The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-06
SWEAT SHOPS OLD |LURED BY ARCTIC
Philadelphia Woman Traces ORR
Gin Back to $500 B. C.
Miss Lamb Tells of Her Researches
to University Museum Audience
They Existed in Ancient Egypt
First Needle a Thorn.

According to the reports CT MISS M.
A. Lamb, a Philadelphia woman who
has taken upon herself the task OF
raising the needle to it's rightful
place in history. upon the results OF
her personal Investigations among
relics of the most ancient peoples, the
sweatshop originated in Egypt and
the first needle probably was pucked
from a thorn tree by Mother Eve
some few minutes after her historic
leave-taking of the Garden of Eden.
Miss Lamb appeared the other day
in the lecture hall of the Museum
of the University of Pennsylvania
and every assertion she made to an
interested audience was backed by
photographs and exhibits sufficiently
accurate to convince the most unbe
lieving CT skeptics. OF course, there
were no relics of Adam and Eve; the
assumption concerning the means
taken by them to add to their abbre
Waited costumes after cold knowledge
had started the first of all human
troubles is nothing more or less than
long shot at doubtful target. But
Miss Lamb did show a photograph oi
the very Oldest piece of combination
leather work and embroidery i'll eX
istence, piece that is carefully pre-
served In q museum of the old world
and demonstrated how positively it II
known to antiquarians that the skill
full hands responsible for its exist
ence were busy at work during the
reign of Solomon.
To prove Egypt's responsibility fol
the appearance OF the sweat shop the
women lecturer showed very strik
ing photograph of a tapestry hall Of
the ancient empire taken from stone
carvings of a very ancient period anc
beside the figures Of q woman anC
man, men being among the most eX
pert OF the early needle and loon
workers, there was series of hero
glyphics that, deciphered, bespoke the
plant of an old Egyptian woman
who was much displeased that hel
daughter, after serving an apprentice
ship in one of the shops, was not be
ing paid in proportion to her labors
And the strange writing goes on t.
describe the shops-snall places with
many occupants who are deprived o.
sun and air while they work.
This was $500 years before Christ
Going back even further Miss Lamf
produced etchings from the cliff
abodes of the cave-men OF periot
that belongs somewhere in the hazJ
stretch of time known as the stone
age, and time after time the rude
skill of the rock-dwellers was shown
to have turned to the portraying o
the fancy sleeve-dress of the triba
chiefs and leading warriors An actua
photograph of a tunic, dug from tel
feet OF peat in an Irish bog and cyl
IDENTITY part of the apparel of one
of Ewes earliest daughters, wal
thrown upon the screen In the lecture
hall. The process OF petrification re
vealed it to be made of two pieces
Joined together by a system of stitch
ing similar to what is known now a!
"drawn-work." It seemed sufficient,
convincing to the women part Of thu
audience and the rest of Miss Lambs
admirers took their applause as ex
pert testimony.
Thorne from the trees of antiquis.
were the first needles. After then
came those of bone, flint and shell
and the succeeding steps were takel
gradually through stone and copper tt
the steel implement of today. Mis-
Lamb showed pictures of the frs
cousin of the needle, the safety-pin
and It seems to have had it's origin
just 1000 years earlier than Chris
tianity. 1t was a mere matter OF de
tail to carry the story through Chal
dea, Babylonia. Asyria and the lands
| of the ancient Hebrews.
From all that the patiently investi
eating Philadelphia woman was abb
to tell her audience yesterday it il
assured that Abraham. Solomon an,
Mohammed wore richly-embroider
silks and cloth of gold that even be
| fore them the stone men, conten
with lesser attire. made fancy wrist
let's and arm decorations, and, finally
! that the needle as we see it. is onl,
the present-day descendant OF the bi
Of thorn bush the first woman
plucked on the outskirts of Eden II
an emergency born of the very ear
TEST "moving-day recorded.
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