The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, November 24, 1904, Image 2
]jjfhy the feasants of prance
Are RicHMarvels
of Thrift Accomplished oy Diversity
cf Trade?Farmere Who Work During
Their Spare Hours at the Production
of a Multiplicity
of Manufactures.
-"E thrift of France has
X __ V been for years the marvel
I 0 of Europe. It is still.
)| The payment of the O.erKOlf
man war indemnity, the
imjilous lost in the Panama scandal,
tae crushing weight of war taxation.
Lave left that thrift unimpaired.
The revolution laid the basis of modern
prosperity by abolishing primogen
iture auJ decreeing the division of
landed estates. Every man has a hold
on the land.
Aud being on it. he not only makes
Jt produce twice as much value as the
land of Great Britain does, but lie conducts
from his farm cottage a variety
of industries in silk, lace, pottery, einl^'oidery.
and sells to all the world.
Says the ''outemporary Keview:
"Although watchmaking is mainly
the industry of the mountainous country
to the east aud northeast of Lyons.
ve shall also iind the watchmakers
bu?ii.< at work in the north of
France, and around St. Nicholas,
north of Paris. Man and wife work
together, and the division of labor has
been carried to such an extent that
hardly a single man would be able to
make a completely finished watch.
Chronometers are made by a master
who occupies four workers, and these
chronometers have a name esteemed
..i-An .mtci.ii. T.'rnnf?o At Rrmtreous the
peasants are making spectacles, telescopes
and other optical instruments,
and earn from three to sis francs a
day.
"The watchmaking industry in the
north cannot possibly be compared to
that in the mountains east and northeast
of Lyons. At Cluse we find a
centre of this trade, where 500 workers
are earning their living as watchmakers.
while in the neighboring villages
4000 peasants are engaged in the same
busiuess. The majority have electric
l>ower transmitted to their houses.
Electricity is cheap, while only oneeighth
of a horse power is required
for the use of four or five laborers.
This watchmaking, which yields an
income to the district of 3.000,000
francs annually, is almost, without exception.
tarried on iu addition to agri?niture.
and the electric motive power
permits the workers to employ any
kind of machine tool. Each village
has its particular specialty, one making
only wb<M>ls, another springs, and
ko on. A school for watchmakers is
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receive instruction for three years.
"Going further to the northeast we
find in and around Besaueon the greatest
watchmaking centre in France;
X000 workers at Besaueon and 41.000
in the whole district are making
watches. At Besancon alone 400,000
to 500.00) watches?for the greatest
part expensire ones?are produced,
whi'e large quantities of cases of gold
and silver are also made, frequently
with highly artistic engravings. Also
her? a school is established, and an ob
aervatory. to which is allied an institute
for testing, by exposure to extreme
changes of temperature, parts
which are to be used for watches of
great exactness. Round this industry
various allied industries have grown
up. such as the tnaking of glasses,
bracelets and bags for watches. j
"But the French peasant farmers.
In addition to such industries, turn out
the great crops "of grain, sugar beet
and vegetables, produce the wine,
make butter and rear the poultry, and
ro on. which form the foundation of
the great wealth of modern France.
"The commune of AHassac, in Limousin.
contains about 7GC0 acres of
land, divided into 2300 properties. But
from the neighboring railway station
of Objet. 1j 1S95. no less than 450 tons
of green peas, besides a quantity of
other vegetables, were sent to market.
The average income per acre is estimated
at about 1200 francs ($240) an?mnrxe
the' DOSSibiiity of
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obtaining such incomes from the cultivation
of land necessarily increases
the rental value of land as well as the
selling price of land. The market
gardeuers to the north of Amiens pay
<?000 francs ($12001 for'hn acre cf peat
bos. while at Bourges they pay 2000
to U000 fraues ($400 to $000) per acre
for orchard land, and front G000 to
TOO-o francs per acre for meadows.
