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i^ - -, BUSINESS NOTICES. / > ' • • • New Easy Way To Learn Dressmaking AT HOflE \ THE WONDERFUL DISCOVERY OF ETHEL WISDOM. IT WILL HELP YOU, TOO. A Grand FREE Offer

Ethel Wisdom, the only daughter' did not know of the straitened circumstances in. which her parents - found themselves and had believed that everytning was as usual, until one day she overheard a conversation between" her parents. i don't know how I am going to buy her the clothes she needs now. My income has not risen as the cost of living has increased. Two years ago it was ample, but now it won't provide us with a decent living, and I'm. discouraged, dear." "I had no idea things were so bad as that, John. I'm sorry! If I could only help you?" "Oh, you dear,"her father replied It is no fault of ours. We never lived extravagently, but these last two years have been terrible-! Whatever happens though, don't tell Ethel." At these words a great fee lino- of love swept . over Ethel. < & Her ' first impulse was to rush in and comfort them both. But knowing that she ; had overheard would only disturb them more. So, with tear-filled eyes, she tip-toed to her own room and dropped into the little chair before her dressing table. • ° "I will help them," she wifepered "But whatsan I do?" _ For" a long time she. sat. thinking. Then she picked up a paper she had been reading that morning. She paused at the story, but finally, seeminn- to get an inspiration, she put the paper aside, and, as she sat, cir.n resting on her palm, a glad expression came into her eyes. ' , o . As Ethel's father and her mother sat talking together some months later they heard her door open, and someone /tripped lightly down the. passage and what an Ethel stood before them! For several moments no one snoke Then Ethel said, "Well, do you like it, father?" "It's perfect, dear!" And oride and wonder shone in his. face. "It's the most beautiful dress you've ever had" "But where did you'buy it?" "That's the real surprise,, dad. I didn't buy it at all—l made every stitch of it myself, didn't I, mother." _' "I don't understand," Mr Wisdom began. "I didn't know that you could sew at all—let alone make a dress like that." •' "Well, father," Ethel said, "a few months ago I thought that I ought to he]p in some other way than just assisting with the housework. But, at first, I didn't know 6f any way to do it. Then the solution of my problem came in the form of a newspaper aiticle. It told the story of the development of a new method, by whicV any girl or, woman anywhere: could learn easily and quickly, right at home, to make becoming clothes and millinery. "I saw at once that if I could learn to make ,-stylish and becoming clothes for mother and mYself it would mean the truest kind of economy. So I wrote

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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 7 May 1921, Page 3

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