of Minnesota. She
dreams of IL time when We will he a
beautiful people in a beautiful world.
and sh" spends hcr busy day in teach
ing hundreds Of girls how t" sow
seams. make bread. to laundcr, sweep,
dust and to do thousands of little du-
nc
The latest example of how she
works out her ideal i'm practical form
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Which have just comc from the pub
liShrr in complies form.
Mrs. Blair is Il pioneer i'm the work
"f domestic art. having taught for
twenty years, and attended three ma
tlonal conventions where she has on
pounded some of her ideas. But the
principles OF her work have been dis
Scminatcd NEST largely through the
teachers whom she has trained sn that
now not only are her methods being
used in many OF the schools of the
twin city. at the Crookston experiment.
tai station. in tho Dakotas. in Seattle.
and many of the graded schools of the
western and southern states. but her
tablets are nov following where her
teachers have been and where their
fame has gone.
About ten years ago. Mrs. Blair
wrote ii small book on the subject of
sewing. n since then she has heen
revising it. and tho eyer Sewing Tab
let's are the result. They + to
tho last four years of tho graded
school and the first two years of high
school. There arc pictures and dia-
grams and the most explicit and lu-
cid Of explanations on every page. The
most intricate parts of sewing, like
putting on a placket. OF sewing in a
slrev" become simple under Mrs.
Rlair's guidance. There are short es-
says ON the various kinds of materials
and snc practical hints as this con
corning linen.
An Interesting Linen Test.
~" moisten tho finger ami place it
on the under side of tho fabric is nc
test at all. for tn" moisture will pas,
through the fabric almost as quickly
if 1t is half cotton as it will ii it is
miro linen. The u-cDNipp pf short
threads into the linen fabric makes a
cloth of poorer quality. If YOU wish to
see whether short threads arc present,
rub the cloth and hold it up to the
light. BY looking across the surface.
You Will then see tn" short threads. ii
II sticking up. This test makes it
easy to sec why linen woven of short
threads will soil and crush easily"
In her lectures at the agricultural
college Mrs. Blair brings out most
clearly her ideas of beautiful clothes,
Ii she car show her pupils harmonious
c"loring in an object of nature she
fatls that she has gone far in estab-
fishing i'm that girls mind ~ standard
OF taste in dress. To help form that
standard for the many girls for whom
~tastefu]nesS is not instructive she has
for one thing. in her tablets. a chart
showing the effect OF each color upon
the others. There are hints and OK
plantations as to the effect of Il white
yoke or a piping of gold OF black. Sim
pie things. but the things which make
all the difference between n dress that
Is pleasing to the eye or that is
distressful, and things which do not
mean added expenditure. That it is as
cheap to be beautiful as 10 be ugly is