I assure you the Every-Day Book is a great favourite among the ladies; and therefore, I send for your insertion a calculation, furnished me by a maiden aunt, of the number of stitches in a plain shirt she made for her grandfather.
| Stitching the collar, four rows | 3,000 | |
| Sewing the ends | 500 | |
| Button-holes, and sewing on buttons | 150 | |
| Sewing on the collar and gathering the neck | 1,204 | |
| Stitching wristbands | 1,228 | |
| Sewing the ends | 68 | |
| Button-holes | 148 | |
| Hemming the slits | 264 | |
| Gathering the sleeves | 840 | |
| Setting on wristbands | 1,468 | |
| Stitching shoulder-straps, three rows each | 1,880 | |
| Hemming the neck | 390 | |
| Sewing the sleeves | 2,554 | |
| Setting in sleeves and gussets | 3,050 | |
| Taping the sleeves | 1,526 | |
| Sewing the seams | 848 | |
| Setting side gussets | 424 | |
| Hemming the bottom | 1,104 | |
| Total number of stitches | 20,646 | in |
| My aunt’s grandfather’s plain shirt, | ||
| As witness my hand, | ||
| Gertrude Grizenhoofe. | ||
Cottenham,
Near Cambridge,
Sept. 1825.
FLORAL DIRECTORY.
Wavy Fleabane. Inula undulata.
Dedicated to St. Wilfred.
October 13.
St. Edward, King and Confessor, A. D. 1066. Sts. Faustus, Januarius, and Martialis, A. D. 304. Seven Friar Minors, Martyrs, A. D. 1221. St. Colman, A. D., 1012. St. Gerald, Count of Aurillac, or Orilhac, A. D. 909.