The Russellville Democrat., 1880-03-11
wOMAN's WAYS.
old Spanish Point Lace--The Astor Dia-
 monds--A About Women.

Old Spanish Point Lace--The Astor Dia-
 monds--About Women.
 MRS. JOHN JACOB AsToR's DIAMONDS. A correspondent of the St. Louis 1 Globe Democrat thus describes Mrs. John Jacob Astor, attired in a miliieaa dollars worth of diamonds, at the reception al the White House by President and Mrs Hayes: "Soon after eight the Diplo- matic Corps were marshaled in by Secre- | tary Evarts, and Mrs. Evarts and Lady Thornton then stood in line next to-Mrs, Hayes, and assisted her in receiving the | guests, who did not cease to arrive until after ten o'clock At that hour the rooms were filled, and the coup feil was striking and magnificent. The most noticeable lady in the room, in fact the chief figure of the evening. was Mrs. 1 John Jacob Astor, of New York, who has been here for the past week as the guest of Secretary Evarts' family. Eyes were blinded and tongues hushed at sight of her. for the lady of Manhattan was a Golconda, Sinbad or Aladdin's cave in the way of diamonds. A neck lace of immense solitaires was fastened to a band of black velvet about her neck, five strands of large black pearls were clasped with diamonds, diamond chain fastened over the right shoulder, crossed the corsage, and ended with 8 clustered spray; long earrings were set with great diamonds. and more of them twinkled in her hair. The effect was dazzling. Eyes were riyeted on her. and with each breath and motion these matchless gems shot forth great flashes of light. Gentlemen admired with open eyed awe, the ladies rayed or were en- vlously critical, and everywhere could be heard comments and questions. Her face and her toilet of white satin covered with webwork of old Venetian pointe, were lost sight of in the glory of the jewels. At ten the President offered his arm to Mrs. Astor, and passed to the supper room.
 OLD SPANISH POINT LACE.
 The real Spanish point work-raised and flat-closely resembles Venetian point. The impulse to this sumptuous lace work seems to have been given at first thought bv the Moorish embroider- ies, for which Spanish Arabs occupy ing the kingdoms of Valencia, Murcia and Andalusia during the middle ages were famous, and then through the school of embroidery established b. T l.. toward the end of the sixteenth century, and fiourishing after the expulsion of the Moriscos in 1910, where exquisite needlework was wrought under the di- rection of Fray Lorenzo di Monserrate and Diego Rutimer, after the designs of Tibaldi and other great painters. The influence of this school explains the su- periority of design in point laces of Span- ,cb ori.y,,, Tha soro1luorl- If nrparnapt- ed feur de lis, acanthus leaves and con- meeting stalks shows far more graceful and easier lines than may be observed in Venetian point. This work was re- st1icted to few nunneries, and practiced there almost exclusively for the adorn- ment of the innumerablc churches, saints and priests, but very little used for profane dress, as contemporary portraits show. Admirable specimens of this gorgeous point are preserved in the Ga thedral of Toledo, where complete set of yestments and altar fronts richly em- broidered and trimmed with lace, exists for every one of the principal feasts of the year.
 MRS. STOWE thinks colored women are born cooks.
 VAssAR College has three Japanese la- dies among its students.
 TING-A-LINa is the name of Chinese girl in San Francisco. She is doubtless belle.
 ALMOST $15 100000 for philanthropic objects has been spent by Baroness Bur dett-Counts.
 WITHOUT saying which one does the hugeing, Miss Mulock says that bear and forbear are the two great bears of matri- mony.
 ADELINA PATTI ordered dozen drawing-room panels in Paris, represent ing her fair self in dozen of her prin- cipal parts.
 MRs STOREY, the wife of the editor of the Chicago Times, is said to be one of the most accomplished amateur artists in that city.
 ON account of theshard times in Eng land, Queen Victoria's wages are kept down to the hard-pan figures of $5,000 day without board.
 Two daughters of Long Island farm CT ran away because he kept the house too warm; they came home again because the world was too cold.
 TIE average wife can lay her hands on about l,000 receipts for cookery; and the same average family reverently clings to the same dishes known for three generations past