Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-07-17 | Page 17 | [Untitled]

Shower Proof lint a. Quite one of the latest thlngR to save women from the fretting and worrying attendant upon being caught ln a shower of rain Tvlth a new hat ia told by an English visitor to Vienna. He says that the Great park, that favorite resort of the Vlenneso fashionable world, was one day recently crowded with gayly dressed promonadcrs ln tholr loveliest spring attire when the unexpected delugo suddenly descended, with disastrous results to all except a party of four ladles, who nevertheless had borne the brunt of the storm like every one else. Removing their dripping hats and simply giving them ?. gentle shaking, these ladios then resoimed their headgear, head-gear, whereupon the flowerK appeared even fresher and more lifelike than over. They were the Invention of a beneficent Austrian genius who deserves the undying un-dying gratitude of the fcmlnlno world : for his discovery that celluloid prepared pre-pared ln a special way provides a matc-i matc-i rial out of which the most delicate artificial arti-ficial flowers of every kind can be made, flowers that are not only almost Indistinguishable from nature's handiwork, handi-work, but are absolutely uninjured by the heaviest downpour of rain.