Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1883-07-13


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A little practice would soon enable
the mender to fix on a price that would
be satisfactory, and she could keep on
hand a small stock of material for mend
ing and save her customers time and
money; new bosoms in shirts, new
sleeves in garments, children's gar
ments kept in order and broadcloth
daned. Our young men have a system
of invisible patches established by the
mother of invention, and succeed or
with Spaldings's glue, which is very risky
to say the least, No young man in a
hundred dares to sneeze. He knows il
he did he would share the fate Of the
deacon's one-horse shay-he would fly
to pieces
"All at once and nothing first,
Just as bubbles do when they burst
These members would find larger jobs
coming in after their skill was known
merchants would send them shop-work;
sail-makers and the manufacturers OF
awnings need repairers constantly; ear
pet-mending is an art of itself and pays
WE'LL table-cloths and napkins are al.
ways in need Of oYerhauling; pillows
and bed-ticks furnish an ample field
But return we to our sheep, as the
French say-that is, to the young men
who wear stockings darned by them
selves, and by nobody else-sewed up
into islands and isthmuses of shipwreck,
over which they limp painfully TO their
duties. Now a good darner, one who
takes up all the threads in a fine lace
work stitch and leaves no rough edges
such a woman would, indeed, be
worth her weight in gold to a long suf-
fering community. She would "knit
up the raveled sleeve Of caren with
tender hands Our young men would
no longer be compelled to do a daily
penance almost equal to wearing dried
pease in their shoes-drawing on their
iooih-pick patent feathers over hcelless
and tocless stockings. There was an
eccentric old gentleman once who used
70 brag that be had worn one pair Of
stockings for twenty-five years. Said
he. Al soon ~ the feet wore out my
wife knit new feet oihe legs. and when
the legs wore ont she knit new legs to
the feel" " This preseryative quality is
very much needed in the economy Of
homeless people. But there are no
doubt many who win agree with the
woman who never mended a rent be-
causc. she said. "a rent might have
I just happened. but a darn Is premcdi-
iated poverty A clumsy darn or patch
is certainly great trial 70 encounter,
bui the coming professional mender viii
COPY TIE dusky savage of the plains.
who. when ste mends the travellers :
blanket or Buffalo robe. emhroiders The
rent with Der many col0red beads and
makes 81 thaf place the strongest and
most beautiful pari Il The fabric.
On ihe principle that .'small service
g. true service while i lasisf' the mend
er has - good q profession to follow a.
the seamsiress or the watch repairer.
Artistic patdhirg g Just AZ necessary
a. ''artistie fitting The mender win
coniescend 10 p1f q fading o1 q lady 2
dress ~ make = ner pair a sleeves ~
lfss than fhe frsi coa q the dress. and
fht people who art n1w lae5inr soul
end BODY together ufth sraidinr elut
riI e1i1r TIE pleasure of haInr hand
seref n tie nlosf satisiael1fr marner
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