Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-01-23
THE FLEETING SHOW.


HONOR SO WHOM HONOR.
Quoth Mrs. G Columbus
To her Respondent lord:
"Why sitt'st thou like the gray -mossed stone
That rolleth not abroadS
''why waste the hours DER maps and chartss
Arise, set sail, Go West!'
New lands beyond the horizons rim
Wait thy adventurous quest
Before married you, Chris,
With Father Palestrello
Iventured into unknown SEAS
tHe was daring fellowD
''The fierce storms smote our trembling bark,
Rent sails, and battered keel
The very charts you're moping DER
Bear witness to my zeal.
"It's not my way to nag, Chris
I'm never aggravating-
But since you are SO timorous,
I'll go a-navigating!
'And III discover ;,omething,
Somewhere-Somehow-
Heroic Woman puts to shame
The incidence of men!'
Then Christopher Columbus
Reached meekIy for his coat
And sailed forth. The grand result
We have no need to quote.
But to you, dauntless woman,
Our warmest thanks are due,
And ingrates are we if we raise
No monument to you.
We will not say your husbands name
With glory is mis- covered;
We only know that but for you
We had not been discovered.
IRISH LAcEs.
Mrs. Powers Lalor, member of Lady
Aberdeen's Irish Industries association, will
have charge of the Irish lace department
in the Columbian Exposition.
Mrs. Lalor was government 1ace-inspec-
tor for two years, and thoroughly under
stands this branch of Irish industries
The association proposes to send over a
BRIDES trousseau, every article of under
clothing to be trimmed with Irish lace; q
Limerick lace dress, and number Of Irish
poplins, lace-trimmed, being among the
costumes, and the BRIDES dress covered
with the finest point. Some beautiful
specimens of the lace work done in the
converts will also be exhibited, the pat
terms of which are after old Celtic designs
taken from ancient books and manuscripts.
Of all Irish laces the "point" is un-
doubtedly the most beautiful. It is slow
ly built up by means of countless stitches
upon a framework of threads sewn over
the face of pattern drawn in outline
upon paper backed with linen. The COM
pact white portions, no less than the more
airy-looking parts of the design, the raised
edges, and the net-like background, are
all of needle-point stitchery. The most
perfect of these laces have been made at
Youghal, and at the little village of Innish-
macsaint. Since the association was
formed there has been a constant endeavor
to improve the patterns used by the work
ers, their models, Italian sixteenth and
seventeenth-century needle-made laces,
being worn and incomplete. The carefully
composed and drawn designs furnished by
the schools of art at South Kensington,
Dublin, and Cork, have given the workers
new and beautiful patterns which have
been successfully copied.
The same effort has been made to sup
ply new designs for the crochet lace, the
decline in that industry being partly due
to the fact that the market was over
stocked with old types of goods. New
forms of ornament for, and new applica
tions of, crochet lace, have been supplied
and the workers have adapted their skill
to producing these new effects, the result
being an evident increase in the demand
for their handiwork.
The "cut-linen" embroidery of Carricl
macross is of two kinds: guipure and sp
plique, lace. The guipure consists of cut.
ting away the linen between the orn9men
tai details of pattern, these being joinet
together by number of small bars Of nee
dlework. Applique is made by stitching
the linen or cambria to ground of ne
and cutting away all the linen not en-
closed in the lines of the pattern
This art is said to be of great antiquity
since as far back in the past as A. D. 1872
there is record of an Irish queens carmen
"wrought over with the needle, " and q
ancient historian mentions q mantl
eworked in squares by the needle" Fo
this cut work Pope Innocent III. in th
thirteenth century conceived SO great a
admiration that he sent agents to secure
| all, at any price, to be used for churc
vestments at Rome. The lace is used fo
founces and dress trimmings. Recent
this class of work has been developed, il
new forms being curtains, sofa cover,
and the like. A sofa cover made exper
mentally from a prize design, to Quee
| Victoria's order, was the first large spec
men of guipure lace made at Carrickm'
cross.
Limerick lace, which is species of 81
plique upon net, has been revived, Al
artistic designs are wrought out at Mr.
We're O'Brien's school for workers, at Lin
erick.
The lace-making of Ireland, ancient 9
art as tits, has had q long and hard stru
gle for existence. Its artistic side has n
been sufficiently cared for; it has lack,
the taste and intelligence that has cover
ed Italian, Flemish and French lace-ma
ing. Nevertheless, as says an authority
the subject, Mr.. Alan s. Cole, ssthese ne
efforts of taste and skill chow that. Iri
lace-making possesses distinct capabiliti
of development. What has been do
within the last few years de,