"It cannot be caid that access to
the land is made easy for the laborer;
and in agricultural France, aa elsewhere.
the taxation of laud values is
a crying necessity in order to ameliorate
the lot of the masses of the people
and to enable the workers to retain
the fruits of their own industry. But
compared with the English and Irish
agricultural laborers the life of the
French pcasaut farmer appears almoet
ideal. True, it is hard and laborious,
but the life is a healthy one. aud they,
at least for the most part, are enabled
to provide for their old age when no
longer able ta work."
riir Attachment.
Mi I.'oas upon millions of women
know tiie value of the hemraer attachment
t> the sewing machine, yet it
is not proluble that one of them ever
Lnew the name of the genius who devised
t'ie simple thing. It was Isaac
W. Ba nt in. a Brooklynitc. who died
cnly recently, eighty years old. He
v.*a> a few years ago worth more than
c. million dollars, yet he died in poverty.
It takes three nations to make the
I?:st gloves?Spain to produce the hid,
France to cut it out, and England to
rew it together.
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WHEN WE FORGET,
IIo* Living Among Foreigner* Make*
Native Tongue lJecome Strange.
Mr. W. 15. vanderlip. the luiuins
prospector, who recently spent four
j teen months wauilering among tue
wilds of Northern Siberia, says in his
book that when he met the ship which
his employers had sent to hunt him up
he addressed the captain in Russian,
and was reminded that the gentleman
spoke English. Yatiderlip says it may
seem incredible, but it is true, that for
a few moments he was utterly unable
to converse with the captain in his own
native tongue. He had not used a
word of English in conversation for
fourteen months, and. being in a low
physical condition, his mind was eonfused.
For several days he spoke a
jumble of English. Russian and Kornk.
the language of the natives with whom
he had lived and traveled. It was a
week before he could talk good straight
English again.
There are numerous examples of the
fact that a person may become very
rusty in the use of his native tongue if
for a long time he has had no conversational
use of it. This was illustrated
Once by a man whose fame had tilled
the world. It was 011 the eveniug that
David Livingstone first stood on the
platform of Exeter Hall. His pronunciation
was peculiar and his speech
broken. He seemed to grope for words.
After a few sentences he paused to beg
the indulgence of his auditors. He
asked them to remember that for sixteen
years he had not sj>oken English
to a living soul, and that lie had almost
forgotten how to use it.
A few may recall the instance of an
illiterate British sailor who entirely
forgot English. He was a castawa;
among the Solomon Isinuuer.. ana nu
lived with them perhaps thirty yes-*
before an English vessel fonud bin.
He had been completely reduced to the
level of the natives. His mental faculties
were evidently somewhat impaired.
This may have facilitated the
utter failure of his memory as far as
English was concerned, but the fact
that English had once been his only
language enabled him to acquire a few
hundred words of it more readily than
he would otherwise have done.
A highly educated Polish woman of
this city, who is about to revisit her
native home, is now brushing up her
knowledge of the language of her fathers.
She says she has lived here so
long that she thinks in English, and
that sue will certainly appear ridiculous
in the eyes of her relatives if site
does not practice her native speech
It seems quite evident that facility it
the use of our native language is no;
an inalienable accomplishment. ? New
York Sun.
The World's Oldest Inhabitant.
A tortoise from the Seychelles Islands.
believed to be at least 230 years
old. is probably the oldest living creature
on the face of the earth. A writer
in the Scicntiflc American says; "Several
years ago. when the son-in-law of
Hagenbbeck, the animal trainer, was
looking for interesting specimens, he
learned of the existence on an islaud
of Seychelles, off the coast of Mada
?* - .'Inn* *nr*nlca fhrit was
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celebrated among the natives not merely
for its size?it weighs 970 pounds?
