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start it for your girl, it might give her something to take up her mind when she is full of mischief. she is old enough to learn to sew & do little thing to keep busy so she will forget to be such a little terror. work is the only thing let her have a little work basket for her spools & thimble & needles & sissors [[scissors]] I bet that she would like it. have her learn to use a thimble. begin to have her sew a little any way on small scale first. you need a seamstress in the family as much as anything. perhaps she may take to it who knows. her looks will come natural. other things are just as important in life. 

I am going to have some griddle cakes for supper for a change & I will chose to make them now still blowing & raw but no rain. I hope it will clear to night
Ma