Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-05-24

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ker she is an autOcrat, and stately danes
and fair demOiselles bow before her.
One solicits her in the autumn for a
week In the spring. One who is at all
forehanded engages her for the fall the
day the spring sewing is finished. Her
prices are high, but nobody disputes
them. A dressmaLer who has style and
savoir-faire in the creation of feminine
toilettes may simply ask what price she
Dleases.
When she is expected an air of excite
ment pervades the household
Breakfast is earlier than usual. The
children are hurried Off to school. Visi-
BILE impatience fiurries the mistress, and
the maid moves about as hastily as it
looking for an invitation to wake.
Should John choose that special morn
ing to loiter little before going to blsi-
ness, saying that he has to meet man
on his way to the Office and will take a
later train, deep detection seizes his
womanlind. There are times when the
best of men is a stumbling block; when
one waves a joyful hand at the most
adorable husband as he disappears
around the corner.
Everything else yields to the urgency
OF the moment when the lady of the scis-
sors and the styles appears on the scene.
Samples were sent for weeks ago, and
goods anxiously selected and purchased.
Mother and daughters have reminded
one another whenever errands y have
been made to the local shops, to bring
home needles and buttons and braids
and sewing silk and linixgs and hooks
and eyes and twist IT would be too
dreadful to find anything lacking when
the dressmaker's time had come.
When she has taken. off her hat and
Jacket, and unrolled her patterns, the
artistic surveys the materials laid out for
her inspection. The shimmering silks,
the filmy gauzes, the sheer lawns, the
Powered organizes, the lustrous mo-
hairs. the soft woods, whatever the fab
RIGS chosen may be, are spread before
her with a certain pride.
Beautiful and costly they may be, but
the dressmaker is never enthusiastic
She regards the most elegant stuffs with
Indifference, as BELTS one who handles
such goods daily, and to whom nothing
is sumptuous or magnificent. She is often
naughty, and occasionally condescend-
Ing, but take her for all in all, she is
buslnesslike, and who does not know
that between business and sentiment
there is divorce which cannot be ig-
nored? If she says nothing critical, you
may thank your stars; if she approves.
be certain that your horoscope was cast
in fortunate hour; if she wakes cordial
IN her glance and words, fate has indeed
been kind to you.
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After little, the dressmaker, in the
place of commanding officer, assigns to
each member of the family her task. One
presides at the sewing machine, another
meekly stitches according to direction,
another bastes; each does as she is told.
If three or four gowns are in process of
making at once, there is superficial con-
fusion, and there are naturally weari-
some half-hours of trying on, Of hang
ing. skirts and adjusting sleeves.
The latter indicate the ebb and. flow of
fashions waves. One year they puff at
the shoulder, the next they flare at the
wrist. Sometimes the puff Is below the
elbow. Sometimes the sleeve clings to
the arm, as the rind Of IAN apple to the
fruit. Turn to- any oilet-chronicle of
the past thousand years, and observe
how sleeves have varied in caprice and
whim all the way along the centuries.
just as they do now. Empires crumble.
dynasties wane, battles rage, the map of
the world is changed, but sleeves main
tain; their whirllng dance through all.
and the dressmaker sits as calmly on the
top of heap OF ruins as in the palace of
q queen ~. $3.50 II: - +
r. Princesses indeed bow at her behest.
Our first lady of the land could not have
gone to the inaugural ball the other eve
ming in March, had not some lady of the
shears fashioned her splendid gown.
from yards and yards and yards of iri-
descent brocade, woven on special looms
from pattern Immediately DESTROYED.
To the queen on her coronation day and
the maiden on her bridal, the dress
maker is alike, Indispensable. = = z''
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III. The house is kept at concert pitch un-
til the work Is under good Roadway.
Then the potentate of the occasion re-
la::es her severity and conversation be-
gins, eddying in and out, ripping on like
q brook; swirling around familiar topics,
and cleaning with gayety and gossip.
Going as she does everywhere, the dress
maker hears no end of pleasant things;
and knows no end of interesting occur
srences. She is no vender Of malice or
purveyor of scandal. She is only hard
working little woman, who earns every
dollar she receives. and who entertaius