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Show SILKS ME SCARCE, BUYERDEGLARES EL Dauquin of Walker Brothers Returns From JEastern Markets. E. Dauquin, silk buyer for Walker Brothers Dry Goods company, who has just returned from the east, brings back the word that silks are becoming constantly con-stantly more popular with the fashion designers, de-signers, and that for this and other important im-portant reasons, connected with the silk Industry it is a very difficult matter to get silks at any price, unless one is thoroughly thor-oughly familiar with the market and spends considerable time and e;Tort in searching. ! "H is not as it u-ed to be In former times, when the buyer was the dictator j and the wholesaler and manufacturer , were at his command," he said. "Today j the wholesalers have more market than product and are decidedly independent, because they have little or no trouble in rinding outlet for all and more than they can produce. Rnw silk is today ST. SO a pound. This is higher than at "any time I during the war. ! "With 3U these conditions with v-hich I to contend, my trio and my task of buy-! buy-! ing thousands of yards of silk tor a great tilk sale were by no means easy. "But women must and will have sPk dresse-?, I suppose, so it was simply up to me' to got tbe silk, and ot a good price, which I fmul'y succcdd in doing. t "Changeable, the real old-fashioned ! kind of our grand n-othf.rs' day. are amor.jc ' the latfst " favorites. The beautiful'. ! heavy, 'stand alone' varieties of satin will fashion manv a trock t'r thf- joining .-ea- j son, for with the natural reaction " iii'ter I an emphasis, of the simple-t, ilk will have things their own way fo a. scison . or two now." j |