Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-03
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GIRLS MARK THEIR LINGERIE.
In this day of ready-mades, the
only thing that makes ones clothes
seem at all personal is to have some
individual way OF marking them. Even
girls who make many of their own
things enjoy putting on the little
touch which makes them peculiarly
their own. The easiest way and the
latest is to have the name in full,
hrst marked in the owners handwrit-
ing. Then it is worked with plain
outline stitch, or the work can be
done with the sewing machine, by
going over it twice. Handkerchiefs
are especially dainty done this way,
and much easier to identity than
when marked simply with the initials
or indehble ink, which becomes dim.
The machine stitching can also be
used on small initials for underwear,
and if a set of lingerie is being trim
med in colors the machine may be
threaded with color.
Flower marking is a dainty fad with
several prospective brides. Every
thing that they make has a daisy, a
buttercup, or, latest of all, a rose on
II. If the girl doesn't embroider, she
buys Hamburg flowers and button
holes them on. Another idea is to
have whole set of rose lingerie,
another of butterflies, and so on. m
this case very often the cloth is mark
ed with the owners name in indef-
bic ink in some out-of-the-way cor
ner, where only the laundress will
See it. Another idea is the color
marking. A whole trousseau seen late
ly was in white, except for the tiny
blue bell which appeared on each
piece of the lingerie.
If the lingerie is marked with
monogram it is correct to have the
same design stamped in several sizes.
Any girl who is at all clever with
pencil can draw the different sizes
for herself after she has the first
design done. The same is true of
initials. Both these and the mono
gram are now done in script rather
than old English style.
Perhaps the simplest of all mark
ing is with the tiny medallion initials,
which come in several sizes for a
few cents apiece They are sewed
into place and one initial outlasts
several garments.-Pittsbu Press.
NO HONOR FOR DOMESTIC WORK.
There are two kinds of work in the
world, beth equally necessary; the
one kind is pleasant, the other I'M
pleasant, and the great permanent
struggle of humanity is to get the
pleasant work for themselves individu-
ally, and to compel others to relieve
them of the horrid necessity of per-
forming the second kind. Now domes-
tic labor is not pleasant, first because
1t leaves no record, second because
the work brings no honor to the per-
former other than the very doubtful
honor which attends the destruction
of the results.
If domestic work had been pleas
ant, man would have reserved it for
himself, having the strength and the
opportunity to make his own condi-
lions, but primitive man preferred the
pleasures of the chase, and to cult
vate the free gait and lofty mien of
bold and beautiful brave, while wom-
an cooked the flesh and dressed the
skins of the fruits of the chase, car
rying the tentpoics and other port
able objects during family migrations
When we can impress on others not
only that the unpleasant things are
their portion but that they like the
allotment, We have added new ele-
ment 10 the art of government When
We have convinced people that they
are inferior they think it a privilege
to be permitted to look after obscure
and disregarded things Woman be-
Ieved for ages that she could not
throw a stone, could not grasp the
elements of the science of mathema-
tics, and was so timid that she was
bound to scream when she saw a
mouse. The great uprising began
when she recognized, as woman, that
these statements were not true.
Domestic work is not liked; not held
in honor, and until it is accorded ma
tional distinction, women will seek
another outlet for their efforts.-New
Haven Register.