Show illE THE AMATEUR SMUGGLERS MOST HOST TRAVELERS IlS FEEL FEED JUSTI JUSTl JUSTIFIED FIED FlED IN OUTWITTING AND BEATING GOVERNMENT Foreign Dealers Know now the American Mania tor for Private Smuggling mu lin LandSell Land and Sell bell Accordingly Accordingly Cc ly Many Disappoint men in 1 If It th the arrivals on one of the big liners were drawn up in rows on th the pier and se searched it is doubtful i If five per cent of ot them would escape the charge of smuggling The women are said to break the law In greater numbers num num- bers than the men although the latter cheat the Government of larger mounts The majority of women dont don't understand the customs laws Said a nervous little lady on the promenade of the Deutschland as the tugs were pushing the big steamer into the dock Ive got two china salt cellars cellars eel cel- cel- cel lars under my hat hatt Do you suppose they'll hear them click together They cost 5 cents apiece at toe Royale but they're so cute Why you dear dearold dearold old goose said a like business-like person near her I pless uess you'd Jump overboard overboard over over- board if you had my trunks to wriggle through the examination Just listen You Know youre you're allowed to replenish your wardrobe if youre you're gone a year When I decided to go over twelve twelvemonths twelvemonths twelvemonths months ago I Just took all the old trunks in the house I had bad eleven in all alI and I filled most of them up with the stuff you usually send to the Salvation Army Thought Though some of them would go to pieces on the tho trip I got rid of ol more than half In London and bought beautiful English leather trunks to take their places And the things 1 Ive I've ve brought back In my replenished wardrobe wardrobe ward ward- robe But the foreign names on so many dresses gasped the nervous one Ive ripped them o out oat t and sewed In the names that were in my 01 old oia 1 dresses t She was even cleverer than the white- white haired gentleman who confided to his neighbor at table that he had brought back bacle some lace gowns worth at least francs a piece that were entered In a a. sworn invoice at francs each But said the little maid at his elbow wont the appraisers appraisers appraisers ap ap- know the real value The venerable venerable venerable ven- ven erable sinner stroked his bis white beard complacently Why should they suspect suspect sus sus- the invoices approved by the American American American Am Am- Consul at Ah they ire are my very good friends at the consulate consulate con con- he purred I Real Syrian Rugs Even the steerage has Its smugglers There was a a. commotion on the 1 ant x ur uc a morn Ing Several hundred Syrians were westward bound One of them had stolen a roll of ot bedding from another The officer to whom complaint was made was not deeply interested Hadn't the immigrant a a. good berth in inthe inthe inthe the steerage Why so much fracas for a a. bundle of dirty rags that should have been stowed In the hold The complainant complainant complainant com com- waxed desperate Mother of the Prophet his bed bed of of dirty rags It was of Syrian rugs the best a a. dozen sent by a merchant of Damascus to llis his brother merchant in New York The duty on Syrian rugs Is heavy heavy but but who would think to find them in the dirty bedding of an immigrant A glove buyer for one of the big American American American Am Am- houses used to bring back on each semi semi annual annual trip for his own purposes purposes purposes pur pur- poses twelve dozen pairs of gloves carefully carefully carefully care care- fully hidden In many pockets of his coat and overcoat Almost every tourist who can afford it buys a a. diamond ring while abroad A feather boa is almost al al' almost most the first purchase of the American woman arriving In London and what whal customs official can prove that she did not carry it out of her own country with her How seldom do those first purchases in London and Paris outlast the evanescent evanescent evanescent evan evan- charm of novelty Flimsily bullof built bull of fragile material they drop to pieces before the owner has had bad time to wear weary of them If they do last for any length of time It Is only to become a a. source of t anger and disgust The silk petticoat petticoat petti coat bought at the tho Bon Marche Paris for which vou you paid what 8 what a bargain it W was S until o one e day you felt mysterious ious lous at t your ankles anc and stooped to find that the half naIf Inch wide wid steel ribbon which gave such a chic set to the bottom had bad broken loose loos from the dust ruffle rume and slashed th the silk to bits and your stockings to ta tatt tat tern tera To comfort you every depart depart- department department ment store In New York and Chicago is showing you Identically the same sam skirt without the steel stiffening fo for 5 Sometimes remembering these thes things the high prices that assailed you In London and Paris you may wonder wonder won won- der how bow the French women ot of mOderate means manage to dress so welL Americans J Charged Double The answer Is that Americans Americana art are abominably over overcharged A raw clerk clerkIn In the Louvre once told an American customer that the house would make mak her up a pongee suit for francs I Iwas He was sharply contradicted by an older olde who explained that the su suit would cost francs As the lad lady moved away without ordering tl the gown she heard beard the novice e remon strate II You You told me francs th the theold theold For Frenchwomen yes growled old hand band but that was an American The biggest lace house In Vienna and Vienna Is the cheapest place In Inthe inthe the world to buy lace purposely pu puts up the prices to allow a good margin margi for bargaining Experienced Amelean Amer Ame American American ican lean buyers for fashionable New York I tailors who go yearly to Paris fo for models take with them on their shopping sho shop 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French friend with wit whose assistance they secure materials materia and Md mod models lIs for about half the quoted quote price i French workmanship Is Inferior The Th models brought home homo by a tailor who has a shop just off Fifth Avenue were sent into the workroom to be bo b before fore they could be placed In tl the e show cases Style Is what the French tailor aims alms at Chic beautiful a a. gown must be If it falls to pieces the first fast time it Is worn worn worn-so BO much the better for the business madame business madame needs another gown gOWD A woman who had ordered a a. II single dress from one e of the big French I houses louses complained of the workman workman- ship The manager shrugged his shoulders ders One dress why should we bother at all for that Most expensive French lingerie is frequently finished with rough seams lace ace Is stowed sewed to edges threads In hand embroidery are left the case the garment simply falls to pieces even wen In the most careful laundry No words can express rue me horror of ot English tailoring In London they have made nade an attempt to meet American tastes but the English tailors tailor's con conS eption of the short skirt Is a a. tweed monstrosity escaping the shoe tops In front and tickling the pavement beA be- be A p t w aid aidIN IN THE NEW YORK CUSTOMS HOUSE hind hind Ind while a straight straight- row o- o of r.- r. stitching stitch stitch- Ing ng is beyond the modest capability of oJ the English workshop Many a woman who in her first month abroad materially diminished her er letter of credit has bas come home to wish for the trim s smartness artness of Broad Broad- way The frills beloved of the Englishwoman English Englishwoman woman and the skin tight little Jackets of f the Frenchwoman quickly lose their fascination for the American n woman whose aim in dress is unusually a seeming seem seem- Ing ng simplicity that has cost her tailor hours bours of nice calculation and herself a great deal of trouble and not a little money After all all the exp American traveller buys few things S outside of his bis own country Considering quality and manufacture nearly all articles of ordinary wear are cheaper In the United Uni- Uni ted ed States than elsewhere The law allows only worth of foreign apparel apparel apparel ap ap- parel to be bEl brought in duty free and If f this Is conscientiously lived up to the he saving Is small on imported goods A few gloves ostrich plumes or small smal pieces of jewelry are about th the only things the sensible tourist will bother with on his return |