The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-28
OTHER FADs OF THE DAY.

How very seldom one sees a woman
utilizing her time and her wit in max
ing something for another woman. This
does happen though in these days of
knowing how, for it is the fashionable
girl who is not only the adept but the
artist, as far as needlework is con-
cerned. When very young, either her
German or English goyerness taught
her to sew, and as the years have pro-
crossed she grows proud of her ability
not only of welding the needle in the
ordinary way, but in producing wonder
full effects in silks and tinsels, effects
that are really to outlast hers and
many another life. She embroiders, as
did her great-grandmother, in quaint
eross-stitch, a covering for chair. She
works on gorgeous velvets, with gold
and silver thread and gay spangles, the
hangings for a room, for she always I'M
dertakes to do one piece of work that
is to be very fine and which is to be
either in her mothers or her own home
for future generations to admire.
Another fad that has overtaken the
fashionable girl is the selling of her old
gold, and by this | mean all the old
gold mountings, heavy bracelets, big
crude brooches, and inartistic pieces OF
jewelry, that have accumulated within
the last fifty years. OF course the best
jeweler gives her absolute value for the
gold, and then for it she may take either
a modern piece or select some bit of
silver or gold in the way of a toilet
utensil that will last for long time
and stand as a representative of her
economy. The only daughter in an
enormous family, who managed to col
lect many bits of the precious metal,
is more than delighted because in ex-
change for it she got six beautiful gold
thimbles, and these she will offer as
prizes for the daintiest work done in her
sewing class. This work will be, not
embroidery, not cross-stitch or knitting
but exquisite fine sewing done on linen
cambria, and with such a needle as only
a fairy can manipulate. 1t is fine to
know that our girls are approaching the
delights of needle work, and it is good
to know that among our very wealthy
people such industry is encouraged, since
there are no women in the world who
can afford to be ignorant of this strictly
feminine art. Who does not know how
many a sorrow has been lessened while
one set regular stitches, and how many
u JOY HIS Uceu lHtIedSeu as the hopes
grew with each flying visit that the
needle made the cloth?
PLACES FOR PIN MONEY.
One naturally connects needles and
pins for, according to Mother Goose,
through needles and pins the average
trouble in the world is sure to begin.
But, apropos Of pins, it would seem as
If the husband of to-day would be
forced to give his wife absolute pin
money, as he did in the days of Queen
Elizabeth, when pins were sold, not by
the dozen papers, not by the single pa
per, but by the half dozen, and she
thought herself fortunate who possessed
round dozen of good pins, but to-day
to hold up the fancy neck dressing, to
catch the veil in place, to arrange the
lace cravat, there are very small gold
pins, each with tiny gem just at the
top.
or course these are mere chips, but
they are sufficiently good to make a pin
cost from 70 cents to So apiece. For
her who wears much purple there are
pins set with small amethysist; for her
who is devoted to green there are pins
topped off with emeralds, while for her
who loves the pale blue shades there are
pins that have turquoise at the top. The
tiny pearl headed pins have been on
sale for long time, and the imitation
ones so nearly resemble the real that
few women are willing to pay 81 apiece
for the real when the imitation may be
got for 10 cents a dozen. In addition