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Show Hum of Spinning Wheel Hhard Again in American Homes MATHEMATICAL PROBIjEM If a woman can weave 20 yards of cloth In a wcrk, aivd linen is eight dnllars a yard, how much ctiu a 'woman earn In a month'.' ' NEW york, Aug 34. Here's a . way to make the high cost of clothes light the high cost of living. The irt.! of spinning and weaving nre 1-elng ev Ived by the Society for the Revival of Household Industries and Domestic Arts at 03 East 4-ith' s'reet, New York. "Farmers' wives should get out their spinning wheels, for plicae of textiles tex-tiles were never higher, says William lay Robinson, a member of the advisory ad-visory board of thc society "Chan-1 ne of selllnK Will be opened up and shops will buy everything In the way of hand-spun and hand-woven textiles tex-tiles ' Mrs. Agnes Murray, a farmers wife of Iandlng, N J , Is one who Is heeding heed-ing this advice Wind-blown she n ached the rooms of the noclety In a ITate of enthusiasm She had found a spinning wheel for her industry about the scarcest thing In Manhut-t; Manhut-t; n Is a spinning wheel. It sevms Af-l ter a dreary tramp extending over three days the elusive wheel had been captured, as Mrs Charles Baker of Buccasunna; N. J, had made her al loan of her own historic heirloom. SATISFACTORY SALARY. ' Now I am ready to spin," emphasized empha-sized Mrs. Murray. 'Hereafter my elKht-year-old daughter must have an c-Jucatlon and travel. My object Is to Curn money by teaching the shut-ins now to spin. 'A woman can weave frob 20 to 25 yards of cloth In a week and earn a iatlsfactor salary when linens are srlllng at )S a yard If she sows her own flax, as I have on our farm of! three acrei, she can earn more that is by going through the whole circle of endeavor from the harvesting and the bleaching of the flax to the woven doth as did our ancestors I plun vvt.ivlng all our own clothes, including includ-ing mv husbands new woolen suit" FTAX ON COUNTRY PLACES. j a vuiuiij oi -l-w x or k society wo-1 men led by Mrs. F E Drlggs and Mrs M. P. Brooks are growing flux I upon their country places at Redding1 I Ridge, Conn- On the estates of Mrs iGutson Borglum at Stamord. Conn, land Mrs. rhlllp Kerrlson of New York, 'and even at Miss Mason's exclusive school at Tarry town-on-the-Hudson, r native flax Is being grown to supplyj .their household linens. Then there mr.y be wools clipped from the back of native sheep to be woven by these same women Into their new tailored suits for the autumn, provided the pinning continues fascinating. Up to less than 100 vears ago America Am-erica spun all of its own linens and WOQlens on spinning wheels and wove t h i m on hand looms Now that It Is almost impossible to buy linens at any price, and woolens are expensive, the old industries of our grandmothers must bo resurrected, say these enthusiasts. enthu-siasts. The arts of spinning and weaving also may afford occupation and cures to countless shut-Ins of hospitals, old peoples' homes, prisons and alms-bouses. alms-bouses. Teachers are now penetrating bi'.ckwoods places In eeaich of old designs and patterns, and to bring pinning to the attention of farmers' Wives and daughters far away from the centers of population In the Ozarks of Missouri, In the mountains of Kentucky, Ken-tucky, and beyond In thc Colorado, plains I |