The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-02

sz have seen the srousseau of u
princess
All d child / heard Of prinoesses
xwftSsnE on Golden states with dia-
q sstosd pencils. wrote myself on an
Il nrtltnafy slate with an ordinary slate
Il pencil while the children OF the
assasants wrote on wooden pot covers
with chalk AT that time / conceived
4fts idea that there was an enormous
4 difference between princesses and
lS9pther little girls, and in the innocence
E@@cf my heart ] though IL must be a
great deal nicer 60 be a princess than
M angel.
Later on met a couple~of psin-
1 Hsrssses who had neither golden crowns
on THEFT hoadS nor dAaancnd perctls
I'll fhnir Bands but ! Thought that
NJ rserfaaps at home IN ttelF palace tHey
had crowns. sad golden states ana
diamond pencils among their toys.
I Nov that illusion Is gone
I have saeu the trousseau Of q
princess, Perhaps u}ucty-nipc out OF
SIRE hundred readers know what a
4 sTatsssnau is Y,'it for tho benefit of the
ons han.e.a p Z viii Jet} this; when
Esq prince r4t2 married she gets two
n f9ainzs AshBpd and n trousseau'
The fFaus ~ nothing Aut clothes
s Oar gree Fsu rdmot hers spun and
Is MOVE % {t44 -f-t-f tas5f"s- NFtat s1tip
wsggvc coars- agi ,ee9 coarse linen
4 far tho trotsSseaus # their daugh-
1 fers. lndcStr@r; .'ls atnss coarse hut
II sErang. sheets AND rr~ petucoaIs
aTtd silghtgowns, G~@ ~ a1iaes with
4 sleeves reaching the rea At that
time people washed 81 year and
5hS irousseau was Tsa with This
I view. You changed yat3 Underwear
ance q week, oftener thGn that was
.g,,.a mi hA ffC
4 wartirobes. in the deep chests we're
piled ND stacks of chernises and night
gowns as many as there are weeks TN
the year, and even a few more II you
Il could afford and had time to tate
u them, The virtuous maiden had the
most petticoats
Morals deeeneratea People began
10 wash every month. The linen grew
4 thinner and finer. and you changed
twice week. A dozen Of each for
every day wear. dozen of each for
plenty Washboards were introduced
and Iaundresses who use chloride OF
ifn1@ When the sun bleachea the
| linen X went to pieces The young
wives had To think OF buying more.
Times degenerated more and more.
In New York people began to wash
| every week, and the young women
a
princegses~-yes. even the princesses.
The goods was no longer spun and
|woven by busy hands by the light Of
taiiow candles. It was manufactured
81 gigantic machines, often by mai G
fsongicts in tna prisons.
.Ishe machines learned to make lace.
THAT is to say machines without heart
and soul learned to make Some trash
which people had courage and cheek
Sssans4gtr tn emil 19Tp.
Fsut In the converts and in the peas
| mt nuts silent women were still MAX
h ing lace And still there were people
able to see that there is as much diff
ference bet ween machine made and
rsal lace as between an artists paint
ing and color print.
Years ago / met in Beguinagen,
near Client. two old sisters. approach
e ing the nineties Since they were five
& years old they had made lace inces-
& sanity. and their lace Yves as fine as a
spiders web. In the fi1my lace you
saw the work of their trembling fin
gers. Their whole soul they worked
into those beautiful patterns, and nc
one who saw the lace doubted for a
moment that ii was the work of their
pure souls. These two old ladies told
/ me that from their fourteenth to their
fhirtieth year they had worked on the
wedding gown 81 queen, now dead.
And I understand that even II
u times had changed and the young wo-
men in all countries spent their time