Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-09-10
Hum OF Spinning Wheel Is Heard
Aqain In Many American Homes
Mathematical Problem.


II a woman can weave twenty
yards of cloth in a week, and linen
is eight dollars q yard. how much
can a woman earn in a month?
Here's a way to make the high
cost of clothes fight the high cost
Of living.
The arts of spinning and weaving
are being revived by the Society for
the Revival Of Household Industries
and Domestic Arts at SO East 44th
street, New York.
Farmers wives should get out
their spinning wheels, for prices OF
textiles were never higher" says
William Jay Robinson, a member OF
the advisory board of the society.
Channels Of selling will be opened
up and shops will buy everything in
the way of hand-spun and hand
woven textiles
Mrs. Agnes Murray, a farmers
wife of Landing. N. j.. is one who
is needing this advice. Wind
blown she reached the rooms of the
society in a state of enthusiasm. She
had found a spinning wheel for her
industry-about the scareest thing I'm
Manhattan is a spinning wheel, it
seems. After a dreary tramp ex-
tending over three days the elusive
wheel had been captured, as Mrs.
Charles Baker. of Succasunna, N.
j.. had made her a loan of her own
historic heirloom.
Satisfactory Salary.
Nov 1 am ready to spin," en-
phasized Mrs. Murray. Thereafter
spinning is to be my business; for
my eight year old daughter must
have an education and travel. My
Inhfnaf &c 20 ~ rannau hy fnaPhf1 =
the shut-ins how to spin.
"A woman can weave from twenty
to twenty-five yards Of cloth in a
week and earn a satisfactory salary
when linens are selling at IS a yard.
If she sows her own fax, as l have
on our farm of three acres, she can
earn more-that is by going through
the whole circle of endeavor from the
harvesting and bleaching of the fax
to the woven cloth as did our
ancestors. 1 plan weaving all our
own clothes, including my husbands
new wooden suit"
Flax on Country Places.
A colony of New York society
women led by Mrs. F. z. briggs and
Mrs. NJ. P. Brooks are growing flax
upon their country places at Redding
Ridge, Conn. On the estates of Mrs,
6uLzOH oOISluIH at CldIllOTu, OOnH.,
and Mrs. Philip Kerrison, of New
York. and even at Miss Mason's ex-
elusive school at Tarrytown -on-the-
Hudson, native fax is being grown
to supply their household linens
Then there may be woods clipped
from the back of native sheep To
be woven by these same women into
their new tailored suits for the
autumn, provided the spinning con-
tinues fascinating.
Up to less than 100 years ago
America spun all of its own linens
and woolens on spinning wheels and
wove them on hand looms. Now
that 1t is almost impossible to buy
linens at any price, and woolens are
expensive, the old industries of our
grandmothers mus be r-esurrected
say these enthusiasts.
The arts of spinning and weaving
also may afford occupation and cures
to countless shut-ins of hospitals, old
peoples homes. prisons and aims
houses. Teachers are now penetrat-
ing b~ackwoods places in search OF
old designs and patterns, and to bring
spinning to the attention of farmers
wives and daughters far away from
the centers of population in the
Ozarks of Missouri. in the mountains
of Kentucky. and beyond in the
Colorado plains.