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Show The Vanishing Workhasket. j The plaint for the vanishing work-basket work-basket has come. Somebody has discovered discov-ered tb the new woir.Vx js ot us it and sighs for the grkoe anc womanliness woman-liness that must go with it why must these attributes go with it? In olden days men embroidered aa 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 a9 their implements. Sewing machines made the first stab At the workbasket, and the widening of the list of women's occupations 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 prosaio and simple of her household house-hold sewing done outside, and the work-basket work-basket exists for her only to draw the Btitch 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. rigorous Girlhood. Any ons conversant with the modern female sohool and college knows that one of the best equipped and best patronized pa-tronized of their departments is tne gymnasium, and that the result is a race of strong, graceful girls, who are as far ahead of their counterparts of a generation ago as the American college athlete of today is ahead of his dyspeptic dyspep-tic predecessor of 1860. Philadelphia Press. . I |