The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-08-03


ing considerably recruited. 1t seems
to offer an excellent field for the indus.
try of women not yet classified in other
pursuits. A number of the technical
institutes have classes where the work
is regularly taught, and as the field is
still comparatively unoccupied, the
prospect of fair success is good. The
work of making over mattress is not
in the least hard for woman, and
knowledge OF The operation is easily OBJ
aimed. Other legitimate work of the
upholsterer is also quite within her
strength and skill after very slight ex-
perience.
A game of cards for children is on
the plan of the long popular "authors,"
flags of all nations being used instead
of he celebrities and their writings.
The public care of needy family be.
comes on individual investigation little
short of paternal A woman who has
been interested the last winter in the
maintenance of poor household, to
whose wants she could not minister
alone, discovered that by one means or
another it was possible to provide for
many of their necessities. The hus-
band and father was out of work, and
his effort to find any was fruitless until
the Industrial Wood Yards made it
possible for him to earn on any day
that he presented himself thirty-fve
cents. The younger of the two chill
dren of the family was nursing babe,
the other little fellow of two and a
half years. For him, on DOCTORS GER
tificate, bottle of sterilized milk was
provided daily for months. From an.
other public source tea, oatmeal, and
some other dry groceries could be had
by the persevering mother whenever
she could leave home long enough to
work few hours for them. Coal tick
cts secured at intervals during the cold
weather kept the little stove going from
time to time. During the winter two
or three attacks of illness of mother
and children were ministered to by
neighboring dispensary, and through
an order from the same place some del
icate food was provided for the mother
in a sickness prolonged for several
days. In the early summer the young
er child became i'll with cholera infan-
tum, and when the dispensary doctor
despaired of its life, ticket for a week
at seaside home was given for it. The
little one died before it could gather
strength for the journey, but the ticket
was used by the bereaved mother and
her remaining child for needed rest
and refreshment after the funeral. 1t
was possible even to crafty the ardent
desire of the mother that her babe
should not lie in the Potter's Field by
an arrangement with kind-hearted
undertaken, who is taking his pay in
small installments, payable at consider
able intervals, his bill being extremely
low This demonstration that thor
oughly needy family can find assistance
in hard times seemed to the observer
good argument in behalf of organized
charity, so much criticised York
Post.
Satin-striped zephyr goods are very
dainty and attractive this season, with
plain white or neutral stripes in satin
finish and woven about an inch and
half apart and filled in with little
checks or lines of pink, violet, ciel
blue mauve, yellow or gray. Beauti-
fully dyed cotton CLEANLINESS are also
used in great variety with checked
grounds in rather small designs. Other
patterns in Gotten etamine, in tan,
cream, and ecru have lines or bares of
silk in contrasting colors.
For the early autumn there are shown
some pretty Paquin coat models in silk
or satin, slightly longer than the spring
and summer shapes, cut either in con-
tinuous lengths from neck to hem or
finished with applyed basques. These
coats are rounded on the fronts, button
ed on the left side, and then sloped
away to show full, slightly rounded
blouse vest from below the bust to the
belt.
"The eternal fitness of things" as
applied to fashion in dress and adorn.
ment, has but an evanscent force or
meaning. No one can trace from it's
source, manufacture, and almost uni
versal use, the once-popular shoe shap-
ed la Arkansas Traveller, with its
huge projecting sole, it's sturdy heel,
and crimped upper. Nor can one write
the history of the V-shaped shoe, which
80 quickly supplanted the broad, stubby
one, the shoe which makes the foot ap-
pear as if it had been chiselled down to
one single toe. And no one can tell
who first brought out the insignificant
little Derby hat, and persuaded men
with massive heads and broad shout
ders to ignore their common sense no.
tons of fitness and consistency and
wear the little toy chapeau. 1t would
be useless to attempt to discover the
man who inflicted upon us the ridicu-
lous "Ulster" reaching to the heels,
which ragged for many seasons and is
not yet moribund, being still resorted
to by short men who wish to make
themselves look taller, but who only
make themselves appear really shorter
by sheer contrast. This garment and
the gown which trails the muddy side
walks; the hoopskirt, the distended,
disfguring hustle, the grimy-looking
tan glove, not long since deemed sui
table for wear with an immaculate
white evening toilet-these are but
types and instances of the fancies and
foibles, and everchanging modes of
fashion which come and 60 with the
changing seasons of the year.-New
York Press.