Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1889 — SEWING ON BUTTONS. [ARTICLE]

SEWING ON BUTTONS.

‘ When I get a bright idea, I always want to pass it along,” s .ida lady, as she sat watchin? a young girl sewing. “Do your buttons ever come off, Lena 0 ” “Ever? The/re always doing it. They are ironed off, washed off and pulled off antd I despair. I seem to shed buttons at every step.” “Make use of these two hints when you ar* sewing them on, then, and see if they make any differe ice. Wh en you begin, before you lay the button on the cloth, put the thread through so that the knot will be on the right side. — That leaves it under the button, and prevents it from being worn or ironed away and thus beginning the loosening process. “Then, before you begin sewing, lay a large pin across the button, so that all four threads will g > over the pin. After you have finished filling the holes with thread draw out your pin and wind your thread round and round beneath the button. That makes a eompact stem to sustain the possible pulling and wear of the buttonhole.” “Ir is no exaggeration to say that my buttons never con e off, and fm sure your’s won’t if you use my method of sewing.”—Youth’s Companion. Hon. Abrxm S. Hewitt, ex-may-or of New York, ex-congressman &?., is now in Europe, where he will remain until the 3d of August. He was interviewed in London* and says that he is now studying the process of manufacturing basic steel. “I am convinced,” he says, “that America will make iron and steel for mankind in the long future We have the coal, iron, caoital, skill and energy necessary to do it. He is opposed to the tariff and fays it alone prevents the United States from being the “greatest exp rtmg country on the earth, and it ought to be. The soonerj duties are abolished, the B eoner it will become so. Now

that food, eotton and petroleum form the bulk of our exports. ought to export very largely of manufactured,articles.” “By removing the duty on iron,” he says, “we would simply be compelled to m-ke our hod whtr.se eilities are favorable, and stop making it where they are not We Would Lave shui up some of cunmills, which are now where they have no business to be. The iron and steel manufacture would be confineu chiefly to the territory lying between Ohio and Lake Su peiior, to Tennessee and Alabama, and there is where it ought to be.” There are said to be 9,000 women doctors in the United States. The men of the Revolution suffered hardsnipo. General Groon, in hie dispatches after the battle of lutaw, says; “Hundreds of my men were naked as they|werr born ” Judge Johnson, In hit “Life of Green,* says; “Posterity will soaroolv believe that the ioins u* many men whe carried death into the enemy's ranks at Eutaw, were galled bv their oartoueh boxes, while a fold of rag or tuft es moss protected the shoulder from toe save injury from the musket” Gee. eral Greee says, in his letter te the Secretary of War: “We have three hundred men without arms, and more than one thousand so naked that they can not be put on duty only in the most desperate cases. Our difficulties are so enormous, aud our wants so pressing, that I have not a moment’s relief from the most painfel anxieties. 1 have more embarrassments than it is propor to disclose to the World.*