HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1951-04-12, Page 7Business
Women
Of A Bygone Day
'Che "She-\irrehault" was a re-
cognized figure in the business
t,•orld of colonial days. in Colonial
Women of Affairs, the estimate tags
cfi'ered thee. niur or 10 per cent of
the shops of the day were managed
by women.
Biographies. ion it Ilislot'io-, and
uleninirs give the name of a shop.
hecpinl woman now and then, but
i& idont 1nueb more. 'rho o historian
of Wethersfield, Connecticut, iocticut, liwted
:Newt Deming a,, one of the most
pro 01110int merchants in the town•
. with "an t•x.onslve assortment
c• European and Indian goods"
In Grandmother Tyler's Book
rate reacts: "Aunt Kate and my mo-
ther soon opened a little shop,
where they traded in English goods
till my Sister elate grew up and
married Henry F'tttuam, Esq. .
The shop, in Watertown, ?lassa-
elitlsetts, was opened in the winter
of 1797-98. "Sister .Ka:o," W110 was
married in 18117, became the mother
u£ George Palmer Putnam. . . .
Some won en merchants, Weed,
were more than a Matter of conts-e.
Virginia Penny, writing in 1862.
reported that many 'of the f orcin es
in Boston were said to have been
founded. by women engaged in
trade; As far as the present writer
Can judge, the women or other
cities engaged in business with
equal freedom and success; liut
there were certainly several out-
standing Poston women about
'whom information has been pre-
served.
. Miss Penny tuay well have had in
mind, inter alia, the Perkins and
allied families. 'Phomas Handasyde
Perkins, a leading merchant and
citizen of the early nineteenth cell -
wry, owed Much cto his mother,
Elizabeth Peck Peii ins . , Ail
attractive advertisement of import-
ed china and glassware which she
inserted in the Boston tlewSpapers
for 1773 is quite(' in Colonial Worn -
men of Affairs. Site was parr owner
of a vessel which ivas leased to the
French governnieut for a while,. to
help transport troops to the 'West
:Indies. She had frequent cori•es-
pondenee with' a' Dutch house.
The leading woman merchant of
pre -Civil War Boston, however;
was a spinster tvho built up her
business from the very beginning.
'GVhen only sixteen years old she
(Alii Bent)• was apprenticed to .+.
Boston :font which dealt in crocicel:y
' 'and 'dry goods, and as soon as she
was twenty-one (in 1789) she
opened a shop of her own. She was
not a frequent advertiser, evidently
she attracted trade by other means.
Mrs, .Dail wrote of - Miss Pent
and another slwp-keeper, Miss
Tinsley: "They were the first wom-
en in our Society to confer a mar-
ketable value upon taste. Instead
of importing largely for themselves,
they bought of the New York im-
porters the privilege of selection,
and always took. the prettiest and
nicest pieces out of every case. As
they paid for this privilege thea.--..
selves, so they charged their Cis -
tourers for it, by asking a little •
more on each yard of goods than
the conunon dealer."
Other people must have agreed
with Me, Dall's comment "1 know
nothing for which it is pleasanter
to pay than for taste," for Miss
Bent's business prospered. . , Iles•
business success gave her not only
a livelihood, but also the cleans of
wide generosity, — From "Career
Women of Anierica: 1776-1840,°' by
Elisabeth Anthony 'Dexter.
amen Past 40 Can
BY ED?' A IMES
MANY women, when they reach the far side of forty, decide they
are past the age for such fripperies .as veils. Actually, they
have just achieved the point at which veils are most necessary --
and usually :most becoming.
•
If crow's feet, frown creases or lines have begun to mar the
beauty of your face, now's the time to learn about the flattery of
veils, In the same way that a softly -shaded light plays down
facial imperfections, a bit of netting across your face will veil the
tell=tale marks of age,
Experiment a little, until you've found th•
e veil that does most
Lor you. The shape of your face, your hair -do and your hat are all
factors to be considered.
