Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-05-01
BOARDERS' SUNDAY MORNING.
How They Spent the Time Instead of
Going to Church.

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they gathered in the reception room,
and budding around the radiator in
an effort to keep warm they COM
menced to talk, says the New York
Sun.
What do you do of a Sunday
morning." asked the girl in blue of
the woman with the yellow hair.
What do I do? Well, I generally
mend my stockings"
'You don't mean that you darn
them?"
occasionally, yes. Why?"
What makes you do that? I know
an easier way. I thread a needle
with strong black thread, run the
thread all around the edge of the hole,
you understand, just like you would
gather a ruffie, then draw it up tight
SO there won't be any hole, tie the
two ends in double knot, and there
you are.'
But doesn't it hurt your heel, all
that thread and stocking doubled up
in knot?''
"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 trouble that it
does to go poking long needle
through every other stitch and then
crossways, making 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
girl in a red waist.
The other explained it all over
again.
ut seems good way" acknowl
1 know better one.''
"Tell it, them demanded the other
with an offended air.
81 just go to the drug store and get
some sticking plaster, not the kind
you put in little black 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 | never
faint-then I 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. I never darn"
GIVE done that, too,'' said another
girl Il use all sorts of plaster. If
you don't happen to have plaster
right at hand postage stamp isn't
half bad for a little hole. Those
Worlds Fair stamps were splendid.
They covered such whaling big holes.
I 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 pompa
! dour.
"First one thing and then another"
she replied. Nov and then when
have been to a little party somewhere
in the house the night before I sleep
until dinner time. If I get up
generally straighten out the drawer
of my dressing table. 1t takes me a
full hour to go through it, rolling up
ribbons and sorting out the long
neckties that get wrapped up in with
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the collar boxes where they belong
and the handkerchiefs in the handker-
chief boxes. That's my regular Sun
day job. If don't do it in the morn
ing I do it in the afternoon"
81 have had an elegant job this
morning." said another woman. 1--we
been sewing a new binding on the
bottom of my skirt. I stepped on it
coming upstairs the day before yester-
day and tore it little. Then it kept
on tearing and tearing until to look
at me you would have thought that
1 was ball of yarn coming unraveled.
l inadvertently went out on the street
with it that way. Of course I met
everybody I knew. They all came
rushing up to me one at a time,
whispering hoarsely, There's some
thing torn about the bottom of your
skirt as if I didn't know it!-and Of
fering me pins to pin it up with, I'M
til won't have to buy any pins for
month or more"
81 occasionally do little laundry
work on Sunday morning." said a tall
girl who stood near the window. II
wash out my handkerchiefs and neck
ties and other little things"
stockings" suggested somebody.
"Well, yes, now and then, stocB>
ings,' said the tall girl. ''You see, If
you give your handkerchiefs to the
washwoman you never get them back,
and handkerchiefs cost money. They
aren't quite so bad about keeping the
stockings, but they swap them around
and bring you somebody else's that
are either too big or too little or mis-
mate them, or boil the black ones
until they are fine rich purple, so
what are you to do? You've got to
wash them out yourself if you want
to keep them half way decent or go
on buying new ones about every
other week"
and what have you been doing
| this mOrning?" the inOuiSitOr asked a