Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1887 — FOR THE LADIES. [ARTICLE]

FOR THE LADIES.

A Wonderful Michigan Woman—Women’s Feet—What Women are Doing—Fashion Notes, Etc. My Little Bo Peep. ily little Bo Peep is fast asleep, And her head on my heart is lying, I gently reck, and the old hall clock Strikes a knell of the day that's dying; But what care I how the hours go by, Whether swiftly they go or creeping, Not an hour could be but dear to me, When my babe on my arm is sleeping. Her little bare feet, with dimples sweet, From the folds of her gown are peeping, ' ,And each wet) toe, like a daisy in blow, I caress as she lies a sleeping, Her golden hair falls over the chair, Its treasures of beuuty upholding, I press my lips to her finger-tips, That my hands arCso tightly holding. Tick, took, tick, tock; you may wait old clock, It was foolish what I was saying; Let your seconds stay, your minutes play, And bid your days go all a-Maying, O, Time! stand still—let me drink my fill Of content while my babe is sleeping ; As I smooth her hair my life looks And to-morrow —I may be weeping. —[B. B. McManus. An Enterprising Western Woman. The following about Mrs. Catherine Carberry, of Niles, Mich., is floating around, and is too good to lose. Within twelve months from 1885 to 1886, Mrs. Carberry said: “I shelled fiftyfive bushels of corn and put it in the bin. Got home 6,300 pounds of coal and put it in the bin. Trimmed eighty rods of fence and burned most of the hrush. Sheared eight sheep. Dropped eleven acres of corn helped cover it. Worked three acres of corn, plowed it five times, and hoed it once. Topped it and hauled the fodder to the barn. Snapped the corn and took it to the barn, where my husband, 86 years, husked it. It made 105 bushels in the ear. I gathered my pumpkins and dug my potatoes and gqt fifteen cords of wood in the shed and piled it up. Gathered my apples and put them in the cellar. Took my cider apples to the mill and brought back five barrels of cider. Took one load to the cidermill and sold them. I spaded up the ground and planted and worked my garden. Moved twenty rods of rail fence and helped move twenty more. I cut and made my husband one coat, and cut and made~a vestr~and pants and four shirts and hemmed three pocket handkerchiefs for him. Made myself six dresses (three nice ones and three common ones), nine aprons, one polonaise, eight pairs of pillow-cases, four sheets, and hemmed twelve napkins. There are 923 pages in the Old Testament, and Bread 619 pages besides religious and other papers, and kept a diary of the weather and my work, and an account of what we bought and sold, with day and date. Did my housework and took care of my stock —three horses, three head of cattle, eight sheep, and fifty hens—and raised a pet cat.” Mrs. Carberry is 64-years of age and weighs but ninety-five pounds. She retires each night at 10 o’clock and rises at 1 o’clock each morning, and takes no naps between times, in addition to the above she ha iken care of an invalid husband and done many things unmentioned in this account, and among them we may mention that she has taken and paid for in advance the local papers and has honorably paid every cent for everything she has bought. This is a woman’s work, and the record is sufficiently commendable to make many a man blush for shame. Few there are who have so fully followed the admonition, “.Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.”

Our Wives. Ruskin, in speaking of the wife, | says: “A judicious wife is always nipping off from her husband’s moral nature little twigs that are growing in j the wrong direction. She keeps him ■in shape by pruning. If you say anything silly, she will affectionately style, you so. If you declare that you will do some absurd thing, she will find some way of preventing you from doing it. And by far the chief part of all the common sense there is in the world belongs unquestionably to women, The wisest things a man commonly does are those which his wiffe counsels him to do. A wife is a grand wielder of the moral pruningknife. If Johnson’s wife had lived there would have been no hoarding up of orange peel, no touching all the p sts in walking along the street, no eating and drinking with disgusting velocity. If Oliver , Goldsmith had ! been married he never would have worn that memorable and ridiculous j coat. Whenever you find a man whom you know little about oddly dressed, | talking absurdly, or exhibiting eccentricity of manner, you may be sure that ho is not a married man; for the coiners are 1 rounded off, the little shouts- pared-a way in manied men.: Wives have much mpre sense than their husbands. The wife’s advice i 3 ■ like the ballast that keeps the ship steady.” Manufacture of Hair Pins. For years the English and French controlled the manufacture of hair pins, and it is only within the last twenty years that the goods have been produced in to any extent. The machinery* used is of a delicate ! <and intricate character, as the prices i at which pins are soid necessitate the : most rapid and cheapest process-, which can only 4he procured by auto- ; matic machines. <>The wire is made i expressly for the purpose, and put up in Targe coils, which are placed clamp, which carries it to the machine while straightening it; from there it runs in another machine, which cuts, bends, and by a delicate and instantaneous process, sharpens the points, i Running at full speed these machines i will turn out 120 hair-pins -every min- 1