Remember, an observer's eye will see the lower edge of the
veil as a line across the face, Rarely is it attractive to see a flat,
horizontal line sweeping across a woman's face. This tends to
make the cheeks look broad.
Round the bottom of the veil upward a bit, following the gontour
of the cheekbones, or, if it's a long veil, the jaw line.
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ai Ac, ws.
If you and your .am.ily enjoy eat•
lug the tender skins of cooked pota-
toes this way of doing theism should
be a favorite. Partly cook the po-
tatoes in their jackets, allow them
to cool. then cut into quarters.
Dip in butter or margarine and
place in a shallow .baiting dish.
Dust generously with salt, paprika
and minced parsley. Place a strip
of pimento across each quarter.
Bake fi£.een minutes at 450 degrees
V, and serve on platter.
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't'ltelr--continuing On the "spuds"
theme, here is a recipe for crusty
potatoes—a dish which makes a
pleasant change '.front the plain
baked sort.
CRUSTY POTATOES
8 medium-sized potatoes
%.acup butter or bacon or
ham drippings
1 egg, slightly beaten
11/2 cups cracker crumbs
1 teaspoon salt
% teaspoon pepper
Method: Parc potatoes and wash
and dry well. Brush with softened
butter or drippings and roll in
cracker crumbs, Dip in egg and
roll again its cracker. crumbs. Place -
potatoes in well -greased casserole
sprinkle with salt and pepper and
dot with butter or drippings. Cover
and bake at 400 degrees F. for 1
hour, or until tender. Serve: eight.
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'Nowadays most housewives are
interested in anything that will
make neat "stretch" a little farther,
so the following recipe .should be
welcome.
MEAT STRETCHER
1 pound round steal:
1 small onion
3 or 4 stalks celery (or tops
of bunch)
2 eggs
2 or 3 carrots
11/4 cups milk
1 teaspoon mustard
(optional)
4 crackers or 1 slice dry
bread
Method: .Grind .beef, .carrots,
onion and celery together. finishing
by grinding. the crackers or dry
bread. Beat eggs and add milk.
Combine mixtures and add Mus-
tard. Pons in greased casserole,
sprinkle With bread crumbs or
cracker meal. dot with Mutter, and
. Fashion Note ..
Of
bake about 40 minutes at 450 de-
grees F. Serves eight.
It won't be long now till we'll
all be pulling early rhubarb, which
brings With it what, to many of us,
is the first really authentic taste
of Spring. So a few recipes mak-
ing use of that great family stand-
by -alight he rather timely at this
point.
RHUBARB -CHEESE TARTS
11/ cups 'milk
14 cup sugar
yt teaspoon salt
172 teaspoons nutmeg
3/4 cup cottage cheese
3 eggs.
3/4 teaspoon vanilla or lemon
flavouring
.6 individual unbaked pastry
shells
Method: Scald milk. Combine
sugar, salt and nutmeg. Press cot-
tage cheese through a sieve. Beat
eggs and combine all ingredients,
beating until smooth. Pour into un -
baked pastry shells. Bake in a hot
oven (425 degrees F,) 10 minutes.
Reduce temperature to moderate
(350 degrees F.) and bake for about
25 minutes, or until silver • knife
inserted. into pie comes out clean.
When cool, top with rhubarb sauce.
If you prefer, -instead of making
the six .individual tarts, you can
use the above recipe for one 9-
ineb pie.
RHUBARB SAUCE
11/4 cups`rhubarb, cut into
1 -inch pieces
1/4 cup water
;'a cup' sugar
2 tablespoons tapioca
11/4 teaspoons cornstarch
2 cups pineapple juice
3' cup diced canned pineapple
Method: Cook rhubarb in! water
until tender. about 25 minutes. Itiit
sugar, tapioca and cornstarch to-
gether. Add pineapple juice and
cook until thickened, stirring occa-
sionally. T11 desired, colour with a
few chops of red food colouring.
Add cooked rhubarb and pine-
apple,- Chill rhubarb sauce before
spooning on 'Q tarts.
