The Afro-American advance. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1899-19??, 1900-06-16
COSTLY UMBRELLAS.
great variety Of Them. Ranging
In Price Up 90 Haadreas OF
Dollars Euets.


You can buy an umbrella for 50
cents or you may pay $50 or a great
deal more for one If you wish to. II
one retail stock In the city the umbrei-
las range in price from s. up TO hun
dreds of dollars apiece. Here for 50
mas be bought a silk umbrella with u
natural wood handle. Umbrellas Of
this sort for men and women range IN
price up to $3.50. Above thai price
the value OF The umbrella depends upon
the inonntings. which are made Of
many materials and in very great va
riety. Some Of them are comparative
IL inexpensive and some very costly.
says the View York sun.
OF the more costly umbrellas some
are made for mems iise. the crater
number of them for woInens use.
There are. OF course. handles in many
forms of gold and silver. and these at
all sorts of prices-sIj $50. S25 aud $50.
and on For instance. one mount
ing with gold top might cost $2i;
mouutings of gold or silver enamel
might cost SO One gold mounting
~
In fact. umbrellas with mountings of
gold or silver may be bought in one
form and another at practically apY
price mans umbrella with handle
Of stained ivory. carved. Is valued al
$50 Another umbrella with Malacca
handle and mounting of silver and
stained ivory costs So.
4 woman's umbrella. the handle
mounted with gold and enamel and
set with large garnet costs $3.50. Thu
price of one mounted with head OF
gold set with lhrge amethyst is $40.
The amethyst in this handle is set IN
rim Of gold which Is hinged on one side
and held down by spring catch on
the other. The end Of the gold handle
is followed out. forming box OF
which the amethyst serves as the lid.
In which might he carried bon-bous, or
Whatever else might be desired.
Umbrella mountings are now made
In very considerable variety OF gun
metal and many Of these heads are set
with diamonds. A Run-metal umbrella
handle may be- in the form Of little
single line Of small diamonds running
around II. this belt cncircling the globe
in some eases in horizontal line and
In others dingonally. Some of these
gun metal heads are sprinkled over
with diamonds. more or less closely
set. these diamonds being sometimes of
uniform size. and sometimes of differ
. 4. a
sci IN the metal in some sort OF design
as "a little horseshoe made of tiny din-
mouds. this being the handles only
ornament. Gun-metal mouniings are
made in various other shapes az well
as in the spherical form II might
secm that diamond-studded nmbrtI-
ia handle would be "A very claboraie-ap-
many of them are at once simple aud
beautiful Umbrellas with gnn-metnl
mountings. most of them. II not all,
with some sort OF diamond ornamental
ton. sell from $3.50 Ia S240 each.
There are umbrellas with handles q
rock crystal. cut in various forms;
there are mountings of jade: there are
iiAkH ~ NHtlf W WI IltEt III thtN~
ous fine minerals: there are mounfingS
Of rhinoceros horn: and the combine.
tions OF materials used are many.
Here. for example. is an umbrella
mounting that presents a handle of
shark skin and gold, with u sapphire in
the end of it. this umbrella costing
SsJ5; here is an umbrella with handle
Of jade. with diamond and amethyst
ornamcntation. price si65; and here
with "a Malacca stick, mounted with
stained ivory aud Jade with band OF
Russian enamel for $6e
Whatever their means may he no:
very many people pay more than $50
for an umbrella for ordinary use: by
far the greater number of those sold
at higher prices are bought 10 give
away. The sale of these costly um.
brellas Is of course comparatively linn
tied. hut they are in demand. and they
may be found in stock in mountings of
hundreds of varieties. with new things
all the time being added