The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-07
T0TlLLACES At THE FAIR.
S,np Of Them Worn By a New Orleans
Princess.

r~ouisite Display Made by the
Zen Of ItalyMors Valuable Than
o.,5-Examples of the Best and
aorast schools and Periods Extant,
TaIusd at $4,000, But Not to Be
Had For Any Money.
From the Philadelphia Press.
worlds Fair, Aug. 3.-Fancy nearly a
Va, of a million dollars in beautiful
" tces. all crowded into one little sec
80. 10, not half as large as a department
~. of the large Chestnut street stores I
Vat this is what you see in little corner
ls,he Woman's building behind a pair of
--.,nght iron gates, on which the colors Of
1,sIv are draped, entwined with the stars
.n3 stripes The Countess di Brazza, a
t,vorite of Queen Margherita, is the pre-
.l5;rr Genius of the place, and one of the
.,ost energetic advocates of broad char
i+v that seeks to better the condition of
the moor Iace-making peasants of the
Adriatic peninsula.
AN AMERICAN COUNTESS.
Tho admirable and familiar tones of the
hustIing little woman's English strike
',oT as very American for an Italian, and
Won venture to observe:
'Dperbaps, countess, Italy Is not the
land of your blrth.
tbe intervals of replying to the questions
oGa score of other people who come and
% NV birthplace was New Orleans.
Nv father was Capt. Slocumb."
"Related, perhaps, to the distinguished
Cen SIocumb of BroOklynf"
mo not at all My father was the last
of his peOple and [ am the last of the
family. 1 have no brothers. We were
always identified with New Orleans until
now Marriage has made me an italian,
and now dream only of these Italian
laces
She laughed cheerily and turned to
point out the charms of some intricate
I'D Venetian point to an elderly woman
with white hair who asked more ques-
lions in five minutes about the queen and
rovalty's relations and clothes than the
countess could have replied to in day.
Then the countess returned and was 50
GOOD as to permit The Press to have
uortrait of herself and her wee little
daughter, who, by the way, was taken
extremely i'll few days ago, and it was
feared would die, but her life was spared
and now she is well again.
What / desire you to notice particu-
larly in that photograph" the countess
said laughingly, lis my dress. And not
so much the dress, either, as the lace
upon it. That lace is pure Italian, and in
this country would be worth 5000
The So 900 were hardly discernible in
the photograph, but it is such figures as
these that make you understand how the
precious tilmy treasures round about you
in this closely guarded section run up in
TO fortunes. But they do not give you
what is more precious, and that is the ar
tistic value OF many of these gems which
once Destroyed could never be replaced.
THE ROYAL LAcEs.
The royal laces, sent over by the Queen
of Italy, form, of course, the center of
beauty from which all others radiate,
They are draped in carved rosewood
cabinet, guarded ay two stuecO knights in
armor and one modern and very much alive
Italian marine in white cap and white
duck Jacket and trousers. A marine is there
with one foot On the steps of the cabinet
at all hours, day and night, and the
worlds fair directory provides a Column
bian guard, whose sole duty is to keep
watchful eye on these treasures.
The queens laces are flanked by an ex-
hibit from the lace school of Bnrano. in
"HlNl HoA Ah"JS9VJ 10 OopGCldlly inter-
tested.
The laces in the Burano exhibit are val
ued at $4,000. You could squeeze the
whole of them into copious overcoat
pocket, On the left of the queens ex-
hibit is a small rosewood cabinet, which
contains jabotte and other exquisite
bits of lace worn by that gifted parvenu,
who led the royalties of the ancient
house of Savoy so merry dance, Napeo-
leon l.
The queens laces are estimated in
value at $4,000. What value the Queen
herself would put upon them is difficult
10 say, since ofcourse, they are not for
sale, but are to be returned to Italy at the
close of the fair. Even commercially,
they would be worth far more than their
weight i'll gold.
They represent many periods and
schools. Indeed, a singular circumstance
IA connection with all fine laces, is that
their owners and makers regard them not
so much as an article of adornment as a
work OF art. The sentiment the emo
IloLs OF the people are woven into the del
icate threads, and the work of one com
munlty will differ in essence from another
as completely as the paintings of one
country differ in their soulfulness from
all others.
Her majesty's favorite style appears to
De that of the Point d Argentan The
ground meshes of this lace are similar to
Uhose OF the celebrated Point d Alencon,
which was introduced into France under
LOUIS XIV and afterwards carried over
INTO Italy, but modified there The
uesneS are larger, however, than those
u the Point d Alencon, and a perfect
LeAagonal form is maintained. The de-
Signs are lowered usually with a very
tioSe hlllng Queen Marguerite possesses
yue most beautiful examples of that lace
eAtant and has sent several of them here.
among the most notable is an immense
Ocu cover, which is used by the Princes
scs Oh Savoia during the ceremonies and
tetepuons following the entrance into
o oIe world OF their royal progency The
o.e Nhlch is now so well displayed in the
aoStWood cabinet here served at the oc-
IIS 10 OF the birth of his late majesty
b 5lne victor Emmanuel in the Cariguano
sGIace al Turin. To make the exhibit
s Soni more interesting her majesty also
SENDS photograph of the room in which
I 1 iate king first saw the light.
1'I NJ 9tAer beautiful bit is a deep tlounce of
a o,l PASTORAL design with ladies swinging
INV t,aIu movers. Tradition says that Wat
Tau was the author of the design.
80 IS also cOnspicuously shown
1noG1Hyr Qeep t1Ounce with illustrations of
SS4 tHi taken from A1sops Fables
All ~ dHoJAer has design of balustrades
NJ a'dItS ana vases, such as was very
ro 1ou Ihe fashion in the foriate
i 5if decorations Of the first
cent,,. OF the eighteenth
se lrIolrS' On another flounce are repre-
Tig5".lols OF grasses and swans.
parr r'L mere are ten or twelve pieces of
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