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For Woman’s Work.
A MEMORY.
KITTY M’CARTHY.
A flood of golden sunlight bathing
All the world : a fragrance sweet
Os violets; a blush of roses
Wild and glowing, brightly blowing,
Where the brook and river meet.
A happy binding of two loving
Hearts together, in a knot
Os brown-eyed daisies. The zephyrs
Breathing kisses, and the flowerets
Slyly listening, are forgot.
A flood of sunlight shining over,
In two hearts that love has blest,
In two lives that love has garnished
With a gladness, and where sadness
Is unknown, nor finds a rest.
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There lay a shroud upon the earth—
A snow drift —the icy fingers
Os its death, ,so pale, so shadowy,
Touched a heart, and froze a life—
And only sadness lingers.
A darkness lay upon a life,
That erst so full of bloom ;
A lonely heart in silence broods;
Oh! desolute heart, Oh! sunless world.
Oh! world of deathless gloom.
For Woman’s Work.
CHILDREN’S SEWING WORK.
ANNE GARDNER HALE.
VI.
To mention mending as one branch of
sewing for children may, to some persons,
appear absurd, for it is generally considered
the most disagreeable of all needlework,
and the most difficult. But children, after
having acquired free use of the needle, can
be taught to mend, and to do it well, and
willingly; though it must be confessed
they are apt to have a distaste for it until
they find, as Ruskin says, that “the honest
desire to help other people, will, in the
quickest and most delicat ways, improve
one’s self.”
Certain it is, that, to fully realize how
disagreeable such work can be, a child must
do—a part at least—of its own individual
mending, and at nine or ten years of age
should begin. There will be fewer rentsand
tearsand strains in clothing, andmorecare
ful handling of toys, books, and all other be
longings, as well as more considerate use of
furniture—indeed of all matters and arti
cles possessed by others—when one has
known by experience the toils and tribula
tions of repairing, and endeavoring to reno
vate, what may have been injured through
carelessness or misuse.
It is true that there are days when nail
and knob and latch seem in league togeth
er to bring us to tatters, and every bush
and brier appears determined to make a
ragged Meg Merrilies of the daintiest,
tidiest little quakeress in the land; days
when barn-door rents and owls-eye holes
make their appearance unaccountably, and
we can only console our wounded pride by
averring belief in the “perversity—and de
pravity—of inanimate things,”—that serves
as a convenient scape-goat for persons
wiser and better than we are, or ever ex
pect to be.
So when poor snivelling little Tommy
cries in despair—(so much has he tried to
keep his jacket nice and whole) —“It tor
ed it—self —it did!” We’ll not reprove
him, but, after washing the tear-stained
cheeks and grimy hands, put a needle in
his eager fingers and show him how to
make the torn part whole again. For boys,
as well as girls ought to learn mending.
Many a man finding himself—not “ten
miles from a lemon” as Gail Hamilton says,
but that distance, or farther, from a wo
man’s deft fingers, would be proud, and
happy, to know how to make his ragged
stockings more comfortable, his frayed and
shabby garments more respectable.
The first lesson in mending should be on
the thin places in roughly worn stockings—
holes may have attention later. Any boy
or girl, having had moderate practice with
a needle, by the time he or she has reached
the ninth birthday, should be expected to
darn those thin places. At the thread and
needle stores can be found wooden balls,
wooden eggs, and the like (with, and also
without, handles) to put in the stockings,
in order to keep the part to be darned
smooth and steady foi the work. These
are convenient,but a stil, stout card, which
can be a piece cut from an old pasteboard
box, is much better; for its flat surface does
not stretch the stocking, as the convex ball
or egg does.
Suppose Harold’s or Bessie’s stockings
brought up from the laundry are worn to
the thinness of gauze at, the knees, notone
syllable of blame shall be given the child
ren, for their plays—the merry sports and
frolics that bring such destruction to cloth
ing—are the involuntary expressions of
opening faculties and expanding muscles,
and the well-being of the children requires
that these should be encouraged rather
than checked. Still if the repairs are made
the care and concern(that is, in a measure)
of Harold and Bessie, they will be likely to
become less in number, and in extent—
greater moderation, and less rough manage
ment gaining control of their young limbs.
