The Employments of Women: A Cyclopædia of Woman's WorkPenny, Virginia
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The Employments of Women: A Cyclopædia of Woman's Work
Penny, Virginia
Women -- Employment
=31. Teachers of Fancy Work.= The accomplishments of women are useful in
their times and places. Music and drawing are elegant accomplishments,
the earliest as well as the most universal pastimes known. Those
teachers of accomplishments that have acquired a reputation can command
in a city a high price. At Madame D.'s, crochet work and embroidery are
taught at 25 cents a lesson of one hour. Misses H., Philadelphia, give
five lessons in leather work for $6, and charge, for giving instruction
in wax fruit and flowers, paper and rice paper flowers, &c., $1 a
lesson; in embroidery in silk, gold bullion, &c., $15 for twenty
lessons--the same for hair flowers and bead work; for the arrangement of
shells with mosses and grasses, $1 a lesson. Madame N., who teaches
crochet work and fancy knitting, charges 50 cents an hour. One stitch
can be learned by a quick person in an hour. She thinks there is plenty
of that kind of work to supply all and even more hands than are so
occupied. She employs a number, and pays by the piece. They work at
home, and can earn from $3 to $4 a week.
=32. Teachers of Horsemanship.= The prices of the riding school, New
York, attended by the most aristocratic classes, are: 16 lessons, $20;
10 lessons, $15; 5 lessons, $8; single lessons, $2; road lesson, one
pupil, $5; two or more pupils, each $3. For exercise riding, single
ride, one hour, $1.50; single ride, half hour, $1. After taking 16 or
more lessons, the prices are somewhat reduced. At another riding school
in New York, the terms are: 20 lessons for gentlemen, $25; 20 lessons
for ladies, $20; 10 lessons for gentlemen, $15; 10 lessons for ladies,
$12; single lessons, $2. The rules are very good, and laid down in the
circulars. At another riding school in New York the prices are: $20 for
20 lessons, $12 for 10 lessons, $7 for 5 lessons; single lessons, $1.50;
road lessons, one person, $5; road lessons, three or more, each $3; 20
exercise rides for $15; evening rides for $1; road rides, 10 for $8;
single, $1; road ride to a lady, $2.50. The regulations are very good.
The expenses for keeping up a riding school are considerable; so it may
not prove as profitable as the prices would seem to indicate.
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