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Show CAMOUFLAGE WREATH IS Ail AHR FfSFJT . Paul Beemcr, Union Pacific city passenger agent, received a double-faced, double-faced, camouflage wreath suitable alike for funereal chimes or wedding bells as a Christmas present yesterday. yester-day. This uniquely and artistically designed de-signed present was delivered in person by W. H. Chevers of the same company, com-pany, but who was acting as local ambassador and minister plenipotentiary plenipoten-tiary for Otto Buschjost. former Ogden Og-den manager of the big wholesale millinery mil-linery firm of Lyman Brothes. and now a resident of Cedar Rapids, Iowa It was the saddest and happiest gift of the season-all depending upon the point of view. On one side, the wreath Is mnro. , sentatlve-daintily representative of those nuptial occasions when orange blossoms float down like gentle flakes. On this particular side roses and pansies were entwined amidst a de- llghtfully arranged surface of forget-nie-nots, popples, sweet peas, sun-1 flowers, bluebells, corn flower's daisies and other exquisite and bright-ful bright-ful hothouse products. But On the other side! Great and con-ious con-ious tears! All is changed F?om marriage altar to funeral pall one ushered by the slmpllst twist of the wrist instead of flowers suggestive draped white and black, too sugges- n,yiJ drapIng veMs Md vaults a?e pushed upon the vision. It Is too sadiJ abrupt to contemplate, to make no marks at all as to description? This camouflaged wreath mav hp jf'Provoking emblem of death and tho down-yonder 1 hil"?-5 se,nf and tended as a dou- J ble-action joke, and It Is. 1 |