Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-06-16

vided for them during the Franco

German war of 1870.
Miss Emily Crawford tells MS how
Sir Isaac killed and buried the
"flounced petticdat," which for long
had been the pride of the Paris laun-
dress. The cotton famine which fol-
lowed our war OF 1876 gave a great
stimulus to the wool trade. Muslin
dresses almost died out in France, but
the particular petticoat. so richly
founced, long detied all opposition. but
in time was doomed to entire extinc-
ton. 1t had be en- work of art to
bleach starch and iron the garment,
with its multitufes of small founces,
and 1t cost from ten to fifteen shillings
to get one up When ironed, the
petticoat was carried home suspended
from pole, and in streets where there
were many laundresses there were dali
ly petticoat professions. Sir Isaac be-
heved that the cotton garment could be
replaced by light mohair. He plotted
for that result. The day of the fiounc-
ed petticoat was gone forever. The
Holden factories grew apace under the
increased demand for the new and very
fashionable fabric.
Mr.. Holden entered parliament in
1865, and retired from public life in
1892. He attributed his vigorous old
age to regularity and temperance In
living. After 1922 he made it a rule
to take ten hours sleep out of the
twenty-four. On one occasion, in 1898,
he said: 81 TAX for my breakfast at
present one baked apple, one orange,
twenty grapes, and biscuit made from
banana flour. My midday meal con-
slsts or about three ounces of beef or
mutton, with nc wv and again a half
cupful OF soup. IL / take little fish,
take SO much less of meat. For sup
per | practically repeat my breakfast
menu. After the system has been
pullt up, and the period of manhood has
Deen reached, a. starch foods should
De Danlshed from the human diet"
mus thls hardWorking man, who in
early years had feeble health, could
look back on a n inetieth birthday! He
was habitually cheerful, and in his
nome lie he wa singularly happy.
The baronetcy, which the father won
by his distinguished public services
now passes to his eldest son, Mr.. Angus
holden, M. F., VI no was born in 1880.
olr isaac was for many years local
or lay preacher in the British Wesleyan
church. lie was strongly opposed to
llturglcal worship, yet used often to
say that II he We're minister he would
prepare his prayers as carefully as he
would his sermons.
AS an employer he was exact and
JUST out very Kind, generous, and SYM
palmetto with all his work-people. OF
MS factories at rheims and Croix he
was PROUD 10 De able to say that of the
hhsllsh population there three-fourths
were children WI hose fathers had been
IN MS employment, most of them more
IMAM tnlrty years His own valet had,
at the time of his death, served Sir
Isaac twenty-three years, and said that
he had never, in all that time NOTICED
a shade of ill-hu1nor on the masters"
lace, or heard an impatient word cross
his lips.
thousands OF workmen stood bare
headed in the Ian es as his funeral cor
tege passed by, and many a tear fell
as the remains OF this eminent master
of industry were laid to rest in the fam
lily tomb. A friend of Sir Isaac one
who knew him well. has said. "Ha
was not man spoiled by success.
W men honors poured In upon him, and
high positions b cam. his and the
queen selected him for his knighthood,
ana ne attained European fame, he was
the same gentle, modest, sympathetic
man as ne was seventy years ago.
Bishop John f. Hurst in Harnar,s :.
Weekly.