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WISDOM AND DREssMAKrNG.
The Visiting Scnmstress Recalls Dis
nster and Omcns.

Senmstress Recalls Dis
nster and Omcns.
From the New York Evening Sun.
fou think you'll have it made with
suimpe?" and the dressmaker who
had come in to help out with the chill
oren's sewing thoughtfully contemplat-
ed the material before her. "Of course
III do as you say, and guimpes are
pretty But the slight tightening OF
the lips which accompanied this remark
spoke volumes. If folks would insist"
.he hps seemed TO say. 'if folks would
INSIST upon dictating TO a dressmaker
VINO had made dresses for Lillian Stel-
lars sister and who had the promise
OF Lillian Stellar's own patronage, no
one could expect her 10 be responsible
for the final outcome"
Then the lips relaxed and the line of
thought again became vocal. Il made"
she said, "a dress for a Ette girl the
other day, of material something like
TINS, only much better, and l didn't nut
In a suimpe. But then, it's a point with
me never TO go against customers
wishes and, of course, as you saw
guimpes are pretty"
Her position at length defined and her
opinion justified the woman who had
consented to sew for two or three DAYS
fenced her voice in favor of the shears,
whose snip, snip, snip continued to ut
ter a protest against any clothes except
those of Lillian Stelar's sister, and
against 2uimpes in general, as being far.
far behind the latest styles from Paris.
But the shears were not suffered long
to have il all their own way They spoke
in quick jerks or in long sweeps, but
they were too limited in expressio 90
suit the nervous little woman who WELD
ed them.
DO as you'd be done by" she said, as
she laid them down and snapped off a
long basting thread. DO as you'd be
done by and you'll never be punished. l
tell you I'm afraid 10 do any other way
I'm afraid of fire. Maybe you're not so
afraid of fire as am. I'd be very sorry
II you were. for it's an awful thing to
have fire hop right out of the stove at
you as it does at me every time the COW
er's off OF course, most folks laugh at
me when l say that, but 1t isn't anything
to laugh at. Why. many's the time I've
seen fire so low down that you'd al
most think il was out, and just let me
touch paper to it and It flames right up
and makes a dart at me. But it never
hurts me unless I've been doing wrong,
and that's the reason l say I'm afraid to
insist upon having my own way or to
do except as I'd be done by"
ed here reigned. while the shears again
got in their work
yes" she resumed, I've had some
pretty sad warnings and l expect the
next will about do me. Now, my hus
band, when he was alive, he didn't like
sulphur matches; he said they got in
his nose and choked him and that they
were too slow, anyway. We We're keep
ing house then, and | got frightened
az the suffering kind that fly, you
never know where, and so l just told
him | wouldn't have any more parlor
matches in the house to set the cur
tains on fire and burn us out of house
and home. l didn't want to waste them,
of course, and so | took all we had down
to the woman en- the floor below and gave
them 10 her and then ] got some boxes
of sulphur matches. And what do You
suppose? You see, 1t was of Sunday,
and l was going to make a pie. Now, l
shouldn't have been baking on Sunday,
but there l was, flying right in the face
of what ought and ought not to do.
was baking over an oil stove and when I
went to light it up, il the end of one
of those matches didn't break right off
and set me on fire! Well, l put that out
and didn't take warning.
You never use an oil stove, do you?
Well. l tell you If you ever should just
cover up the oven with some pieces of
will bake fine. Ia done that any num-
Der OF times on week days and no trou-
BILE. but when | went to cooking on Sun
day it was different. After the pie was
baked-it was custard pit, l remember
i just put the pieces of carpet into the
closet where / always kept them BY
and by, ] began TO smell smoke and II
20, smoker and smoker. and still l never
thought OF IL being Judgment on me,
not until I opened the closet door and
found the carpet on fire. My! but that
was an awful day!
But if / hadn't been so determined
about those matches, and If | hadn't been
baking on Sunday, l done believe II
would have happened as it did happen.
1T isn't always so plain 10 see JUST
what is wrong, but I've been burned out
twice besides. And so, as | say, l don't
care TO be too set in my way"
"Snip. snip, snip" went the shears.
you still think you'd rather have ii
with the guimpe, do you?' said the little
dressmaker.
Lord Roberts owed his command of
49,