Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-06-08
EXHIBITION OF FANCY WORK
(. V. 4. Rooms Crowded By Sight,
 seeTs Last Evening.


 St Patrick's hall was crowded last night by people from all parts of the town who had come to have look at the class work of the Catholic Wo. men's association and incidentally to take part in the whist party and joik in the festivities which followed, q dance. an amusement that has more charm for the average human being than anything else one could mention with the possible exception of bae4 ball. It is the twelfth annual ux hlblt and the committee in charge, under the able management of ths president of the association, Mrs C.. A. Jackson, and the superintendent, Mrs c. P. Hayes, left nothing undone to make it bigger and better than ever before. The place was taste fully decorated and we'll lighted, su that connoisseurs on dressmaking and other work carried on by the so- .ciety had excellent opportunities to see things to good advantage, and they took advantage of 1t.
 The exhibit was held on the first floor and contained enough samples of efforts in dressmaking, shorthand, embroidery and millinery to show that it is wonderful educational in situation, practical school which every young girl should devote some time to provided she wants to be we'll equipped to battle with the world in after life. The dress goods, mill linery and shorthand exhibit attract ed the eye as one entered and the first thought that entered the minds of people not familiar with the work of the different classes was to in quire whether the articles were loaned for the occasion or made by the teachers, nobody suspecting that pupils could turn out such work after short apprenticeship and while ar tending to other things during tte daytime. But such is the case, some of the finest specimens of dressmal,- ing and millinery on hand being done by young women who have spent but very short time in the classes. The list includes silk gowns, outing suits, shirt waist suits, shirt waists ard children's clothing. Most of the work done by the dressmaking class was taken away according as 1t was finished and several girls have been fortunate to get suits put up there in the latest styles by their sisters who are hard headed enough to see the wisdom of acquiring knowledge of how to make everything woman wears and do 1t in a manner that compares favorably with the best. This class is in charge of the Misses Jeanette Charters and Sarah A. Fir ley, two young women who have made special study of the business and have happy faculty of impart' ing to others share Of what tEcy know themselves.
 To be sure, woman's costume is by no means complete without hat, one to match, as you hear the girls say when they get talking confiden- tially about shapes" If you want to have nice hat all the time at the lowest possible expense you should learn how to do your own trimming. It is the easiest thing in the world tt make the shape" but it requires training as we'll as taste to attend to the trimming. Some say that the former cannot be acquired, but there is no doubt but that the latter cal and with view to making delft hands in millinery the society keeps two practical milliners, the Misses E.iza- beth Finley and Mary McNellis whose exhibit included outing hats. dress hats, lingerie and great many other styes the names of which no man could think of retaining in his mind over night. A woman who can make her own clothes and trim her own hats has a big advantage over those who have to pay for such ser vice, but unfortunately many lose sight of this fact until it is too late to make amends for lost opportpni- ties. Girls who fritter away their time and neglect to equip themselves with a knowledge of what can be ac- complished with the needle and scis- sors, to say nothing of the sewing machine. will tell you that sewing doesn't pay now; ready made things can be bought so cheaply. This is q mistaken notion, one which every girl finds out to her sorrow in case it happens to be her lot to come race to face with the stern realities of what it means to be obliged to mako wearing apparel last as long as possi- ble. Why, half the boys in the world would be naked and the fathers Of a good share of the other half beggars if mothers didn't know how to con vert two old pairs of pants into n .nau.p ana Girls learn to be your own dressmaker and milliner. You can do this at the rooms of the Cath ollie women's association. as anybody who visited the place last night will cheerfully testify.
 Under the able tutdrship Of Mss Elizabeth Quinn a class of shorthand progressed so far that they have got sufficient knowledge of the art to en- able them to become experts proyidao they stick to it. Specimens of the oi. forts of the pupils in shorthand and on a Smith premier typewriter az
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