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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 27, 1910
Page
7
An essay traces the apron from a mere cleanliness aid to a versatile fashion for home and office use. It highlights varied fabrics from gingham to lawn, plus styles for kitchen, sewing, and desk work, noting practical designs for the modern working woman.
The piece warns that iron gray hair signals mental wear from aging and urges older readers to engage with younger people. It recommends joining their interests, walking and talking with them, encouraging stories, and letting the bond renew the reader’s sense of youth and happiness.
The article describes practical sewing tips for mending and organizing, including threads and woolen yarn handling, waxing ends, and using a hanging setup with ticking and muslin to manage garments. It advocates patience, slow stitching, and visualization of unfinished work via a hanging system.
An old guidance piece urges mothers to prereinforce knee areas of children’s stockings before wear. By cutting a patch from an old pair and attaching it with invisible stitches, stockings last longer and avoid large cross barred darns like prison windows. The advice emphasizes early preventive mending.
A practical project suggests using a small safety pin to create a smooth head and loop for holding ribbons or tapes. It describes making a simple, convenient holder for embroidery silks, especially when no ready-made holder is available.
A mid 19th century needlework note describes making a yarn holder from silk or cheesecloth about eighteen inches long with a matched second piece. The pieces are sewn together at the ends, left wider on one side, and stitched at one inch intervals to form skein spaces. Feather stitching finishes, allowing silk to be drawn from the top, kept neat and clean, using a safety pin as the draw lever.
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