The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-10
Pocketbooks and card cases.

The feathers of the poczetbooks small
change purses and card cases are exquisite
in tints and markings.
The snake and lizard skins are an agree
able departure from the seal in fashion for
so many years. Wallets and pocketbooks
OF ample size are made from snake Skins
which is delicious in its light and dark
grays. The edges are bound with silver,
while thee overs are handsomely and
broadly tipped in an ornamental style of
the same metal. Inside they are lined
with cream kid.
The lizard skin is also gray, in light and
dark shades, and has a much notified ap-
pearance: as an artistic novelty it is SUI
perb The lizard skins are bound and
cornered in silver. In the same skin
comes small change purses and card cases.
The purses are about three inches in
width with fine silver clasps, and have
two compartments lined with delicate
colors in kid. The card cases are long and
narrow. and just large enough to hold a.
Visiting card and open lengthWiSe, with q
narrow cover deliberately tipped with en-
bossed silver These three articles as de-
Scribed here can be purchased for SIS.
There are also Russian leather sets of
the three pieces made in the same style,
with Innings complementary to the out
side. Besides there are pocketbooks,
small purses and card cases in every tone
of brown, sage. dark green and all the
reds.
In them all at one corner is a tiny time
piece, convenience to the busy society
woman of many engagements.
On others there are two flowers stand
ing out in bold relief. violets and pansies.
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Both have a brilliant in the center, the
pervading color being true to nature.
But the novelty, the most exquisite of
all in these three-piece sets, is the peach
blow morocco, the tint of the famous Mrs.
Morgan vase. The dye of this leather is
so delicate and rare that only few skins
in perfection can be secured at one time
for manufacturing purposes.
There are also sets in charming pink
and delicate blues, dreams of beauty. Any
decoration can be given them from the
name or monogram to the timepiece of
flowers These umepieces are about one
inch in diameter and are so inserted at
one corner between the outside and lining
so as to allow the face to show. Although
so very diminutive, they are well made
and serve their purpose admirably.
These sets are being largely used as
souvenirs.
Another fad, which has become almost
a craze. is to own a small, slender writing
desk, about five feet high and and a foot
thick, with two bookshelves at top and
two at bottom, with leaf in center, and
then to furnish it with artistic fitmentS all
in one color. Most women prefer cream,
white and silver, others those of scarlet
and gold. The shelves hold about fifty
books, and in the crean-white scheme all
must be bound in a creamy tone. Favorite
old sets can be rebound if one wishes.
The portfolio in white leather is lined
with creamy kid. with kid pockets for
special papers; the blotting paper is cream
white, of course.
The inkstand is of silver. and on a silver
tray. There is an ivory calendar with
ivory figures picked out in delicate colors.
A paper weight in silver has for its handle
a little statuette of Rip Van Wrinkle. Sill
yer scales are hung above the desk, with
large hook for holding letters and manu-
scripts, heavy silver ball serving to tell
the numebr of stamps required for mall
ing. There is also a silver candlestick
prettily embossed, with a cream candle
to melt the silver flecked sealing wax. A
mucilage bottle of silver has brush of
white brisues and heavily embossed silver
handle
In silver, too comes the rolling blotter
and the stamp box. There are pens, both
of ivory and silver. whose carving is
flowers. The pen wipers are of chamois
square in form, one corner in silver with
ring SO that it can be handled conven-
Iently.
There is a holder of bills in silver with
square base and a sharp pin. Also
silver paper clip, and last of all these is
kid.
AS for paper and envelopes, though this
season blue is the newest, the English
cream linen is permitted for this desk and
the papers are monogramed with crests,
the numeber of the residence, and in some
instances the surname. Envelopes are left
plain.-Chicago Record