ute. To economize it is necessary keep them working night and day. The difficult part is the enameling; which is done by dipping in a prepn ration and baking in an oven. Here is where tho most constant and careful attention is required, as the pin tnust lie perfectly smooth and the enamel have, a perfect polish. The slightest particjeSjOf.dust cause imperfections and roughness, which is objectionable. —Lroolilyu Citikn. . 's. Parisian Bread Port or*. It is stated that 1 read*is distributed in Paris almost exclusively by women. These come to the various bakehouses at 0:30 a. m., and spend about an hour in brushing the long loaves with special brushes. When her load is clean d of grit and dust'the portease de pain, goes her rounds to the customers. Customers who live in fiats have their loaves propped up against the door of their apartment. Shopkeepers, restaurateurs, and other customers who have the entrance to their premises on the street find their quanta of the staff of life leaning against their front door when they take down their shutters. The wages of these bread carriers vary from 50 to 60 cents per diem, their work being generally over at 10 or 11 o’clock in the morning.— Milliwj World. What Women arc Iloln:. Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont’s next work will be a life of Kit Carson. She will spend the summer in the West with that object in view. Mrs. Abram S. Hewitt has been elected President of the Ladies’ Committee of [the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Isabella Prince of California has been engaged to go to Tokio and teach Japanese ladies of rank household science as it is practiced on the “slope.” Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague is growing wealthy by the advance in real estate values, having but recently heen offered $150,000 for her Edgewood estate near Washington. One of the Universalist women ministers, Rev. Annette J. Shaw, can throw a base-ball scientifically. She got some practice with her brother students in the theological school. Mrs. Hettie Green, the Wall street woman of untold wealth, has a great aversion to reporters. She will not live in a boarding house which holds or ever has held one of them. Mrs. Cleveland’s note-paper and envelopes are stamped with the words “Executive Mansion, Washington,” in small silver capitals, and the seal in white wax bears her monogram. Mrs. Frank Leslie is of Huguenot extraction, and was born in the French quarter of New Orleans. She is said to speak French, Spanish, Italian German and English with equal fluency. A colored woman, Mary Stewart, who was the first servant born to the Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, and has lived all her life in Taliaferero, county, Ga., has invented a car coupler. ’ 1 ■' ' • • The number of women ministers in this country, according to the United States census of 1880, was one hundred and sixty-five. Their places of work and residence included thirtyfeu r States. Mrs. Levi P., Morton gave a reception recently to Miss Ada Leigh, founder of the Young Men’s Home and Club in Paris, who has already raised $60,000 as a building fund. Other American women have seconded Miss Leigh’s efforts. The Rev. Amanda Deyo, who was ordained at Poughkeepsie a year ago or thereabouts, was a farmer’s wife, and for many years a speaker among the Friends. Sue is a morsel of a woman, with a kindly, contented face, and the smoothest of brown hair. .An occasional guest in New York society this spring is Mrs. Sarah Fisher Ames, the sculptor, whose bust of Lincoln lias a post of honor at the Capitol at Washington. Mrs. Ames is a fine looking woman still, and in her day they called her the most beautiful American girl ever seen abroad. One sees with her often her son-in-law, Mr. Whistler, a nephew of the artist of that name.

Some Women’* Feet. The wifeDf Munkacsy, the artist, is said to have the smallest feet in Paris. , Boston ladieS have the smallest feet of any women in America—so bootmakers say. Strong, broadsoled footgear is coming into style in this country among j women who want to preserve health and complexion. Mrs. Cleveland’s feet are neithei ! small nor large, but extremely wel t shaped—so. says an observing Washington correspondent. English women have proverbially large feetr Many American ladies are unable to find ready-made- shoes in London small enough to fit them. Several distinguished specialists will not treat a patient who persists in [ wearing high heels; they say that it ~ ! throws out. of place every organ of the oody. ;—Fashion Note*. Evening mantles for summer wear will take the place of light shawls on watering place verandas. They are made of the most diaphanous niaterials, but in thn regular mantle shape, j Swords, crescents, horseshoes, sickles and stars in small pearls are much worn for bonnet and scarf pins, and one of the late additions to this catalogue is a rooster, a pearl constituting the body. - The only reason black silks' are not more worn is that a reliable black silk is about the hardest material to get, no matter how much you are willing | to pay for it, which does not speak' i well for the honesty of m&nufact- ! urers. * .Jr