The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-05
GIRL soARoERs' SUNDAY MORNING
Confession as to How They Spent Time
Ended With One WhoAttendel Church
from the New York Sun


From the New York Sun.
AFTER The / O'Clock Sunday dinner
they gathered in the reception room,
and budding around the radiator in an
effort to keep warm they commenced
to talk.
What do you do of a Sunday morn
ins?' asked the girl in blue of the wo-
man with the yellow hair.
What do l do? Well, l generally
mend my stockings"
You don't mean that you darn
them?"
Occasionally, yes. Why?"
What makes you do that? l know
an easier way. ! thread a needle with
strong black thread, run the thread all
around the edge of the hole, you under
stand, just like you would gather a
ruffie, then draw it up tight so there
won't be any hole, tie the two ends in a
double knot and there you are"
But doesn't it hurt your heel, all
that thread and stocking doubled up in
a knott"
Just the least bit,' admitted the girl
in blue: but what difference does that
make? 1t is so little trouble. 1t doesn't
take half the time that ii does to go
poking long needle through every
other stitch and then crossways MAX
ing fine lattice work like you do when
you darn. I didn't know that anybody
ever took time to darn nowadays. There
are so many other things to do
How was it you did that? asked a
girl in red waist
The other explained it all over again.
1T seems a good way" acknowledged
the girl in the red waist, but know a
better one.
Tell it, then" demanded the other
with an offended air.
Il just go to the drug store and get
some sticking plaster, not the kind you
put In little patches on your chin to
make your skin look white, but regular
surgeons plaster-it isn't black, but
that doesn't matter, nobody ever sees
the heel of your stocking unless you
faint and l never faint then / warm
it and stick it over the hole in the
stocking, press it down hard about the
edges of the hole and that covers it.
It's lots easier than darning. 1 never
darn"
I've done that, too" said another
girl. II use all sorts of plaster. If you
don't happen to have plaster right at
hand a postage stamp isn't half bad for
little hole. Those worlds fair stamps
We're splendid. They covered such
whaling big holes. l was awfully sorry
when they quit using them"
And what do you do of a Sunday
morning." asked the girl in blue of the
woman with the fluffy pompadour.
First one thing and then another"
she replied. Now and then when have
been to a little party somewhere in the
house the night before sleep until din
ner time. If l get up / generally
straighten out the drawer of my dress
ing table. 1t takes me full hour to go
through it, rolling up ribbons and sort
ing out the long neckties that get wrap
ped up in with the false frizzes and
things, putting the collars in tue collar'
boxes where they belong and thu hand
kerchiefs in the handkerchief Euxes.
That's my regular SUNDAY job. If /
don't do it in the morning 10 ii in the
afternoon"
Il have had an elegant job this mono
ing said another woman. I've been
sewing new binding IN he bottom of
my skirt. / stepped ~ i coming up
stairs the day before yesterday and tore
1t little. Then it kept on tearing and
tearing until to look at me you would
| have thought that I was a ball of yarn
coming unravelled. l inadvertently
went out on the street with it that way.
| or course | met everybo I knew.
/ They all came rushing up to me one at
| a time, whispering hoarsely: There
| something torn about the bottom of
| your skirt!'-as If I didn't know it,
! and offering me pins to pin it up with,
! until l won't have to buy any pins for
| month or more"
| Il occasionally do a little laundry
! work on Sunday morning" said tall