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Show CONVENIENTJWDER BOXES The Bath Box Now More Popular Than the Puff. Tho bath powder box and putt have ousted the face pult, partly because other ways of applying powder to tho face nre liked better than by the use of a puff and partly because the bath puff Is such a Comfort and Joy. Dainty women nro never without their largo bath powder set, which Includes a box or receptacle of glate or lacquer and n puff four times the slzo ot an ordinary puff. Japaneso boxes aro chnrmlng and cost less than tho glass or silver kind. They mcasuro eight or ten Inches In diameter and ate as deep as an ordinary ordin-ary pan, with a cover the same size as tho bottom. Thoy can bo had in whlto with a pink, bitto or green lacquer lac-quer lining and gold knob for a handle, or In scarlet with gold and black Oriental Ori-ental decorntlon. They havo been made In othor colors aa well In black, tor Instance Tho ribbon, tied In tho renter ot the huge swan's-down puff that Is as large In clrciimtorence as the box In which It belongs, matches the color of the lining of tho box, Other bath powder boxes are mado of plain crystal and 'fitted with a silver top, or ono can buy expensive cut glass boxes with an elaborately chased or embossed silver top. Where price has to bo considered a very excellent substitute for the Jap-aneso Jap-aneso lacquer box la found In tho small carved natural wood dish that comes tram tho far east. These boxos aro about six or eight Inches across and fnlrly deep doop enough to hold a good-sized powdor puff. They are fitted with a carved lid which has a woodon knob In tho middle. For ordinary or-dinary uso theso answer quite as well as the moro expensive kind. The price of the box Is something like CO or 80 cents nnd tho powder puff con bo bought sopnraiely In almost any drug Btoro or department store whoru thcro la a drug counter. llnth powder should not bo usod In quantities. A llttlo of It can bo dusted on Just after tho bath and by tho time ono Is dressed most of It wll have disappeared, dis-appeared, but the skin will bo dry and perfumed with tho most delicate odor. |