Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-12-11

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ped from California. and our olives
sent from Italy. and our terrapin
caught in Virginia, and our canvasback
ducks shot IN Chesapeake bay, and our
cranberries grown near Kalamazoo,
and our plum pudding and fruit cake
like the spices of the Egyptian mum
mics. gathered from everywhere, and
with their indigestible qualities ready
to change US into mummies ii we only
give them a big enough chance, while
as a cupola upon this many fioored or
many coursed thanksgiving meal we
Law on the big. thick layer of richly
favored homemade ice cream from our
own Jersey COW, without which our
children consider no Thanksgiving din
ner worthy the name. -
But 1 must stop describing themany
different sources from which our
THANKSGIVING dinner comes, or else
| vour hunger for material things viii
| crowd out your desire for a spiritual
| Thanksgiving. Suffice TO say the rail-
road track and the ocean greyhound as
| well as the wonderful modern reaper
anu mower VI Illc Id etAO SpA C<A0ll1-
for us a Thanksgiving banquet of
| which the Romans and the Greeks and
/ the Hebrews or even our own ancestors
| of a hundred years ago in the widest
| flights of their imagination could never
conceive or dream. No wonder all the
menus or the bills of fare of all our
large city restaurants are printed in
foreign language. Foreign lands con-
tribute a great part to all American
banquets. Thank God, Japan can fur
nish Massachusetts her rice as well as
Louisiana her sugar and China her tea.
A Striking Picture.
But as l go and study Byam Shaw's
picture and watch that crowded room
of the British museum | see the men
and women dressed in the most beau
tiful of garments. Of course these gar
mentS are not in up to date fashions
They are dressed as people dressed
thirty years ago When we say thirty
years ago we instinctiyely know that
the styles are old fashioned, for when
we realize that every winter our moth
ers and wives and daughters must
have their clothes made over again
| completely or else they feel that they
| look ridiculously out of style, then we
| know that the garments of a quarter
| of a century ago must be out of style
indeed. If our wives wore big sleeves
in their dresses last winter, then they
must wear very small sleeves now. If
small bonnets were their headgear last
| spring, then this fall their hats must
| be shaped like a Mexican sombrero,
for thus DEGREES Partisan STYLE And
the average woman would sooner wear
a convict's garb than be out of style.
But, though Byam Shaw's characters
were dressed in garments a quarter Of
a century old, yet, like our own clothes,
they were all machine made garments.
The linen came from the Belfast mills.
The woods were woven not with a Pris-
elias spinning wheel, but by the looms
of the Manchester factory. The silks
came from the silk mills, the kid gloves
from the kid glove factories. The poke
bonnets were made in the hat factories.
The high silk hats, without which no
British aristocrat feels that he is dress
ed as a gentleman, also came from the
hat factory. And when we go through
our own wardrobes we hear machinery
humming one perpetual sentencea Il
made you. | made You. l made you
1 made the cloth of that coat. made
the cloth of that dress. | made that
underwear. l made those shoes and
those hats and those gloves | made
you. 1 made you" And why has ma
chinery made all our clothes? For two
reasons first, because machinery can
make our clothes much cheaper than
the human hand can make them; rea-
son the second, machinery can make
those clothes much better and more
suitable for comfort and ease.
"Oh,' says some cynic, 81 do not see
any benefit from macl. merry in regard
to clothes. True the sewing machine
is able to make six dresses for my
wife where her grandmother had only
one but the difference between modern
tunes and ancient times is no difference
IN the amount of work done. Ny wife
keeps saying always, I must have six
dresses, SO every time I come home
from business she meets me with re-
quest for new hat or a new coat or
new dress or a new pair of evening
slippers, and for my part 1 would like
to go back to the old times when wo-
men and men did not think or talk
about dress. This talk about dress
nearly drives me insane" Would YOU.
my brother, like to go back to the old
ways and not have the comforts of the
modern machine made garments?
Well, let me see how it fits III your
case
Old Fashioned Clothes.
You say you like the old handmade
clothes, hard to make, but clothes
which, after they were made, never
wore out How would you like your
grandmother to knit for you a
pair Of stockings like those your great
grandfather wore? You say these
modern stockings are always getting
holes in them Yes, they are but there