but for the fact that there was documentary
evidence that it bar been living
on the earth for over 150 years, and
probable evidence that it was from 100
to 150 years .older than that. After
careful investigation, he was satisfied
of the truth of the statement, and set
about to secure the loan of this auimal,
which, by the way, is held in the
highest esteem aud respect on the island,
for exhibition at the St. Louis
Fair. Not until the strongest assurances
were made that the venerable
curiosity would be returned to the
Seychelles did the native population
consent to part with him. When the
tortoise reached this country, it was
found that a tiny palm tree was growing
fro:u its back. The tortoise loves
the mud. and it is evident that soil
was washed into a deep scar on its
back, r.nd that the seeds of the paim,
mixed with tii? earth, took root aud
the tiny growth had thrived in its
portable field. The fact that 150 years
ago the Seychelles natives began to
take particular pride in this tortoise
because of its age makes it certain
that it must hare been at least 100
years of age at that time. This is
borne out by the condition of the shell,
which is a guide<.to"*deterpirtoiiig the
age."
A Dramatic Moment.
Tue campaign leader who can arrange
a dramatic climax is "cut out"
for his work. Pearson's Weekly
revives the story of the Republican
National Convention of 1868, at which
Thomas Nast. the caricaturist, was
preseut. It was known that General
Grant was to be the Republican candidate.
Nast Mil prepared a little surprise
for the convention. Upon a large curtain
he had painted the White House
entrance, with* two pedestals, one o?
each side, bearing the words. ' Republican
Nomiuee, Chicago, May 20," and
"Democratic Nominee. New York. July
4." respectively. On the Republican
pedestal sat tlie figure of Grant,
and Columbia stood pointing to the
empty space opposite. liclow were the
words. "Hatch him!"
This, with a blank curtain before it.
was suspended at the back of the convention
stage. At the instant when
General Grant was announced as the
unanimous choice of his party for
President, the blank curtain was lifted
and the great cartoon was suddenly
exposed to view.
It was so unexpected a climax that
the* throng was silent for a moment
from sheer surprise. Then a cheer
burst forth, and another. The great
hall was turned into a scene of wild
exultation.
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Effect* of Poor Koaclt.
Ani mrcj NOTABLE address by M.
Vs* ^ A. Hays, of the Southern
A Railway, at the Good
Roads won vent ion at New
Orleans: The bad common
road, wnicn is me orumar.v
common road of to-day, makes life iu
country districts and smaller places
more expensive in every way; it destroys
social movement, it interferes
with church and school, it robs the
people of many comforts and attractions,
and makes life narrow. In this
way it drives from the village and
farm to the cities the young men and
women, with their productive possibilities.
Its whole tendency is to conpest
population in the cities, and more
than anything else has forced a one- j
sided development in our National lif A
These are some of the evils and the
burdens and the effects of poor roads.
What of the influence and effect of
good roads? Fortunately we do not
have to go to foreign lands, nor even
to other sections of our own country
for proof as to their desirability and
for their value. They have reduced
the cost of farm production wherever
built, they have increased the value of
farm lands from twenty-live to 100
per cent., they have made available
for cultivation wider areas of territory,
they have attracted immigration, they
have given to old farms thought valueless
a good value, by enabling owners
or tenants to make them profitable;
they have made the village merchant
more prosperous, they have built factories,
they have aided in the growth of
cities; incidentally they have added
to the traffic of railroads. Of other
benefits of even greater importance
they have made a better class of citizens;
they have brought about better
methods of agriculture; they have improved
the schools by increasing public
revenues and euabling teachers and
scDoois to serve a uirgcr una.
hare added in every -way to the comforts
of the people. They have in a
measure turned back the tide toward
the city by bringing people from the
city into the country districts for
homes.
They may be somewhat startling.
What is there to support them? The
development of this country has always
followed the lines of easiest
communication, of the best transporta-1
tion facilities. In early days the popu- j
lation kept close to the waterways.
The building of the Erie Canal
changed the current of industrial activity.
