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Show HARD TIME FOR HOME DRESSMAKERS. "ow it is snap-fostcners that are "going up." Ono has become used to paying ten and eleven cents for spools of sowing silk, six cents Instead of five for machine cotton and basting thrcaa, and a bit extra for belting, tape and other necessities of the work haskct. The acutoncss of labor conditions Is tho familiar reason given for the advanced price on snap fasteners, and it Is darkly hinted that, becauso of the Increased cost of paper and cardboard, snap faster.) rs may hereafter be sold loose In envelopes and one will havo to fumble for them Instead of picking them conveniently con-veniently from a card. If all these things, however, aro helping to win the war, womankind will not complain, com-plain, and, after all, the extra pennies on sewing materials and the Inconvenience of a little extra labor to the homo dressmaker dress-maker aro minor trials which one must Take gooJ tenipcrcdly In these day.i when 'everybody I" doing her best to keep sunny and to help. |