Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1927-02-24

salon in part of her home and be-
comes a modiste.
Result No. 2-The regulation seam
stress fades out of the picture. She
can't get business In community In
which nearly every woman sews her
own seams.
Time was, when mother called up
Miss Mae or Miss Jenny, she came
early and basted rompers and fitted
sleeves all day long for $3.50. If she
had a knacK for designing and tone,
she got SO, luncheon and dinner In
cluded.
Today the customer goes to the dress
maker. A uninterrupted maid asks.
What Is the name, please, ana
promises an appointment with madam
at such and such a time. The dress,
or more properly gown, will cost any
where from S65 to $3.50 for the design
ing and making. The price of the
material is extra.
Even the term "dressmaker" is
passe She is a designer of gowns
a modesto" madam"
Under a Kansas City (Mo.) date
line appeared this item, which de-
clared that
Back in the days when Ward Meal
listers 400" was the only recognized
social register in the East, the Middle
West had its own way of Identifying
the socially elect. Strangely enough,
its passing has been almost un-
marked.
In the so-called nifty nineties the
register of eligible males in most Mid
die Western towns was to be found
on the carefully guarded shelves of
tonsorial en.poriums. Here, row on
row, sat the private shaving mugs of
the towns prominent, and across each
was the owners name, usually in elab-
crate script But now, like Ward
McAllister's list, the private mugs are
passing. New fandangoes which elm
mate the shaving mug altogether have
come into their own.
Some Kansas City BARRIERS blame
women's invasion of the shops Others
declare that masculine patrons are not
as particular now and do not always
visit the same shop as they were wont
to do when business was transacted
in more leisurely fashion. Still others
said the need for the mugs had
passed; that they came into being as
the result of some ones belief they
would be more sanitary. In a few
small towns the private mugs still
survive, but in the main they are gone.
Plain Dealer. 1t said:
The old-time travelling merchant.
who peddled small line of merchan-
disc from farm to farm, has disap-
peared in this section.
The development of swift modes of
transportation, the extension of means
of communica ton and the coming of
improved highways have made obso-
lete the old travelling stores, but their
memory fingers. For, in the old DAYS
the peddler or huckster was vital
part of farm life.
The business of the travelling mar
chant was a natural sequence Of the
times and condition. The pack ped
dler soon followed the pioneer with
his pack of dress goods, feminine wear.
linens and trinkets, but the travelling
merchant Was brought to the stage
of action by an entirely different set
of circums tances.
The sparsely settled localities. the
long distances between stores and the
long periods of bad roads each wear
made the opportunity for him. The
people as a whole could not conven-
emily reach him, but he could take
his store on wheels and go to them.
| in the whole undertaking.
"And that's the way it is every
where" declared the Old Timer. IT
tell you the fellow who wrote that
book about No More Parades' was
right. Here's piece from the Chris
tian Science Monitor that says:
american streets seldom resound In
! these busy and practical times to the
ta-Ta-ra and boom boom of the old