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Updated: May 12, 2025
In using spool-cotton, thread the needle with the end which comes off first, and not the end where you break it off. This often prevents kinks. Work-baskets. It is very important to neatness, comfort, and success in sewing, that a lady's work-basket should be properly fitted up.
"Then, as for a thousand and one little feminine needs, I believe our manufacturers can supply them. The Portsmouth Steam Company makes white spool-cotton equal to any in England, and colored spool-cotton, of every shade and variety, such as is not made either in England or France. Pins are well made in America; so are hooks and eyes, and a variety of buttons.
When anything was to be done, especially if it was anything novel, Kate was always ready to help. If anybody had a plan on hand, it was very hard to keep her finger out of it; and if there were calculations to be made, it was all the better. Kate had a fine head for mathematics, and, on the whole, she rather preferred a slate and pencil to needles and spool-cotton.
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