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Show The Vanishing Workbasket. The plaint for the vanishing work-basket work-basket has come. Somebody haa discovered discov-ered that the new woman does not use it and sighs for the grace and womanliness woman-liness that must go with it. Why must these attributes go with it? In olden days men embroidered as well as women, wom-en, but they have long laid by the needle. nee-dle. Times change, and with the times change the practices and customs of the people as well as their implements. Sewing machines made the first stab at the workbasket, and the widening of the list of women's occupation has done the rest. At the women's exchanges stockings are darned, napkins are hemmed, hem-med, trousers are patched for a trifle. The woman who is writing or using her other than sewing talents in any way finds it useful economy to have even the most prosaic and simple of her household house-hold sewing done outside, and the work-basket work-basket exists for her only to draw the stitch of a glove or sew on a button. Womanly graces never depended on the workbasket, though they were associated associ-ated with it. They are changing their background perhaps in these days. They are not going out of fashion. New York Times. |
