igmi 3 j^icioiral BH^ome sSampxLRifm. 
ment aufuseau, but it was not equal to this. Beauti¬ 
ful, beautiful, indeed ! It is the rarest piece of work 
of the kind I have ever seen, and in my day I have 
handled the laces of imperial and royal wardrobes. 
Here are flowers of a hundred tints and forms growing 
into beauty, and arranged and grouped by an artist’s 
hand. 
and the fingers of no less than eighty experts in 
needle point were employed a wdiole year in executing 
this wonderful triangle.” 
This chef-d oeuvre , fit for an empress, or a queen of 
American society, would have found its jdace among 
the treasures of some crowned head of Europe, along 
with the lace dress of as marvellous beauty that was 
brought with 
It BIS B i gi li llffi l lllll i ll lllll lllW pieces were 
Bit II made with the 
NRMHi . . 
lllifcllfiii - 
■ lie 
MjjB iBIMM Emprcss Eu - 
. ' i .. 
alia ire which 
Si IliHHWiillMiw i , x- 
Kv !& hh!.! fill St! banished Ap¬ 
point) that I have ever seen. The first was a three- 
cornered point or shawl, and w’as made of creamy- 
white, diamond -shapen silken pieces joined together 
for a ground, ___ 
upon which 
forms, colors, l||j||jjB 
and shades, I||fH 
to one bun- . .j g. 
dred flowers 
and exotics, 
delicate wis- j ■ - J ■ ' ®!|l|!!i ! lijlilli It lihiifi; t 
tarias, blue- ggjg| ^ l||ijHra|||i |jH| 
11 BjUMli 
many a floral SRUB|j j IB 
gem of name III ||jj||K3IliSilHI llHI IH 
known only 
!') hi ■ '. . . ■" , ■ ; l I 
cal botanist or Iij|W jj In I® 
web was as HHpf A, : J • o 
■ fh'IA'- -i poleati III. 
1111 ll E U g ° 11 i0 
3 i - from France, 
iHilkh JBIlHiPill seriously af- 
| - T 1 fected thelace 
industries o’ 
^■11 ||| Belgium, as 
|i||| : of France, 
. ^ t imiM and the lace 
- :v Mmm ..! m 
E u g e n e ’ s 
flDMMHKSSKSHBI H manufactory 
wiM * f/ ;ffj '■ ? jpprel gsy'fe gjSI are to-day cn 
jKSLi gaged in sell- 
t '-+//£ iug oranges in 
^ f Pm the streets of 
Brussels, or 
Bfe fiiSh. j aSplifl are starving, 
and liis beau- 
WBumm || tiful laces are 
in the hands 
of Custom- 
house officials 
Such pieces 
of work as the 
j£gaj|L bankrupt lace 
m auufact urer 
brought over 
are not at 
present in 
demand in 
Europe. 
Political af- 
fairs there are 
too unsettled, 
tlie situation 
PMUfas a i Jm too uncertain, 
for even em¬ 
presses and queens to order $ 25,000 dresses or $ 5,000 
shawls. 
magic web --ygSP « 
with colors 
gay, woven 
hy the Lady l A"J 
of Shalott. I 
always suspected that wondrous w r eb to he lace, and 
now 7 I am sure of it.” 
“Softly,” said Madame Esther, smiling, “I think 
this is modern point de bruxelles, and none hut the 
deft fingers of Belgain girls could have perfected these 
flowers. The fairy Lady of Shalott w 7 as no doubt a 
lace artist, and her web was doubtless colored passe- 
Pereorming “on the Sly.” 
M. Eugene : “ The hand of DTIuyghens himself” 
—gazing fondly at the marvellous creation, as he held 
it up in such a manner as to show 7 to the greatest 
advantage the glowing hues that w r ere imprisoned in 
its delicate mesh. “ JD’Huyghens designed the pat¬ 
tern, and then painted each flower, petal, leaf, and 
tendril, separately, for the parchment lace-workers, 
Miss Clara Rose, of Philadelphia, had $7,000 
expended on her Latin, French and German educa¬ 
tion, and then married a man w 7 ho has to buy his 
butter half a pound at a time. 
