Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1909 — Modern Devices. [ARTICLE]

Modern Devices.

Even if a woman does not fully comprehend the intricate parts of fine sewing, there is little excuse these days for not knowing hew to do plain sewing. Even down to turning the hem there is a little hem marker which costs but 25 cents, and it will mark a hem from the most minute width to four making it perfectly even on all sides. The metal gauge for making eyelets is another jsewing implement of as much use as the buttonhole scissors. Patterns are so simple that a child could understand how to put a garment together, after reading the directions, and there is really no reason why a woman should not do her own sewing. Below their dignity? Not a good excuse at all. Why, I came in contact in a sewing room here in St. Louis, with millionaires’ daughters, who are learning to make their own pretty waists instead of paying $25 for some one else to make them, and if ricn men’s daughters turn to the dainty task, why not all women? There are women who cannot learn to sew a bit more than some others who cannot learn to sing or paint, though these women are always politely excused, for they do something useful in another direction.