Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1885 — The Fashion to Work. [ARTICLE]

The Fashion to Work.

It is the fashion to work. Every woman nowadays, no matter how high her rank or how great her wealth, works as though her bread depended on her industry. There is no moderation in this freak that has bitten all classes like a tarantula, and set them whirling in a lever of occupation. Satan, who used to find so much mischief for idle hands to do, must be at his wits’ end to discover a pair that is not full of play or downright hard work. The moneyed class and the working classes meet on a neutral ground,where millionaires, empresses and princesses rush in for their share of labor, and look with scorn on those who hide their talents in a napkin. The fashionable idler is now as busy as a bee, with the bump of admiration in a state of abnormal development. Perhaps these “swelled heads” of society interfere with the labors of men and women who depend On their art or their mechanical skill to keep the wolf from the door, but it can be said in return that the trained artisan or laborer is always worthy of his hire, and there is no code which prevents a fashion from having its little day.— Exchange.