Evening journal., 1892-08-24
Intnrrlew mlth a peslrner.

lstered furniture ana all expensive mil
cry adornments New York Post.
Interview with a Designer.
One Of the successful dress designers of
e city is a woman not yet thirty. She
IS telling me some days ago how her
,rk is done. She supplies a largo num-
+ Of the fashion sketches issued with the
shion sheet Of big pattern house, and
e earns siXty-tive dollars a week at her
lde. ut is something she began, that
" few women and not half dozen
IN can do. There are the ladies' tailors
course, but they repeat themselves in
ientially the same designs. Outside of
lor work, practically all the new dress
signs gotten up in the city are from
etches made by women. 1t is very sell
in that n man tries his hand at it who
les not fail! For me, l often walk the
Teets till get my idea. In an hour on
oadway or Fifth avenue l catch a hint
Im the draping OF skirt that suggests
nething to me, OF see a combination of
|ors OF a novel use Of some fabrics that
5 my mind working in a new direction.
fThen go home aud make a wash draw
&. II may not embody anything have
IN, or IL may take hints from twenty diff
|ent costumes. To be fit for use. as a
ttern supplement it must be original, it
llst be up with the times, but not too
/ ahead of prevailing ideas, and it must
practical; that is. it must be such that
ordinary dressmaker or a woman with
mack for cutting her own gowns can
produce it without too much trouble.
Il am sure am on the right track, and
Int to be certain Of turning out some
ing especially clever, ! get the material
such dress as l am thinking of and
u a girl Of good figure to try it upon. l
Ind her up in the middle Of the floor,
ID stick in pins and pull out pins, and
\ this effect and that effect and some
her effect for maybe three hours at a
|ne. It's tiresome work, but | always
repaid if it ends by being love Of a
|wn.
fSometimes it won't come to suit me, and
len lay awake half the night and plan
Nv | win compel it to be the CONNECTION l
Int in the morning When l get it
'etch it and color it and write directions
i cutting the pattern for it without a
'nute's delay. "-New York Advertiser
o Question Of Pin Money on Farm.
4 never have five cents even for post
G stamps without asking for it." The
baker was a young wife, who in her girl
.od earned regular wages as seamstress,
Ia when married found her financial
|sition changed Eben held the purse
ings and made plenty of money. But
W machinery was often needed; improve
,nts must be made; hired hands cost Il
cd deal, and so no allowance was
ought OF for the wife, who had the posi-
N of nurse, seamstress, housemaid,
3D.
4 always have a lump in my throat
zen ask for a dollar" she said, land
ED to so to his pocketbook for spare
ange, for at the marriage service he said,
18th a my worldly goods l thee endow.'
1t when little Tom began to steal PEN
IS because he wanted something and
hid not get it I began to wonder if
Ia done wrong and the sin was visited
+ him"
Il was a sad contrast, this little mothers
ider conscience, with world Of trickery
q knavery.
Nowhere is this lack of pocket money
{ so much as among farmers wives and
lighters Many of them go from posi-
ms in the city, teachers, typewriters,
eswomcn, with "A regular salary-a good
Ok can earn her fourteen dollars a month.
C may marry II young farmer, and with
her life before herdecide to be his help
ite and money saver. How they work
d struggle to pay OF the farm, to get
q necessary Improvements madel But
len the fight is partly over, sometimes the
lung wife has feeling Of envy on Satur
nights. when her husband pays the
ands" who have worked for him, aud
5 not a dollar for her, for she knows
|at they have been fed while she has
rved; that they have slept while she lost
urs Of slumber with the precious bab'
arms. and that they can buy clothes that
G would feel it cxtrayagant to wear
ontreal Witness.