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Show Buy a Pot of Paint and Make Your Luggage a Thing of Beauty NKW YoRK The oo latet thing in band-painted I Uggage ' A oung French girl. Blaine Chap-pelle Chap-pelle haa started trunks and handbags hand-bags on a Wild career tt 1 threat-. threat-. nlng to become the nitce In New ' ork. beaut) ue. I i.. atop with Tappe bonnt i boxes, but now at the express ; stations baggage! clerka are beginning I,, doubt tljeff eyes. It came about all very simply MlSS I'hat.pelle an StlSt, who. prior I to tin discover, made designs fori I k covers and posters and som.etlcesj text il s, says: 'I l..:d gOI tired of SCeHlg battered i trunks and suit cists In my house I have travel..! a Rood bi, and 1 car-; i a good deal about with me from I place to place. Now. m trunk Rtahdal ! much more than one trip to Fai ls or 'doer Knropi-an port wlthoul begin -J ! :iiii(T to show slKiis of wear The cor-' ners et worn, the leather or cL-th ; whli 1) (overs the framework gets din- I gy, there are innumerable scratehes.1 , it has hbsl Is original bright loOK, It Is depressing, ii makes the hotel room Igloonij it la a necessity hut too soon in ugly nVcejsii) . POT l (U N(.I I'MN I So one day I got a pot of orange, yea orahgc pain;, plain paint, arid one pot of tSe same orange In enamel, and ivent home and la: ire off my . ."ii, tUrped that trunk around and , pave it ti good painting with a 'u- brush. Drying, it looked so handsome j that I went out and bought two pots of cerise paint for my hand-bag rk r.t IXl fl W. Il,.n , V, AT. - amel the ffei t was so startling that 1 wen through mj entire collection, Including a cabin trunk, which had seen ruauy years of use. Then I Invited my women friends I n i o i ea . Need say that they went mad?' Now I hae" my bands full." Although some of the peppc who bring her their bags to beautify wan: sober colors, jSllsa Chapel le satya that since the modern movement in art has brought more of the ao-calh ! raw colors col-ors Into vogue she find bright warm colors are th,- most popular Men tiiru to the darker coloVs. Hut the women "Vv.elli' says Miss Chappelje, "now '-ffiZ CJAPPELLE- ..iin Artist Ha loumt iioiiur outlet lor Her Artistry, I am doing fancy Httmts. WOuId ou believe ii" Three or four orders ihls week for all-over designs one Hunk is for a bride It Is a beautiful thing. - -all white :,s background; and over this a design in corn flowers Another An-other is for a baby putfft, all in baby blue and old rose And one Is for a man yes for a man In Mack silver sil-ver stripes, like the Very modish milliner's mil-liner's hat boxes. The most successful effml in this direction, she believes, is a traveling bag, hardly larger than a vanity cast It Is painted a dull blue, and on Urn cover there is a silhouette effect In black a ai' peacpek standing, with feathers spread, uud r black moon. And what do you predict for the rm ure of luggage in geiierul? ' she was asked. All Ihe great terminiHs of the world will look like 4 flower In few year, w,- have been dull loot enough, and C'l'less long enOUgh cf the appearance of necessities" |