Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-09

new design for a hat tina. comes to her.
but how shall she offer it to the world !?
What grande dame will give an order to
the poor little worker IN back street !?
Without money, without great name
among fashionabls folk, without custom
ers for such fine things, what can she do?
This she can do-she can sell her artistic
dreams to some one who is able to intro
duce them as styles.
Forthwith she sets out to call upon
Nine. -, we will say, whose reputation
is, as you know, wonderful. The I'M
known artist explains her ideas to the
famous modiste. perhaps, she shows some
little model of her design, eontrived with
the poor bits she could muster. "A good
idea, muses. madame. How beautiful
that would look on the Princess, and in
golden crepe how like a dream would any
blonde appear Oh. yes; that is good
idea. Malane accepts the design,
chooses the material of which it shall be
made, the color, etc. and gives her order
for the Costume, or whatever it may be.
when II is made it is brought to Nine
IS establishment. where it is displayed
as one of her OWE creations. The real
artist is paid perhaps three times the value
of the making, and must be content with
that. Tie house that brings it out will
probably send a copy Of the design to every
other store of consequence IN the world,
and may make fortune out Of this one
style.
Women rave over Worth's dresses as
if all that comes from his place was better
than anything else They pay extrava-
giant prices for his ideas, but what they
often get is the creation Of some unknown
artist whom they would never consent
to notice. As for Worth
himself, he has hardly been
inside his establishment for fifteen years.
This | know to be a fact. for | am we'll
acquainted with all of those artists and
know just how they manage these things.
Plngat, | may say, is an exception to the
rule. He works hard, and is himself
practical designer.
The Icelanders in North Dakota.
A traveller in North Dakota writes thus
of the 3celanders of Pembina and Cavalier
counties: Il spent part of last week and
Sunday among the icelanders of Pembina
and Cavalier counties These Icelanders
are an interesting people. There are
over two thousand Of thea in Pembina
coslnty and more are coming all the time.
They seem to be very thrifty people.
They do not make the mistake, SO common
TO North Dakota farmers, of depending on
wheat alone. They raise considerable
oats, barley and hemp They are very
fond of live stock and give considerable
attention to cattle and sheep raising
They are like the Germans in many re-
spects. They fear debt and interest, They
make an old machine do, if at all possible
before they allow themselves to be talked
into new one, They also take care Of
their machinery. | didn't see a single
one rotting away in the open air; all have
sheds of straw, is nothing else, to protect
their implements. They know the value
of little helps. Every family has a good
kitchen garden They have their hogs
and poultry of all kinds
They have come to North Dakota to stay
and are going to play>no small part In tht
Development CT oursnew state. They al
have a good education, are jealous pat
rons OF our public schools, take kin3l J tc
our free institutions, and Aneericanizt
rapidly. Their small bleak fatherland il
known and noted for its intelligence ant
moral culture. There is not a prison OF
their native island. The school house ami
church stand side'oy side