The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-12

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in white twisted silk and the style is
rocco with no repeat in any 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 seef 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 just as
| you write and SO there is no repetition OF
| lines and squares and circles. It's orig
inal, that's what that means. Each scroll
and curve changes constantly except in
the seventy large feur-de-lis which adorn
the center of the table cloth, and they are
heavily but not solidly embroidered The
stitches are all wrought into the fabric so
that no wash or wear can affect them. The
designs were drawn by Miss Mary A.
Williamson and the work done in her work
room, and Mrs. May Wright Sewell bought
the set to be an heirloom in her family,
souvenir of the Columbian exposition
Now do you understand the work?''
II don't have to. Twill write it just as
you tell it and the women will understand
it, hope"
"You see all these fancy curves and but
tonhole designs around the edges-well all
that was done by q skillful colored girl
who worked on it many weeks and as
many more in weaving the bars that hold
it all in place, and it was a continual de-
light to her. These two pieces, thirty
inches wide am three yards long, have
bands of drawn work eight inches wide
between borders of embroidery as rich
and heavy as needle work can produce,
borders with lines that turn and change,
reaching towards the center in long curves
and ornaments that are carefully kept free
from floral suggestions. These are for the
ends of the table"
"But why is it necessary to keep such
things so free from any suggestion of
dowers?"
''They wouldn't be appropriate there
Never mind why-they just wouldn't.
The next piece is a large .overlay 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 and are the most deliberately en-
broideried of all. There are eighteen large
napkins with deep hemstitched borders
and feur-de-lis in one corner. Two of
these have elaborate borders all around
and are for the guests of homer. A smaller
cloth has been ordered to complete this
unique set-and all this lovely creation is
to remain in Mrs. Sewell's family as long
as it will hold together"
re
1t does not take long to tire me in the
Woman's building, or in any other which
makes heavy drafts on an artistic eye,
refined taste, 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
embroideries, sauntered up the broad
avenue to the Califorf1ia building which is
always fresh and green and cool, like the
interior of the old Spanish mission of
which it is copy. AS usual find a great
crowd of people around tthe equestrian
statue OF prlnes, which statue don't like
at all, and the more I see it the more I
don't like it. Possibly my artistic sense
IS better by instinct than by culture-at
any rate, don't like it. But on this last
visit discovered something of real his
toric 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
as good a time as any for few remarks.
Firstly, have my doubts about this being
the first nugget, because as things then
were they paid but little attention to pre-
serving such relics :. The facts I would
emphasize, as l sit at the foot of the Mar
shall statue, are that the discoverer was a
Mormon and laborer and that he lived
poor and died poor;,thet Jim iComstock,
discoverer of the famous lode, had much;
the same experience, that ninety-nine out
OF every hundred of the great discoveries
In the far west realized nothing, and that
present indications are to the effect that
the mining pioneers OF many other regions
are to begin life anew alter losing all that
they once gained by finding and develop
ting silver iodes. j. H BEADLE.
Most people entertain ideas regarding
the gentle mule which will he badly shat |
tered if they attend the livestock show Ut !
the Worlds fair and examine the best |
specimens of jacks and jennets. There |
are some famous animals OF that class IN /
the livestock barns. and all VIII DC on |
The Ultimate Sacrifice.
The tramps were trudging along the |
dusty roads on a hot afternoon, be- /
cause the harvest hands wouldn't let /
item stop in the shade to rest. aud /
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