MEMORIES

I have my great aunt's Singer treadle machine. The drawers, which I began to explore at an early age, are just like she left them. This activity earned me the nickname of "Meddlesom Mattie."

In looking through the drawers recently, here are a few things I found:

• Razor blades - seam rippers?
• Sliver of soap and short piece of chalk - markers?
• Bent and battered thimbles, one engraved "Use Gladiola Flour."
• Half a crayon and many pencils, various sizes.
• Lots of the usual pins, needles, buttons, hooks/eyes, snaps, etc.
• 6" metal ruler courtesy of C.L. Green's Feed Store.
• Thread on wooden spools, wound around bits of paper, and one interesting card shaped like a flower--Wright's Petal Wind thread.
• Many pieces of lace, tatting, rickrack, bias tape, elastic--some used, and some new.
• Snap sections off of old bras--never throw anything away!
• Whet stone
• Piece of sand paper
• Waxed bread wrapper to keep iron slick.
• Several collar patterns cut from "The Progressive Farmer" newspaper.
• One newspaper pattern labeled "House Dress."
• Little wooden tool whittled from a twig shaped like a stiletto.
• Tape measure.
• A cardboard from bias tape to use for measuring hems.
• Machine Manual, extra belts for wheel, buttonhole attachment, cute little oil can.
• Storage boxes including kitchen match box, Isodette Throat Lozenge tin and a tiny tin which once held Cascarets (laxative). All these held pins, snaps, etc.

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