RHUBARB -DATE PUDDING
2 cups diced rhubarb
1 cup chopped dates
?q. cuts water
r.w cup sugar
1 crin soft bread crumbs
1 taar'loon butter
\Vhtnped cream or
rnarc'il-nellew halves
Method: Cook rhubarb and date
in water 5 to 8 minutes. Add sugar,
soft bread crumbs and butter. Bake
in a buttered 1 -quart baiting dish
in a Moderate oven (350 degrees F.)
about 15 Minute., If desired, this
dessert may be baked with marsh-
mallow halves on top of pudding.
Or top each serving with sweetenecl
whipped cream. Makes 6 servings.
SCALLOPED 'ASPARAGUS
AND SALMON
is cup bread crumbs
2 tablespoons butter
1 7 -ounce can salmon
1 cup uncooked diced
asparagus
cup grated sharp cheese
cup milk
teaspoon salt
teaspoon pepper
teaspoon paprika
1 10 -ounce can condensed
asparagus soup
Method: Brown bread crumbs in
butter. A1:eruate layers of salmon,
asparagus and bread crumbs in a
buttered 1 -quart casserole', i'eserv•
illg eno,igh crumbs for top of Cas•
serole. Sprinkle IN ith cheese. Add
Mill. and scrn muga to the soup
and pour otcr• mixture. Top with
telnaining i'rumbs. Bake in a mo-
derate 0t 00 (300 degrees 11,l 30
minutes. 3 -takes 4 to 6 servings.
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MEET THE
PRESS
QUEEN
Pretty Jane
Wurster steps
through a
passel of
newspapers
after being
named queen
of New York's
press
photographers.
Jane was
picked by a
crew of shutter
clickers, who
recognize
feminine
pulchritude
when they
dt-aw bead
on it.
M.odel•p Etiquette
By Roberta Les
Q. • When a man takes a girl to
the movies, should she go with him
to the ticket window to buy the
tickets, or walk on into the theatre?
A. If there is not much of a line,
she can walk ahead very slowly
while he buys the tickets, and they
enter together. But when there is a
very long line, she should stand
beside him and keep hien company
until he gets close to the window.
Then she goes on ahead and waits
for him until he joins her.
Q. When you are not sure
whether.a man and a girl have been
introduced, is it all right to say,
"Mr. Gibson, have you met Miss
Carter?"
A. Yes; this gives the honor to
the girl, and is better than asking
Miss Carter if she has islet .der.
Gibson.. What hat is the preferred kind of
mourning stationery now used?
A. Plain white stationery. '.flee
black -bordered paper is not used as
much now as formerly.
Q. If a small paper cup of apple-
sauce is served on one's dinner plate
and it is too small to eat from with
a fork or spoon, is it all right to
empty the contents into the dinner
plate?
A. Yes, 'nun the cup CVO' and
use your fork to empty it. 'f'iten
put the empty cup on the dinner
plate to one side,. out of vuur rva}.
Q. When cutting the wedding
calve is the bride supposed to take
care of this chore?
A. The bride cut; only the lirs:
piece. Then each guest can cut
his owls slice, or some friend can
be asked to do this, ora maid can
crit it.:
Q. Is "Dear Sirs" proper as a sal-
utation of a business letter?
A. No. "Gentlemen" is the pre-
ferred form,
Q. Should a bride wear her en-
gagement ring on the third finger
of her left hand at her wedding?
A. No, Inasmuch as the engage-
ment ring is worn over tile wedding
ring, she should either leave iter
engagement ring at horde or wear
it 011 her right handl, trausferriug
it -later to the proper finger on her
left hand.
Q. How should a divorcee sign
her name so that she will not be
WAKE UP YOUR
LIVER BILE
Without Cutomet—Aad You'll Juno, Out ed
Sod in the Morning Muir? to Go
bila lju aver pito your dig. Out
treat plate dsY.
Cf th3+l bile in not 8,owiatg lraely your Fpod msy
not dip t. It tatty duet deme In the dtgoeltve
mot. floes ito Matte up your stroneett. You
get aonetipste4, You feel sour, 4114Ult and the
world looks punk.