Along the old roads built
down through the Southern States
nearly a huudred years ago were located
the most prosperous plantations,
the homes of the South's most enterprising
and substantial farmers, and
along these roads were found seats
of social life under the old regime. The
building of railroad lines to the great
West sent to that region for investment
the capital of the East, the most
ambitious of the sons of the East and
South, and attracted there the millions
of immigrants from other lands, who
have done so much to develop that
section, to develop it while the South
lay quiet. Much is heard of the new
South. If the term bo appropriate
the uew South began when your railroad
systems begaii to give you modern
trains and o?cient service. So
far as railroad facilities go, the Cni
ted States has had a remarkable development.
No other nation has today
so great, so efficient and so cheap
a system of railroad transportation.
The roads serve, perhaps, take It all
In all, the people who live near their
lines as well as it is now possible. But
railroads, like everything else, have
had their limitations, as they have
their characteristic influences upon the
development of the region. They have
naturally hastened the development of
the region lying directly along their
lines, while that of districts removed
frorj them has as naturally bad their
development retarded. No one desires
to go to a place removed from good
transportation facilities if he can locate
where they are to be had. The
tendency Is jjIways, and naturally, to
give the best advantages, the largest
returns to the people, the town or interest
where there i3 the least burden
to bear, the least tax upon industry,
the smallest cost on the production or
traffic charges. So much cheaper is
transportation by water or rail than
over common highways that production
has been lessened where distance
from rail or water is considered, mens?
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ureu I'limu in uuinco v. vuuuiuv?> v.
highways. There is a point distant
from every line of railroad beyond
which, under present condition of tjie
ordinary common roads, its influence
in aiding production, acting as a distributing
agent, is of little effect. The
railroad development of the country
has reached a point where its future
is comparatively limited. It will not
be practical, from a business standpoint,
to reach a much wider area of
territory. It is necessary, therefore,
in order to give all sections the advantage
of cheap distribution of products
to market to enable the outlying districts
to reach the railroad station or
the wharf at a cost which production
cannot only bear, but under which it
will thrive, and at all seasons of the
year. The ordinary road of the South
?yes, of the whole country?puts a tariff
upon all traffic of twenty-five cents
or more a ton per mile, as against 7.2
mills on the railroad. 'It is a burden
which effectually stifles production, except
when all other circumstances and
conditions arc most favorable. At
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oHtnin seasons of the year' it is nbs*
Iiitcly impossible to flo mueli handling
over many country roads. It is easy
to see how production over great areas
c.r onr country is kept down by these
conditions. Another point in this connection.
The bad highway foFces the
movement of all traffic wth the farms
:;t seasons of the year when the farmer's
teams could be more advantageously
employed at oiber work; it
causes u great congestion of traffic at
certain seasons, not only lessening the
selling price of the farmer's product,
causing greater expense and annoyance
to merchant and manufacturer,
but compelling railroads to go to
much heavier outlays for equipment
| and handling of traffic, and therefore
j necessitating a higher rate for rail
| frelgths.
!DESCENDANTS Or CHARTER OAK
Tranfplantine tlie Acorn From a Sprig
on the Original Tree.
Growiug in a large tub at the residence
of James Knowlden. 7015 Poland
avenue, are three thriving "descendants"
of the famous Charter Oak.
These sturdy little oaks of such renowned
"lineage" will be transplanted
in separate ttt'os in the autumn, and
if they continue to flourish Mr. Knowlden
will present two of them to the
city, one to be planted In Druid IliU
and the other in Patterson Park.
When in Hartford, Conn., two years
ago. Mr. Knowlden secured eight
acorns from the tree grown from a
Sprig of the Charter Oak. which stands
on the spot where that most famous
tree in American history spread its
branches for hundreds of years. He
planted all. but live failed to germinate.
He watched with tender care the
three oaks that came up, bestowing as
much atteution upon them as if they
were delicate flowers. They arc now
aliout a foot high and give promise of
becoming strong trees.
