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Show For the Girl Who Embroiders. i , which Is perched srill another little bird, this time a small fat one. In tho next : block there Is il plant of the bleeding h-Mrr, wit I) a very odd and extre ly d-.s- oraiire bird perched on the I raiuh.-s und a most elfeciive snail crawling out of the other corner. Tho next block has a Jinu-Idc Jinu-Idc of .sjnveutloii ilued blossoms lu one. corner and .i bird with a wry long, narrow nar-row tail exteiidiug the cutire length of I the block. I Next comes a group of two furu leaves, a . hig white daisy und tw o toadstools, and .above those u spld.-r's web. 1 be lae-t embroidered em-broidered block shows a background of stars and wheel and a peacock pois.sl against it. The spread is of w hite hneu and the embroidery is .lone :u color ip-propriato ip-propriato to the motive. I oue nil in. white. Much a spreud would Is? very" beu- I liful, but the work would bo luoro diUl-. 'cult atxl hard on the eye. 7Y YOT'Nfi girl who Is an expert em- Vbroiderer is engaged upon a piece of work which when cnmpletisl will be a life ..ng treasure. It is a bedsprrud of heay linen which is finished wlh an jembroldered border that is st unusual land beaurifnl The border is la d out in I blocks of regular sire, nnd these blocks 'are alternately decorated with bunds of lrish lace nnd with embroidered designs 'It is the embroidery which is so interest-ling, interest-ling, ns it is entirely designed by the girl j herself. Each block of the embroidery differs from the others, but all represent girdeii motives, so that they all weae together into a poetic whole. The motives are rather subtle and tho designs quuiuily 'complicated, wblch makes the work much 'more interesting. . One block shown a jbultertly in one corner and In the other 'a design representing conventionalized I flowers. Then comes a laiv blin k, aud iafter that a block ' showing two queer 'slim little birds under a strange convco itionah.ed plant. The next embroidered block shows another quslut bird with au 'extraordinarily long bill, which is hcin used to explore the r. cesses of a vino Ithat complexly fill- "1 the upper purt !of tho block with it gr.ic.-fui festoons. I Then comes a block hall of wlu.l, is lulled wilh a conventionali.td m.k- on |