The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1876-09-13

public buildings like the Louvre and iae new Opera
House. Tapestries are sometimes given away to for
egn courts and sometimes lent those for instance
which I saw at KcnsingtOn, but they are never in
market. I am told that exception was made in
favor of A. T Stewart. who allowed to buy some
] thing, carpet. think. from the establishment.
hope they will lend something to the Philadelphia
Exposition.
The work is arranged on tall frames like looms
which be rolled up aud put out of the way.
little by little the finished part. From top to bottom
of these frames are stretched threads very close to-
se,ber which form the warp Of the piece. The woOf
is the work put in by the artists. They outline the
design pencil upon the warp from the patterns be-
fore rather above them and then grow under their
dextrvus fingers the most beautiful pictures They
work from below upward. Tne wurs,eds and silks
wound shuttles which hang in mrltitudes from
the various parts Of the picture. II the texture Of
the piece is to be ke velvet the workmen sit on the
front or right side aud push their shutes in and out
over long. sbarp-edced instrument about the thick
ness of coarse knitting needle. This needle lies
firmly against the warp above the last row of stitches
and the woaf threads drawn tightly over it.
When it is full they draw it out and it cuts the
threads as it comes and gives the velvet finish
They always trim it close, however If the WORK is
to resemble uncut velvet or Brussels carpotiug they
vgk from the wrong side-l believe the terms for
the different styles Of work are high warp aud low
warp. The workmen sit at long tables before these
frames. several At piece, stretching their necks
at every stitch look the colored pattern above
them. 1t requires the greatest amount of patience
h.,E
tic. There are no women employed. and some of the
men have grown gray in the business. An area Of
square inches said be the daily average covered
by each man.
One finds travel. pleasant as it is in itself, made
pleasnter by the meeting with friends here and there
Or even by the "reminiscences Of them suggested by
occupying the rooms they used, or taking ramb!c
with their letters your pocket written from the very
ground you tread on under this oak, by that spring.
You people every nook with their faces, they sit by
you in fancy while you write them, and you feel
that you know just how they have turned, you do
now. from paper book to look out on these lovely
fields and ripping and grand mountains which
their journals have already made familiar to you.
Ny good fates brought to me several acquaintanees
in Paris. Some of them were friends of Miss Monta.
have since heard her sing. 1 need not say mmedi-
ately became Of her admirers. since was that
years ago. But say that it was very charming
to hear those familiar tones again, improved by supe-
rior eulturesweet, clear and unbroken although the
singer suffering from cold. The opera costume
of Russian maiden in - L 'Etolie du Nord wasnot
very much Of disguise, being dissimar to a IA
miliar rig that call BloOmers when we go on pic
mics.
One of my Partisan pleasures, then, was the memory
and anticipation of vocal treats from this favorits
voice. aside from the tangible pleasure Of meeting the
mutual friends Of Miss NJ. and myself.
Another meeting the sister of Prof Whitney Of
Yale. Miss. W. once visited the Islands and is
known to some of the readers Of the GAZETTE, no
doubt.
Like so many who visit our country, she retains
lively recollectous of their beauty and Of the kind
of the residents. I begin realize what it is
that enchants strangers among US and brings out
such glowing book as Miss Birds. Life in cities,
Caud it is almost always city people who have the
and taste to trayeD barren, noisy, and
dusty, so hot in summer, SO shut up to house
to room in a house, in winter, that do
not wonder that our green, sunny land seems an
Eden. People who remain but a short time perhaps
do not chance to encounter the serpent. If Miss
Bird did she thought it ugly, and had too good taste
to defaee the fair pictures on her pages by painting
it in. H.F.C.