Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1913 — Pities Bachelors; Establishes a Mending Bureau [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Pities Bachelors; Establishes a Mending Bureau

Cleveland, o.—a motherly little woman haß taken pity on the buttonless, undarned and proverbially “holey,” helpless bachelors of Cleveland. She has established a Bachelor’s Mending Bureau. Bachelors, because they are commonly supposed to be in need of the hind of aid which she iq prepared to give, and married men whose wives are away, or who like to shop and “gad” better than sew, are eligible for assistance from this seamstress extraordinary. The woman Is Mrs. E. T. Benson, formerly of New York, where she established a reputation for “bachelor mending." She has “patched” and darned for some of the best known bachelors in the East There is one condition that she insists on in taking mending of unmarried men to do. That is a guarantee from them that if they marry they will not flaunt her mending in the faces of their wives and sspeak regretfully of “the way Mrs. Benson darned.” 1 “Why get married?" Inquired a young “blade” who had jußt had a rent In his trousers (the extra pair, not those he was wearing) mended so that no one could see where his girl’s father’s bulldog had embraced him.

There is really no longer excuse for any bachelor having a hole in his otherwise lovely silk eox. To be one button short in any portion of one’s wearing apparel with Mrs. Benson in the city, is nothing short of the unpardonable sin, while to have one’s shirt cuff frayed, or a riP in one’s new Bulgarian tie, are inexcusable social crimes. “I have always been something of an expert with the needle decided to turn my experience to good advantage,” said Mrs. Benson. “I think I have devised some new ways and means for mending and darning so that the repair is actually invisible except with a microscope. “I know young men, particularly bachelors, are particular and that some of them do not like the idea of having anything mended.”