Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1917 — Origin of Lace-Making. [ARTICLE]

Origin of Lace-Making.

A romantic legend Is still current among the peasants of Europe concerning the origin of lace. As the story goes, a lover, who could offer his betrothed no costly gift, one day brought to her a leaf which he had plucked In the forest. She accepted it as a true token of love, and preserved It with care. In time the lover went away—to the war, perhaps—and never returned. The maiden prized the leaf then as a sacred treasure, and when she found only the delicate valuing left of her keepsake, she took needle and thread bpd tried to copy the falryllke web. 4nd thus was rpade the first bit of real lace. —Girls’ world.