The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-08

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and southern materials into basket
OF her own designing. This she offered
to fashionable florist, who took it at
once and paid good price. OF course,
Stella followed up this opening wedge.
and to such an extent that she soon
worked up all the materials. Naturally
when / came east with my employers
last winter every available crack and
crevice of my luggage was filled with
the various grasses used by the Indians
in basket weaving.
Later in season l accompanied the
family to Florida. There / got some
new hints on Discriminating. On our
way north we stopped in ASheville, N.
c., and 1 learned something more So
you see, when 1 returned to New York
and found that Stella had lost her POI
sition as typewriter, her employer hav-
ing gone to the war it was quite natu-
raj for us to think of basket-weaving
as a means of earning money. We
considered the matter seriously. con-
suited several florists and received so
many orders that we decided to turn
our whole time and attention to the
work
OPPORTUNITIES FOR OTHER
WOMEN.
DO 1 think it field which could be
pro1itably work by other women and
certainly do. Why. we have already re-
ceived twice as many orders as we
could fill if we attempted to do all the
work ourselves. A month ago we en-
gagged young woman to assist us. or
course she did not know how to do the
work. but that fault is easily overcome
where one is willing and painstaking.
And as for finding sale for such baS-
kets in other cities besides New York, l
am convinced they will be in demand
wherever flowers or fancy candies are
sold.
'One of the largest orders We have
received is from Washington City. Chi
cago has never heard of such baskets.
1 am sure. neither has Boston or the
dozens of other fashionable centers IN
the country. We are only just begin
ming, and. of course. the capacity OF
every persons handiwork is limited, so
as we already have enough orders to
keep US busy until at least the first of
next year. it is not likely that we viii
get much beyond the limits of New
York and Washington. 1t is probable.
however. that We will take one or two
more girls in to Aelp us when the win
ter season begins.
Il do not think we will move our
'plant'-you must not call it a factory,
because the fact that all our work is
done by hand is one of the greatest
merits-to New York or any other city.
We have a pleasant little cottage in the
country, just near enough to the Adj
rondacks for US TO enjoy the scenery
and not far enough away from the rail-
roads TO make transportation difficult.
BASKET WEAVING CLASSES.
I'VE had call from a party of young
people the other day, most of them
from New York. who were very anXi-
fn haG lylf
to sell. All of. our time is taken up by
the orders already received. One of the
girls gave me an idea, however, which
1 may follow up this winter She said
she would like to take a course of les
sons in basket weaving for the purpose
of adding it to her list of accomplish
ments, along with lace making, en-
broidering. etc. She asked why ! didn't
get up a class. and offered to speak to
her friends on the subject. So 1 am
seriously of getting up some
classes here in New York next season.
You ask if the work is hard" Miss
Campbell shrugged her shoulders. Il
have never found any work worth do
ing that was not difficult. There is al
ways some drawback. 1t is not so con-
filming as the majority of occupations
taken up by women. 1t does not strain
either the eyes or the muscles. 1t is
clean. and can be accomplished at
home. OF course. engaged in it as eX-
tensively as my sister and 1 are, our
work and materials occupy several
rooms. But we seldom work indoors
We sit on the piazza, go out in the
woods. and on several occasions have
spent days picnicking on the noun
tains, Like everything else, it requires
to be learned, but is not difficult.
1.-THE chief requirement, it appears to
me. aside from the mechanical knowl- |
edge. is the ability to invent new shapes |
and combine the various Straws and |
colors into original designs. For my |
sister and 1 it has proved much more |
than either teaching or |
and l could not begin to \
tell you how much pleasanter.
LAFAYETTE MLAWS