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Typesetting For Girls

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
June
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
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The setting of type seems to be a work especially adapted to the deft fingers of a girl, and the f act that she is earning a comfortable conipetence ought to give her a dignity that demands the respect of those with whom she comes in contact. The actual work of pieking np the type is no harder than playing scales on the piano aud not half so trying for the eyes as drawn work or embroidery. The men printers do their work standing, but the girls'have high stools at the cases and may sit or stand. It isn't clean work, but it is clean moneyt and ranges from S8 to $25 a week, with an average of $15 i week. A man is employed to do the heavy lifting of the forms, which Í3 supposed to be too heavy for wornen. - New York Sun. Oyster plant may be used for soup just as celery is, making a cream soup that very closely resembles the real oyster broth. Cut up and boil tender the salsify. When it is mashed to a pulp, add milk and seasoning, as in crean i of celery soup. Maud Banks, the daughter of General N. P. Banks, is not only a conscientious and painstaking actress, but she is likewiseone of the most widely educated and best read young women of the day. She speaks a number of languages fluently. A dining tnble for six persous should be 6 feet long. Beneath the cloth always have a feit or cantón flannel cover. It brings out the design of your table linen and deadens the bony sound of dishes. Furniture covers are prettiest and freshest made oL uld fashioned diniity, edged witn tiny balls. This is mach prettierin effect than the figurcd lineua which have been so m.uch used. In general t!;'1 girls in the ftreat storesin Paris have a hard time, Theyare comjielled to stand ;.ll tlie time theyareat work, and thafiir oí tlie stores is inv froia cxUilaratiug. Science is golden in i . ■ a y instan) Tvhere adeíecc ob;uii3Ín tLe iiome econ omy.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News