The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-12
STORY OF a TAPESTRY.
Whom the War Drove From Her
Home.
From the New York Sun.

Home.
From the New York Sun.
A piece of tapestry of the sort to delight
lovers Of fine needework, with Moorish
| and Spanish emblems inwrought with the
| gold and silver threads, hangs on the walls
of an uptown bachelors apartment. 1t
was placed there only day or two ago,
with mlsgivings as to how 1t would fit in
with the other thing in the room, and
the devout wish that 1t might not prove an
elephant on the owners hands.
"If it would do for an altar cloth now I
might give it to the church; it's too rich
for a bedspread and not the right shape"
| said the owner ruefully, when it was first
lifted from the box it came in, but he
draped it up somewhere, the first place
! that offered, just to set 1t out of the way,
! and lit a cigar to Danish care and per-
haps ponder over the motive that induced
him to pay a good round sum for some
| thing he didn't in the least want and had
no use for
by Jove, believe it's pretty!' he ex-
claimed, as from his loungng chair arose
| the room he viewed the hanging dispas-
sionately. Soft Andalusian coioring, rich
texture, good style, history In the pattern,
and all that. May be not such bad bar
| gain, after ALI,
Wen cut 10 sea by now headed for
Southampton, a big steamship breasts the
waves She tiiea the British fiag and
among her passengers are a slender, dark
| eyed woman and her young son, whose
| passage money the transfer of the heir
| loot tapestry TO the bachelors apartment
supplied. Two months ago neither mother
| nor son dreamed of leaving their New
| York home. Domestic pecuniary issues
precipitated by the outbreak of war be-
| tween the Spanish woman's native and
! her adopted country caused an abrupt
change of plans; and money was needed
for the emergency.
"Of course, 1 know you don't want the
| tapestry, to buy 1t would be extravagance,
! but 1t Is the only thing of worth that Sc
| nora de Montejo has left to sell, and she Is
| really hard up and so anxious to get away.
| Do buy it," Thus was the case put to the
amable bachelor by the girl friend to
whose sympathy the Spanish woman's sit
uatlon had strongly appealed. She had
her destined victim TO herself at an even
ing party where there was scant chance of
| escape.
Mine feet long, did you say7 I really
| haven't a place to put anything of the
| kind, 1t would be an elephant on my
hands," the bachelor protested. Really,
you know. If it's money she wants.
mo, it's not money She wants." the
as-well, you know that kind of people;
| the only way she can be helped is to buy
| something and give her the money equiva-
lent / got Uncle John to take the opals.
| A whole set, tiara and all. The setting
was old time, but really fine stones. Mrs
Goggleby took the Barcelona lace, two ex-
quisite lounces, foot and a half deep,
and a mantilla. You know there is scarce
| ly any genuine Spanish lace In New York
now. They don't bring II over any more,
and an expert who has seen this since
Mrs. Goggleby got 1t, says it's the genu-
| Inc old make and pattern, of the design
In vogue before Barcelona lace making de-
Perforated in quality and value There were
some fine O. cabinet carvings that the
ladies in the church parcelled out among
them, and 1 undertook. for my share, to
dispose of this tapestry. It's lovely, all
silver and gold scroll work and pomegran-
ate blossoms and raised embroidery, and
moi glaring rich and elegant, but subdueo
looking Do say you'll take it,"
And the price?"
"She values II at $780,"
The bachelor whstled, Just In a sort of
undertone. and regarded the broker with
| a not-to-be-described expression.
but she II take less" II was suggested
"Oh, I should think she would take half
that. and you haven't seen it yet. It
grows prettier the longer you look at 1t.
les a trial to Nine de MonteJo TO give
it up, but she's dreadfully upset about the
war, and the only relatives she has In the
world are across the water, and 1t isn't
comfortable here for the boy now. The
other boys jeer at him and taunt him
with being a Spaniard. You know that
Is the way children do. They are heart
less little things sometimes"
So the upshot Is that the unique ind
fne-wrought tapestry hangs on the newly
done over walls OF the bachelors chambers
ana the girl broker and phlanthropst
beams on the young man whenever they
meet, and says privately that he's the
best hearted fellow she ever knew
80 awfully good of him to help out
poor Nine. de Montejo, when he didn't
even know her. He says IL she should
ever want the tapestry back she can have
it."
"Have many Of the spaniards who left
the city had to dispose Of household APP
purtenances in order to go?" sho was
asked.
II think so. We knew of two or three
families" was the answer. They needed
ready money in a hurry, and besides their
plans were 80 unsettled, not knowing how
they would find things on the other side
that anything that took up room was sold
at any sacrifice. Few such belongings
we're modern. but they were Of fine quail
ity and always artistic.
Tho Wrong James Billy, the Slugeer-