The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-07-10

Echoes takes considerable pride in
the fact she generally knows exactly
where any article about the house is
when it is asked for. Cultivating
this habit may be due to her mothers
training or an impatient dislike to
be put to the trouble of hunting for
things that are misplaced. We plead
guilty now, however, to carelessness.
Some time ago we clipped an excel
lent article on Samples" but when
a request came for some information
about them to present to club, we
looked and hunted in vain for our
clipping. Not until this moment did
we see it. 1t proves happy find,
however, now that we can publish it
to follow the recollections Mother
Trego gives us in this issue. We
would like to reproduce, the picture
of the sampler that headed the arti-
Gle. 1t is the one spoken of in the
article as being worked by Hannah
Garforth and besides containing the
entire temple, has from little chubby
figures that perhaps were intended
for cherubs, lowering over the tenn
pie in the most precise manner. Per-
haps we would not know just what
Hannah intended to portray if she
had not made Solomon Temple" at
the top. Underneath she says, SOL
ONION employed 1836OO men and
was Z years and 6 months in build
ing the temple he afterwards sacri-
feed $4,000 cattle. The last fond
charge of David given to raise a
house to heaven by Solomon in mind
is borne then the temple to adorn
he orders all of highets worth from
richest regions known of earth, and
when completed same-God's house
with Solomon's sacrifice.
Hannah Garforth finished this
work, April IS, 1884, in the 18th
year of her age"
1t is all quite plain in the print,
except one word Immediately follow
ing same" The exhibition was in
Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington,
D. c., some time during the winter.
We are preserving the print, and
would be glad to mail it to anyone
upon request, if they will take the
trouble to return it to us.
Much interest is being manifested
in the tapestry and textile exhibition
which opened in the Corocran Gal
lery of Art last week. Sunday after
noon 1900 persons visited it, and
on week days also the attendance
has been gratifyingly large.
One of the features of the exhibi-
Clon is a collection OF sixty-five sam
piers loaned by Mr.. Alexander w.
Drake of New York-quaint pieces of
needlework produced chiefly by chill
dren many years ago. Children were
reared differently in the early eigh-
teen hundreds, and needlework then
was considered an essential part of
girls education. Shameful, indeed.
was !. deemed if even small lass
could not hem with invisible stitches.
gather with absolute evenness, darn
and letter with neatness and ease.
The copybook or sheet was en-
ployed in school, and the sampler at
home to teach script and needlework
lettering. Clothes must be marked, as
we'll as bed and table linen; there
fore little fingers must learn to shape
large and small letters and numer-
ais.
How many tears and silent MUIR
murings these bits of needlework
must represent II, human nature has
not undergone change; but also
how much pride eventually they
must have aroused and how much
joy! Even the cruel mentor who
set the baby fingers to work upon a
pious text, long and tortuous, must
have felt certain well-defined
pleasure when the task was really
we'll done.
But these samplers were not franz
ed when they were first produced
the labor they cost was soon forgot
ten, and many one Is still In hiding
in unexplored attics. Indeed, 1t is
only recently that their decorative
quality has been discovered and that
their value from the art standpoint
has been made manifest Almost ev-
cry one has grandmother's or great
grandmother's sampler. but few I'M
TIL now have realized that It possess
ed more than sentimental interest.
And yet in color many are charm
ing. dull brownish linen commonly
being used as a foundation, and the
silks or woods employed in the de-
sign being especially good In tone
and we'll chosen. The floral, con-