| Show first thimble there is a tradition that a dutch silversmith pondered over a certain notion which ile he had cherished long and silently in the slow working senses which he deemed his brain a notion for a trinket a ballal for a dignified lady of 0 Il holland olland it must be a useful trinket albeit a costly one meet for so rood good a semp stress as dame alize van rensselaer when the notion took definite shape the thing was quickly wrought in precious metal by fingers as deft as the brain was slow and the industrious housewife proudly wore not only her first thimble but the first thimble possessed by any dutch frau century 31 agazine |
