Show deady dams 5 edeli 11 18 fairy tale f COM 1 QT BY V UN AN A U UN 0 ON r LANGUAGE OF LACE nancy was invited one day to call on a lady who made lace and to the lady lace was something almost 44 alive lace had I 1 a language bolier to her I 1 am going to tell you what she said to nancy as sl e showed her the wonderful lace she had made and other pieces of lace which were very very old and which she had mended so they would stay together the lady had won many a prize nancy tried one and many a medal of them on 11 for ner her lace A lovely lace fan which she had roade made had in won on a particularly fine gold laerdal for she had planned just how to make the lace or r the design as she called it IL you see she told nancy there 1 are the initials worked through th the lace of the lady for whom the fan was made and there are long tailed birds and roses to make the fan a festive handsome possession I 1 made the fan in the garden she went on I 1 love to work on the lace there for it helps the work ork every spring I 1 go out into the country to make outlines of the spring flowers one can make them even lovelier in the lace when one has been close to their fragrance out of doors here Is a lace illy I 1 did in a gar den one time it was so sweet scent ed a illy and nancy smiled to her self as she thought that the lady was actually remembering the scent of the real illy as she looked upon the lace illy I 1 then the lady showed nancy mar elous nelous bridal veils she had made some had family crests embroidered upon them and some had the favorite flower of the young bride worked into the lace nancy tried one of them on and looked at herself in the mirror and she could almost hear the wedding march play and imagine that she was many years older and that she was bein being married and wearing a beautiful veil like this 1 I 1 then the lady showed nancy apple blossoms made in lace here Is a lace dragon fly she said and nancy thought a dragon fly made of delicate lace was a graceful crea ture indeed nancy was quite an ad of dragon flies and of their gracefulness the lady had lace peacocks for her calling cards so you see lace was the most important thing in almost every way to her the peacock the lady told nancy stands for something that will last for ener e er not for good luck but I 1 think of nothing more wonderful than of making lace for ever so I 1 like him for my special pet pett I 1 aar across the sea the lady went on there are many lace makers mostly they are the waves of the old fishermen the people from the coast of devonshire have always been ta fa for or lace making ever since the flemish brought the art to them back in the elizabethan days there Is lace known as the buck ingham point lace of the midlands that was vias started by catharine of aragon back in the days of henry VIII they have enchanting bobbins carved and illustrative of church win dows and the bobbins have charms dangling from them but bobbins asked nancy what are they so she showed nancy some small carved wooden implements which she explained were used as thread beav ers upon this ladys lady s bobbins were printed my heart Is fixed it cannot change for lace will always be loved by heri herl yes there Is a language to lace the lady told nancy the language Is different in various parts of the world too we have different words for the same things we have the winkle pin which Is a I 1 lace a c e decoration or ornament and there Is the toad in the hole which Is a pretty lace filling I 1 I 1 wonder if the toad family know t that h a t laughed nancy I 1 wonder she showed smiled the lady lancy nancy lace she con tinned has so much history attached to it with its quaint figures of by gone days and its customs and myths and stories woven into the exquisite patterns and lace too Is so full of romance then nancy saw a whole collection of laces some of them had come from abroad old laces modern laces laces of historical meaning and laces which the lady had made up out of her own thoughts |