New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-18
TOTS ARE TAUGHT TO SEW.
LITTLE GIRLS OF THE ROSEMARY CLUB
BEING KEPT BUSY.
OTHER THINGS BESIDES THE ART OF THE SEAM
STRESS ARE LEARNED AT THE MEhIlN"'
CURIOUS SAYINGS OF THE PUPILS
THE WORK WELL DONE.


CURIOUS SAYINGS OF THE PUPILS
THE WORK WELL DONE
I'm three flights Of stairs in a back room OF
tenement house Is club of little girls VINO are
learning to make their clothes. They are eX-
ceedingly proud OF their name, THE Rosemary
Club" for rosemary means remembrance anu iie'
have so much to remember.
Four DAYS I'm the week all summer they nave
given two hours TO their sewing and nave Iearheu
many things besides adding to their seanty ward
robe One little has been sick all summer out
her sewing has gone on. for AT their own Susses-
ton each girl as she finishes her piece gives a
day 10 Meggle's work before beginning something
else.
In this little club there is the promise Of some
fine hand-sewers As fast "a they learn to do
thiag they make a practical Application OF the
knowledge and when they finish garment 1t be-
longs to them.
Swee: little brown-eyed Jennie Informed new
member that "a hem IS awful easy. II you don't
do nothing TO H. but when you begin it IS hard"
How many people there are to whom various things
are easy in the same way!
QUEER WORDS AND WAYS.
4, ers, their little chatter savored OF the streets
and OF the slums. but they have been gradually
taurht 70 look for kind things In this world and
they find that the they look the more they
see. and they feel inclined 10 add to the list b.
little deeds Of their own. one little girl the other
day told how she met with obstacles. In grieyed
voice she explained;
EFT ISM always easy to do kind things when
Won want TO- | found poor starved cat ana /
,ook ~ n, nv aprou 10 the butchers 10 get It
sono cat meat and when I got there my apron
was empty and that cat was running around the
corner -, -, ,t,,,.
4 Ilttle child came IN with small marshmaLow
box for the thnoles marked with one OF the teach
ers' intials. II was her birthday box or mush
melons" her brother had brought her she said
"Mushrnel1rs? What were they Ike. DEAR was
asked with wistful look IN heF oIue eyes sie
answered.
II don, know my sister had eaten them all be-
fore | got home and there was only the empty
box The same missed trip to Central PARK
with the club because she had to stay at home
and carry In ash barrels
HELP Is NEEDED.
Lack OF means has kept the Rosemary Club
small but the help difficulty will soon be remedied
A few o. the best girls Will be put in as primary
teachers and ore day@n the week will teach class
OF beginners and prepare them FOR the practical
work The rest OF tho club will make their best ef
fort ID get on the teachers list, which they ma
means much more than setting fine stitches.
Money for necessary expenses must come from
elsewhere A bolt Of muslin without starch-a bolt
II print, pretty but something that VIII wash ana
a bolt OF tennis flannel for nightdresses are much
needed.
Last winter nothing was more touching 20 the
workers among the poor than the sight OF little
children lying around their poor homes asleep often
with scanty covering. and always with little bare
arms looking cold II IS ordained that this bevy
OF Urls shall sleep IN warm gowns OF their
making when the cold nights come again.