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texts for these samplers. Surely not Selma 
Grill at her age! 
19th Century Samplers 
(Continued from page 140) 
can samplers depart from any mere 
copying of English handiwork and take 
unto themselves a somewhat distinctive 
character of their own, often crude, but 
stamped with a vigorous sincerity. 
From the middle of the second quarter 
of the century onward, American sam¬ 
plers exhibit more freedom in subject 
than do English samplers of the same 
dates, less traditional limitation in form 
and ornament design. 
The years of the Revolutionary War 
naturally found other tasks than sam¬ 
pler-making at hand for the fingers of 
the little daughters of the Colonies to 
attend. While embroidering of samplers 
was not, perhaps, entirely suspended 
in every locality, there were compara¬ 
tively few pieces of needlework of this 
sort produced until after peace was 
declared and until after the Indian 
troubles and English dispute of 1795. 
The numerous samplers bearing dates 
between 1800 and 1810 indicate the re¬ 
vival of interest in embroidery during 
the first decade of the 19th Century. 
Then culminated the strife with En¬ 
gland, fanned by Napoleon, which led 
to the War of 1812 and again, for two 
anxious years, embroidery needles were, 
to a great extent, laid aside by the little 
sampler-workers of the young United 
States, although we have such examples 
during the war period as that worked 
by Wilamina Rine, 1813, and others. 
From 1S14 onward to the middle of 
the 19th Century many beautiful sam¬ 
plers were worked by juvenile Ameri¬ 
can embroideresses. American collec¬ 
tions are rich in these, as is disclosed by 
the census of American samplers, con¬ 
tained in the beautiful publication re¬ 
cently issued by the Massachusetts So¬ 
ciety of the Colonial Dames of Ameri¬ 
ca, “American Sampler”, edited by 
Ethel Stanwood Bolton and Eva Johns¬ 
ton Coe. 
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The extreme youth of these sampler-workers in 
the 19th Century affords an amazing contrast be¬ 
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