Show women in george I 1 time A manuscript diary of a middle class family belonging to the time of george I 1 shows anything but a stay at home life the ladies were always going about bat they staid at home in the evenings there was a very good reason why the women should stay at home the streets were infested with prowling thieves and with dangerous bullies no woman could go out after darkin dark in the city without an armed escort mort of her fat fathers bers apprentices or his men servants the occupations of a yo young ung lady not a lady of the highest fashion of this time are given by a contemporary writer he ile says that she makes tippets works handkerchiefs in catgut collects shells makes grottoes copies music paints cuts out figures and landA landscapes capes and makes screens screen she dances a minuet or cotillon and she can play ombre quadrille and pope joan these are frivolous accomplishments but the writer says bays nothing of the mornings work the distilli distilling 9 of creams the con of cakes and puddings n nud and sauces the needlework and all the useful things they did not always stay at home in the summer they sometimes went hall where the girls enjoyed the sight of the wicked world as much as they liked the singing and supper and the punch that followed walter besant in harpers Ilar pers |