The morning times., 1895-08-04
Gold Thimbled
Needle w omen
SEWING FAD AMONG RICH
WIVES AND DAUGHTERS.
Fair Hands That Can Sign Big
Checks Are Adept at
Embroidery.

If Queen Victoria has made domestic
virtues a fad, there are several very beau
tiful and very prominent ladies who have
nladethe thimble fashionable. Needlework,
instead of being left to seamstresses, is done
by the nist tres ses, and in place of calling the
needle dun and prosy it is placed with
artistic implements. The bead lily and
the crocheted dog are banished for the
snowy seam and the delicate flax.
Every country house has it's sewing
corner, and every city home has win
dow planned and made beautiful by the
needle'sstrapplngs OF war.
In some of these pretty sewing COR
ners really great things are being accom-
plshed, as they Were in the days when
Betsy Ross was proud to make the flag for
Washington and when Marie Antoinette
boasted OF having made trousers for the
emperor. Industry now may take a more
modern phase, but its results are as re-
markable.
In a lovely country house up the Hud-
son there may be seen any morning now
the Suggest group in the loYeBest sewing
corner ever conceived by man with woman
TO ASST him. 1t lies to the sunwaFd OF the
summer home OF John d. Rockefeller, and
here each morning sits his daughter,
Miss Edith. sewing upon and planning her
trouseau. Hard by loiters her handsome
fiance, Harold Mccormack, while over
books and dress drawings Miss Alta and
Mrs. Rockefeller, mother and sister, Of
Miss Edith, pore for new ideas for the
trouseau which will reflect to their credit
as much as to the girl most interested
MISS ROCKEFELLER' CORNER -
The sewing corner is bong low veranda.
There is a shelf running all around the
windo VS., upon which morning callers may
sit, and where work is piled up in lavish
profusion. wOrkbasket finds 1 Is way
here, and along the entire YeTanda there
are Holland shades for shutting out the sun
In small work-pocket lies gold thimble,
| initiated and dated with the beginning OF
the trOUsseau work and there is a Scissors
with silver handles. and an emery bag,
which is silk stra awberry, with silver
caIyx, and also 4 small spOol-rack Of silver
| Enjoying this ideal morning spot are the
great hounds and the pet kittens, while
above, i'll harmony with all, sings a canary
bird
1t must be confessed that not always
| is the sewing corner devoted tn dOmes-
| tic work, as its name suggests. The
spirit OF athletics enters there at times.
| and then the sewing corner is an object
OF interest 10 the men of the family and
10 tue rest OF the world In the Lakewood
cottage or George Gould there is d very
beautiful sunny window situated in a wing
Of the house, and here it was that the
cOlors were made for the Vigilant before
she left for foreign waters. A professional
flaEmaker attended to the general Cuttin 2
out and shaping. but Mrs. Gould, with her
/ fair fingers, drew many of the stitches
that put the flag together. 1t was with
| her a matter OF sentiment. Just as it was
| sentiment with the St Louis steamship
| people to have Mrs. Cleveland break the
| bottle over their new craft.
Fair hand, fair deed"
Fair set, fair field
| This was the old sa W borne in mind when