Evening star., 1927-04-17
AROUND THE CITY
by MAMIE LANCASTER.

called "the pattern of the Lord" be-
! cause Ii has three triangles, which
| symbolic the triune nature of man
/ body, soul and spirit. The mantle,
woven in a single piece, is long and
wide and deep. and shows the border
which only a physician or healer
might wear. "TRey Ei.Sed the hem
Of Ills garment, which meant its
border.
Modern woman must consider
Sarah's raiment with astonished awe:
Seventy-ive yards of hand-woVen
wool. invisible blue; its seams defined
with an embroidery in gay colors,
hitandlnis design--like the lamp
mat stitch which long ago children
used to knit With pins on a spool. The
sleeves are long enough to do duty as
a court train. There is girdle sash
that could be used for piano scarf
and have enough left over for Il sofa
cushion. Sarah wore heavy jewels.
dull colOred and silver coin-Eke disks
suspended from heavy silver chains.
These coins meant nothing so frivol-
Gus as mere decoration. Each signi-
fed a woman S standing in Ter cGIr.-
munity and in her husbands home.
To lose one was a calamity.
In the parable of the Lost Coin"
the Savior lj1ens the joy Of God oven
tone sinner that repentcth" ITO the
reioicings OF woman who has found
one of her lost pieces of silver. The
comparison seems unbalanced unless
one is familiar with the Importance
which that coin represented to the
women before whom He preached.
"A Woman of Bethlehem" wears
around her neck a silver chain from
which are suspended many dime sized
coins caught in front by silver disk,
the heayiness of our silver dollar.
Each coin has its symbolic value as
part c. the 10 members Of the body,
the five senses of man and the Eve
senses of woman. AS a whole, the
ornament stands for the woman $
dignity among her people and as a
proof of her loyalty to her husband.
her children and her home. Should
she lose a coin. she loses caste and
becomes a cause of commiseration
among other women and an object of
suspicion to men. So what more
natural than that she turn the house
upside down and search frantically
for her lost treasure until she found
it, and then herald the glad news
around. Yet many have called that
parable pointless-because they did
not understand.
The biblical fashion of braiding the
hair in many fine plaits-as demon
strated by a realistic wig-makes it
simple matter of reckoning to
count the hairs Of ones head"-and
gives realism to the parable it illus
trates.
Still another parable-the one about
a wolf in sleeps clothing-is made
vividly natural by the facsimile of a
shepherd" dressed in sheepskin
with the wool outside. In the days
of the Bible and since careful watch
is made by shepherds over their
fiocks, because thieves could easily
put on a shepherds wool skin and
steal the sheep away And these
thieves We're called wolves.
Can a bride forget her attire?'
The answer TO this Bible question is
mo" in capitals, if her wedding gar
ment, which cost Nine. Mountford
$1,000, is a guide to go by.
To describe the robe of pink silk,
jeweled laces and what present style
would call a bolero of blue velvet
flowered with spun gold would take
more time than an average reader
would stand for-but no garb of any
famous woman IN any museum mere
or abroad is better worth studying as
an example of extravaganza gone
mad.
When Jacob fell in love with Rebe-
kah at the we'll she was wearing a
fiowing 9 -sleeved, full-robed gown of
fiax-colored texture. cotton, or, maybe
linen with a breast-plate of embroid.
cry in dull green's and reds and vel.
lows, each with it's symbolic color.
value-and a long blue sash.
Going to the well did not mean that
Rebekai1 was poor and had to do her
own work. A well was a gathering
place where women exchanged the
gossip of the day and went to enjoy
the excitement of passing caravans