Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 25, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 12 December 1896 — Page 6

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WOMAN'S WOULD.

JOINT PASTORATE OF TWO YOUNG WOMEN OF CLEVELAND.

*Sm B«tl "New Womtn"—The Kimono and Bow to Make It—Domestic Life. Boy "Housemaid*"—The Emprew of Japan—Woman Suffrage In Vermont.

Women have full control of Unity •vhapel, a Unitarian cborcb in Cleveland. There are two women pastors and a woman organist. This does not prevent men from attending services there or lending financial assistance. In fact,

Unity chape] congregations of a Sunday morning seem to have more than the average number of men seen at church. It Is noticcable, too, that there is little or no nodding of masculine pates during the service.

The Her. Marian Murdoch and the Rev. Florence Back are the ministers of this church. They are young women of pleasant address and fine education. They are unmarried and share the same home as well as the same work. As far as possible the duties of tho parish are divided between them. One woman preaches one Sunday and the other the succcodiug Sunday. Both appear in the pulpit though. The one who does not deliver the discourse assists her sister by reading the Scripture lesson.

In these days of balloon and skeleton sleeves, voluminous skirts and elaborate bodices it would seem difficult for women ministers to preserve a clerical appearance. The Rev. Marian Murdoch and tho Rev. Florence Buck have found a happy solution for this dilemma. They wear in the pulpit blaok silk gowns

RKV. FLORENCE BUCK.

with ni'ulr'rtitely full skirts and sleeves and a modest jet or ribbon garniture on thoir ln,/lices. Tho addition of plain whito Kucii cuffs, collurs and neckties give thm tho nirof uignity which thoir profpss'ou demands. They wear thoir hair loosely thrown back from the face into a coil at tho baok of tho head, with short, natural waves at each sido of the forohoa l. When not in tho pulpit, these women ear gowtu of colors and styles just lilio those of other sensible women.

It is easy enough for these pastors to divide tho work of preparing sermons, butwr'i tho other parish work it is more difficult. As tho Rev. Miss Buck said: "If one of us makes asocial call, every orn wonders why tho other did not oome tco. So that, in reality, each pastor had to do as much visiting as if she were ti! tie, except in cases of sicknoss and ot! or trouble. Then thoro is a difference. Our parish is so largo in territory an the members of tho congregation

-attered all over tho city that it

would !-o impossible for ono person to make fv quent calls." When thero are weddirfunerals or christenings, of course both ministers must bo present.

A st king feature of tho work of these women is tho harmony which surrounds them, :ie ease with which ono supplements lie gifts of the other, although they apparently are widely different in temper inent. They felt sure of their compa '.tility, though, before they underto* a joint pastorate hero four years ago Kiss Murdoch is an Iowa woman and engaged in ministers] work there. was while resting from her labor that sho met Miss Buck, a Michigan woman, who was a high school teacher itt her native state. Tho result of this acquaintance was that they studied together at Meadville, Pa., where Miss nloch took a postgraduate course and M' Buck secured a degree.

Then they went abroad together and studied at Oxford. Finding that their friendship could stand the strain of intimacy at college, seasickness and the strangeness of a foreign country, they believed that it could endure tho trial of joint work.—Cleveland Cor. Now York Press.

Tho Real "New Woman."

Phrases and epithets are frequently powerful forces in molding publio opinion of a certain sort Even great statesmen writhe in vain under nicknames -which, however unjust, have been fixed upon of humor. So, also, of movements and causes.

Much of the opposition that has been aroused by the widespread advance of women within recent years is probably due to the onfortunato phrase "the new woman." Rightly considered, opposition to the idea of anew woman is complimentary to the sex Men are too Well sou ten tod with womanhood as it has been to welcome a change involving any radical departure from the ideals of the past

The phrase Itself suggests the cartoons of the oomic papers. One thinks of tkloomex* and other semimasculine experiments in dress, of unfeaainine voices, of various grotesque assumptions of the place and power that belong to man and

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ibe relinquishment of whatever is most euing of old fashioned borne* was the Attractive in woman's own character^ erase for travel amoiwpeople of means, tics. Perhaps the attitude of the oomto "There area great many persons," papers is not entirely unprovoked, hat }ahe said, "who spend their time going the woman's movement surely means shoot the Id and never seem to think something better than this. to M»y of anything except bow to

Ws think it meson, in general, an en- get to some other place.'' fargement of the lives of women. Mrs. Frances Fisher Wood deplored

not merely true that new fields

of industry and of intellectual interest are being opened, but women are being prepared by education to enter those fields.

The educational movement has taken three forms—the girls' colleges, "annexes" and coeducation. As to the first and second forms, there is no question of their success. And while the victory seems complete also in the colleges where young men and young women meet on terms of absolute equality, yet the scheme is not without vigorous opposition, and it would be too much to say that this particular phase of the question is set!bd.

