Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-08
BOOKINGS. BRUSHES.
A Few Remarks ON These Important
Articles and Where to Find Them.

IOur Fourteenth street contemporary few
DAYS ago contained the following truthful
and well written statement regarding that
most essential adjunct to the toilet brush
es, and of the mammoth stock and eNtraor-
binary variety kept by that leading drug
gist, Mr.. Edmund Booking: .
sin the neat and elegant appearance oil
the number of ladies and gentlemen one
meets in the streets of Wheeling eTery af-
ternoon, it is likely that one rerely thinks
what it is, and TO what agency can directly
be ascribed this same neat appearance.
Those carefully arranged heads of hair
were brought about by the use OF
brush: those milk white teeth that
are DISPLAYED between smiling lips as ac-
uuaintance meets acquaintance, were made
so by the use of brush the clothes without
speck of dust, are so because brush has
been carefully used; the. boots, shining
like mirror, have also been treated TO the
brushing process; that gentleman's silk hat,
that glistens in the sun, has had brush IN
contact with its fur, and his smooth chin
shows that the brush has been passed over
it, and so one might go on, al iadnhum. To
the brush, then, may chiefly be due the
credit Of the nice appearance OF our bellies
and beaux. backed, it is true, by muscular
efforts. No lady's or gentlemns toilet
table is complete without at least
half q dozen brushes, and IL Is
the purpose of the writer, in this ar
ticle, to inform his readers where these
most important adjunCtS to one good looks
can be obtained in the greatest variety. In
the first place brushes are OF no recent IN
ventiOn, although who the inventor was Is
not known, but one finds in Shakespeare.
in "MuCh Ado About Nothing" Don Pc
dro. while conversing with Claudio over
Benedick. ascribes his belief that that per-
son is in love to the fact that he brushes
his hat o mornings it is trne, however,
that different varieties have sprung up,
and that the place to secure the very latest
and best articles out, is nj Backing popu-
lar emporium of drugs, toilet and fancy
goods, corner Of Twelfth and Chapllne
streets.
Briefly then, and to come to the point,
Mr.. Booking has the largest collection one
can find in the State In tooth brushes he
has over 200 varieties and styles ranging In
price from ten to fifty cents This is some
thing that all should possess; what more
ugly and sckening than yellow teeth,
while the poSSessor suffers untold agony
over cavities in the mOlars that need not
have been had he judiciOuSly used tooth
brush. This sight is only Cqualcd by dirty
finger nails and ragged hang nails that
plainly indicate no nail brush has been
used. Mr. Booking has a full and COM
plete assortment of these almost necessary
brushes, and in addition has for
the ladies use some charming little nail
sets. In fact what he has, in the brush
line, is simply-everything. The display
of hair brushes quite amazeS one, the styles
are endless-there is the electric, Celluloid,
ivory inlaid, Buffalo, Florence, rubber,
diatite, solid backs, wire, infant and all the
others from the cheapest TO the cOstIiest.
Several of them are in neat leather or
plush, satin lined cases. A pretty novelty
is brush with q plush embroidered back
and silver plated handle at the end of
which, is an arrangement whereby the
plush back can be taken off and the
brush scrubbed. Then when the plush
wears out it can be removed and new
piece inserted. 1t is u beautiful brush
made with the first quality of briStles
and is apparently made to everlasting.
Other brushes have q glass in place of the
plush. We all know what Il hair brush is
and how necessary it iS-tO have the bcnc-
fit of large selection go to Bookings.
Following along the line of wcll-tilled
cases one encounters clothes, hat and shay
ing brushes in every form and style. Then
again there is the department devo-
ted to shoe brushes, and especial attcn-
ton is called to those i'll cases for
travelling men nice gift would be one of
those neat travelling toilet cases fitted out
with all the brushes one could want. As L
necessary help to hair brushes. Mr. Book
ing has opened Il large invoice OF combs.
In closing We would say to all, don't fail to
see the elegant display OF goods made by
Mr. Backing