The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-12-08
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AT the risk of sending all my readers 70
India for dress-making. shall let you
into one of the secrets of India's charm 70
the Anglo-Indian says Harper's Ba-
Ear, Since coming back TO TINS country
nothing seems harder than TO get sewing
and dressmaking done; and though M
dian tailors might drive an ordinary
home dressmaker insane, they certainly
do take care of their mistresses in a most
fatherly manner. OF course they are men
and of course they are as much a part OF
one,s esta blishment as the cook or the
butler. Ny tailor was an inheritance, ana
fell to my happy lot along with my ois-
nifed w~hite-haired cook, my maid, anu
my portly and lordly butler.
Pandarum was evr faithful to my inter-
ests. and, when work waxed short dio
not rebel at being 'let out" to other
ladies. In fact. so famous was Panaarufn
as a buyer, and for style and exquisite
embroidery that he was oftener cahea
for by missionary and civilian frlehes
than / liked. He had a goodly FAMILY
who all of course, lived on the tailor
street. remember well his handsome
old paralyzed father. and less we'll MS
wife and children. 1 think there were
seven in the family. and yet, Pandarums
wages were but tire dollars ana a quar-
ter 2 month-and no meals.
omp each morning he came to my
room. took out his mat and unroiled IL
on the yeranda under my window, and
placed it in his ~hand-Singer sewing ma
chine and his large basket OF work
Me,iding he seldom did, for that could as
wen be done by a native ayah; but he
had so real an interest in all my ward
rone that ne saw to it that .long-cioth
and cambria in quantity were kept on
hand. and that I made frequent ana sur
ticient purchase of handmade laces and
enabroideries from the native schools TO
keen me in an assortment of lir5erle
such as he thought fitting. How he loved
ia MAN and f,lssi What connections m
ruffles and tucks and insertions adorned
my night dresses, skirts and other gar
ments. When no other work was ordered
he would inspect my bureau drawers, ana
inform me that 1 needed new night gowns
or skirts. and that, if it was madam's
Measure. he would begin the garments at
once. Ismight have to interrupt him, but,
though a man of much decision of char
acter. he was enough of a Hindoo to
resnect nv authority. and would lay aside
his tucks and shirrings to refine the car
rage or to mend the saddle, which had
perhaps been hung too near the wall, and
so had become the feeding ground Tor
white ants.
Or perehance there was needed a pair
of slippers to go with an evening dress
Until a month ago had one pair winch
was wholly handmade, and which ! mad
kept as a curiosity. The soles We're cut
out by the native leather worker, VINO
brought his tools to the veranda ana
copied the soles from another pair; the
lining was of plain satin, and the OUTSIDE
of pale yellow satin embroidered in gold
The India tailors can copy almost any
thing from fashion papers though they
have not the Worth touch in drapery)-
and as for gowns from home, they copy
them 50 literally that a newcomer not
only has the satisfaction of setting the
fashion. but soon, to the arousing OF
another set Of emotions, finds herself
without one gown which is dintinetly her
owl
Some of the tailors do excellent en-
broiaery. | still nave (and wear at times,
when | wish to be very ~festive) a pale
yellow India silk-to which the yellow
slippers belonged-heavily and exquisitely
en- broidered in gold.
Usually embroiderers are specialists,
and get rather higher wag than Pam
darum did, but he did my dress as part
OF his regular work, and as beautifully
as any specialist from the temple could
have done.
AS to upholstering furniture Tin cool
linens and c~ottons. of c%ourse), making
the strong MEETINGS for beds. or pun
kahs, which are so necessary to our COM
fort. he had no superior.
There are all sorts of pretty bags that
are useful and any number of beautiful
and suitable fabrics to make tham IF
nowadays.
There are the pretty denim bags of
blue or red to put soiled collars and
handkerehiefs in and a most attractive
and useful inexpensive gift is a shoe box
made from an ordinary small soap box,
the cover padded and the whole covered
with figured cretonne or plain denim
trimmed with bands of lowered cretonne,
each edge of the bands finished with
small cotton cords to match the mater
ials.
Such boxes are decorative and do not
need to be put out of sight while serving
their most useful purpose.
An extremely handy gift for the wom-
an who has a humble of little patterns to
keep is a pattern bag made of stout
brown paper To make this take a
piece of linen thirteen inches wide. Line
this with Saline of any preferred shade
and stitch on linen pockets formed Of a
straight strip laid in a box plat al each
pocket to give necessary fullness.
These pockets are put on at each side,
not meeting in the entire by about TWO
inches. All edges are bound In satin RIB
bon to match the Saline used. The foun-
dation piece Of linen is cut one yard and
a quarter long and the pockets stop
about ten inches from one end. This end
is rounded and long satin gibbons are fas-
tened there to tie the bag when it is filled
and rolled together. Initials are worked
on the outside of the rounded end in
bright coiored silks
Such bags keep paper patterns in the
incest possible order. and / do not know
Of anything that the busy mother would
find so useful all year round.
Still another clever arrangement is to
be hung up by the writing desk. A back
is made of very stiff cardboard covered
with brown linen.
The pockets are also of cardboard
smoothly covered and hung to the back
ground by narrow strips of ribbon with