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A little inquiry into the condition of the clothing trade and some examination of the facts might disclose to you that the poor sewing-woman is poor because she sews poorly, and that there is always a scarcity of skilful and intelligent sewing-women, at full wages."
Only that the sewing-woman Barbara was sweet on Weaver Thomas, and he could not abide her. 'I would rather, he told her, 'be a beast in the stall than be your wedded husband. The sewing-woman said he should rue the day he thus insulted her. And sure enough, from that time he could neither eat nor drink, growing poor and thin in the body.
She had no idea that Elias Howe was hard at work on a tireless iron and steel sewing-woman and was puzzling his brains day and night to put an eye in the needle that would be satisfactory. "You'd need to be made of money to hire all these folks! Margaret ought to be sewing this very minute, but she's fussing over those drawings of John's. I've such a smart family I think they'll set me crazy.
"What's abstractly?" said Miss Anastasia, scornfully. "Where do you get hold of such hard words, Lucy?" said Mrs. Douglass. "I don't know, Mis' Douglass, they come to me; it's practice, I suppose. I had no intention of being obscure." "One kind o' word 's as easy as another, I suppose, when you're used to it, aint it?" said the sewing-woman.
Apostleman added heavily, "Never heard of her!" "I got a good little Swedish sewing-woman over there," the hostess explained, "and she told me of this girl. She's a sweet girl; no mother, and a little sister to bring up. She was quite pleased." "But, good heavens! What does she know? What's her method?" demanded Mrs. White in puzzled disapproval. "She has a pretty touch," Mrs.
It is against the whole system that I make war. I do not admit, for a moment, that it is necessary for the sewing-woman to receive such wages as to compel her starvation, unless alms be given to her in her attic. In the discourse which is thus criticised.
They hold their arms out, with their hands hanging, and slowly revolve when they are wound up. "John, bring out the Sewing-Woman, and let the ladies behold the unfortunate seamstress who died from pricking her finger with a needle while sewing on Sunday. You see that the work which she holds is stained with gore, which drips from her finger onto the floor. Costume: Optional.
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