Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-23
Her Morning S Work

The ycunC woman with the streak of
| orange across hcr forehead and one hand
| maienta ana the other pale green sat
| down and looked discouraged.
i've rad tho most awful time" she
most unnecessarily Informed her audi
cnce. Kitty does such things and em"r-
| EcS calm ana will her original complex
| ion ana look at me-
"Whv, I've seen Kitty dye things with
| one hand and read Schopenhaucr With tho
| other. meanwhile keeping one eye open
! for tie approach of her best young man
| and everything happened as IT should
Now, | devoted my entire attention and
, my every breath, not to speak of my
| whole som, to this mornings work aud
vet the most startling things constantly
| occurred.
Tor instance. there was that lavender
| ginGhHn dress Of mine that was faded in
strcaks. Kitty told me- to boil it with
some sort of stuff in the water and gave
me package Of the powder She said it
hall an hour and when l went to ct it
the cello" was bright canary yellow.
Yes. it was!
You can't imagine what start ii
gives you to tnd q yellow gown when
vou expect 4 White one, | don't under
stand Il in the least, because | got the
powder from the place | put it OIL the up
per pantry she'll
what" exclaimed the young woman's
sister, sitting bolt upright. That rack
age was snlphuric acid! I pnt it there l
threw ont some queer stuff l found on
wen" It isn't sulphuric acid now"
saVa@cly said the young woman decorated
in colors It, u Bingham dr SIS that looks
like the approach Of the Chinese peril:
'That sort Of discouraged me-" went on
ne decorated woman, 50 ! thought I'd
clean some things in gas 'lin". All you
and down after letting them soak. No
body ever told me if soaked tn yards
Of HECK lace together with some pink
Iiik things what would harncnn to the silk;
| know now. however, that things will
happen under such circumstances. Poo
pic nave such way Of forgetting tho cS-
Sential rart Of their directions. soaked
Il hat, too, with bird on it ard the bird s
head shed all its feathers. III have to
tie bow around its poor neck ana let 1t
g" ut that. l could die the spoilcd pink
silk. Of course. only my experiences sort
Of unench.d my enthusiasm
,Ali You had 10 10 Kitty said. was to
dissolve these dyes in hot water and
when the water cooled Won dipped into it
whatever YOU wanted to color. She sail
the beauty Of the whole thing was its
SIMPLICITY. You didn't need to boil your
goods in Tic dye or rinse it or put in vim
sort and You could max" the dye any
shade you liked. So I started in.
II had . bowlfnl of lovely lavender dye
and the'huIldos rushed il and tipped it
over en- ~" pon@ee skirt just home from
the cleaners. I found it WAS Just as Kit
ty said-it was strong, durable perma-
n"nt dye. Unless / want to appear in an
ccru ponSnc skirt with Il sunburst Of Law
cndcr al over one side Tn afraid I've
got to give up the skirt. The bulldog got
some lavender sDrinIlicd over him anu
WIS glad Of it, I hope all his dog friends
will ostraTizc him and make his life mis-
cradle: They ought to, because he's a
perfect fright.
when l got the green dye ready for
my skarf / bent over il 50 assiduously
that my pompadeur Knocked the kitchen
WhiSk broom down into the pan--and the
green spattered. What, didn't 90 on me
made a weird design on the freshly cal
cimined Kitchen wall. If you tip YOU head
to one side when you look at it Won can
see a woman in a balcony looking down
AT horse sitting on its bird legs 1T isn't
comfortable to twist your head about
and anyway who wants to look at n
spattcr picture of n horse sitting on its
hind legs' Yet it is really curious and
really I sec no reason for mothers re-
senting my spelling the wall 1t isn't
everybody VINO can have q freak work If
art like that in her kitchen
y rather hesitated over the yellnv-
crene kimono which Bert brought mo
from Japan. 1T has always looked as If
II cost an awful lot of money Still that
did not alter the fact that it was 4 lemon
S"Adn winch was most unbecornine to
me- L thought If I could tint it a softer
yellow It would be more effective So T
dlpred it: I think I got into much dive
Ter 1t looks like Florida orange now. IF
Is worse than the Bingham dress.
got this magenta dye because 7 was
trying to- refresh some crimson roses. II