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Show I UMBRELLAS DISAPPEARING Where, oh when- has the middle-aged gentleman who earned ih green Everett True umbrella gont? He is being sought by th. Na-lional Na-lional Association of Umbrellas Manufacturers, whose members- seaj a de''lirH' in business that alarms them, Th will make a brave altruist the third week in October to cover every head in the nation with ofie bf their cambric or silk Canopies But they face the fad that sinee ivri the volume of sales hai inereasod only one-third, or $4,000,000, in spite of a more than doubled price foj their product The auto is blamed Polk Can drive right up to the front door inow. and thousands on thousands who used to do their social ailing I foot wonldn't think of using anything but the family car these days I ne bumbershoot is as good as another, to the popular mind and -though there has hpr-n an attempt to introduce the cupola shape and .other didoes, not nmeh has come of il The umbrella men met in convention in New York recently. One manufacturer, with an assumption of eke. pointe,! out 'bat not one of the 150 men presenl carried an umbrella though all ;irrivcil in a driving rain That caused another on$ to reniark Badly that tin "doggone country's bo dry now. you could pul .ill the available moisture in your eye, let alone an umbrella." |