Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1891 — FINE-FINGERED WORKERS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FINE-FINGERED WORKERS.

The Type of french Women Whose Hellcate Touch Creates Marvels. French peasants do not require much margin for developing their ideas of dress, but in head-gear they can be as different from one another even as stars differ in glory. In the accompanying sketch there are chosen three French woman making Torchon lace, and it will be observed that each one has a different hat. The

lady on the left has a mountain on her head that leads one to suspect she has an eye on the theater, while by her side is a dear little body with a closefitting hat of black felt or velvet. The woman in the middle wears the muslin cap of a domestic. But despite their head-gear they are all workers in lace, in which they make good wages and harve steady employment. They do not look to be especially bright, but they have hands of wonderful dexterity and delicacy of touch, which accounts for the superior reputation of the French lace for fineness.

FRENCH PEASANTS MAKING LACE.