Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-07-13
IrALY's PAVILION.

n worth $500 in addition 10 the statue. 4
vase Of white and sienna marble, only
three feet high, 10 worth $1,000 for ever
foot Of its altitude. Some remarkahh
combinations Of marble and bronze am
shown. The head, arms and fess Of Q
negro girl are of bronze, while the drapOxI
IL fashioned of two distinct marbles, but
all 30 deftly Joined that the whole looks a
IL was carved out Of one piece. IL pux
zles one to understand how a marble drap
cry could be wrapped about bronze should
ers without a break.
The laces are most fascinating to the
women visitors, and the man who cannot
a interest In these glorious creations OF
the needle has no art In his soul. Some OF
the most beautiful things in this exposi
tion are fabrics, and here it is that com
merce commands art and makes of her 6
worthy handmaiden. But of ali the
fabrics, the Gobelin tapestries not ex
cepted, the Venetian laces are the loveliest
A Venetian firm has erected here a large
pavilion for display of its laces. The strac.
ture itself is of lace, at least in its showy
part. Within are laces ranging IN value
from 2 cents to 81 600 a yard. The cheaf 81
laces approximate machine manufacture
being made with a bobbin, and really ere
not as fine as our American or the Faro
pean machir e-made stuff. The liner laees
are all made with a needle, and a yarc OF
the thousand dollar lace is said to have &C
cupied the time of one womar for three
years.
The l~ace-r1akers of Venice are fairly
born into the trade, spend their lives In IL
and die in it. There are photographs here
which show the women at their work
nearly always on the galleries in front OF
their suburban houses. AS agirl the lace
maker earns perhaps Q accents a day. wber
she is able TO take up the finer work zoe
may earn from 10 to so cents, and as 8
masterworkman, so TO speak, her stipend
will be 60 cents q day. The firm making
this exhibit employs over 1900 women.
Here are exquisite little doylies, about
six inches square,, selling at $3.50 each
A table cloth and a dozen napkins To
match are marked $3.50, and are cheap al
that figure. Three and a half yards Of
fiounce and two and a half yards or mar.
owe edging TO match, six yards alto
gether, are worth 81 200. A pair of EN-.
broideried curtains, draped over an inn.
proyised window, have a value of $500.
Both curious and beautiful is a piece OF
polychrome lace, body Of black and all the
colors and tints of the rainbow are woven
into it.
There are many other lines of work In
which the Italians show their patience,
their true art instinct, their ligAGness Of
touch. Their mosaics are marvellous.
Many ornamental pieces Of furniture ere
of ebony inleid with silver, gold or otter
material. The workmanship is elabor tie
and intricate, but the result is not allur.
ing to the American taste. More interest
ing are the specimens of flowers, portrGits
and figures produced by inlaying colored
marbles in a slab of white. The effect il
like that of a good oil painting. The art.
list cften spends month, it is said, looking
for a single piece of marble, perhaps nc
larger than a finger nail, which has iust
tho tint wanted for a particular place.
These ara tha famous Florentino mosaics.
In front Of the Italian pavilion, which il
one of the most beautiful In the building.
are seen two new and notable pieces Of art
tile work They are mosaics In majolics
ware mazda hy . Neapolitan. ALA koliics