The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-27
A SEWING SCHOOL.
What q Little Girl Saw at the Exhibl-
ton.

What Little Girl Saw at the Erhibi-
4 tion.
I s'pose NEST all the little girls in
New York city who belong to any Of
the sewing schools saw the exhibition
held at the American Art galleries not
long ago.
The little girls in our school were so
delighted that they never stop talking to
each other about it.
So 1 thought that those living outside
of New York might like to hear about
what / saw there.
/ am sure some of them wanted to
come, for their work was there.
went with my teacher, Miss Lar
kim on a Thursday afternoon.
First we went into the room that
held the work from the public schools
of New York city, Philadelphia, Wash
ington, Baltimore and New Haven.
The little samples of stitches knew
well and had seen so many of them l
did not stop to look at them very much,
but the dolls dresses, cunning little
shirt waists and lovely embroidered
doilies and mats made me wild to get
into the grades where they were made.
The night schools made the beautiful
"grown up" waists and suits and dain.
ty underclothing and the hats and bon
nets.
There was one funny looking bonnet
from Philadelphia made of drab silk,
without a ribbon or flower on it, that
my teacher said was worn by some re-
ligious people called Quakers.
There were so many dresses and suits
from Philadelphia and Washington that
the forms they were hung upon took up
one whole side of the room and looked
SO much like people ste lding there that
l heard one girl say, Excuse me-"
very politely, as she passed in front of
one I'll bet she felt green when she
saw it WASH real lady.
There was also child's dress, made
by little Italian girl in Philadelphia,
which 1 heard the lady in charge tell
some other ladies about. "Yes," she
said, "the child was only 5 years old
when she began it, and she sewed so
well that they let her go way beyond
her grade and finish it for the exhibit
ton. ~
Some one listing their school one
day said tc the child "You did not
make that g. s alone. Your mother
must have hCi ID you. "Me mudder!"
she quickly rotorted. II teached me
mudder to sew
On the second floor was the work
from the mission schools, and there was
where l found my own, a little table
cloth and six napkins made with the
French hem, and didn't they look nice
and sweet ON a littletable laid ready
for dinneri Miss Larliin said she was
proud of them too.
l almost felt like crying when we
came to the work the blind girls did.
Some OF it was much better done than |
some of the girls in our school can do.
They do not seem 10 care and they can
see perfectly we'll too. 1 wondered if |
they would not feel ashamed if they |
should see this sewing.
saw three beautiful flags, one made |
with red and white ribbon sewed to- |
gether for the stripes and the stars en-
school.
There was a card on it which said |
that it was facsimile Chat means just |
like, Miss Larkin explained) of one sent
to President and Mrs. Mckinley at the
White House, made by those same girls
in that school.
On the third floor were the cases filled |
with the work from Japan China, Eng
land and Sweden and other foreign
countries.
Miss Patterson showed the large book
If French and Russian work all through
20 us and told us how the children there
would draw designs and then copy them
N silk or lace stitches or whatever they
we're made for.
Oh, it was all so like fairyland
Gould not speak, but only hold my
breath and look as hard as l could!
Before we came home we went to the
,ase which held the old colonial work
which was loaned to the exhibition and
oobed at the old laces and embroideries
md maps outlined in silk and the cush-
Oh made by Mary Washington.
l think like the new kinds Of work
he best, though of course these are nice
% keep.
Well, 1 am going to try my hand to
make something nicer to show at the
lext exhibition. KATE CLEMENS.
When ha Earfv,