The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-09
CHANGING MODES 0M NOTICES
OID-FASBIONED KIND WORKED WITH ZEPHYR YARN HAVE
GIVEN WAY TO THE MORE ErHEMERAL ONES OF TO-DAY.
Niansas Ciiv Star.l

G<ansaS City starr
What has become of the old fash
ioncd motto. the zephyr-yarn motto,
the tinsel-faked motto and the man.
tel piece motto that hung ON the wall /?
Nobody seems to know.
a few days ago a woman asked
Harold r. Bleven, manager of the
department., where she could obtain
one of those old favorites. Good bless
our home" He did not have any in
stock; had not seen n for years and
could not tell her where to get one.
Last week a curious person went
out williamjurnsing for an archaic
motto. He hunted second hand furni-
ture and art stores. He found none.
After That long walk he decided a
purposes anyhow, SO he selected New
er again."
Once he am near to finding
A clerk in a furniture store, down on
Main street said his aunt in Hart
Vile. Mo-, used to have a mantel
piece with Make hay while the sun
shines sawed into it. She pumped
that motto into her boys. and. after
following ii several years on the farm,
they came to town to learn the barber
business. He thought maybe after
that experience she made kindling IL
Of the mantel piece. so this case was
not investigated further.
Those veteran notices rode off into
oblivion OH a high bicycle, it is gen.
orally believed. Both began to dis
appear about fifteen years ago. Mot
toes had "a lively run in their day.
They We're embroidered on c%ardboards
and hung i'm frames: painted in wood
en- chowder bowls and swung in the
orner Of the best sitting rooms in
the land: carved or scrolled in fancy
lettering into the edges of mantcl
pieces and frequently done on pillows.
The pillow motto enjoyed n longer
lease on life tina its three companions.
Working notices on cardboards
winks as an indoor sport. One could
buy a cardboard with q choice uplift
saying all laid out, ready to be stitched
at n furniture store. Real nifty mot.
toes We're done in zephyr yarn, which
came in rcd. blue and green coIors.
Nobody knows why it was called
zephyr yarn, but 1t was anyhow.
Any one could work cardboard mot
toes and almost every II did. Young
women were the first to take up the
fad. Some young men got the stitch
ing bug, but they worked secretly.
Motto stitching societies were formed
and became quite popular. The un-
written motto of many homes was
What is home without a motto? q"
But bridge whist or some form of
amusement came along and the wom-
en- dropped their needles and the yarn
notices died.
1t requires about as much artistic
ability to urn out n stitched card
board as 1t does to black q stove, but
the same cannot be said of the chow
der bowl motto. There was class to
this. Mothers who produced these
masterpieces were %cultivating talent
which their daughters. who copy Glib
son and Harrison Fisher heads, in
herited. 1t also presaged china paint
ing.
Any one who made one of these
chowder bowl nightmares certainly
had nothing concealed in her sleeves.
To begin with q common bowl, orig
inally designed by some coarse person
with the purpose Of making. a handy
kitchen utensil In which hash might
be mixed. was obtained. The artist
then gave the interior of the bowl a
coat Of white paint. A ] ouse. a few
trees and a fence were mex spread on
the white base. On account of lack
Of space, due to the most of the sur
face being taken up by the likeness
of the real estate and Its improves
ments. the motto was usually blazoned
from the sky. Lastly, over the entire
! scene was spread tinsek
Quite unlike most works Of art the