Here, then, was a suggestive contrast, and however one may regret it, it exists in the large majority of lace-making households in Belgium, and is only to be expected. It is but the deserved penalty of a past and present economic blindness or callousness. Where they are not making Cluny, the younger women of this district give their time to ordinary varieties of guipure which they call Bruges and Milan, or Point de Bruges, and Point de Milan.

BOBBIN LACES

(1) Torchon (2) Cluny (3) Old Flemish (4) Binche

TABLE CLOTH SHOWING ARMS OF THE ALLIES