Show THE SOFA CUSHION AS A GIFT The sofa pillow of dainty silk of many colors and of every conceivable figure and design from birds to blossoms blos-soms and from tambourines to sheep 4s now at t < hc flood < tlde of its glorious popularity It dimples gracefully In the changing light whether it be polar light or the light that dances in its many folds reflected from the blazing logs on the cheery Christmas hearth The sofa pillow is a thing of beauty to look upon but It Is not a Joy for half a minute ItO lay ones head upon because one might as well lay ones head upon a paper bag inflated I It would take about < < hundred of them to make a headrest To rest on ono of them would be like trying to1 make a solid meal on a soda cracker I which latter would be Impossible even I for a parrot Many thinking and reasoning rea-soning people Including a number of eminent sociologists regard one sofa pillow to tho head as one peanut against the surging appetite of an elephant ele-phant and on this line of argument they claim that the sofa pillow was never Intended to be anything more than ornamental as a dab of color > and as a means of establishing a reputation repu-tation for refinement on the part of the housewife who cannot afford the costly luxury of paintings and sculptures Eight or ten sofa pillows of various shades arranged on a settee with studied negligence to look as If they dropped out of the sky and landed that way are equal to possessing r a Mcls sonier Irt the estimation of appreciative apprecia-tive person of taste and temperament And yet there are other deep and crafty thinkers of the class that probes and theorizes who regard the silken soft pillow pil-low tossed and tumbled in dimpling beauty as bearing no relation whatever what-ever to art even Japanese art but declare de-clare that It was brought into the world for one purpose and for one 1 purpose only and that was to hold enll I round championship cheap Christmas Christ-mas present a Christmas present that can be made by any needlewoman for from 37toi cents the price of the raw I material and sent to wealthy relative rela-tive In exchange for a grand piano or a l diamond necklace As a Christmas present the silk sofa pillow has come to stay and it is within the pale of common com-mon sense and everyday wisdom to say and to claim and to wager that before it tho handpainted clam shell for an hsh receiver must bow humbly In the dust and the birch bark calendar must forever pale into insignificance in the glamor of Its Iridescent surf fI I I S A I for V1 r f I fW I 11 11I t411 c S t c I I f 1 I t i r s r I 1 t f f r 7 IiaTN c am S PJ + T I r r zr 1100ECJ OP cl7TZE8H ll1JTJ PqR TfTlYIJYT R crR JON E II r t 4 r S fl Li t |