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Show Dame Fashion Smiles By Grace Jewett Austin Once upon a tlmi not so lung ago, a nice smiling-lippcd. sunny dark-eyed v o in a n over In , Italy sat down by s - 'J a pretty Italian K lake, heautiful us t f ' - any poem you ever j. 'I rend, and she had f f beside her long r-'o Z j withes of straw I. '' ;j some dyed in col li ! i ins, mid smile nat- Ej :vf f'A oral straw color, r ;, ., And she wove, and i '" , J she wove, with clev-' clev-' "' "' ' ,.r lingers, iinlil, tlie Grace J. Austin. lirst you know, she had u nice shop ping bag, Willi u clever handle and u nubstiiule for u clasp, all made or the straw. And she kept on making them until she had a nice pile. Then they were packed up, and they came safely ii cross t lie sea anil safely across the land. One of them Is- looking at Dame Fashion rigid now, as II stands in front of her on her desk. It Is of a heautiful light green shade, with a broad hand of the straw color. And Dame Fashion is going to hopv that It Is going to be like the house that Jack built; that some day a dress will come to match the bag, and some day a hat will come to match the dress, and another day Fome costume Jewelry will come to match them all. She devoutly pins on her little silver "lucky elephant" thin us a sheet of paper ! that a pretty girl brought her from a Journey made, and three times lie has been miraculously rescued just us he was about to be lost. So with tlds new Italian bag so light, oh. feathers are not In it for lightness-, surely the rest of the desired tilings will come. Dame Fashion lias decided that the word "abundance" gives the keynote to the astonishing beauty of American Ameri-can leading-city shops all over the country. There have been many descriptions de-scriptions given .of cold, gray salesrooms sales-rooms abroad, where one object at a time Is displayed to a prospective purchaser. pur-chaser. Nnnt such need apply to Dame Fashion. It is Just u glory und a tonic to go into a shop that makes you think of King Solomon's garden for brilliant beauty; a thousand wonderful scarfs; a million (costume) Jewels; more and more hundreds of exquisite flowers, to be worn on shoulders front or back, by your choice or where any dress-fold dress-fold seems to need to be caught with a blossom. And all around and among the glories you can find by searching all manner of clever little things that make living easier. There are poetic mesh-caps In fascinating colors of silk, to be worn by night or day, and warranted war-ranted to keep your choice "marcel" In perfect condition. There are curious round coils of colored col-ored rubber which look as though they might be used by the fairies when they water their minute gardens. Bui they are really conveniences for tiiese warm days for those who appreciate the comfort ot rolled hose! Dame Fashion took an Immense fancy to a new type of clothes-hamper, to be placed in a bathroom or upper hall. It was tall and round and artistic ar-tistic with top of solid color, and art designs in the same color on the round sides. She could just imagine placing one of these after a purchase, and then tuning to it, as an orchestra tunes to the oboe, until a whole second sec-ond story took Its color note from one brand new clothes-hamper 1(c). 1D2S. Western Newspaper Union.) |