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Show DECORATIONS IN THE HOME Especial Feature of the Moment Is the LavUh Use That Is Being Made of Lace. I.jico assumes more and inoro tho Important place In tho domain of home furnishing. It Is so Important that upholsterers have to employ lnccmnk-era lnccmnk-era and are obliged to make lace purchases pur-chases on a considerable scalo. Among other things, pianos and windows win-dows nro draped with lace, leaving room for l-v!tmnto upholstery to come nf'erward. All 'tylos aro available. Tho "ronnlssanco" combines with lace of qulto modern origin And, combining combin-ing with all and soeonJ to none In fashion or effect, la tho Mxl-fashloned crochet. Tho preaont teste for crochet donoteB n romnrknblo revival (n this kind of thing. Anothor revival besides It, and making mak-ing common cause with houso and especially drnwlns-room decoration, Is the equally old-fashioned netting. For long years past this species of handwork has been left almost exclusively ex-clusively to fishermen and their wlvos. It served for fishing nets nnd that was about all. But now It Is coming back as fast as It enn to tho place It occuplod, lot i:s say, a hundred years ago. In the repertoire of fancy work for women. Then wns tho tlmo whon dainty sllpper-cnsed feet wore put forward and used in tho sorvlco of tho kind of fancy work known as knitting. Now machinery does a great deal of tho work which human fingers aided by tho foot used to do. 13ut whether wrought by fingers or machinery, It romalns a fact that old-fashioned old-fashioned netting Is a distinct revival and that Ms presence In drawing rooms throws an air of fashion around thorn. Tho effect of cmbroldory upon It aro now moro article than of yore, na-turo na-turo as well as pictures ofton serving as modpla. . . , |