When the Charter Oak blew down,
the citfeens of -lartford immediately
planted a sprig from it on the spot
where it had stood. The new tree
thrived from the tirst. and now its
branches shade a considerable area.
On every Fourth of July the Hartford
people, augmented by many patriotic
citizens of nearby towns, gather at the
tree and decorate it with flags and
bunting. after which the Declaration
of Independence is read beneath its
over spreading boughs.
The Charter Oak itself was sawed
up into lumber. From this a frame
for the Colonial Charter was made.
The frame, with its historic document,
now hangs in the Supreme Court
chamber in the Capitol at Hartford. A
chair was also ifiado from tLe lumber.
and this is occupied by the Lieutenant-Governor
of Connecticut in the
Senate chamber.?Baltimore Sun.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
It's no use blaming nature if you refuse
nurture.
Love is the light that shines farther
than all others.
Success is not looking around for the
man who sighs.
j When you kill a good resolution you
revive an old enemy.
Your mother's apron strings are
away ahead of evil's towline.
"Goodness and Mercy" do not follow
the man who is fleeing from Gad.
Content depends not on what we
have, but on what we would have.
It Is a greater thing to make another
strong than it is to carry his load.
The strength of a man's faith is in
j inverse proportion to its singularity.
What He Wai Up Tn.
*-./?? i-nnw nt flia nnlv Irishman I
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who ever committed suicide?" asked
W. B. Pollard, of Jersey City, who was
at tb& Fifth Avenue Hotel last night.
"You know it is said that Irishmen
never commit suicide, and when the argument
was advanced in a crowd of
that nationality he was so unstrung
that he decided to show his opponents
that Irishmen do sometimes commit a
rash act. He accordingly disappeared,
and the mau who employed him started
a searcn. When he got to the barn he
looked up toward the rafters and saw
his man hanging with a rope around
his waist.
"'What are you up to, Pat?' he
asked.
" 'Oi'm hanging meself, begobs,' the
Irishman replied.
' 'Why don't you put it around your
neck?'
" Faith. Oi did, but Oi couldn't
braythe,' was the unsmiling reply of
the man from the Emerald Isle."?
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Caady.
"More money is spent for candy each
year than for hats and shoes and
gloves combined." said Harvey Towle,
of Pittsburg. atthePlanklngton House.
Mr. Towle travels for one of the largest
candy manufacturing concerns in the
world. "We sell about $1,250,000 worth
of candy a year ourselves," he continued,
"and at an average of seven cents
a pound you can figure out for yourself
how big a pile of candy that makes.
There is over a billion a year spent for
sweets in this country. People have
no idea of the magnitude of^the business."?Milwaukee
Wisconsin.
Benson or Preference For Ball Fighting,
Once in a while one of the Sunday
exhorters on the Common startles the
crowd with his hits. A well-known old
spellbinder was comparing the vices
and amusements of various countries
and the relation between the two. In
particular he described bull fighting in
Spain and pugilism in this country.
"An' I don't know but what bull
fighting is the better," he roared.
"God Almighty made the bulls for beef, i
But when you kill a pugilist, what use ]
is he to anybody?"?Boston Record, '
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MALINES LACE AS TRIMMING.
Malines lace is used a great deal for
the purpose of trimming the smart
gowns of the moment. A charmiug
blue and white check taffeta frock wn?adorned
with little bows of blue velvet,
with ends of Malines, and caught with
tiny steel buckles. Another example
of fancy green taffetas, piped with velvet
of the same shade, had rosettes of
Malines lace, with tiny button rosettes
of velvet in their centres.
FOR THE BATH.
Far better for the bath than a sponge
is the oatmeal bag. This is made of
cheese cloth and is about five inches
square. It is filled with five parts of
finely ground oatmeal, one part pure
castile scap and two parts powdered
orris root. The bags make a creamy
lather iu the bath, and lend to the skin
a softness and smoothness that is
most desirable. The bags should be
burned when the goodness is destroyed.
