The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-11-17


icate odors, some of which are built
upon violet but tempered with some
other scent. All of these are most adj
mirably prepared by the makers now
adays.
Some women have their wardrobes
and the drawers of their dressing cases
lined with the wood of sandal, rose or
cedar, thus getting the natural scents.
They supplement this with the use of
a good toilet water. Others use the
real Russian leather as a lining to their
boxes and closets. But the sachet
powders give the most satisfactory re-
suits by far.
Women who sew in families have
troubles of their own. Sometimes it is
one thing that bothers them and then
again It is something else. Most often.
says the New York Times, it is the
machine.
Its mighty funny" said lean-fin-
gered dressmaker, why people who
have money enough to buy clothes
that would make Solomon turn green
cannot afford decent machines for
their home dressmakers to sew on. It's
disgusting to see the different kinds OF
old rattletraps we are asked to work
with in many houses, where hundred
dollar bills are apparently in superflu
49, W DNSh oSNAAlS lOl lLlC past lCll
years, and l flatter myself that ! am
an expert on, machine lore but with
all my knowledge / frequently run
across prehistoric relics that get the
best of me.
'Nobdy need tell me that Mr. Elias
Howe invented the sewing machine in
1S43--or some such year. He didn't do
anything of the kind. He may have
studied out an Improvement on the
original h1If
were crude products turned out sew.
eral hundred years, ago, and am ask
ed TO work on them every day. These
old heirlooms have the funniest bob
bins and shuttles and threading ar
rangements imaginable, and they rum
BILE and rattle like a thrashiug ma
chine. Sometimes, when I'm trying to
get up full steam in order to finish
piece OF work on time, wonder why
the police don't come in and arrest me
for disturbing the peace, as 1 make
such racket. And as for attachments,
there are none. Only yesterday I was
banging away on one of those Noah's
Ark "reminiscences when the owner of
the same came in with a beautiful
piece of white crepe de chine.
I want a tucked waist made OF
this she said and l want the tucks
to be little, teenty things-just as mar
row
=" Very WELL said I, is there a
tucker to this machine?
: " oh, dear, no. she said. You'll
have to get along without that. You'll
have to use your eyes
And I declined point blank to do
that. I have good eyes at present,
and positively refuse ITO wear them
out by substituting them for fuckers
and hemmers and ruffiers and such
things.
THE excuse WELL to-do families give
for harboring such rubbish is that they
have so little sewing done in the house
that it really isn't worth while to get
a new machine. The poor. ignorant
creatures. If they only knew it, they'd
save enough on wages in a little while
to buy a respectable machine, for
when 1 find one of those antediluvian
specimens thrust upon me charge a
dollar a day extra. My experience has
been crowded with so many night
mares in the shape of sewing machines
that the first question I put to a new
customer nowadays when she bespeaks
my services Isl What kind of a ma
chine have your If she mentions a
nineteenth or twentieth century make,
or even eighteenth, can stand it, and
state my regular price, but when she
goes back paststhe age of Queen Eliz-
abeth, l get furious and tack on the
additional dollar Sometimes they re,
monstrate on the ground of exorbi-
lance.
Dear me- they say, isn't that
awfully high?'
perhaps, I reply but people who
cherish ancestral treasures must pay
for the privilege
eff women with plenty of money
would only get new sewing machines
how sweet life would be for the house,
toulouse dressmaker."
Mrs. Ms mayonnaise, says the
New York Tribune, was deservedly
kind-creamy, delectable, deliciously
favored, and everything, in short, that
that queen among salad dressings
ought TO be--but also, as every
one knew, because it was the
piece de resistance of the tribe of NJ,
a sort of order of merit which enabled
every member of that happy-go lucky
but most hospitable family to invite
confidently any number of guests at the
shortest possible notice to luncheon or
dinner.
What can we give them to eat?" was
always an afterthought, and then came
the inevitable and happy inspiration,
Mother can make them a mayor
nalse!" The rest, dish of meat, vege-
tables and a sweet-was ennobled, as
it were, by the salad-chicken. lobster,
celery. or even simple egg and lettuce,
as the case might be, which was made
beautiful by the dressing mixed
through it and the artistic garnishing
of crisp lettuce leaves and wonderfully
red and yellow roses cut out of carrots
and beets.
The benefits of the renowned salad,
however, We're not altogether confined
to the family and its guests. Every
waitress, if she had served her mis-
tress we'll and was deemed sufficiently
intelligent to be worthy of such a pearl
of knowledge, was taught by Mrs. M
how to mix the Incompatible dressing.
this being a sort Of diploma, as it were.