The masterpieces of the Centennial international exhibition of 1876 .. . entility classes in diis country,against manual labor for women has been overcome, that a new and powerfulimpetus will be given to the progress of all branches of decorative art amongus. The field is an extensive one, and one peculiarly fitted for women to workwitli profit and success. In this connection we cannot refrain from calling attention to a circum-stance that recendy came to die knowledge of the public. It appears that acertain well-known citizen of New York, who had become involved in difficul-ties of one kind a
The masterpieces of the Centennial international exhibition of 1876 .. . entility classes in diis country,against manual labor for women has been overcome, that a new and powerfulimpetus will be given to the progress of all branches of decorative art amongus. The field is an extensive one, and one peculiarly fitted for women to workwitli profit and success. In this connection we cannot refrain from calling attention to a circum-stance that recendy came to die knowledge of the public. It appears that acertain well-known citizen of New York, who had become involved in difficul-ties of one kind and another, fled to Europe, and an investigation of his affairsdiscovered diat his family were rediiced from wealth to poverty. But duringthe days of his prosperity he had taken care to provide for his children in a INDUSTRIAL ART. 279 manner that no mutations of fortune could rob them of. Each of his daughters,beside receiving the education usual for girls in their position, had been taughta trade or profession. One was a competent drawing-teacher, another a thorough. yewcled Pendants: Starr Gf Marcus, New York. Bonbonniere : j\f. Boiuheron, Paris. musician, and the third had learned the trade of a milliner; so that they hadthe means of making an honorable livelihood secured to them at a time whennothing was more improbable than that they should have to have recourse to 2 So THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1S76. these means. The moral of the story is plain, and that it is worth heeding isevidenced by the thousands of helpless, poor women brought up in luxury nowliving on the charity of their friends. It is not their fault, poor creatures, thatthey are in this pitiable state of dependence, but the fault of their parents. Ifthe future of girls was studied and provided for with the same care as that ofboys, we should hear less talk of womans rights and radicalism. The richness of the display of gold- and silver-work and jewelry in theRussian Court at the Exhibition was a subject of
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