The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-05

There she employs from sixty to seventy girls, who, working ali the year round turn out aooo and Aooo flies every day Miss Frost herself manages the whole business. sees to the ordering of supplies teaches the. girls how to work, fills hei own orders. keeps the books, and when she wants an extra good one she occas. ionaily makes c fly herself.
 Her supplies come from all over tne world and she sends her finished product that far. Some of her feathers come from India, some from Africa and some from South America A single feather of ten costs 10 or 12 cents, but that kind is used only on the most expensive hies- It Is from the neck of the African jungle cock and Is beautifully marked with vel low and whitish spots that look as II they were painted. She owns a golden pheasant which furnishes her some ieath- CTS. but she has to buy many more gay ones than her single cock can supply.
 Ordinary feathers for hackle and wings she buys from farmers near Stevens Point in 100-pound lots. What she cannot use she sells, SO that there Is no waste. She uses a great many guinea fowl feath- CTS for wings, and feathers of every color brown. blue, red and white.s
 Her smells come from Spain and are>tn very best that can be produced. The silk WNktu1 tn1b AukA&AckA tAt1<*t &eo s%%%>NAA " Spanish farmers just before the worms are ready to spin their cocoons, and soak ed in vinegar for several hours. then the silk is taken in a mass from the back of the worm and dried on a stretcher. It is shaped by the farmers. who soften and roll 1t between their lips.
 It is interesting to watch the girls at work making flies. They fasten the giis- tening shell to the hook, deftiy wind the hook with silk or wool for the body of the fly, cleverly concealing all but thu point; fasten on tail and Q hackle made of half feather rubbed the wrong way to make 1t look like the long hair on a real ny's body or like long, trailing feet. such as some flies have. They clip the wings from a quill or make them from the whole feather of guinea or pea cock or jungle cock. fasten them on with . quick turn or two of thread. secure the thread, and the most captivating fly im- aginable Is finished and put on it's frame more quickly than 1t takes to tell the process.
 The girls make buck tail spinners' for trolling. spoon hook bait and all the rest of the hooks and bait that are 90 dear to the heart of a fisherman. The workers become so skillful that they can finish several gross of flies e day, and sI earn s30 to s4o a month. It looks like close work and surely requires deft fingers, but the girls seem to like 1t. and if they start young enough keep at 1t for years. Every girl who applies for place cannot learn how to make a good fly. SO Miss Frost Is always sorry when girl leaves, for that means the training of many new ones before really successful worker is found.
 Three hundred patterns are used in the factory and there Is a demand for every one. Miss Frost made one pattern herself, Q little brown fly that looks much like the real caddis fly, the small, mothlikt thing that circles round the lights in the house on summer evenings. It is very Killing" fly, and thirty trout are known to have been caught on one hook before 1t was lost. The girls make all-white flies gay red ones, sober gray ones; some with only wings of white, or of guinea fowl. or whatever looks like wings. Some have hairy bodies, some are black. golden stripes; some are red. some yellow-al sorts and descriptions. until you wonder that all the fish in the country are moi caught and all the fishermen bewildered by the variety and with every kind So attractive and "fetching."