The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1915-03-26
GRANDMA STILL kNITs
BUT THE YARN TANClES.

| uOtucT. IL must nave Uetn so rest
hui to be a grandmother in her day.
yes. OF course I'm one myself, but
he styles in grsndmothers have
changed SO greatly that I'm not in the
east like the dear old lady in the
black silk and real lace cap who used
% sit placidly knitting by our fireside
when was little girl. can see her
low. In the summer time, too, In a
retired corner Of the porch OF our old
home Usually Young's Night
Thoughts lay open on her violet
,prigged muslin lap. 1t is a lovely
picture of quiet and repose to recall
N these busy times. She didn't have
% read Bergson and Ellen Key or any
! II the modern philosophers that have
% gobble in large bites in order to
Keep up with my department in the
Woman's league. She wasn't burdened
either. with a civic conscience. |
! ion't suppose it would ever have oc-
:uTred to her that 1t was her duty 10
cave her dinner half eaten and rush
Town to the city council on Mon
lay night to throw the moral weight
II her presence against the passage
If nefarious ordinance
"Oh, dear, there's the telephone
Friday forenoon, did you say? Please
wait moment until | consult my cal
sndar Yes, can see you at ten.
Please come promptly, as have a
committee meeting at II.
That's a young woman who wants
ne to hear her paper on eugenics be-
ore she reads 1t to the Mothers coun-
I'll in the settlement where she works.
wonder what my grandmother would
lave thought about eugenics?
Just excuse me a moment while
glance at these notes. Here's an in
Vitation to the ball poudre the Had.
rails are giving Wednesday OF next
week. certainly must squeeze in a
1ancing lesson or two before then.
Billy-that's my younger grandson,
you know-told me the other night at
The club hop that | was really rusty
IN the waltz and two-step. You
see, I've done the new dances so much
The last two years that I've rather
neglected the old ones, and now
hat they're coming In again, / certain
ly must brush up. / suppose / might
take private lesson early Monday
AFTERNOON before | go to the lecture
on Chinese porcelain. That reminds
mel must refresh my memory on
the comparative Importance of the art
Of the successive dynasties. Dear old
grandma, she wouldn't have known
the difference between the Ming dy-
nasty and china teapot. and | be-
lieve it. was comfortable state Of
ignorance.
NO, ! can't rest much Thursday
afternoon, because I'm one of the pa.
tronesses at the play and the dansant
that Adelaide-thats my granddaugh-
ter, you know-and the rest of her
sorority are giving for the benefit of
the Red Cross. But Saturday will be
quite a free day. Just one short
meeting in the morning, a musicale in
the afternoon and the theater at
night. I'll have the time to rest in
the early morning. while the manicure
is doing my nails. | always take that
hour of the manicure's weekly visit
to do lot of quiet thinking. | SUP
pose grandmother had all the time for
that she wished
MY head fairly buzzes with projects
Tor the new vacation camp I'm get.
ting up, the movement for introduc.
ing household economics In work.
mems homes, that I'm pushing. and
plans for all my other various boards
and committees. The change of fash
ions is bothering me just now also,
Tor all my frocks, nearly. are too mar.
row skirted for the present mode,
though they were only made last au
tumn. I'm trying to evolve a meth.
cd OF making them fuller which won't
necessitate a complete remodeling.
How pleasant it must have been for
always to know that her
waists were to be made surplice and
her skirts plain gathered. 1t must have
given her peace of mind far exceed
ing that l gained from the course in
artistic dress design that | took last
year. She was free from all wor.
RES about harmony OF tones and grace.
Iul lines. Her only care was for
cleanliness and neatness, and her feel. |
ing for art was easily expressed in
he pattern OF knitted lace which fin. |
shed the hem of her crisp white apron
hat she rarely mussed for all she had |
20 do was to knit.
Yes. OF course | knit. | knit with .
cut ceasing almost. The only place |
don't knit is at church or a dane. !
ng or bridge party. and | don't know |
low long ! shall be exempt from knit. |
ing there. A woman whose needles |
trent continually clicking for the suf. |
erers across the sea is considered !
ieartless. The family darning, which /
vas sacred rite with my grandmoth- !
sr, Is sent out of our house to be |
lone. so that We can have the time
o knit, knit, knit. | keep a work
bag in the dining room so that
AN knit between courses, and | have
mother hanging in the limousine that
here may be no time lost between
as | drive across town.
Somebody to see me about the ru-