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Show 4 AN EDITORIAL BY 1 FLORENCE DAVIES . I! M M . If there Is one time In all the world when dreams may be eaught In fairy Stitches and held fast in filmy musltn and lace, it is When -l woman fashions the tiny garments which her flrsl UttlQ son or daughter 13 to wear. And who Is to chide her. if she. strains her eyer. over hand run tucks and the delicate tracefy of embroidery embroi-dery and fashions each band and . .1 in by hand 7 Taking Infinite pains over these flimsy trifles is a lovable bit of sentiment sen-timent Which no one finds It hard to understand even of such sentiment uu tnis. It was Just such a dreamer of fairy dreams, who explained as she bent over her delicate sewing that she never Intended to let a stitch of clothing cloth-ing that wasn't hand made touch her baby. "And everything." she added, "is going to have a bit of embroidery upon it." Hut was it such a laudable ambition? ambi-tion? Not very, really, for there are so many things about a Imby that are more Important than his clothes. "I don't know about all the ban I made clothes." said a thoughtful mother of three. "But I do know that I'd like to put a few hand-made Ideas into my ou'igsi ! V le ad - and sum. -how I find that 1 haven't time for both. "And as for the embroidery, that's lovely if you can do it. Money might buy it perhaps, but money couldn't buy a touch of embroidery for my baby's soul. That has to be put In by hand with Infinite pains each stitch wroth with hope and tears and prayer and patience. Hand embroidery after all, is such a very unimportant matter. Jt's Juat an aside, not the main Issue at all. Rut some w omen do seem to Slav t their very soul away tor It . It's a cult and creed with SO the women, an aim and uiul'ttion. an ael I tst of elegance and culture and worthiness, a sign and symbol of the elect. A machine run scam Js more of a disgrac to them than a baby stuff S l with the wrong kind of food or fooled with lies or starved for love. And yet a machine made hem is of less Importance Im-portance In tho eternal scheme of things than the tiniest smile out of a baby's eyes or the simplest thought that ever fluttered through his iufant brain. 1 It's Just an Incident, a gesture, a j casual detail. But some women fool-j fool-j Ishly imagine that it Is more 1m- portant than five minutes of their own ! soul's serenity, or the smallest and flimsiest garment of the mind. 00 |