The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-23
In Rainu Dau Httir0,
American Women Not Always at TheF Bes-TBab DISGUISE
All Sorts of Things in Her Own Peculiar Style

RAYS FEARFUL MODISTE. "
opce he,d a tender-hearted dress
| maker who wept over my left shouder so
systematically that | got the rheumatism
from il. She cried about q brother VINO
had be sn, killed by an accident The
first time | was deeply sympathetic, for
of course. / thought the accident had
taken place within the year, but it turn
cd ont that he had been dead for seven
vearSN ana that there would never have
been IN accident if he had been sober.
She used to talk after >this fashion
"Sball i tit the skirt, smooth, ma'am%-
he was me own brother, II bright young
fellow that might, but for His trouble
Would you rather have a book, ma am
have got on in the world and been a
crelit--Pll face the sides with slk-to
all OF his people on both sides of the
water. He was a beautiful corpse, and
we gave him-of course, You could but
ton il down the frontaa wake that was
the talk Of the neiGhborhood for months
afterwarCl, and il took thrcc--well, rib
hon might do, but | never liked those
loose effects-dispensary doctors TO
straiglrten the men up so they could
show their proper respect for the re-
mains" After this she would break
down utterly and weep on my bare shout
| der AMI excuse the fact that it was III
ithe rain by Saying that she didn't want
| to stain the stuff. She was Il woman
who really enjoyed herself. She knew
the absolute bliss of sorrow, and she com
pretended thoroughly how sublime "a
thing it was to suffer herself and make
her customers suffer with her. was
! forced to give her UP, not because she
!, was not Il good dressmaker. but because
| from constant sympathy my nose was
getting so red j was afraid some temper
| ance man would come down
F.. upon nue., acting of course, under
la misapprehension. But there was
mo doubt that woman was fine
She put Il pocket i'll your skirt and
! In cloth skirt she always put two peck.
cts. Pockets and independence are a
natural combination, and giving two
pockets to womankind, and. these two
pockets near the front, where she can
reach them, makes her feel as if this
were in deed a free country. With tbs
possessio II OF pockets / have discovered
that woman is an accumulatiye animal
In one OF my pockets at the present
time there are q handkerchief. Il watch
a calendar, letter, two newspaper clip
pings. three gum drops, four cloves anC
the picture of baby. In the other ARK
four 10-cent pieces Il am keeping then
to put in Al 10-cer,t bank, lot of pen
MES, a bunch of keys. a glove buttoner
torn veil, two hairpins, religious
poem and a recipe for making chicken
curry.
WOMAN'S HANDIEST WEAPON
Who can beat that? | had safety
pin, but / lost it. However. you cannot
put confidence in a safety pin, for il
has a way of being safe or unsafe, ac
cording to its fancy. But you can al
ways rely on hairpin. | do not know OF
| anything to which a hairpin is not q
1 valuable assistant.
i | have seen lock opened with a hair
pin.
+ l have seen a gas burner cleaned with
a hairp;n.
!! ] have seen lace curtains pinned to-
gether with a hairpn.
I / have seen a stocking fastened with a
| hairpin.
l have seen heavy portieres looped by
hairpins.
i | have seen hairpin used as book
mark.
/ have seen hairpin held in the gas
light and then used to darken the eye,
brows.
/ have seen a hairpiH diEqed in re-
stuff and used to color the lips, while
DIS for buttoning shoes. crimping bangs
picking nuts and cutting books a hair
pin is invaluable. We can do without
politicians. we can 30 without suffra,
gists, we can exist without whiskey ant
live on comparatively little money, but
hairpins are a necessity to the nation
Without them woman feels that she is
indeed a helpless creature. Bah.