Of the fields newly opened to women thus prepared the industrial is perhaps the most important Gradually it has oome to be accepted that the true limit to the industrial activity of woman ia to be determined by her powers rather than by the arbitrary rulings of custom and prejudice. The privilege of self help is conceded, and the right to try every occupation not clearly incompatible with a degree of physical weakness.

But it is not in bread winning alone that the new education bears fruit In the study of social problems, in wise obarities, such as the famous Hull House enterprise in Chicago, in the work of the churches, in art, in literature, even in politics, it is making itself felt There are women's clubs in all our great cities, federations of snch clubs in most of the states and a national league for the whole country.

Whether such things indicate that there is a "new woman" may be matter of debate. For our part, we are inclined to think it only means that both sexes are involved in the world's progress. An observant foreigner, a Frenchwoman of great culture, failed to find in the clubwomen of Chioago and Boston any lack of femininity. On the contrary, she found in abundance the same tact and obarni which have been women's chief source of power from the beginning and will be to the end.—New York Ledger.

The Kimono and How to Make It. The kimono is a simple looking garment, but it is positively worth its weight in diamonds, if one measures value by the comfort one gets from an investment. There is another nice thing about it, and that is that no matter how little a woman knows about sewing or dressmaking if she can sew at all she can make for herself a kimono. This is how to do it:

If yon are not too tall and with too long arms, eight yards of cloth will answer your purpose. You wunt four lengths from your sbouldor to three or four inches from the floor, two for the front and two for the back of your garment. Sew these lengths together, leaving that which you intend for the front open from top to bottom. Then gather the top of tho back widths and the top of the front widths, allowing an inch and a half hom down the front. At the top of each front width turn down (on the in, or wrong, eide) a shaped piece that will be sufficiently wide for the front of the neck. Leave doable this same amount on each of tho back breadths, which space gather in for the back of tho neck. Now you have your shoulders and your neck, tho back of the neck only gathered. The front neck is plain and formed by tho shaped turn down. Sew tho shoulders up without any shap ing whatever. Bind around the back of tho neck and down tho shaped front of tho nock with satin ribbon to match your cloth. Tho ribbon should bo about two inches wido.

When you have sewed the side seams up, you have left a slit about eight or ten inches, more or less, according to tho size of the arm of the wearer, but it should bo loose and comfortable, for the kimono has missed its vocation if it does not mako you comfortable.

Measuro off two widths of the cloth the length you want the sleeves and sow them up. Do not shapo the sleevos an atom at either top or bottom. Bind the bottom of the sleeve with tho samo satin ribbon that you have used for the neck Sew tho sleeve in at tho slit you have left at the arm size. It should go in without any gathers.

When you hold a kimono up by its sleeves, it is all angles and no curves. But it is comfortable beyond compare to slip on, over the nightdress if necessary, on a hurry call to any member of the family who may havo been suddenly taken ill, or for a thousand and one other things which every woman knows about

Do not be discouraged from the description, thinking that it must be too utterly ugly for any earthly use. It is not It is chic looking, Japanese looking, and if you are ever tho owner of ono of these kimonoe you will come to regard life

a failure without one or

more always in stock.—Now York Tribune.

Domeetto Lite.

Woman was in the ascendency at the last meeting of the Nineteenth Century club at Sherry's. She exceeded iu nambers the representatives of the other sex,

them by the great American sense and she alone occupied the platform, except when Mr. Taylor, the president made a few introductory remarks. The subject of the discussion was,' 'Is domestic life disappearing in our Amerioan cities, mid if so, why?"

Mrs. Helen Campbell of the University of Wisconsin took up the question and told the many disadvantages under which women labor in homemaking. She quoted statistics and announced the fact that a very small proportion of the women in America have any servants and consequently are obliged to do their own work, and many of them hare to earn the money too. This, she said, was the reason why so many gave up the effort and wandered into a boarding bouse, "the great disintegrator," as she expressed it Another cause for the leas-

The new fad makes all these things "boys' work" now, and mothers who are wise will expect their young hope fuls to give in the future ready and will ing assistance in all departments of household work. Why shouldn't they:

The Empress of Japan.

