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Three silk quilts lent their beauty to our display. One by 



Miss Mira Brown, of East Marshfielcl, only sixteen years old ; 

 a very pretty quilt. We are glad our young girls are learning ^ 

 to do such nice sewing. Work that all may do, and isn't for 

 display alone. Sucli quilts are useful and very ornamental, 

 and need not be expensive, composed as it is of such a variety of 

 small pieces, which to the possessor are surrounded with pleasant T 

 associations. The young lady is to be congratulated on such a 

 successful piece of work, as a first attempt. The other two 

 were by older persons, and very pretty. Three quilts con- 

 tributed very much to the beauty of ' the display. 



A darned lace spread, by Mrs. Walton Hall, proved, by the 

 attention it drew, its prettiuess. There were pillow shams to 

 match, which were in the " Fancy Department." 



It would seem advisable that all articles, which are in sets, 

 should be displayed in the same department. They are really 

 one set of bed covering ; the separation detaches from the 

 beauty. It is the first darned lace set we have seen displayed 

 in our hall. 



Four knit spreads cannot be passed over lightly. One 

 by Mrs. Elizabeth Merritt, of South Scituate : the finest 

 cottou, the whitest, and the most beautiful design ; so excel- 

 lently knit, the most beautiful knit quilt it has ever been our 

 good fortune to behold. 



The next in beauty and finish was by Mrs. Walton Hall, of 

 Marshfield. The others were very nice and pretty, all having 

 nice borders, and well knit. Unless one understands knitting, 

 they cannot know how very great a difference there can be in 

 quality. So few people knit now, that they have a very 

 erroneous idea of the time required to knit one small square 

 of three inches : about forty minutes by a quick knitter. 

 When one considers that it takes four of these small squares 

 |)® form the figure, which only forms one large square ; and 



