The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-14
"And when you fell down and when
your tooth achadp,f

ven, wan "a oapy TO play with,
but / don't want Elsie," and Susie
Gage walked out of the room with the
doll Elsie had broken and the picture
book she had torn. In half an hour
she came back to the sitting room.
"Is Elsie in the crib?" she asked.
Come and sec," her mother said,
smiling.
Susie broke into a great cry when
she saw q strange baby lying there in
her little sisters place.
"Oh, mamma, where is Elsiepa she
exclaimed.
'.Ihis is a nice little boy her moth
er said. HE is well, and he doesn't
cry very often, and-"
~ want Elsie, mamma. Where is
Elsie3 You haven't given her away,
have youPa and Susie cried harder
than she had done for a month.
Mrs. 0'Hara brought the clean
clothes a while ago." Mrs. Gage said,
.'and 1 asked her to give me her little
boy. Don't you like himpn
.'Oh, no l don't" sobbed Susie,
with her head in her mothers lap. ..If
you'll only get Elsie back again L
won't strike her when she cries ar pull
my playthings away from her, Or
anything
Just then Mrs. O'Hara came back
from her errand in the next block.
You car take Teddie home with
yon,' Mrs. Gage said. Susie finds
that she likes her Little sister best after
all, il she is troublesome sometimes,
Mrs. Gage then went up stairs and
brought the baby down. When Susie
saw her She danced with joy, though
Elsie was crying again, and Teddie
was as still as a mouse.
like her forty times the best"
she said over and over again, ..be.
cause she is my only little sister; Ted
dy isn't. Don't you ever give her
away. mamma, if she cries forty times
harder" and mamma never did.
To the Girls.
A a recent wedding in a southern
city, among the beautiful gifts lay a
dozen exquisitely fine handkerchiefs,
embroidered with vines and flowers
with marvellous skill. They were the
work of the grandmother Of the bride,
aged eighty. Probably not one of the
young and middle aged women in the
crowded rooms could have copied a
single intricate stitch of this delicate
embroidery.
Our girls nowadays do not realize
what a load of work the sewing ma
chine has taken out Of their hands.
Sewing is almost a lost industry, be-
longing 10 the last generation. Forty
years ago, in families of moderate
means, the whole sewing of the house,
hold, from the fine stitched" shirts
to the boys trousers was done al
home. Every odd corner of time was
filled up with this enormous, never
ending, still-standing task. 1t was
made harder by the natural ambition
of women to elevate it into a finer art.
Miss Edgeworth's rule was obeyed in
most families: Little girls from six
to eight should be taught to make
perfect miniature shirts with crimson
silk thread. SO that any defect in the
sewing may be detected"
Mrs. Dolly Madison brought to her
new home as q bride. among other
plenishing, six dozen of each kind of
underwear. trimmed with hemstitch-
ing and satin-work of her own max
ing" Every young girl of gentle
birth had her store q fine, delicate lin
gerie laid away which had cost her
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much modest PRIDE. We do not find
stitch and open-work made her less fit
to rule the stately Republican court
OF her day, or to influence her husband
in his peculiar political opinions.
Now, the sewing machine has ban
ished the needle. Embroidered gar
ments from Swiss chalets or French
converts can be bought by our girls
whose means are limited. for less than
the material would have cost their
mothers. All this huge burden of ac-
tual work is Lifted out of their hands
and the time then gwen to it is left
vacant.
/ What do they do with it? It is the
habit Of the present generation Of wo-
men to sneer at the mechanical en-
ployment of the last. But let each
girl answer what employment she has
taken up instead. Are gossip, the
reading flash literature and passionate
tlirtations more intellectual or higher
OCCUPATIONS than skirt making or lace
work? Are they a better preparation
for her life as wife and motherp
1t is not of the opportunities which
we should boast, but of the use we
make Of them.
ABoy.s story.
/ will read for the benefit of the lit
tie folks a story written by a little
eight year old friend of mine, Carl &.
He comes into my Office frequently
and we have the ~jollicst visits togeth-
Ell. But n day last week he came in
when1 was too busy to visit. Hastily
mrch wo,it for anv t,n ta'd.a p d.
snnnos;no Won cit down ~ tho ~
wr,ter and write mo q storr sspo