One half hour of the Saturday holiday
can very well be spared by the children for
mending stockings; and having learned
running-stitch they will soon become ex
pert darners. The stout card—two or two
and a half inches square—is placed in the
stocking, just under the thin spot, and the
stocking basted firmly to the card. Os
course the darning is to be done on the
“wrong” side, as it is called—the inside.
Then with long darning needle and mend
ing yarn, stitches, are taken in straight
lines, up and down the thin spot, by care
fully raising on the needle alternate
“rounds,” (as the rows of knitting or weav
ing in the stocking are called) in such a
manner that nothing of the darning can
be seen on the right side of the stocking.
The yarn must be allowed to pass loosely
in taking the stitches that the work be as
elastic as the rest of the stocking. Unlike
sewing, darning need not be fastened either
at beginning orclosing,—merely run a few
stitches into the unworn part. Then re
move the card and have the darn pressed
under a damp cloth, with a warm iron.
When a stocking is worn to holes, darn
ing is more difficult. Still with a good
stock of patience excellent results follow.
The most common way of repairing a hole
is by basket-stitch, and phildren learn this
quickly. It is well to pick out all the
broken ends of yarn around a hole, till it
has a strong outline. Then, as in mending
a thin place, insert the card and baste
smoothly about half an inch of this strong
part; that the hole may have a firm and
smooth border all around it. Begin by
darning, as in the thin place, three or four
rounds of the strong part at the side, and
also at the end of the hole, and pass the
yarn over the hole to meet the firm part at
the opposite end. Continue this till the
space is covered, and the whole border
around the hole made firm. Then across
the yarn now covering the hole, pass the
darning needle and yarn over and under
each alternate thread of yarn, till the hole
is completely filled with strong weaving, as
of coarse cloth, or basket work.
On exposed portions, yarn passed from
one side to the other of a hole, at every
stitch of knitting or weaving, gives bars,
which, when covered with chain-stitch, fill
the space with work precisely as if knit or
woven. This is perhaps too nice work for
the children to attempt, unless they are
willing to take great pains with it.
Harold can mend the fingers of his wool
en gloves, or the thumb of his mitten, by
drawing the finger or thumb over the hand
le of the mending-ball, or something solid
of similar form, and darning according to
the directions given for mendingstockings.
Molly and Bessie will not care to trouble
auntie or mamma to mend their gloves—
kid, or silk, or cotton—it they know
they can turn the worn place inside
out and stitch it or darn it so neatly that
when it is right side out, the mending can
scarcely be seen.
Darning of rents in cloth—cotton, wool
en, or silk, after the same manner as direct
ed for thin spots in stockings—is not diffi
cult, if the place is lined by some thin ma
terial (that is thin material piaced under it)
and basted smoothly to a card.
Ravellings of the same color and the
same material as that to be mended should
be used to darn these rents. It is good
practice for young fingers to experiment
on a piece of worthless material before at
tempting to darn these rents. Mending
should not be considered finished till pressed
under a damp cloth with a warm iron.
The very sound of the word patch is
hateful to most ears. Still patches, are nec
essary evils, and boys and girls ought to
learn how to apply them. A ragged rent, or a
rent in badly worn material, is best mend
ed with a patch. The neatest way of doing
this is to cut out the ragged and worn part,
making square cuts of every edge, and
then to baste, by large over hand stitches,
a strong piece of the same material in that
open square and sew it in place by nice
darning of fine silk, or thread, or ravelings.
This, of course, will need to be kept steady,
by basting to a stift card, that the darning
may be nicely done. The stitches should
be taken just under the surface of the cloth,
if possible—to escape observation.
Another way, which any child who can
do good back-stitching will find easy, is to
stitch such a square in place, and then press
it neatly. A patch applied by hemming or
felling on the outside of a hole is the ugliest
way of mending. But it is often done; and
if of irregular shape looks very shabby. In
whatever way patching is done, the patch
should always be perfectly smooth and
have four straight— perfectly straight—siAes
Let children observe this as a rule, and in
all mending keep the work straight and
smooth, and they may even take pride in
mending anti in wearing mended gar
ments.
Theexquisite darning of our grandparents
was considered a fine accomplishment. It
was often ornamental, and was shown with
much pleasure as their embroidery. Indeed
certain kinds of embroidery are merely
darning, and are beginning to receive at
tention in artistic needlework; so that
Harold (boy as he is,) and Bessie, by be
coming proficient in mending, are in a fair
way to do admirable embroidery when
they are a little older.
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