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Show OLD-TIME QUILTING INDUSTRY REVIVED In it row of (jtinlut little white cottages built on laud the title of which dates back to Revolutionary times, oung women are now pllng the needle, patching, felling, iiulltlug. There are some 20 women and girls who are earning earn-ing their living making the same kinds of quilts and coverlets their great-grandmothers great-grandmothers used to make. As this is tho twentieth century, they have put u few modern touches to the Industry, the most notable of which nro their rigid eight-hour working law, and a regulation earning wnge. The quilting bee, as the little cottage factory Is named, was established threo years ago to give congenial employment to the women and girls of Hye, N, V., who needed It, and to revive the art of quilting. It was Incorporated Inst year nnd now hits become self-supporting. |