Evening star., 1914-04-19


swathed in tullc. rather than
IN lace. does not mean that the
matter OF yelling her is an
easy one. Neither does it mean that her
costume does not boast as much rare Old
lace her family can pay for.
The preferred veil of the moment IS
made of tulle OF that there can be NJ
doubt. Bnt it is usually held in place
by a cap of lace, and it is often borGere,i
with bands of lace at the sides and
bottom. In the case OF a Fashionable
bride, this lace is as nearly priceless
she can afford.
Sometimes old lace shawls are used
for the bridal cap. These. however, are
better in a season when the lace vel
is in vogue. for they must be cut for
cap Sometimes a barb or tucker of
lace is fashioned into cap and not long
ago the priceless lace from an old fan
was made into beWitching cap.
There are dealers in lace who have
pedigreed laces on hand for these caps.
They keep the records of the former
owners of the lace as carefully as you
would keep the record of your ancestor
who graced the Mayfiower with his pres
Conquerors shoe. And, of course the
record oc the lace goes with it. For the
little lace caps of the present day will
doubtless find a place in the wedding
clothes of the future, just our grand
mothers barbs and shawls fashion the
wedding finery of today.
Some brides. loath, to give up the
pleasure of wearing a veil of rare lace.
still do so, in spite of the prevalence OF
tulle And the lace of these wells is
carefully chosen that of the little caps.
For. be it known. it is no easy matter
for the anxious mother of a fashionable
bride to find old lace that is worthy of
her daughter. And the search for it
leads to many interesting adventures in
lace.
Not long ago the mother of a Young
woman, granddaughter of one of the
great generals of civil war fame who
was to be married to Belgian of wealth
and position, started out to search for
lace to grace her daughters wedding
frock- She went directly to fashion
able needework shop, which is kept by
a woman who knows more about old
lace than most persons know about the
weather.
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| 1t must be extraordinary piece of
| lace said the mother. There must lie
enough for the veil and for long court
train-something that will serve for a
court presentation gown after the we'd
ding. OF course, it must be antique
| The lace dealer thought a minute.
| '.Ifoniton, / suppose. she finally MUIR
| INJURED. and she showed her patron three
| or four of her most valuable pieces uf
| lace.
! NO. | want something better than
| those, said the patron.
| So the dealer Went to a special case
| under lock and key. and. with the same
sort of pride with which a diamond
| dealer displays his most priced gems,
she brought forth the mellow folds OF
! u piece of old Honiton.
| Here she said, lis the best piece of
| Honiton l have-one of the finest bits in
the country. l have been able to get it
from an English family in reduced cir
| cumstances. They have had it for a
| hundred years old
| The mother, who knew something
about laces herself, examined the heir
| loom and told the dealer she would take
| it. When she heard the figure asked
| for it, she gasped.
That is prohibitive.' she said 1T is
True" agreed the dealer but you
| know as well as | do that laces of that
age and texture are rare. am selling
it on commission for this English FAMILY
and it would not be right to take less
for it when | easily sell it for that
price to some one else
| so the mother took the lace and the
daughter Wore it on her wedding dress
| Its creamy folds fell nearly to the end
| of her long court train. 1t was indeea
one of the most exquisite wells ever
| worn by bride.
| When the bride went TO her new home
| in Belgium she naturally took the veil
/ with her, and with it the history of the
! lace that went with it. No sooner had
one of the older ladies in the husbands
family seen the lace than she exclaimed.
why, that is very much like piece
Of old Honiton once owned by our fam
lily Every one who was intimate with
| the family had heard the story which
the young bride now heard-about the
missing piece of rare Honiton that had
been stolen many years before. 1t had
been used as the bridal veil of the young
women of the family for generations
and was of enormous value.
The bride compared the pedigree she
| had got OF her veil with the ped gree
her husbands family had of their
| missing lace. and the two agreed. eX-
| cepting that the brides lacked the name
| of her husbands family and the Belgian
| pedigree was only brought down to the
| time of the theft.
The brides Veil turned out to be the
| lace stolen from her husbands family
long before 1t had been carried into
England by the thief and there sold
several times, and finally it had been
sold into America
go the missing old lace was restored
American bride.