The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-04-02

take her for all in all she is business
like, and who does not know that be-
tween business and sentiment thsre is
a divorce which cannot be ignored? If
she says nothing critical, you may
thank your stars; if she approves, be
certain that your horoscope was cast
; in a fortunate hour; if she wakes
cordial III her glance and words, fate
has indeed been kind to you.
After a little, the dressmaker. in the
place Of commanding offer, assigns 10
each member OF the family her task
One presides at the sewing ma chine
another rneekly stitch according to
direction, another baStes; each does as
she is told. If three or four gowns are
in process of making at once, thers IS
superficial confusion. and there are
naturally wearisoIne half hours of try
ing on. OF hanging skirts and ADJUST
ing sleeves.
The latter indicate thu ebD and flow
OC fashions waves. one year they pun
at the shoulder the next they flare at
the wrist. SOmetim s the sleeve clinSS
to the arm, as the rind of an apple to
the fruit. Turn to any toilet chronicle
of the past thousand years, and OBJ
serve how sleeves have varied IN
caprice and whim all the way along
the centuries. just as they do now. En-
piTes crUmble, dyDasues Wane, battl s
rage, the map of the world is changed,
but sleeves maintain their whirlinS
dance through all, and the dress
maker sits as calmly on the top of a
heap of ruins as in the palace Of a
queen.
Processes indeed bow at her be
hest Our first lady of the land could
not have gone to thu inaugural ball the
other evening in March. had not some
lady of the shears fashioned her
.rrIea 4
and yards of iridescent brOcade. woven
on So Cial looms from a pattern i'm
mediateiy destroyed. To the queen
on her coronation day and the maiden
on her bridal, the dressmaker is alike
indisp -nSable.
The house is kept at concert pitch
until the work is under good head
way. Then the potentate of the occa-
sion relaXes her severity and converse
ton begins, eddying in and out, rip
ping on like a brook Swirling around
familiar topics, and cleaning with
gayety and gossip. Going as she does
everywhere, the DIR ssmaker hears no
end of interesting occurrences. She is
no Vender Of malice or purVeyOr of
scandal. Sh= is only a hard working
little woman, who earns every dollar
she receives, and who entertains her
employers agrecably by d bit of chat
from th1 world outside even when she
dictates to them most firmly as 10 the
/ length of their petticoats and the
height of their stocks. Do not grudge
her the money you pay into her faith
full hand.
OF course, Will she is with you
callers cannot be admitted, committee
meetings must be evaded, and parties
Z OF pleasure abandoned. BY an UNI
written but imperative law, the dress
makers days are her own, and she
/ takes precedence for the time. every
other engag- ment lesSeniug in import
ance before hers For this reason the
/ woman lavish prefers another course
/ from that of the woman economical
she szuds her goods to a dressmakiug
establishment. goes there to be fitted
and has her dresses sent home
wrapped in many folds of tissue papzr
and finished to the last huting and
frili. with a bill far in excess OF the
one presented by the itinerant seam