New-York tribune., 1902-09-07

in the annals Of modern New-York society," an
I saw the maid there flirting a piece OF Aigant
point in the hat Of her. And said to her HOW
comes it you're wearin' piece Of lace Hike that
so common ike? An I found she had been maid
to a woman who died in a hotel here IN the city
And fk turned out she hadn't an heir to her name
and the maid got all the laces An she was cut
ting thin UP in slices and parcelIhg tlh out 10
her friends, not knowing enough 70 Aiio" tie
worth a. thin All it made me heart burn to see
the moor pretty bit o lace that regiment ought
10 be guardin' tossed around IN the nat OF her.
What's that? The Blanks? Pour! lhey kho" no
more than the maid They'd nVer peleVe twas
= bit Of good lace Just because a maid had it.
,rh. oriv yyav they do be KNOWN real lace is by
tha nrice marked on 1t at the counter
srd Mrs Odel shifted audbly, with scorn writ
large in every line Of her kindly Irish face
..cure me sisters and sisters-in-aw and
did he maxim the sunshade for Queen Victoria at
the cr invent =" she went There was eight cores
to the sunshade. and eight women OF the family
each made one gore. heard afterward that the
Oueen gave il to Princess Beatrice for one of her
wedding presents We worked a nounce for
Princess Louise. an we helped alb for Pope
Pins TX Yera a Protestant, honey. mores the
pity can see It In yer face, I'll tell what
the alb is. It's the long lace garment that the
uriest wears over his gown. An the quare thing
about It. a Protestant lady ordered this alb for
the Pope. You know. Protestants to
have an idea that the Catholicism ate thin il they
get a chance But she wint 10 the Pope, and
he treated her that nice showing her all over the
place and having her TO tea with him, that whin
she come away she ordered this alb Of US l mind
it well. novice designed it. and there was
pair Of keys on each sleeve of it Twas worth 900
How many kinds of Irish laces is it? Well
there's Carrckmacross; that's made of net and fine
muslin sewed a background. and the pattern
cut out leaving here the muslin and there the net
according the price. They do be askn' an awful
price for it downtown. S12 yard for a piece two
inches wide. But, though it hooks pretty on velvet
it's not durable lace at all. It pulls away from
the stitches in cleaning. I'll not take ii to clean
at all. Then there's Limerick lace that they use
mostly for the affairs and the priests vestments
with linen floss. Then, the Irish crochet fs cro
cheted in sections. One girl crochets a dozen
roses. and another dozen shamrocks and so IN
and then they're arranged IN a pattern, and one
person sews them together and fills in the threads
between. An I've snt for Italians here and
Syrans. and any woman that could handle q cro-
chet hook. and thev all said, oh me no makee
that wayne only makee piece They can't sew
them together in collar a Jacket the crathers
they can only sew them in a straight edge Here's
wide collar Of the real Irish crochet IT'S worth
81. And here's the mate of It, only machine made
for S.
Thin IN Ireland they make the pillow laces
Torchon and Nalenciennes and ali Kinds Of kni+
laces- '1is q revival the Irish Iacee are having
now. It has gone on for several wears now Alex
andra brought out the crochet laces and LADY,
Aberdeen did great deal for Irish Iaces She sent
Irish laceulakers to the Chicago Fair and she had