The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-04-20
Knitting as a Nerve Cure.

There is to be 4 revival of knitting,
that dear old employment of half-cen-
fury ago, when women had thus to do
things calmly and never were troubled
with nerves.
The revival is due to the physicians,
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ties Of the glittering needles, and the soft
wool or delicate silk, and are setting their
nerye-strained patients admitting.
But how did the doctors know? Did
they take counsel of Boston woman
cious than q dose of valerian, and much
more delightful as q remedy?
It is true, there is no more delightful
employment to watch or to engage in.
1t is work which seems play, and which
is rest One can think and dream as
the fingers move almost without volition
on the part of the worker, and the work
grows beneath the hands, or one can, if
she likes, read while she knits, although
that makes too much labor.
What one wants is to let both body and
mind become idle, and there is nothing
induces such a condition so quickly as
the monotonous motion of knitting-not
anything which has a pattern and re-
Quires counting of stitches and great care
in doing, but the simple, straightforward
knitting in the common stitch.
So this is to be the girls newest pas
| time this summer during the outing days
at seashOre or mountain.
She will take her new remedy with
+ her wherever she goes. When off for a
yachting cruise, she will while away the
hours on deck with her knitting. When
! she is Aon land she will sit. lemurely on
the piazza after breakfast, until the
walking or driving or riding hour comes,
calmly clicking the daintiest of needles
to the accompaniment of the talk of
those around her or the reading of the
newest book by one of the party.
While she has been settling her own
nerves she has been making something
worth while for herself or someone else
who is to be favored with the result of
the weeks of work. She may knit golf
stockings for her brother-or for some
| other girls brother-or she may fashion
She may make a pretty foot covering for
the lounge, in the library, or a. shawl for
her mother. She may knit petticoats for
poor little children, or soft little shirts
for her friends baby.
There is enough to do to. keep the
eyes, temper or back as the embroidery
| or crocheting or other fancy work, which
is so fascinating and so attractive in re-
suits, but so hard Oh the nerves.
1t is the very ability to work without
thought that makes knitting so restful.
Surely the doctors knew what they
were about when they adopted this new
nerve cure.
A Novel E ,ster Fair.
Ivy sWhy don't you have sunbomet
''What in the world do you mean?"
they all asked. And then the girl from
Boston explained it, and the rest thought
it was great, and they will try it for
! their Easter fair.
The idea is to have table apart from
bonnets. They are to be prettily ar
ranged on stands, which can he hired at
the mililners, or made by some of the
| boys who are handy with TOOLS
| The bonnets to be made by the girls
must be Of various styles and fabrics.
Some of them will be pure white, and
the brim and corner will be laid in tiny
cords run in the brim and with a muf-
fled cape. Blue as the sky will be an
other set, and they will be profusely
rutt1ed. Then there will be some for ba-
by, and sober ones for grandma when
she walks out to see the flowers.
The golf girl will have some of bright
crimson, and there will be some little
attract attention, in the center of the
table there will be an immense one of
some lurid hue. Near the table will be
another, where tea will be served, to
be slipped while choice of bonnets is go
ing on. - ~ .....
summer for real country wear that NO
toners. On the cards they will send out
inviting the recipients to this, novel
tea there will be the head of dainty
maiden in the act of tying on a sunbOn-
net, and with it these words from Nora
Perry's ,half-forgotten poem: -
| For tying her bonnet under her chin,>
| She tied a young mans heart within.
The girls feel very sure the little cards
will attract to their Easter sale, not only
the girls, but; some Of the young men as
well. For sunbonnets have as much fas-
cination today when worn by pretty
i girl as when years ago the heroine of
the same little poem went strOlling up
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Where the wind comes blowing 50 merry
i And It blew her curls in frolicsome race,
/ All over the sunny peach cOlored face,
Till scolding and laughing she tied them in,
Under her beautiful dimpled chin.
Perhaps the girls have no thoughts Of
anything of this kind as they stitch away
on the pretty bonnets, nor do they imag-
line the wearing Of any. of them will have
the same effect as did the historic bon
/ net of the poem. For surely they would
not have any Of their attendant SWANS
1 feel they were in any danger from these
fascinating sunbonnets. ~
i They expect, however, to do a good
BUSINESS at their sunbonnet tea. =
Facial Characteristics. S ST. iii
With no face should we be SO familiar
as wit our own; and yet notwithstan nd
ling the daily opportunities we have to- be-
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