The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-06-19
GRANDMA STILL KHITS
BUT THE YARN TANGLES.

Il really wish l were my own grand |
mother. 1t must have been so rest |
fuI to be a grandmother in her day. |
Yes, of course I'm one myself, but |
the styles in grandmothers have |
changed so greatly that I'm not in the |
least like the dear old lady in the |
black silk and real lace cap who used |
to sit placidly knitting by our fireside |
when | was little girl | can see her |
now, 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
sprigged muslin lap. 1t is a lovely
picture of quiet and repose to recall
in these busy times. She didn't have
to read Bergson and Ellen Key or any
of the modern philosophers that have
to 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. /
don't suppose it would ever have oc-
Cured to her that it was her duty to
leave her dinner half eaten and rush
down to the city council on Mon
day night to throw the moral weight
of her presence against the passage
of nefarious ordinance.
"Oh. dear, there's the telephone
Friday forenoon, did you say? Please
wait moment until l consult my cal
endar. Yes, l can see you at ten.
Please come promptly, as l have
committee meeting at II.
That's a. young woman who wants
me to hear her paper on eugenics be-
fore she reads it to the Mothers coun-
Gil in the settlement where she works.
I wonder what my grandmother would
have thought about eugenics?
Just excuse me a moment while
glance at these notes. Here's an in
vitation to the ball poudre the Had
sails are giving Wednesday of next
week / certainly must squeeze in
| dancing lesson or two before then.
Billy-that's my younger grandson,
| you know-told me the other night at
| the club hop that l was really rusty
| on 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
that they're coming in again, certain
| ly must brush up. / suppose l might
take a 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 a china teapot, and l be-
lieve it was a comfortable state of
| ignorance
/ No, I can't rest much Thursday
afternoon, because I'm one of the pa
tronesses at the play and the dansant
that Adelaide that's 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 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. l always take that
hour of the manicure's weekly visit
; to do q lot of quiet thinking. l sup
IL POSS 81 1du oil tllS lII4iS AOl
| thinking that she wished.
{ My head fairly buzzes with projects
for the new vacation camp I'm get
! ting up, the movement for introduc
ing household economics in work
D mems homes, that I'm pushing, and
j plans for all my other various board:
!, and committees. The change of fash
ions is bothering me just now also
for 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
= necessitate a complete remodeling.
How pleasant it must have been 70
: grandmother always to know that he
: waists were to be made surplice ant
her skirts plain gathered. 1t must hav,
, given her peace of mind far exceed
ing that gained from the course il
, artistic dress design that l took las
year She was free from all VOL
ries about harmony of tones and grace
= full lines. Her only care was 70
II cleanliness and neatness, and her fee
. ing for art was easily expressed il
Tic pdJlClh VI hll1IICd AcASO "AANh III
u ished the hem of her crisp white apro
= that she rarely mussed, for all she ha
:, to do was to knit.
!, Yes, of course, knit. knit witt
;, out ceasing almost The only plac
y don't knit is at church or a dane
ing or bridge party, and / don't kno'
: how long shall be exempt from kni
u ting there. A woman whose needle
aren't continually clicking for the su
ferers across the sea is considere
heartless. The family darning, whic
n was a sacred rite with my grandmotl
N er, is sent out of our house to
is done, so that we can have the tin
D. to knit, knit, knit. l keep a woI
le bag in the dining room so that
u can knit between courses, and hay