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HOME DP]PARTMENT. 



The interest seems unabated in this special department of 

 our Fair. The exhibitors numbered one hundred and forty- 

 two ; the exhibits two hundred and forty. A kaleidoscope's 

 combinations could not have displayed more lavishment of 

 color. Here Berlin wools flung out their richness in carriage 

 robe or fleecy shawl ; they were woven into the meshes of 

 canvas in fantastic arabesque, symmetrical figures and floral 

 designs. Scraps of print were fashioned into innumerable 

 forms, and soft woolen bits had been combined in rugs to 

 blossom into pausies or stray in wandering vines, while the 

 brief rages of fashion in knicknacks were displayed in 

 works of straw and colored thread. 



When one thinks of the general industry always seen in a 

 country home, one w^onders where the extra time was found to 

 so dress our hall in gala tints. A year is a brief space. A 

 little rush of time, and again the bright October is upon us. 



