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comforters. All cannot bring silk ones. We can do our best in 

 whatever we undertake. The rugs are articles most useful. 

 These can be made very simply, while they can be also of most 

 elaborate designs and workmanship ; from the finest Berlin 

 wools to the poorest materials. One rug from an ingrain carpet 

 may not have attracted much attention ; it at least showed the 

 economy of the maker. Each strip cut bias, the edges ravelled, 

 the centre sewed to a piece of canvas ; closely resembling the 

 imported rugs. A knit rug of pieces of silk by Mrs. Bethia 

 Porter, aged eighty ; four by Mrs. Bessey deserved notice, as 

 the material was useless as it was ; now both useful and orna- 

 mental. Three drawn rugs, two by Miss Mary McDonald ; one 

 by Mrs. Flora Cammeron. The designs and work were so 

 beautiful they were as handsome as some India rugs. Such 

 work is an ornament to any Fair. A braided rug by Mrs. 

 Robert Barker, aged seventy-nine, was beautifully done. There 

 were a few others, braided and sewed with equal exactness, 

 but their owners were not of so great an age. 



In these days it is quite out of fashion to knit one's stockings. 

 The shapely and well knitted ones displayed, show that some still 

 do not ignore their durability. No knitting machine can equal 

 the handwork. The author of "Cape Cod Folks" described 

 a stocking which we could see, had not been patterned by our 

 matron. To the initiated, there are as many qualities of knit- 

 ting as of sewing. The gloves by Mrs. Margery Keen were very 

 nicely done. As they are so difficult to form, we felt glad to 

 give them room, also the mittens ; not because of the difficulty 

 of forming as it is not peculiarly so, but because of their 

 usefulness, also the pretty hood. 



Your Committee suggest a little change the coming year. 

 Considerable fault was found as regards the inequality of 

 certain gratuities, which largely arise from the arrangement 

 of the articles. 