"Considerably taller than tho average woman of Japan, her majesty tho empress of Japan presents to the gaze all those attributes which her people hold to bo most expressive of patrician beauty," writes Mrs. Robert P. Porter in Ladies' Home Journal. "Of slight figure, straight in outline, she has the delicate waist, sloping shoulders, slender neck and long, pale face to be seen only among the nobility of Japan. Her features, especially the nose, are more decided than one is ac customed to find. She has the long eyes and brows and the jet blaok hair, growing iu that arch upon the forehead, which, suggestive of the beloved Mouut Fujiyama, is considered a crowning beauty in Dai-Nippon. The empress has also the exquisite hands of the Japanese gentlewoman, and her tiny feet lose nothing in beauty by being incased iu sharply pointed Europeau shoes. Her majesty wore," continues Mrs. Porter in describing the cherry bloom garden party, "a rich, very soft brooado of native manufacture and the purest silk. It was of a delicate golden brown, with figures in tho same oolor, representing roses and chrysanthemums and made in the prevailing Europeau style, with large sleeves aud full skirt Her bonnet was a littlo French affair in delicate oolors, aud she carried in her hand a large parasol which harmonized with her gown."

Woman Suffrage In Vermont. People and papers that are saying, ac: cording to the mothods of treating the subject which have been familiar for 40 years, that of course the members of that branch of tho Vermont legislature which ha«voted unanimously to grant municipal suffrage to women do not mean anything by it except to amuso tho petitioners with false pretenses will., do well to bear in mind tho fact that tli? time when woman suffrage was thought to be a good joke has goue by. .r

With three states of the Union where women enjoy tho exerciso of all the political rights possessed by men with women two years ago sitting as members, and very influential members, iu the legislature of one state with a wor man just elected to sit iu the upper branch of the legislature of another state with the choice of presidential electors in yet another state determined by the balance of power in the ballot holding hauds of women last election with the government of a great number of municipalities in the hauds of women in variours states, it is just little too late iu the day to assume tfcat when men, in the exercise of their sacred trust and the fulfillment of their oaths of office, vote to grant a measure of political justice to women, it is done oat of mew mockery.—Boston Advertiser.

To bavo a plate rack just below the ceiling is a new idea for the dining room. Then, of course, it is strung full of handsome plates and, if one is so lucky, antique ones that have been banded down.

Women are now admitted into the New York 8ymphony orchestra to hold office jointly with the men and to have equal voice in all matters pertaining to its future welfare.

The question whether women bare the legal right to rote in Maryland will be argued before Judge Phelps daring the present term of the Baltimore city court

It is said that the hair is to be done up in nets again. It is rather a trying fashion, tret ft the style demands it, why, of course it will be adopted.

The senate of Alabama has passed a 11 allowing women, single or amrr»V ld)UMtioe law, when properly qualified, in every court of the state.

Of the 4* Janitors In die Omaha pub lio school buildings 9 an women.

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the change in home feeling. Mrs. Wood also said the people of New York were too muoh afraid of the expense of home. If they would not oonsider so many things necessities, they could all have homes of their own. 'One-third of our expenses,'' she said, "are for things that we feel sure people will expect us to have and another third for what we want because our neigh bors have them."—New York Herald.

Boy "HouiMiMldi.''

English housekeepers, after a struggle with the servant problem', have attemptedits final solution by the introduction of boy "housemaids" into many homes. In certain circles boys are becoming the principal dependence in the household machinery, and the perplexed housekeepers express themselves as well satisfled with the ohange, says Womankind.

Does this foreshadow that horrible state so incessantly pictured by the oomic papers of roan's complete subjection to household affairs? It may be, but whatever its final result is, if it tends to alleviate in the least the weary housekeeper's trouble with her complaining and cross servant girls, it will be gladly welcomed on this side of the Atlantic.

In the meantime, while the Four Hundred are preparing to engage boys for housemaids because it is an English fad to do so, does the innovation not bring a suggestion to many tired housekeepers who have no perplexity over the 'servant question" because they have no servants? There is many a housekeeper who works 16 hours a day while three or four healthy sons stand around and watch her. They cannot help because housework is "girls' work," and they oannot lower their standard of Amerioan manhood. The sweeping of floors, the making of beds, the washing of dishes, the scouring of pans, is not the kind of work these young men expect to do, so mother does it all.

Bagdad Portieres.

A word to the contemplating buyer of Bagdad portieres. They are offered in the shops at a very low price, but it will be seen that the stripes are narrow *nd the weight of the material not of good wearing quality. Such would do possibly for a bedroom portiere or to throw over a partly worn lounge in some room where its use would be light, but for real wear the wider, finer woven fabric should be sought

These curtains are very useful, as they are almost the only couch covers that are more than the regulation 50 inch width. As the stripes can be bought separately it is possible to increase their width ad libitum. As to range in quality, one was seen last week for $3.65, and an hour later in a bric-a-brao shop hung one valued at $105. This latter had eight wide stripes, was almost of the thickness of plush and was beautifully fine and'firm, while its harmony of coloring, in the main resembling the cheaper and conventional sort, was a revelation of its possibilities.—New York Times.

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