It takes thoee mild, gentle Garter'e Little
Liver Mlle to get them 11 Otis* of bile Ito+S'.
leg freely to nuke you F el "ttp and a1l,'i
Got, a peekage tode , Eefeotive in tneking
bile Bow freely. ere Ivor Carter'o Little TAWS'
Pills, 354 telt r►utq ltetors,
mistaken for the second Mrs.
Charles Wilson?
A, By prefixing leer maiden name
to her former husband's surname,
as: "Mrs. Joyce Gordon Wilson."
Q. What would be a good menu
for a formal luncheon?
A. Fruit or soup, entree of meat
or fowl. salad, vegetable and des-
sert. •
Q. If a girl who is going to be
married does not have a father
or a brother to give her away,
whom can she choose to perform
this rite? '
A. If she has no other close male
relatives, then she may choose- a
close male friend of the fancily.
"This car is absolutely the last
word, sir."
"Well, that should suit my wife.
If there's anyth;ng she loves, it's
the last word."
New And 11a
Too
Better Mouse Trap,
Made of aluminum, new' box -like
mousetrap is said to be a safe
C adget to have around the *louse
no fear of babies or pets getting
caught in it instead of the nice
And for a squeamish housewife the
trapped rodents can he disposed erg
without handling.
"Tee Vee" Bulb
Your lights can be left on while
you view your television set if yOr
use new light bulbs with special
ceramic coating, which acts as a
filter to give low -glare light, said
to be colour -corrected. Filtering
said to remove most of the un-
necessary antra -violet and infra -red
rays which cause eye strain, ,
✓ 1'
Car Hanger
itiniger for car window holds
several garments. Special construc-
tion of hanger takes weight from
window: load is carried by door-
frame. Slots in gadget hold hangers.
Golf Novelty
Golfer can have a two -ill -one
gadget to lessen his paraphernalia.
To he attached to golf bag or caddy
cart and operating on a tension
principle, unit has holders for score
card, pencil and tees.
Portable Sprayer
Electric sprayer works accurately
in spraying lacquer, enamel, paint,
insecticides and mothproofing solu-
tions. Can be used for painting
autos, farm equipment, screens,
wicker, etc., and said ,to be valu-
able to dry-cleaners, laundries hat-
ters and furriers. A motor -driven
compressor -type unit, sprayer re-
quires no skill to operate.
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Easy Door Hanging
A new type of hinge is now on
the market said to make door hang-
ing a simplified operation. Coming
in steel, brass and bronze hinge
is simply screwed to door frame,
and is self -aligning and self -gap-
ping. needing no recess.
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Keeps Out Cold
A three part unit attached to
car engine keeps engine warm even
in sub -zero temperatures, claims
matter. Main unit clamped onto the
engine head automatically starts
the engine as temperature falls;
motor runs until normal tempera-
ture is gained, then shuts off, Spe-
cial,.dashboard knob is red when
unit is operating, Operating only
when gears are in neutral, third
part of unit is control switch on
steering post eliminating danger of
operation when gears are meshed.
inners Home
Skin Pemedy
This clean slalnl ss antisepticknonn an
over Canada as Moone's Emerald Oil, is
such a fine healing; agent that .Eczema,
Barber's Itch, Salt Rheum, Itching Toes
and roet, and other Inflammatory skin
eruptions are often relieved in afew dam
Mono's Emerald Oil is pleasant to use
and it is so antiseptic and penetrating
that many old stubborn cases of Ions
standing have yielded to its influence
Plume's Emerald OII is sold by drug-
gists everywhere to help rid you of stub-
born pimples and unsightly stein troubles
—satisfaction or money back,
A fiyepounci package makes gallon of paint ready
to use —• enough for an average room. Dries odourless
in less than 1 hour. Easy to mix and apply. Cleansabie
finish after 30 days.
Ask your ,painf dealer for your colour card.
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