Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-04-23

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Bless us ard save us, how the dear
girls are learning to sew! True? OF
course it's true. They sewed hard all
during Lent, and now when you make
n call the tiny little workbasket. with
its expensive fixings-and they cost
pot of money, do gold handled scissors
and do thimbles set with turquolse-but
having achieved this very feminine ac-
complishment every girl is going to
utilize 1t. She looks SO sweet as she sits
with flying fingers working over a bit
OF linen that you find yourself watching
those white hands as they control that
sharp little bit of steel, when suddenly
the work stops for n minute and the
head is lifted to allow the eyes to look
at you and ask n question. Then you
wonder IL a woman were ever so pretty
before. Then you know 1t means
great deal when somebody masculine
says to somebody feminine. "Oh, Miss
Montmorenci what a lovely sash you
have oni" sash at present being
something that Is much trimmed and
frilled and fluted and scalloped and
made fancy in every way. Miss Mont
morenci looks at you with n conde-
scending air and answers. Il made ev-
cry bit of II myself!'
You no longer doubt as to whether
Miss Montmorenci can marry poor
man or not, for girl who can make
sashes-well. what can't she do?
Then there is that other girl whose
hat is very joy. 1t is burdened with
flowers, 1t is gay with ribbons. and 1t
Is cooked on one side in a knowing way
TINT 10 very In hia and yary no
coming. You look at it and think what
Il wonder 1t is and how much 1t must
have cost and when you venture to ex-
press your admiration to the wearer
she says. with a gay toss of that won
derfully crowned head: "Oh, it's a mere
nothing! / bought the hat. and | had
the ribbon, so l Strengthened out some
flowers and got n few new leaves. and /
trimmed it myself. 1t saves an awful
lot of money &c know how to trim your
own hats" You thought her lovely be-
fore, but you are sure she is divine now.
1t Is curious how women congregate
when they sew. A woman never likes
to sew alone. She wants somebody else,
either to crticlse her work or to talk.
The other morning three women were
hemmlng ruffies and. with divine mus
lin frocks in view, were also talking
ing one--woman. The first one, who
happened to be blond, inquired. I'm
your experience have dark OF light wo-
men been the most faithful" Then she
kept on: Personally I never knew but
three women who were absolutely true
to me, and they We're rather normal In
color. One had brown hair that wasn't
quite dark, another had light hair that
wasn't quite blond, and the third had
gray hair. The first one had been my
friend from the time we were children,
and the friendship lasted absolutely ua-
til death did us part. The second one
was woman much older than myself
in whose society found constant en-
joyment, and the third was my mother.
There nre hundreds of names on my
visiting list, names OF women who II
any one of them were asked II she were
my friend would say, Yes" and yet
tomorrow If I needed a friend should
go to the one who likes me because l
am n pleasant companion or to my
mother, But i would much prefer to go
TO man."
The girl who had listened attentively
and sewed steadily at the same time
had brown eyes and brown hair; but,
dropping her needle, she gave her ex-
perience: Il had a curious education
about women. Girls We're scarce In our
family; consequently we were taught
to think them of great value. II You
could do anything to give pleasure to
a woman; II by words, deeds or In any
way watever you could help one, 1t was
n courtesy to yourself. That was the
theory with which ] started out into
life, and. while physically am not black
and blue, spiritually / am. The woman
to whom | gave the helping hand usu-
ally finished the performance by biting
II The woman to whom | gave a GER
tain amount OF affection. consideration
and kindness was Invariably the one
10 say the most horrible things about
me. who insisted had motive in ev-
erything did and who was finally con-
WINGED that was entirely selfish in my
desire to assist her. My women friends?
While very few they are women for
whom / have done nothing and with
whom 1t is merely n question of general
liking. The woman for whom you do
good deed Immediately concludes that
she wants to cut your acquaintance.
Why do not know. except that she is
like certain kind of mongrel dog the
females of which can never meet with
out having Il row. Faithfulness with
me has not been matter of complex
ion. Faithessness has been a general
condition.
The other woman who had sewed and
kept quiet was neither dark nor light,
but belonged to the type so common in
this country, that of light brown hair
and dark eyes. She spoke very slowly
and as If she had thought 1t all out.
She said: well, have been curious
enough TO watch, and with me 1t has
been an absolute matter OF complexion.
women who are unwomanly. absolutely
ieceittui. lacking in truth, with no