El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-05-06
A SEWING SCHOOL.
What . Little Girl Saw at the Exhibi
tiOn.

What = Little Girl Saw at the Exhibi-
ton.
I s'pose most all the little girls in
New York city who belong to any OF
the sewing schools saw the exhibition
held at the American Art galleries not
long ago.
The little girls in our school were so
delighted that they never stop talking to
each other about it.
So 1 thought that those living outside
of New York might like to hear about
what saw there.
I am sure some of them wanted to
come, for their work was there.
Invent with my teacher, Miss Lar
kin, on Thursday afternoon.
First we went into the room that
held the work from the public schools
of New York city, Philadelphia, Wash
ington, Baltimore and New Haven.
The little samples Of stitches knew
we'll and had seen SO many of them
did not stop to look at them very much,
but the dolls dresses, cunning little
shirt waists and lovely embroidered
doilies and mats made me wild to get
into the grades where they were made.
The night schools made the beautiful
"grown up waists and suits and dain-
ty underclothing and the hats and bon
nets.
There was one funny looking bonnet
from Philadelphia made Of drab silk,
without a ribbon or flower on it, that
my teacher said was worn by some re-
igious people called Quakers.
There We're SO many dresses and suits
from Philadelphia and Washington that
the forms they were hung upon took up
one whole side of the room and looked
g much like people standing there that
heard one girl say, Excuse me-"
very politely, as she passed in front OF
one. I'll bet she felt green when she
saw it wasn't real lady.
There was also child's dress, made
by little Italian girl in Philadelphia,
which 1 heard the lady in charge tell
some other ladies about. ''Yes," she
said, 'the child was only years old
when she began it, and she sewed so
we'll that they let her go way beyond
her grade and finish it for the exhibi-
tion.''
Some one visiting their school one
day said to the child: "You did not
make that dress alone. Your mother
must have helped you "Me mudderp'
she quickly retorted 81 teached me
mudder to sew. -
On the second floor was the work
from the mission schools, and there was
where I found my own, little table
cloth and six napkins made with the
French hem, and didn't they look nice
and sweet on a little table laid ready
for dinnerl Miss Larkin said she was
proud of them too
I almost felt like crying when we
came to the work the blind girls did.
Some of it was much better done than
some of the girls in our school can do
They do not seem to care, and they can
see perfectly well too. I wondered if
they would not feel ashamed if they
should see this sewing.
saw three beautiful flags, one made
with red and white ribbon sewed to-
gether for the stripes and the stars en-
broidered with blue silk made at the
Rhinelander school.
There was a card on it which said
that it was facsimile (that means just
like, Miss Larkin explained) of one sent
to President and Mrs. Mckinley at the
White House, made by those same girls
in that school.
On the third floor were the cases filled
with the work from Japan, China, Eng
land and Sweden and other foreign
countries.
Miss Patterson showed the large book
of French and Russian work all through
to us and told us how the children there
would draw designs and then copy them
in silk Or lace stitches or whatever they
were made for.
Oh, it was all so like fairyland 1
could not speak, but only hold my
breath and look as hard as could!
Before we came home we went to the
case which held the old colonial work
which was loaned to the exhibition and
looked at the old laces and embroideries
and maps outlined in silk and the cush-
ion made by Mary Washington.
think like the new kinds of work
the best, though of course these are nice
to keep
Well. am going to try my hand to
make SOmothinQ nicer tO show at tho