Show THE AMATEUR SMUGGLERS MOST TRAVELERS FEEL Z JUSTIFIED IS I 1 outwitting JAYD BEATING government dealers know the american mania tor lor private smuggling alad nj bell accordingly many luny disappoint mant s in if the arrivals on ono one of the big liners were drawn up in rows on the pier ond searched it Is doubtful it five alvo per iier cent of them would escape tho the charge of smuggling tho the women are said to break tho the law in greater numbers than the men although althou gu the latter cheat tho government of larger mounts the majority of women dont understand tho the customs laws la ws sala said a nervous little lady on tho the promenade of tile tho deutschland Deutsch land as tho the tugs were pushing tho the big steamer int into 0 tho the dock ive got two to china salt cellars ce I 1 under tinder my hat do you suppose hear them click together they cost 6 5 cents apiece at ane but so cute why you dear old goose said a businesslike business like person near her 1 I guess jump overboard if IE you li had ad my trunks to wriggle through tho the examination just listen you linow know youre allowed to replenish your wardrobe if youre oure gone eone a year when I 1 decided to go over twelve months ago I 1 just took all tho the old trunks in the house I 1 had eleven la in all and I 1 filled most of them up with the stuff you usually send to the salvation army AMY thought some of would go 90 to pieces on an tho the trip I 1 got rid of more than half la in london and bought beautiful english leather trunks to take their places and the things ive brought back in my replenished wardrobe dut but the foreign names on so many dresses basped tile the nervous one ive ripped them out and sewed in the names that were in my old dresses she sha was even eren cleverer than tile tho haired gentleman who confided to his neighbor at table that he bo had bad brought back some borne laco lace gowns worth at least francs a piece that were entered in a sworn invoice at francs each dut but said the little maid at ills his elbow wont the appraisers know the real value the venerable sinner stroked his white beard complacently why should they suspect tho ther invoices approved by the american consul nt at ali ah they aro are my very good friends at the consulate ho he purred real syrian rugs even tho the steerage lint hac its smugglers thero there was a commotion on the immigrant deckoff deck of a french liner one morning several hundred syrians were westward bound onu ono of them had stolen a roll of at bedding from another the officer to whom complaint was made was not deeply interested tho immigrant a good berth in tho the steerage why so much fracas for a bundle of dirty rags that should have been stowed in the hold the complainant nant waxed desperate mother of the prophet his bed bea of dirty rags it was waa of syrian rugs the best a dozen sent by a merchant of to t his brother merchant in new york the duty on syrian rugs Is heavy heary but who would think to find them in the dirty bedding of an immigrant A glove buyer horatio for one of tho the big american houses used to bring babit on each semiannual semi annual trip for his own purposes twelve dozen pairs of gloves carefully hidden la in many pockets of ills his coat and overcoat almost every tourist who can afford it buys a diamond ring while abroad A feather boa is almost the first purchase of the american woman arriving in london and what customs official can prove that sho she did not carry it out of 0 her own country with her how seldom do those first purchases in london and parts paris outlast tile the evanescent charm of novelty FlImsily built 01 of fragile material they drop to pieces before tho the owner ovner has lind had time doweary to weary of them it if they do last for any length of time it Is only to become a source of anger and disgust tile the silk petticoat bought at the bon marcho marche paris for which you paid S aliat 1 bargain it was waa until one day you felt mysterious pric kings at your articles ankles and stooped to find that tile the halt inch wide steel ribbon which gave such a ohie hid set to tho the bottom lied had broken loose from the lust dust raffle and slashed the bilk to bit bits sand and your to tat lat tera to comfort you every department store in now new york and chicago Is showing you identically tile the same skirt without tho the steel stiffening for 5 sometimes remembering these things the high prins that assailed bolvin you ln london and paris you may wonder how tho the F rench french women wom ell or at moderate means manage to dress so well americans americana charged double tho the answer la is that americans an am abominably over charged A raw clerk elerk in tho the louvre once told an american customer that the house would make her up a pongee suit stilt for 1 francs lie was sharply contradicted by bv an older employed who explained that the suit stilt would cost francs As tho the lady moved anav without the gown sho she heard beard tho the lovico remonstrate you told mo 1153 francs for frenchwoman frenchwomen French Trench women yes growled the old hand but that wagan american tho the biggest laco lace house in vienna fand and vienna la is tho the cheapest plim in the world to buy laco lace pur poeY puts up tho the prices to allow a good margin ln for bargaining amerlean american buyers for fashionably new york corli tailors who go yearly to paris tor for models taku tako with thern them on their shopping excursions a french friend with rith bhoge assistance thov they secure materials and models for about half the quoted price french workmanship ta inferior the models brought homo home by a tallor tailor who 11 haa Is a shop just olt firm were sent into tho the workroom to bo be renown before they could coula be placed in tile tho show cases Is what tile tho french tailor alms ainis at chic beautiful a gown must be if it falls to pieces tho the first limo it is worn so much tho the better tor for tho the bH bhines ints nind atilo needs another gown A woman who lina had ordered orIL TOI a single dress from one ot at aho big french houses complained of 0 the workmanship s tho the manager shrugged ills hla shoulders one dress why should 0 o e bother at all for that 1 I most alost expensive french lingerie is frequently finished with rough scams laco lace la in to baios threads in liand hand embroidery are left ase tho garment simply falisto pieces wen even in tho the most careful laundry no words can express ine fiordor ot at english tailoring in london they have mado made an all attempt to meet american tastes but tho the english tailors conception of tho the short skirt shirt is a tweed monstrosity escaping tho the shoo tops tolis in front and tickling the pavement be te v 0 CS IN THE NEW YORK CUSTOMS HOUSE hind hill while a straight row of stitching is 18 beyond the modest capability ot of tho the english workshop many a woman who in her first month abroad materially diminished ner her letter of credit hat como home to wish for tile tho trini trim smartness of broad way tho frills beloved of th the en english woman and the skin tight little duket jackets of the frenchwoman quickly loso lose their fascination for tho the american woman whose aim in dress Is unusually a seeming simplicity that has cost her tallo tailor hours of nice calculation and herself a great deal of trouble and not a little money after all tho the ep Amor american ienn traveller buys few thin thins things s outside a of ills own country considering quality ana ami manufacture nearly all ar articles tivies of ordinary wear ear aro ard cheaper in tho the uni ted states than elsewhere tho the law allows allots only worth of foreign ap parel to bv bo brought in duty free fico and ami if this Is conscientiously lived up tip to tile tho saving Is small on imported goods A fe few gloves ostrich plumes or small pieces of jewelia jew eliy ell y aro are about the only things the sensible tourist will bother w nith n 0 on n ills his return |