The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-06-05

"Onr wagons plenty big enough, the
running gear is good,
'Tis stuffed with cotton round the sides
and made Of Southern wood;
Carolina is the driver, with Georgia by
her side,
Virginia'll hold the flap up and we'll all
take ride
| Or, perhaps, this couplet from
"Carolina Forever the Palmetto
girls favorite war refrain:
"She has sworn she will never submit
to oppression,
And her sons are willing to die for Sc
cession."
Alas! that her song should 80 soon
have been changed to the olaintivc
air Of
Lct me kiss him for his mother"
| THE INGENUITY OF SOUTHERN WOMEN.
During all that time, when every
woman vicd with the other in working
for the soldiers, there were needs at
homc too urgent to be dlsregarded.
These, too, had to be met, and how,
was not long the question. For those
very women who had been reared in
ease and afiluence soon learned practi-
calIy that necessity is the mother of
invention" and the story of their in
gcnuity, if all told, might surprise
their Northern sisters, who always re-
gardcd them as inefficient, pleasure
loving members of society. Whatever
may have been the fault of their in
stitutions and rearing, the war GER
tainly brought out the true woman,
and no woman Of any age or nation
ever entered. heart and soul, more en-
enthusiastically into their country's
| contest than those who now mourn the
Lost Cause" While cur armies were
victorious in the field hope lured US
on. We bore our share of privations
cheerfully and gladly.
We replaced our worn dresses with
honespun, planning and devising
checks and plaids. and intermingling
colors with the skill of professional
designers" The samples we inter-
changed we're homespuns of our last
weaving. not A. T. Stewards or John
Wannamakers 8 sample envelopes, with
their elaborate display of rich and
costly fabrics. Cur mothers silk
stockings, Of ante.bellum date, were
ravelled with patience and transform
ed into the prettiest of neat fitting
gloves. The writer remembers never
to have been more pleased than she
was by the possession of trim pair
Of boots made Of the tanned skins of
some half dozen squirrels. They were
80 much softer and finer than the or
dinary heavy calfskin affairs to be
bought at the village "shoe shop"
that no Northorn maiden was ever
more pleased With her ten-dollar boots.
Our hats, made of palmetto and rye
straw, we're becoming and pretty with
out lace, tips or flowers. Our jackets
we're made Of the fathers old.fashion-
cd cloaks, in vogue some forty years
agone-those Of that style represent
ed in the pictures of Mr.. Calhoun do
ing splendid service by supplying all
the girls in the family with one. We
even made palmetto jewelry of exquis-
ite designs, intermingled with hair,
that We might keep even with the
boys who wore palmetto cockades.
The flowers that we wore were Nature
own beautiful, fragrant blossoms,
sometimes, when in patriotic mood,
nestled with symbolic cotton bolls.
For our calico dresses, il ever so for
tunate as to find one, &c sometimes
paid hundred dollars, and for the
spool of cotton that made it from ten
to twenty dollars. The buttons we
used were oftcntimes cut from gourd
into sizes required and covered with
cloth, they having the advantage of
pasteboard because they were rounded.
On children 8 clothes persimmon seed
in their natural state, with two holes
drilled through them, were found both
neat and durable. In short, we fash
ioned all our garments after true Con-
federate style, without the aid of
Madam Demorest's guide book, or
Worth's Partisan models, and suffered
from none Of "NIiss Flora McFlim-