Examples of household taste . gentility classes in this 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 workwith profit and success. In this connection we cannot refrain from calling attention to a circum-stance that recently came to the 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 investi
Examples of household taste . gentility classes in this 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 workwith profit and success. In this connection we cannot refrain from calling attention to a circum-stance that recently came to the 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 that his family were reduced 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. Jeweled Pendants : Starr &> Marcus, New York. Bonbonniere: M. Boncheron, 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 28o THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. 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 common remark. The col-
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