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Show 4 There Are Beads and Beads, But I Peter Bender Knows Them All 1BL Ml N BARMS. T - j :v 1TORK. July 5. In I Ittlll 1 I shop, (battered and time Worn entl K M )' IDdiOB Well III frOffl the SiOSWalM t on N tuth at reel here, lives c. Uvea 1 i- till rttrhl word a small whi I h.iircd oii man jl ii tji- window is the nems Peter I i d below Beads .1 it i here, the) tay, thai the wave 9 o". popuuiic th:it beads now enjoy, 9 had Ita nnd i Is here thai it win V once more reach It climax to w.nk SSjnln Into IU twenty-five years of I Oulivlon." as Peter culls It. I Th- shop. the little alert, eccentric. 1 o..i in.. ii i'. shining bead tapestries, f the DlUte dim crucirixea on the wall - I the ancient mcllowni:n of IDe sun- I Ugh? -all Is like a book by I-lok n:,. f r.i perhaps that mors florid and ics . ft. Jo.vful writer. Marie forclll. Tf dealt In beailw for almost halt "k " century,' he soya looking o tn- I ) p or iii spectoclaa "And I've seen JP lbs fad conn, and go twice I hope Bff I ihall live to crest the tide once again, In Hg CORNKKKI) MMCM I LONG ICO. 1 "Jt deed to lie easier for me. In the Ht old days; then no one knew anything Hjt ' uhnlt beads hut myself, and selllnj. j them wss like ktiitnK ants, a hundred ll'f .i lime. Now everyone knows more HI v ; ibOUl le. ids, the d epaj t merit s.ores HB' I keep thdni, ever) little shop in thel woild lias a few but" he ruined his Ionic shtiklnsr finger I knew what was Coming, and I corn, red the market thirty-seven years ago and why? Be-j H (.:iis- I knew that was the only WS) ' t' he myself. Now people musi come v)Bi 1 heeds here that no on, else has. Brads and seed beads, and beads for the Ills voice sounded like a great sing-HH sing-HH Ing and n triumph nnd -nnled to him-1 self becuuse he had children, and' aj I lldren of hla hildren, nnd he had HJ b en able to do for them since the H" "How did I start" I was given the bead stock In a wholesale house he-HHa he-HHa cause It Was too Intricate a depart- HJ ment for anyone else. 1 lovt'd the HHfc Now you m bring me b ids from my where In World md I will know It !!i story you tell me of them Is true, because there are beads and beads, but Ben-! AM der knows them all. M ' I soil 111. mi' looms women are now' wMM making their own bead work though' modern women ;ii' laz;. ;ind not like our motliera Yes. they make their ImndbogH, nnd their wjitch fobs, and their ner:!nre nnd their girdles nnd it a a great jear. but not so great for ir.e." He looked out Into the twilight. twi-light. "I ufipd to lip the only one, but inM-e are others, Imitators " he shrugged shrug-ged Abruptly, "But don't bring me a woven neckline from the Indians, for I sbnl! know if It was made by the ln-dlnns ln-dlnns They use no rlnr gl;ifs beadfl al: is dnrknesti and m st'- How long Will the present bead crass last'.'" "A few more months." "And is it getting easier to Import beads?" Not much, hut I don t need to wor-r wor-r , 1 put in sto : thirty-seven years ago ' A fly began buzzing against the window and a little woman come in. "P.etds. beads I'll sell my bends to your daughter if she's beautiful." |