If sea salt is used in the sponge bath,
care must be taken not to wet the hair,
as sea salt is extremely injurious to the
hair. To build up the system and invigorate
the body nothing is better
than sea salt in the bath.
A LOBSTER ON THE HAT.
Long famed as the daintiest morsel
to tempt man's papate. the lobster is
now used as a snare to entrap man's j
heart. The daintiest little toque at the
milliners' conference in the Fine Arts
Building in Chicago. III., has a lobster
reposing on its crown. Made of scarlet
velvet its black beady eyes look out on
the large crowd, which finds it an attraction
and novelty. The toque is made
entirely of black silk, with shirred
brim and crown. The next newest
thing at tiie exhibit is the "boat"
crown, which is seen in many of the
felt hats and which is the exact shape
of a boat. As if to accentuate this idea |
the trimming is placed below the
crown, so that whole outline is visible.
A READER'S DEX.
Fit the walls with warm crimsou or
soft safe plain p. per or canvas or burlap.
so that the reader's brain may not
be set spiuniug with subconscious
problems 021 the origin or significance
of patterns. Have low bookcases there,
a comfortable divan, small library tabic
or "kidney" writing desk. Hang
meaningful pictures, etchings, colored
prints, or even handsome photographs,
simply framed: derive your diversity of
color from a Karabagh or Smyrna rug.
and divan cover and pillows, says Harbor's
R?Mr. Also hanz soft crimson
or olive green scrim or net curtains
over green or tan holland shades. Have
a drop lairip, with green or opalescent
shade, a good writing desk chair, one
deep willow chair, stained green or
dark brown, and one Morris chair, and
a hassock or two. Surroundings like
these will conduce to a real enjoyment
of the books you gather there, and
give a restful effect to the room.
THE CARE OF CHILDREN'S HAIR.
Mothers should teach their children
to care for their hair as early as possible,
says the California Ladies' Magazine.
If the little girl is coaxed into
the habit of giving her locks a hundred
strokes with a stiff brush every
morning and evening and braiding
them loosely for bed, the foundation for
a future beautiful head of hair will be
laid. Counting the strokes will lighten
the task for her. and she will soon become
accustomed to it and make it part
of her daily toilet. Too many children
are allowed to go to bed with their
hair in a tousled condition, only to
have it jerked and tangled hastily
when school time comes around. Such
a practice Is disastrous to the nerves
of a sensitive child and ruinous to the
hair. Teach the little daughter to take
care of her hair, aud at the right time,
and also to keep her brushes and comb
in the proper state of cleanliness.
These articles snouiu De as biricuy
personal property as the toothbrush.
Never allow one child to use the other's
hair brush. Diseases of the scalp are
most contagious, and the brush is the
surest germ agent.
WOMAN AND FINANCE.
"A woman never will learn the value
of a dollar. She will walk nfiles to
save a car fare and carry a grip for
blocks to keep from paying a porter,
and then will wear her whole fortune
suspended by a slender thread to her
waistband. She will declare she cannot
afford to replace a lost umbrella
nor to buy a pair of rubbers, and wilt
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rum a ?-<J UlU ai.U 0-iv pair ui ricmu
boots by going without these necessaries
through a driving rainstorm.
She will deny herself what she wants
most to buy what she does not want
because she can get the latter thing
at bargain prices. And when she decides
that she must have money she
has all sorts of ideas about getting it.
For instance, the Countess de lu Tour
dc Pin. of Paris, wanted to give her
son a royal wedding present. She had
no money?but other people did have
it. So she borrowed S."0.000 worth of
lrems from a Paris jeweler. Of course,
she could not give the gems away; that
would be stealing. She simply pawned
them and then went out shopping for
that wedding present. Now! wouldn't
things be nice and charming if we women
could only settle the question of
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! HOW TO DRESS PROPERLY. I
To get into one's clothes is an art.
