Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1889 — WOMAN'S WORK AND WORLD [ARTICLE]

WOMAN'S WORK AND WORLD

Train the Girls. I When a girl is ten years old shA should be given household duties to perform according to her size and strength, for a sum of money should be paid her weekly. She needs i a little pocket money, and the knowledge how to spend it judiciously, which can so well be given by a mother to her little girl. She should be required to furnish a part of her wardrobe with this money. For instance, if she gets ten cents a week, she should purchase all her stockings, or all her gloves, as her mother may decide; and doing this under the mother’s supervision she will soon learn to trade with judgmentand economy. Of course the mother will see to it that the sum is sufficient to do this, and yat leave a trifle for the child to spend as she pleases. This will supply a healthy stimulus; it will give her a proper ambition and pride in her labor, and the ability to use money properly. As she grows older these household duties should bie increased, with the proportionate increase of money paid for the performance of them. We knOw a lady who divided the wages of a servant among her three daughters. There is a systematic arrangement of their labor, which is done with a thoroughness and alacrity rarely found, either with a hired girl or a daughter who feels that she has it to do with nothing to encourage or stimulate her in the work. The TrwerXadj—Advice to Young Women. It is the duty of every woman to be a true lady. Brazen boldness is'a thing which girls cunnot afford to practice. Wildness of manner and au open defiance of all those wholesome laws which have made woman’s name illustrious both in sacred and profane history from the begining of time, are no more becoming to girls and “young ladies,” so-called, than in angels., Delicacy is an innate quality of the female heart, which, when once lost, can never be regained, No art can restore to the grape its bloom or its sweetness to the taste, when the mildews of night have once settled down upon the vine. Familiarity without love, without confidence, without regard to the common rules of etiquette even, is destructive of all that makes woman exalting and ennobling “The world is wide, these things are small, They may be nothing, but they’re all.”

A Whiff of Lavender. Lavender, the favorite perfume of our grandmothers, has again come into favor. The lavender is put into little bags of oambrio or silk, and placed between the sheets and table-cloths, as well as in the drawers where underwear is kept. Some women prefer rose or violet perfume, and make long mats of thin silk or cotton, fitted to the size of a drawer or trunk-tray, sprinkle them well with satchet powder, cover with another piece of silk and “tuft” it with embroidered silk. Sometimes these bags are made of cheese cloth, which are less costly and answer the same purpose equally well. They retain their perfume for a year or more, and if kept in the bottom of a trunk or drawer will perfume the entire contents.

The Round Waist, Sleeves, Etc. The round waist is without darts, and, paradoxical as it may sound, is slightly pointed in front and back. It has but few seams, and may be either plain or full on the shoulders; its fullness below is plaited or gathered to the points at the waiste line, and it is trimmed there by Vandyke points of embroidery or of passementerie, or else it is edged by a folded ribbon fastened by a bow without ends on the left side. The round shallow yoke so often mentioned will still bo made of velvet, silk, moire, or embroidery, or of tfia dreas -material coveredby passementerie. The hi»h standing collar and mutton-leg sleeves will be made for most woolen dresses; cloth dresses, however, seldom have very full sleeves, as they cannot be worn under a cloth jacket or fitted coat.

Autumn Dresses. The first French dresses imported /or autumn repeat many of the designs brought out late in the summer by Parisian modistes. Round waists, full sleeves and straight skirts reappear with variations. Jacket waists and elaborate fronts of corsages remain in vogue, and basques are not wholly abandoned. Some features of the Directoire coat are retained, and new ones are added. Passementerie, braiding, fur and feathers witli velvet cut bias and also velvet ribbons, are the trimming of the first dark dresses.

The Chambermaid. Cure. The Queen of Sweden is undergoing peculiar treatment to restore her nerves to a normal condition. Her doctors have ordered her to rise early, make her own bed and dust and sweep the room. She has to take a walk in the garden before breakfast, work among tho flowers afterward, and lead an aotive out-door existence all day long. Already the Queen has been benefited by this curious cure—the •hambermaid treatment, as it is called. It is not likely to become popular.

Worry Kill*, Not Work. It is not work that kills, but worry. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but fiction. Work is good for the soul, good for the body and good for the mind. If you want a good appetite don’t worry. If you want to stand well with yoursolf and the world, and want things to go right in your home and your business, do not worry. If you want to size up 10) cents on the dollar, do nut worry.

Sounded Just t kc Him. Wife—John, I read in the morn in? pnagr that a very bitd,ly int >xi-au'.i auSHfeU out of the fifth-story wiinlow of one of the down-town hotels sui was killed. Nobody con ide itii'y he Husband —Well, brhat of th.t ‘ *teb-Feu would go dim ; pu> Morgue and see if it tent yet' Judge-