Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-01-04


would be welcome TueSts at any station. and by
Thinning the kangar00s and rabbits. the wal
labies and wild horses. would confer no small
benefit upon distant community.
Mrs. Jane Grey Swi>,helm's Last
Effort.
From the Boston Herald.
have protested so long and with so little re-
suit against false standards of taste writes Mrs
Swlssheim, that it occurred to me- years ago.
to try to do something toward furnishing true
one; SO. last spring. when / learned that nv
only child would want wedding dress, the time
had come. l went back to Swissville alone and
took rooms with our tenant German farmer
Knowing that there | could live with nature
tree from suggestions or dictations of NAL
formed tastes; and there evolved that we'd
dihg dress amid the giant trees had planted
and the lullaby of waters to whose music | had
slept every night for years l worked the dress
SKIRT in two separate pieces in quilting frame
Joining them and uniting the design after TAX
ing 1t out: 1t is of cream-white silk on lining
OF LaWnsdaie muslin with wool waddnu and
combines the effects Of quilting and embroidery
had no settled design OF pattern when began,
but gradually thought out and put in such
things as occurred to me.
Around the bottom are five water lilies on their
pads or green leaves and Of such size that each
lily, with its leaves, covers breadth of silk of
about twelve inches. This part of the design |
TOOK from picture On memory's wall hung
there in 81, during visit to Eagie-N Nest Lakes.
IN aherburne County, MINI. la an old Ha,p9's
Mo'ehaty | found among the Illustrations of
Spring a picture, about three inches square.
OF stalk of swamp mallow ana one of Z" Pussy
cat willow" / had never seen either growing
but friend had told me of their size and ap-
pearaDce. Above the lilies and as il growing
up from behind them. made stalks of these
appropriate plants. running them quite up to
the waist. representing the mallows by thorn
work. the willow heads by satin stitch. the
stalks by thorns. / made a row of tiger lilies
up the front. graduating in size; then filled
up with tent-lily leaves, grasses OAK leaves
acOfnS. roses, asterS. tulips, morning gio-
res. and other beautiful things growing
around me. would go out. select something.
put 1t in a good light, and proceed to take its
portrait with needle and thread sorry to have
broken my model from its stem and wishing
might replace it, for / do not use cut flowers.
prefer they should die at home. The embroid-
cry can be done in any color. or in many colors.
and the doing educateS and develops both brain
and hand power. In this initial dress the work
is all in the same shade of the material, and
mostly done with Cutters knitting silk. /"
because The gloss is finer than that of emprcid-
erlng silk, and on a dress to be worn but a few
times 1t will not pay. The great difficulty TO q
beginner working on white material is tracing
which most people would require but aDy mcneil
mark will soil the thread. Even white cravon
or chalk duils it, and gives cottony appear-
ordinary quilting stitches-and utilize these as
foundation for surface work used nearly
eleven ounce SpOOls of the heavy silk and t;x0
OF sewing silk, with which made ft,zz on mai
low and timothy heads, and beard on wheat.
A woman need not degenerate inteIIectnau,
while engaged in this kind of work. for while
l worked in my thirteen spOols of silk thread
by thread, and watchedmy lilies grow under nv
hand, worked out the problem Of the marriage
OF JUDAISM and Christianity by that naughty old
fiSf Sal1 of
on the subject. wrote it at intervals Delivered
1t. and stirred up that old hornets nest of ORTIZ
odOXy to send out its host of buZzers and stjnn-
ers; defended my position in weekly letters nm
til they stopped buzzing and singing. aud had
plenty of sense to make nv own coffee and Init
a pair of long silk stockings. besides wrifinsr to
the surgeons about letting President Garfield
die while they were attitudinizing before the
pubic: Moreover, had time to hope for the
gay when the world will no longer rob the
kitcheh. laundry. potato patch, and cornfieId of
their appropriate labor in order to SUNNY It's da.
mands Tor lnantua making monstrositjes The
dressmaking in this case did not do. conla not
have done. This IS the work OF orr American
worth, Mrs. Moore OF Pittsburg, whose photos
are constantly mistaken for those of That am
press OF TASTE Eugene, and who shonlh have
brought her genius to Chicago MANY wears ago
10 the embroidered dress she added a court
train, and sleeves of heavy plain satin of the
shaue OF the dress, and minus trimming. save
~; &C., lsoe aioel'u tue neck ana wrists. For the
mar there was one small water lily with birds
ana White ostrich plume. We gave the con-
yentional orange blossom vacation to visit Jeff
Davis, having concluded that flower which can
bear no frost is not fitted emblem of welded
love; Better adopt the floral glory of our
henoat s ce wneh sends its roots deep down
loneliness from poisonous miasmas. and sittin~
securely on troubled waters rides out the storm
looking up to heaven smiling in the face of dan,
ger. lovely amid unsightly surroundings. An
osaTlcn pune speaks of that instinct which
coming catastrophe it can no longer conceal,