People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1896 — WOMAN’S WORLD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WOMAN’S WORLD.

THE NATIONAL HOUSEHOLD ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION. Mm Hina Tinjjler, Watchmaker—l-limw Shower* Bride’s Veil and Coiffure. Women as Ad. Writers—That Annoying Et Ux.—Narrower and Trimmed Skirts. Some 50 women from different parts of the country gathered in the hall of the Athenaeum when Elizabeth Boynton Harbert of Evanston, Ills., called to order the fourth annual convention of the National Household Economic association. Among those present were Mrs. Bertha Honore Palmer, Mrs. Ellen M. Henrotin and Dr. Mary E. Green of Michigan. The morning session was devoted to a resume of the work as outlined by the offloial reports of the various officers. In her annual address Mrs. Harbert pointed out a large increase of late years In the number of sobools of domestio science established in this country. Numerous colleges had added such departments, and there had been a great increase in clubs and organizations for the study of domestio science. Much also had been done during the year to dem-

onstrate that domestio soienoe and domestic training were not one and the same thing. Domestio soienoe was the training of mistresses, of heads of homes and of experts in a comparatively new field! of learning. Domestio training meant the teaohing and development of domestio servants. The fact was commented ttpon that the schools of domestio soienoe are not patronized as they should be, and that the women seem backward in availing themselves of the opportunities extended. This is due in part to their lack of understanding of the opportunities offered and partly to the failure of hospitals, sanitariums, homes and similar institutions to recognize the value of trained ability and to pay the salaries that such ability demanded. At the present time the majority of suoh institutions paid to their matrons wages scarcely more than those of their servants, no matter how much training had been required to properly fit them for their duties. What is wanted, it was contended, is a more general recognition of the value of expert female servioes by those in charge of publio institutions. The report of the corresponding secretary, Mrs. Alice J. Whitney of Chicago, gave a brief history of the organization of the association and an exposition of its aims. The organization was founded by Mrs. Laura S. Wilkinson in 1891 and grew out of the committee on household economics of the world’s congress auxiliary in Chicago. The object of the society has been from the start to set domestio labor—-all that pertains to the home—on a higher plane, to make the fashioning of the future housekeepers and homemakers an artistic study, that the best thought of the coming generation may be devoted to the realization of an ideal home, which shall be the stronghold from which shall emanate character, strength, edueation and morality—the bulwark of support to the state and the hope for a brilliant future for the nation. Mrs. Whitney says that the association has succeeded in arousing great interest in the subject of scientific housekeeping among the women’s clubs of the country, and suggests that the work can now be safely turned over to the National Federation of Women’s Clubs. If this plan is not adopted, she urges that general officers be elected from all parts of the country in order to obliterate in some degree the idea of centralization and give scope to the national idea of the organization.—Milwaukee Cor. Chicago Herald. Bliss Mina Tingler, Watchmaker. Wom,an invaded a great majority of the fields over which man once reigned alone long ago. Now she has added one more to the list, watchmaking, and the most shocking feature of all—to man—is that she is very clever at it indeed. Of course there have been women employed in watch factories for years. That, however, is very different from looking after watches in the watch hospital, the jewelry store and making them as good as new. There is a young woman in Dresden, 0., Miss Mina Tingler, who knows all about watches. What is more, Bhe has just received a certificate of membership in the Philadelphia Horological society. This is an honor of which no other woman can boast She tells her own story in these words: “Did you know a woman was like a watch—not your well regulated timepiece, but one of those watches that has a character of its own, and unless handled aright quickly gets out of order, and keeps a dozen different times in as many hours? * “I got this odd idea when listening to a lady customer to my father complain of the vagaries of her watch, which, subsequent investigation proved, were very much like her own. Then I wondered if watches did have character, and the. first thing I knew I Was seated at my father’s workbench inves-

tigating. I became so interested that I proposed to my father that I would like to become a doctor of watches, although I had never before thought of such a thing. “He, seeing that I was persistent in my efforts, at last gave me an old watch movement which had fallen in the water and had every wheel in it rusted. I was to clean the watch and take every partiole of rust off of it I suppose my father thought by the time I had finished that I would soon get over the idea of learning the jeweler’s trade. However, I cleaned the watch up nioely, and from that beginning have gone on till now I have entire charge of the store, buy all the jewelry and select all my working materials, take an invoice of the stock every year and keep my own books. ‘‘l clean watohes, but I oonsider that a very easy task in comparison with other parts of watch repairing. “1 like the work for this reason—l always liked something that had life in it. I think the watch has it, for it will Boon tell whether one has mastered it or has been mastered by ft The work is scientific and has required a great deal of. thought and study by man to get the watch up to the standard it is today, and one oannot know too much about the work. For that reason I joined the Horologioal society of Philadelphia in order to improve myself and get down deeper into the science of horology.”— New York Herald. . Linen Showers. A linen shower, to be perfectly up to date, should be quite an informal affair, but can be elaborated at will. The hostess invites 25 or 30 young lady friends of the bride to be, generally sending out her engraved card, upon which she has written “Linen shower ik honor of Miss Brown, 3to 6,” giving the date. It is courteous to permit the young lady to add a few names to the list, whether the hostess is acquainted with all her dear girl friends or not. Every person receiving the invitation either makes or purchases some dainty pieoe of embroidery, and if it is not possible to go sends it the afternoon indicated. The most fashionable pieces just now are the delft embroidery, the jewel and the Beardsley. Many young ladies are doing the drawn linen work and the pen linen, done with indelible ink. Towels, doilies and fine handkerchiefs are appropriate gifts. Older ladies contribute without being in attendance, frequently sending tableolothß, napkins and entire sets of bed linen. Dainty refreshments are served later, the guests being seated at a table, and two or three ohosen*friends usually doing the honors. One of the latest ideas in connection with an affair of this kind Was in the form of a surprise. The friends assembled in the drawing room, eaoh having her pretty offering. The bride eleot was summoned from her boudoir, with the knowledge that some one friend bad oalled upon her. Just after she crossed the threshold of the drawing room there was a “linen shower” indeed, whioh blinded her vision for a moment more effeotually than a snowstorm, the difference being that she has numerous pieces of linen with whioh to commence housekeeping, some representing the daintiest of every oonoeivable blossom and standing for hours of labor by loving friends. In cases where a surprise is not desired one of the musical young ladies plays a wedding march, while the lady to be honored, accompanied by her maid of honor, descends from her room, where friends are in readiness, and the “shower” is done to musio.—Cincinnati Enquirer.

MRS. ELIZABETH BOYNTON HARBERT.