The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-23
BACK TO COLONIAL DAYS.
The Spinning Wheel Fad May Re vive Good old Art of Spinning.

Kansas Clty StaT
 Along some ancestral line nearly every American woman can find some charm ing great grandmother, who wore paint and natches and powdered her hair. used the spinning wheel, rode on a billion and knitted with huge needles that were war ranted to do as much execution with the hearts of adoring swains as with the worsted they fashioned into hosiery, gloves and headwear. st5t'7
 It is this which makes the spinning wheel a joy forever, if not thing Of beauty The humble invention is stock ornament for the parlor or boudoir. an oio fashioned dining room or even a kitchen. It comes into vouge every ten or fifteen years. and then is put away to await return of the old romantic feeling.
 In some parts of the country there are still spinning wheels in daily employment A few must be century old. It may be noticed that these stanch pieces of the carpenter's- handicraft are strong. heavy and somewhat awkward. They have not the artistic finish of the neatly turned and carved wheels which are found in so many esthetic parlors. Some Of these artistic wheels are so delicate and dainty that they would break the moment they set to work at making strong, thick thread
 The difference does not discourage the m0QeTn young WOLldits WAAO " ~oAAAADHt~N by a dire dilemma. She must have spin ming wheel because 1t is romantic and historic, and then the wheel must be an obiect of loveliness to match the furni- ture in the boudoir of her own style of comeliness Between these two aiterna- lives the poor wheel does not have . show The funniest thing about this revival Is that 1t has been brought about by the Alass which never works and would not Yknow how if it tried to.
 Our great-grandmothers were very busy damsels and danes. The spinning wheel was no ornament, but a very serious mat ter of daily life. They made the machine spin by the hour, while they reeled off the thread that were to knit or weave. The well-educated woman of those years was a spinner, weaver, drter and tail- or, all combined sn one. l wonder how many of their fair decendants can emu late them in these lines.
 Nevertheless they have brought about a f1ourshing manufacture of antique wheels and many of the organizations have adopted the wheel with or without the ditaff and treadle as a club badge or a coat-of-arms for their club paper
 In the finishing of the modern stage the humble spinning wheel holds a prominent part It would be difficult to give Faust" without one in the centre of the stage. where poor Margaret sings smiles. hopes. dreams and weeps, and in the barnyard dramas it is even to-day more important than the melancholy COW or the well where the "old oaken bucket" brings up sparkling Croten water from the cellar under the stage. EnterprisIng photogra- phers keep one as stock property, along with the drop curtain. representing a classic temple or the canvas logs on which young ladies sit and pose as Maud Null Ter resting.
 One of the oldest things about the spin ming wheel.N anent the fad. is that the average owner never takes the trouble to learn how to work the machine. She plies it in both directions, leaves off the connecting cord. and even goes so far