People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1893 — A Valuable Relie. [ARTICLE]

A Valuable Relie.

In the last month of her life Mary Queen of Scots amused herself making a bed quilt. Upon a background of red. green and black silk she worked various designs with silk thread of bright colors. In several places she attempted embroidered portraits of noted characters of her time. The resemblances, however, are striking. This quilt was the gilt of the queen to a maid of honor who remained with her through loss of power and friends. The quilt has been carefully treasured .by the descendants of the one to whom it was given. It was brought by them to this country, and one of them, Senator John Bidlake, of South Dakota, sent it to the fair. Poets utter great and wise things whicfi they do not themselves understand.—Plata