New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-01
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The repair Of the famous Hardwicke tapestries
by the workers OF the Decorative Needle
work Society in London is remarkable example
of what be achieved by the needles excel
lence' even in these days of the needles degen-
eracy. These Hardwtlke tapestries undoubt-
eddy English, and date from the middle of the ff
teenth century. When committed by the Duke
of Devonshire into the hands of the Decorative
Needework Society, they literally things OF
shreds not of patches says The Queen
hanging in the strips into which Bess Of Hard
wclie had them cut, when, by her orders, they
ruthlessly torn down from the walls of old
lIardwicke Hall and hung portions of them upside
DOWN the walls of her new mansion, so as to
make it habitable. Little wonder that three hun
dred years OF neglect following this initial
maltreatment, reduced the magniicent hangings
TO mass of rags, in which the design was in many
places scarcely dscernible They portray series or
representations Of knights and squires, country
danes retainers and serfs the rank OF the Various
persons denoted, according to the quaint fashion
in the tapestries OF the time by the relative size
of the figures The dress of the period, the wonder
full colts of the ladies secured by daggerlike pins TO
their towering frames, the equally curious head
foTng robes some q them interwov 81 with
rendered
Mrs. Corneiia Stewart Robinson. who has been
attending the recent midsummer conference of the
State Federation Of Women's Clubs at Chautau-
qua, has remained i'll Chautauqua County to or
ganize clubs for the State Association of Republi-
Women. Mrs Frank b. Church. chairman for
AlleSanS County, IS assisting neT, On neF return
to New York Mrs Robinson will take charge of
the municipal campaign work for the Woman's
on the East Side and social cup of tea the
Of the tenements will be told what the
urged to whatever influence they possess to
keep it in power.
Mrs May Wright Sewall. of Indiana polls presi-
dent of the International Council of Women. and
Mrs John ". Swift. OF San Francisco. president
Of the National Council of Women of the United
States sailed this week for Bremen to attend the
International Conference OF Women at Dresden.
Mrs Sewal Will preside at the conference: ana
meeting of the International Council which will
be held in Berlin in 1904,
An interesting and once famous document though
almost forgotten in these days, is the marriage
protest Of Lucy Stone. Lucy Stone married Henry
b Blackwell in 1855, but she never took his name,
and the couple signed a protest, which was pub
lished far and wide, against such of the present
laws of marriage refuse to recognize the wife
as an independent, rational being. while they
fer upon the husband injurious and unnatural
superiority investing him with legal powers which
no honorable would exercise and which
man should possess" In particular the couple pro
tested against the suspension OF the wife's legal
existence during marriage SO that ; she could
ship of her personal property and use of her real
right to the products of her industry. and the
elusive control and guardianship Of the children by
greater part of this protest would now be super
fgons 6gt 1--WE orr the father SUPERIOR rgbs ' IN
the guardianship of children
The work Of an English princess is play com
pared 70 that of American Presidents daugh-
ter remarks The Gentlewoman, English
publication after calling attention TO the fact that
Miss Alice Roosevelt is in urgent need of rest
cure can you wOnder?" it goes on During the
last fifteen months the unfortunate girl computes
that she attended 4oS dinners $50 teas and III re-
s69oR hands with between $1,000 and 10000 persons