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Show BRIDAL VEIL SYMBOL OF DREAM . I : " I 1 SHE WEAVES INTO LACE A PATTERN OF DREAMS. BY D J UNA BARNES NEW YORK - bridofa clreams Woven Wov-en Into her wedding vr!!' Could any-thlRg any-thlRg be more lovely than the hopes of a woman's heart paltornsd into lasting ie.-ord of exquisite iHce'.' Helen Clarke doe Just tbla. Not only is she a maker ot lace but nlo h weavi 1 I of dreams, for the d signs of the wedding I viils she creates ere sy inbollral, express-Inr express-Inr the dearest wish of the brtdc whose i head each Is to crown. PICTURE IN LACE '"Young girls." Miss Clarke sall "come to me. blushlnK nnil Say, Tve heard that I vovi make lace, and Invent figur.-.s . nd designs to portray what one wishes to i have come true." The young bride coes on here In my , little private offlc- Rue tell me t!,. Dl glent desire of her life. 1'ciliapi n is u. stay beautiful alw lys, ut.il perhaps It Is a wish for a horn - it' ll , .11 nev.r .,11., v. tro.:ble. and perhaps It is only vsgue , longing to beet ine something greater than she now Is. through : ivi "She asks me 'Can you do It?" and I always answer '1 can.' " THE OLOEST ERIDE. The lacs maker spread out a gorgeous veil, sonic seventeen fept long, on which groal birds stood rnd smaller hints flew aW ii Into a moon cnupht among the ! I innc hes of a deserted uutumn tree. And when she was asked what It nil meant bhi smiled, w.th something like a break : In her voice: "This." she said, "is the bridal veil for lie oldest woman Pride I've ever made anything fo.r. She Is S-l. and when she-ordered she-ordered this she said, it's soon I'll be, fly -I lug away, but It's a grand time I'll be raving While I slay, and will you put all that Into the lace, and say nothing to ..nc:ic?" HOPr, BIG AND LITTLE. And so Heit'll Clarke puts slltii n ::tii into litidal gown and bridal veil, all the- lit ( 1 hop, uid hopes that 1 HOI little There 11 may remain. i,n Indelible rec ord for the bride's daughter, and her daughter's daughter, to sec and dream about anil understand. |