The Millions 1884 . chexpedites her work. She makes all that my little girlswear, also my husbands and my own ordinary dress, andmy shoes and caps. My husbands and my own bestdresses we buy ready-made. We need never be afraid ofthe dress being a bad fit, or of its going soon out of surely is an advantage. We have only to suit ourtaste in colour and material. The making of the under-flannels, which we all wear, and the stocking darninggenerally falls to me ; but I reserve my sewing to the timewhen one reads aloud, so that I may the less grudge thetime spent on it. My woman, the fir


The Millions 1884 . chexpedites her work. She makes all that my little girlswear, also my husbands and my own ordinary dress, andmy shoes and caps. My husbands and my own bestdresses we buy ready-made. We need never be afraid ofthe dress being a bad fit, or of its going soon out of surely is an advantage. We have only to suit ourtaste in colour and material. The making of the under-flannels, which we all wear, and the stocking darninggenerally falls to me ; but I reserve my sewing to the timewhen one reads aloud, so that I may the less grudge thetime spent on it. My woman, the first year I had her,learned to darn beautifully, but now there are so many tosew for she has no time for that. I need hardly say wefind the native dress infinitely better suited to the climatethan the foreign, being much lighter in summer andwarmer in winter. In the above paragraphs I have almost answered thequestion about the advantage of living as the Chinese as regards house and dress, the nearer we can ap-. A LADYS JACKET.


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