Read the excerpt from loom and spindle. and we named our sunbonnets "log-cabins," and set our teacups (we drank from saucers then) in little glass tea-plates, with log-cabins impressed on the bottom. the part the lowell mill-girls took in these and similar events serves to show how wide-awake and up to date many of these middle-century working-women were. which statement best describes the narrator’s perspective in the excerpt? she is amused by the unusual fashions that factory girls once wore. she is proud of the mill-girls’ contribution to political events in her youth. she is impressed by the fame that the mill-girls achieved in her youth. she is sentimental about the friendships that have endured throughout her life.