Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-09-19
Wanted---A Tailor.

| want to ask any woman who Is the mo-
ther of boys, if, without having had tho
rough education in the ''gusset, seam and
band" business, button-hole and busheling,
and graduating with honors at Mons. Cover
all : establishment, she ever attempted to
make pair of pants? Simple enough, any
one would think two straight bags open at
each end, and few buttons here and there.
To be sure, the pockets look little intricate,
and the facings somewhat bcwildering. How
professionals, cross-legged, manage to sew
them with the seams visible on neither side.
and the stitches bind-nailed, as carpenters
say, is a mystery.
But don't know that it is actually neces-
sary to boys digestion of his dinner, or
his powers of locomotion, to have everything
Ia Coverall
IN Just overcast them said |. with
enthusiasm, as unroled the bundle Just
from Coverall 's-cut but not made
I'VE really could not finish them in less
than two weeks, marm, so many orders in. =
said the polite clerk.
So, as Fred and were going into the coun-
try in two days. and he was reduced to an
almost primitive condition, somebody must
make pants. \ disagreeable prospect, but
anybody that can get upa woman's dress Of
the present day, futted, plated, frilled and
panniered, ought not to be staggered by 4
pair Of boy pants \ pleasant vision Of
my husbands look of approval, and remark
TO his friends
My wife can do anything" floated be-
tween me and the bundle, 20 | unrolled it.
Would that never had never, never
will do 50 again, no, never. Straight bags,
did | say? No. astonishing, curved things,
twice as wide in the back of the legs as in
the front, and sealopped out at the bottom
Ike a tunnel. Are not a boys knees the
parts that require the most freedom ofmoye-
ment? Yet there Is the very least cloth of
all. Was there ever such goose as tai
lor-'s2
Then my eve wandered upwarl-three
and half inches for the stomach believe
they call it stomach-why, what Is to hold
all the dinner that Fred eats? Well, III
make them, and, ike Puck, put girdle
about them in forty minutes. Then Mr.. Co
yerall. with the five dollars in my pocket
instead of yours. | will snap my fingers at
you and be off to the country.
50 applied the ornaments, and stitched
the seams Il have Il prejudice against ma
chine sewing) all by hand. and-arriyed at
the focus where all the seams meet. But
then ran against an angle, an angle Of for
ty-fye degrees. horrible acute angle-who
ever heard of such a thing in a fish or fowl
and for what possible use can an angle be IN
the seat of boys pants? DO not blush,
reader. but repaired to my bureau and in
teryicwed articles of my own wardrobe, eX-
pccting to use some iudgmcntand make some
allowances. But there were no angles AT all
there. descended to my work again, and
a happy thought struck me. Company be-
ing present, | could not coniide my troubles
to my husband, but insented an erand
across the room. for him 10 20 over and pick
up something. intending to discover for my
self the use of the angle. lie sought ear
ncstlv for the imaginary article. hGt saw mo-
thing unusual, and neither did l. Bat !
felt had made a mistake, the cutter of hls
pants must have beena very economical man.
and made prudent allowance for the boy 10
GROW. or the cloth to shrink; 1t Is PLAIN
these seams must come out and be reserved
inside the angle. and then. il he ever should
grow an inch and half, how very convene
cnt to let them ont again. But remember
ing the usual -hort-liyed existence of Fred
pants, concluded to pare off the angle and
have done with IT, - finished them the
the pockets fitted gaci5usly and after few
innocent mistakes ah1ut those dreadful things
called "nys. and running Bridget bosom
board, and my own placidiy in pressing
them. they were done. and Fred appeared,
wearing the PANTS and ludierous cxpres-
sion also
What gush of motherly pride warmed
nv heart How | Immediately. in imasi-
nation. expended Coycall'> five dollars in
new lace fichue.
Well earned, thought /.
But. mother, can't sit down. ii do
they'll burst. sure | shall be obliged to take
my tea of the mautlcpiece, and really don't
dare to breath very hard.
Oh. that angle then it did mean some
thing. after all Well take them of. and
give them to Tommy Spindlelegs. and before
| make another pair, will learn the basi-
ness. or study geometry, and find out bow
acute and obtuSe angles resolve themselves
into curves iady'S t,tier NTH HomaH'S
Joirnai