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This is the plan of the society, and as to its results I have at hand the report for 1851, from which you can gather some particulars of its practical workings. They say, "Eight years have elapsed since this association was established, during which a most gratifying change has been wrought in respect to the mode of conducting the dressmaking and millinery business.
When she found the old tired state coming on her again, she and her mother always "took a vacation," and every time avoided the tired rut more easily. If one only has imagination enough, the helpfulness and restfulness of playing "take a vacation" will tell equally well in any kind of work. You can play at dressmaking play at millinery play at keeping shop.
The results of Lydia's summer dressmaking had not been bad. She had made herself several creditable shirtwaists and a neat little blue serge skirt. Her shoes were still shabby. Poor Lydia seemed somehow never to have decent shoes.
They are also making creditable progress in general cooking, plain sewing and dressmaking. "The students in the college range in age from sixteen to sixty years. One of the latter took eleven years to graduate, keeping two girls in school and a large family at home at the same time. "The taste for reading must needs be cultivated in most of the girls who enter our Homes.
She managed the whole household from some small lodging two stories above her daughter's, where, moreover, she had established a workroom for dressmaking and plain sewing. As to Blanche de Sivry, whose real name was Jacqueline Bandu, she hailed from a village near Amiens.
Grace in the kitchen was invisible, Miss Kate had gone riding with Mr. Stanford, Miss Rose was closeted mysteriously with papa. Miss Eeny, practising the 'Battle of Prague, was not to be disturbed. In my distraction I came here, where Miss Darling has kindly permitted me to remain and study the art of dressmaking."
Austrian bayonets ... he raved of them in his dreams, and called upon the names of comrades who had rotted in prisons or died in exile. His young wife nursed him devotedly until he died, leaving her a widow at twenty-seven. She had a small pension from the Government, and she worked at dressmaking to eke it out. Her only child had grown up to be a hopeless invalid.
The spring season passed off, with all its accompaniments of dressmaking and dress-buying, but still there was no news of her.
But whether you are destined to go into a shop or private house, it is important that you should make a better use of your time just now, while you are with me, and learn something dressmaking, let us say, and all kinds of needlework; then you will at least be able to make your own clothes." "I should like to learn that very much," said Fan eagerly. "Very well, you shall learn then.
The superintendent of schools was not inspiring as a model; the judge, for all his talk, lived a life of fat idleness, with convenient maladies when the Penniman lawn needed mowing. Mrs. Penniman, it is true, fought the battle of life steadily with her plain and fancy dressmaking, but with no visible glory; and Winona herself was becoming a drab, sedate spinster, troubled about many things.
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