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When Linda was quite a tiny child, and, as her mother, who did not understand her, or attempt to do so, would say, “a very naughty child,” the only way, in which to keep her quiet and prevent her from being naughty, was to allow her to sort out her grandmother's “ribbon box.”
Linda's grandmother was an old-fashioned grandmother. She wore a cap of snowy lace on her grey hair, and black silk frocks that touched the ground all round, and a gold watch chain a yard and a half long which went twice round her neck and hung down to her waist, and she still put sprigs of lavender amongst her clothes instead of the new fashionable scented sachet, and she was a firm believer in a button bag and a ribbon box.
If a garment wore out or was about to be given away to a poor relation, or someone in the village, she first looked it carefully over to see if there were any special buttons attached to it which were worth keeping in case they should come in for another frock or coat or whatever might be in the making, and if they were, snip! Grannie's scissors cut them neatly off, and they were carefully put away in the button bag.
Linda's grandmother was an old-fashioned grandmother. She wore a cap of snowy lace on her grey hair, and black silk frocks that touched the ground all round, and a gold watch chain a yard and a half long which went twice round her neck and hung down to her waist, and she still put sprigs of lavender amongst her clothes instead of the new fashionable scented sachet, and she was a firm believer in a button bag and a ribbon box.
If a garment wore out or was about to be given away to a poor relation, or someone in the village, she first looked it carefully over to see if there were any special buttons attached to it which were worth keeping in case they should come in for another frock or coat or whatever might be in the making, and if they were, snip! Grannie's scissors cut them neatly off, and they were carefully put away in the button bag.