I praised her for it, and she said, in her quick way, 'I like to sew for other people; it is stupid sewing for myself.' I took the hint, and shall give her some little shirts and aprons for Mrs.Carney's children.

She is so generous, she will sew her fingers sore for them, and I shall not have to make a task of it." "But needlework is not a fashionable accomplishment, my dear." "Sorry for it.

My girls shall learn all I can teach them about it, even if they give up the Latin, Algebra, and half-a-dozen ologies it is considered necessary for girls to muddle their poor brains over now-a-days.

Amy means to make Bess an accomplished woman, but the dear's mite of a forefinger has little pricks on it already, and her mother has several specimens of needlework which she values more than the clay bird without a bill, that filled Laurie with such pride when Bess made it." "I also have proof of the Princess's power," said Mrs.Bhaer, after he had watched Mrs.Jo sew on a button with an air of scorn for the whole system of fashionable education.

"Jack is so unwilling to be classed with Stuffy and Ned, as distasteful to Bess, that he came to me a little while ago, and asked me to touch his warts with caustic.