To stay in after the necessary number .
of pins hare been put in place is a
still greater art. To become efficient
in these arts practice the following:
Dress slowly.
Use plenty of safety pins, as near the
color of the gown as possible; let them
vary in size. .
When the blouse is adjusted, pin
down in front, at each side of the back,
and on each side of the front if necessary.
Pin the skirt, after hooking it. firmly
to the waist on each side of the back.
When the belt is pnt on take time to
see that the band of the skirt is covered.
Pin it, if necessary, but this is
not necessary if the belt is not too
tight.
In putting on the ribbon, collar or
; whatever may be designed for the
j neck, pin the ribbon firmly down in the
back with a fancy gold Safety pin. Pia^,
it again in front, and if necessary use
the tiny neat little safety pins around
on the sides.
Be sure that the skirt is hooked up
the back and that the bodice cannot
come unhooked or unbuttoned at the
llUUli
It pays to take a little more time nnd
to use a few more safely pins, and to
have each garment stay where it is fat
tened.
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OCCUPATIONS FOR WOMEN.
It is said that women make their own
opportunities nowadays without waiting
for opportunities to come to them.
This fact is verified by the report that
one of the most successful of the dress
manufacturing firms in New York is
composed of two young Women, who,
while engaged in teaching, began in a,
very modest way to put some original
work in dressmaking. First, with the
! design for collarettes, then for waists.
! and finally for whole suits, these wo|
men have gradually enlarged their
! field until they supply some of the
largest retail stores. Forty machines
are run by electricity, and two floors
on a prominent thoroughfare are given
up to their work.
Two New York girls started a flower
shop in a Western town not long ago.
Floral decorations for luncheons, dinners,
cotillons and weddings are undertaken.
besides the regular sale of j:
cut flowers and plants. It is claimed
that women show much more taste
in the decoration of rooms and tables
than men do, and these young whmen
are engaged by society of that town
at *11 tlmps.
A woman who joes out by the day,
in upholstery work is much in demand.
Her field is net limited, however, to
the covering and mending of chairs
and sofas. She takes up every detail
in the hoase in the line of furnishings^ ^
that need sewing or mending?sfii?
covers, door hangings, curtains,
cushions, cushion covers and bedspreads.
\
Th^n there are women who go about
from hotel to hotel and pack trunks. \
j They are engaged by the day and pack \
| the necessary clothing for the women \
who travel a great deal. As they pack
they make a list of the various articles,
I and in what part of the trunk they may
be found in case of emergency. Some
hotels have engaged experienced packers.
who are at the service of their
guests.
There is also a woman who is asked
in regard to the furnishing of homes.
She selects the wall paper, carpets
and furniture to match the various
rooms, and suggests the architecture
very often. She is a much desired person
in eociety and is referred to many
times.
It is also known that there are several
barber shops in which women preside.
and it is sajd that they^lve better
satisfaction than men! Women
Krt/^ht^oira have also been heard of.
and. in fact, there are many other occupations
which women can take up.?
New Haven Register.
FEMININE FANCIES. "4
Pinking has come in again.
Smocking is one of the latest trimming
notions.
Oignon is the name of a new shade
of burnt orange. ?
Ruches and pipings appear upon almost
every stoart dross.
The new frocks of the lingerie type
are simply fascinating.
The toes of shoes are more pointed
and the heels a trifle higher.
The festoon flounce has been revived
along with other Louis modes.
Japanese designs will play an important
part in the newest modes.
Very stiff and prim narrow moiro
ribbons give a quaint touch to the lat-^
est-headgear.
The distinctive feature of the present
modes consists in the reproductions of
the Louis periods.
A new very deep cuff is a feature of
the bodices of some very swagger new
costumes of supple cloth.
There is a prospect of the revival of
an old-time favorite, the separate coat
of silk or soft, pliable cloth, to be worn n .'
with skirts of an entirely different material.