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been my life,” said Bliss Bonnie Phipps, a former dressmaker from Bristol, Virginia. “Do you know what’s fun? The most enjoyable thing I ever did was to make a wedding dress.”
Mrs. Ruth Pierce, of Suffolk, who calls herself “the apron lady,” was proud to say she made 40 aprons to sell for Harvest Day. She confided: “The shop keeps me busy all the time. It keeps my mind off my troubles, but I don’t really have too many troubles. They say they don’t like for me to leave here very often. I keep them laughing,” she said as she nodded her head toward the other ladies in the sewing room.
Sober faces were hard to find among these ladies who keep so busy.
Eyes bright with conviction, Mrs. Maytie McDowell, o( Norfolk, pictures one who has never spent too many idle moments in self pity. She mentioned briefly that she has t heart pacemaker. She said: “1 have the best time making out of us. I guess if she asked me to, I would stand on my head for
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