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Show and her husband in their advanced age were fprced by reverses to emigrate to I the far west, where in an unsettled country, coun-try, three days' ride from a human habitation, habi-tation, they "took up a claim." The wife, unused to hardship, finally lost her health, and in the hope of regaining it : came east last autumn, leaving her hus- band alone. The severity of the winter killed all their stock, and the old man finally met with an accident that laid him up with both legs broken. He is helpless and penniless and alone, and his wife is helpless and penniless . here, ; unable to reach him. She had sold everything available before she had made up her mind to part with her ancestral petticoat. It is a rare and interesting piece of work and ought to be in a museum New York World. v" Ancestral Petticoat. w;eluus example of old time ,ar has found its way into ono 'Changes for woman's work in -' through the impecuniouaness ''ly in which it has long been as an heirloom. 4 Pce of tha quilted work which 18 one of the lost arts in these was tho border of a petticoat ' 501116 richly clad German dame sgo- The strip is half a vard and about three yards in length. ,'!'s of two thicknesses of fine on with a soft interlining. It t Vfcr ith . an exquisite . j fioers, foliage and ara-' ara-' '"Or wrought every va- Ir, v' bl0w' to expert needle- those days there were no other W r any ces for stamping, angers that fashioned such made their own designs, drew needle, free hand, as they ;"s'd so this petticoat border r3, f 101 artist s well as a "-Je woman. The fabric is fj'eh-there are bilUons of Bnrface Pnts one in mini " 0E fiae repousse work ia white wnan who is now compelled to 10 lt 1s.aiitifui.etcrx..Slia |