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{stwJy by our young friends — to learn what the people inter- 

 changed instead of the gold and silver of our present medium 

 of commerce. 



Eleanor Richards' napkin rings of bark was rusticity beauti- 

 fied. Around the strips little painted blossoms wreathed them- 

 selves over the silvery white and wood-brown stripes, that 

 Nature's mysterious pencil gave as it bended in graceful sway 

 among the slender delicate birches. 



There was a knit bed-spread contributed by Mrs. Mabel Cur- 

 tis, of Mattapan. The number of stitches reached into a million. 



There was a diminutive deluge of macreme work — appearing 

 in lambrequin and satchel. 



The nevef-to-be-repressed tidy came up again triumphant. 

 No Fair will ever place the tidy hors des comhat. The lords of 

 creation have hated it from its primary life ; the ladies of the 

 household seem to have almost acquired perpetual Motion in 

 readjusting it on the chair back after masculine occupancy. 

 Still the women go on making them — for there is a fascination 

 about it — and the Fair of 1900 will show the tidy multiplied 

 into an infinitude of forms. In all due reverence for this mono- 

 maniacal article of woman's skill, I will say many were 

 pretty, as were also several toilette sets. 



A foot-rest, by Miss Susie A. Sampson, was a nice affair, 

 being of taste and fine stitch. 



A lace apron, by Mrs. Chas. C. Jones, was too quaint and deli- 

 cate to act in the capacity its name implies, but it was such as 

 might have adorned royalty, when queen and court ladies 

 appeared as shepherdesses at the rustic feasts of Fontainbleau. 

 A. W. Josselyn exhibited a box of stones. One could hardly 

 be convinced that all those tints were not from artificial decora- 

 tion. The mosaics of Moorish temples have not more richness 

 of color. There were all the tones of old ocean's green, flecked 

 with grays, garnets, and broad dashes of black and white on 

 various backgrounds. Yarnish had heightened the effect. We 



