Evening star., 1915-07-11

home in Berlin.
The thimble. now an indispensable
sewing accessory, came into being less
When Thimbles Were years ago.
Used on Thumbs. arst an known
as thumb beIls''
The needle was originally forced
through the cloth by means of the
thumb. Picture the frequent, painful
little punctures suffered under these
circumstances.
Sailmakers even today wear the
| thimble on the thumb, where it was
originally worn. The salmaker's s
thimble, however. is a leather affair,
through which the thumb is inserted,
with metal disk upon it. The first
thimble was small metal cap that
fitted over the end of the thumb.
AS women were unusually interested
in embroidery work and general sew
ing in the latter part of the seventeenth
century. the thimble became very popu-
lar. Large collections of thimbles were
made by women. who took great pride
in showing them to their friends.
Thimbles were beautifully chased and
artistically carved. A thimble worth
$4,000 is reputed to have been pre-
| sented by one of the Kings of Siam to
his royal spouse. This thimble was
open lotus flower. which was the en-
blem of the royal house Of Siam.
The name of the queen and the date
OF her marriage were inscribed on the
| thimble in diamonds and other precious
stones. The daughter of an American
| millionaire is the owner of another
| most expensive thimble, which cost
$4,000.
Surely Mooreland, with its 1900
acres of gardens and flowers. winding
bou levards
Even the Moon Was on and great
Time at Cleveland. ne"s. ees, Gouno sana
seemed more beautiful than it did that
saturday when Mr.. and Mrs. E. w.
Moore welcomed the hundreds of guests
at their daughters wedding.
The house. which is of white colonial
architecture with green blinds. stands
about a mile and a half back from
Mentor, Ohio. at the end of perfectly
kept boulevard bordered with tall ma
pies.
Partly hidden with giant trees, the
house gives from the outside no ade-
quate idea Of its size. 1t is only after
| entering and seeing the winding stair
leading up and the big rooms on the
left and the right that one begins to
| realize how large the place is
There are verandas around all sides
of the house, and at one end kind of
double porch, including a porch in
closed with glass opening into an out
door veranda.
At the rear. overlooking the terrace
where the ceremony was read, there
growing through the floor of the
veranda up 20 the third story window,
making leafy roof for the porch.
Many of the tables for the wedding
| supper were set here, and many more
were on the terraced lawn.
The inclosed porch where the bridal
table was set was converted into an
arbor of roses and hanging vines.
Miss Kathryn Moore. followed by Miss
Elizabeth Moore, sisters of the bride,
wearing girlish frocks of Nile green
taffeta and carrying big armfuls Of
pink rambler roses, led the bridal pro-
cession to the altar. which stood under
clump Of birch trees at the foot of
the terrace.
From here could be seen the bunk
ers Of the nine-hole golf course and
the nets over the tennis courts. Nearer
were the impressive gray stone per-
golas with their stone garden seats
and twining vines of green.
In the carefully laid out rose gar
den perfect pink and red and yellow
blossoms added their share of color
and beauty to the occasion.
Just as the moon rose lights glowed
in the hundreds of Japanese lanterns
that were hung from the trees and on
the wires stretched around the winding
boulevards.
After supper the young people ad-
journed to the drawing rooms and
porches, which were cleared for dane
Ing. These rooms were decorated with
the white queens lace flower and
branches of green leaves.
Upstairs two big rooms and part of
the porches were used for the display
of rare and beautiful wedding gifts
Mr.. and Mrs. Clark will make their
home in a newly completed house in
Moorelands.
The men as well as the women have
felt this change to the informal and
have brought out
Men Have Decided their white fan
rvy, mel suits and their
oA Willie. white shoes.
In fact, to all appearances white is
to be the fashion for men this year as
At the wedding Saturday. June 26,
of Miss Margaret Moore and Mr.. Fred
Clark it seemed that half of the men
were in white.
The men have been sorely tried this
summer trying to decide just what they
should wear to these out-of-doors af-
fairs, and at some of the country we'd
dings every sort and description of
mannish attire has been in evidence
from the fullest of full dress" to the
white trousers and dark coat combina-
tion with the all white suit. the tux
edo and even the sack suit as varia-
tion.
No one seemed able to decide just
which was correct and the doubt
caused endless humorous discussion.
But the early hour of the Moore
Clarke wedding seemed to settle the
matter and for the men 1t was white
wedding.
However the men of the wedding
party. Mr.. S. S. Clark. who served his