Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-09-15

JAIL O4bE4ds
In white twisted silk and the style is
rocco with no repeat in n part of the
designing"
"Now stop right there ard let me think
up my dictionary. They told ME in the
Arkansas building that it was rocco, and
does that mean with no repeat"
mo! It's the style, don't you seer NO
repeat'-why that means that the design
was made in free hand drawing ON the
linen. Designs for embroidery are gener-
ally stamped on, but she made this lust as
you write and so there is no repetition of
lines and squares and circles. It's orig.
1nal, that's what that means. Each scroll
n curve changes constantly except in
the seventy large fleur-de-lis which adorr
the center of the table cloth, and they are
heavily but not solidly embroidered. The
stitches are all wrought into the fabric SC
That no wash orwear can affect them. The
designs were drawn by Miss Mary A.
Williamsonand the work done in her work
room, and Mrs. May Wright ewell bought
the set to be an heirloom in her family, q
souvenir of the Columbian exposition.
Now doyou understand the work?"
II don't have to. I will write it Just as
you tell it and the women will understand
i'll hope"
You see all these fancy curves and but
tonhole designs around the edges-well all
that was done by a skillful colored girl
who worked on it many weeks and as
many more in weaving the bars that hold
1T all in place, and it was q continual de-
light to her. These " pieces, thirty
inches wide and three yards long, have
of drawn work eight inches wide
between borders of embroidery as rich
and heavy IS needle work can produce,
borders with lines that urn and change,
reaching towards the center in long curves
and ornaments that are carefully kept free
from floral suggestions. These are for the
n d of the table"
But why is it necessary to keep such
Things SO free from any suggestion of
fowers?"
They wouldn't be appropriate there.
Never mind why-they just wouldn't.
Inc next piece is a large overlap for the
center OF the table and as richly wrought
as the scarfs. The same plan is followed
on the eighteen doilies which, like the cen
ter piece, have irregular edges of button
holing n are the most deliberately EN-
broideried of all. There are eighteen large
napkins with deep hemstitched borders
and 1eur-de-lis in one corner. Two of
these have elaborate borders all around
andare for the guests of honor. A smaller
cloth has been ordered to complete this
unique et-an all this lovely creation is
TO remain in Mrs. Sewell's family as long
as it will hold together"
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1t does not take long to tire me in the
"oman's building, or in any other which
makes heavy drafts on an artistic eye, u
refined taste, a quick conception of ideal
beauty or any other of those qualities
which are supposed to be feminine. So
after two hours among the paintings and
einorolderies, l sauntered up the broad
avenue to the California building which is
Always fresh and green and cool, like the
anterior of the old Spanish mission of
which it is a copy. AS usual find a great
crowd OF people around the equestrian
statue of prunes, which statue l don't like
at all, and the more / see it the more /
don't like it. Possibly my artistic sense
IL better by instinct than by culture-at
any rate, l don't like it. But on this last
visit /! discovered something of real his
torlc interest-the first gold nugget found
IN California, and it is in a case at the base
OF the statue Of j. w. Marshall, who dis
covered it.
had not run onto it before, but this is
rs good q time as any for a few remarks.
Firstly, l have my doubts about this being
the nrst nugget, because as things then
were they paid but little attention to pre-
serving such relics. The facts I would
emphasize, as I sit at the foot of the Mar
shall statue, are that the d%iscoverer was q
Mormon apd a laborer and that he lived
poor and died poor; that Jim Comstock,
dlscoverer of the famous lode, had much
the same experience, that n%inety-nine out
OF every hundred of the great discoveries
IN the Tar west realized nothing, and that
present indications are to the effect that
the mining pioneers of many other regions
arc to begin life anew after losing all that
they once gained by finding and develop
Ing silver lOdes. j. II. BEApLE.
Most people entertain ideas regarding
the gentle mule which will be badly shat
tered II they attend the livestock show ut
the Worlds fair and examine the best
specimens OF jacks and j~ennets. There
are some famous animals OF that class in