Italian castles and country seats . see with what rapidityand correctness they throw their bobbins from one[231] ITALIAN CASTLES side of the cushion to the other, place the pins on thepaper pattern beneath their threads, and again withthe swiftest motions weave in and out the next figureof the pattern. A half-finished doily caught myattention on one of the cushions, which to-day wereidle, and I have ordered a dozen similar ones made,to be sent later to London. I think I must lookhonest, because the man never questioned the matterof payment, and merely asked for my address, that hemight write m
Italian castles and country seats . see with what rapidityand correctness they throw their bobbins from one[231] ITALIAN CASTLES side of the cushion to the other, place the pins on thepaper pattern beneath their threads, and again withthe swiftest motions weave in and out the next figureof the pattern. A half-finished doily caught myattention on one of the cushions, which to-day wereidle, and I have ordered a dozen similar ones made,to be sent later to London. I think I must lookhonest, because the man never questioned the matterof payment, and merely asked for my address, that hemight write me when the work was done. Signor Tito Ricordi, the director of the famousmusic publishing house, and a relative by marriageof the Visconti and the Castelbarco, left his card to-night, and has asked us to lunch with him to-morrowat Covas before returning to Como. You rememberI met him first in New York at the time of his direc-tion of the production of Puccinis La Boheme atthe Metropolitan. It is very late. More to-morrow. T. [232]. E OF THE NUMEROUS WATERWAYS IN THEPARK OF THE VILLA TITTONI-TRAVERSINEAR MILAN AND COUNTRY SEATS Cernobbio, Lago di Como, OctoberMy dear M: I HAVE so much regretted that you could not bewith me, to-day especially, for I am sure youwould have enjoyed going over the Canonica laceschool, in which you have taken with me sucha kind interest. This afternoon Countess Tavernaand I motored from Torno to Canonica, where, asyou know, she has established in one of her familypalaces the flourishing school of filet lace of whichyou and I have had so many productions. I wrotea few days ago of the scarf that the children havemade for me, which took the gold medal at the recentexposition in Milan, but to-day, when I have it inmy hands, it is really more beautiful than I expected,and has all the soft suppleness of the fifteenth centurylaces. Much as I have cared for the school and ap-preciated the work it was doing, when once on theground to-day I realized more than e
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