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Show DECORATIONS IN THE HOME Especial Feature of the Moment Is he Lavish Use That Is Being Made of Lace. l ace assumes more and more the important place in the domain of home furnishing. It is so important that upholsterers have to employ laccmak-ers laccmak-ers and are obliged to make lace purchases pur-chases on a considerable scale. Among other things, pianos and windows win-dows are draped with lace, leaving room for nvithnate upholstery to come af'erward. All styles are available. The "renaissance" combines with lace of quite modern origin And, combining combin-ing with all and secon.l to none in fashion or effect, is the ih!-fashioned crochet. The present toste for crochet denotes a remarkable revival In this kind of thing. Another revival besides it. and mak- j Ing common cause with house end I esueciallv drawing-room decoratio.i, 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 wives. It served for fishing nets and that was about all. But now it is coming back as fast as it can to the place it occupied, let us say, a hundred "years ago, in the repertoire of fancy work for women. Then was the time when dainty sllpper-cased feet were put forward and used in the service of the kind of fancy work known as knitting. Now machinery does a great deal of the work which human fingers aided by the foot used to do. But whether wrought by fingers or machinery, it remains 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 them. The effect of embroidery upon it are now more artis ic than of yore, nature na-ture as well as pictures often servi-.ij as models. |