The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-11-29
PRESENTS
On VIE "
Many Bright and
New Gifts in
Sight.
BRILLIANT COLORS
AND FINE FANCIES
Everything PossiblyNeeded Shown
This Year in New Forms and
Bright Tints.

growing and extra Christmas
stock is being unpacked, in readiness for
the needs of buyers whose holiday selec-
lions for the old and the young are a
/ feature OF the seasons enjoyment. The
/ gift season comes on apace, and the spe-
cialiy prepared books. games and fancy
/ things have been unpacked and are be-
/ ing shown 10 those who wish the first
choice
! or the regular things OF the season
there are few which show any great i'm
provement over the old and time worn
| conventional forms. though the makers,
ever watchful for effects. have added
some striking color schemes and oral
pieces. In fancy work. which is the
dainty end of the Christmas display. the
effects are most beautiful. There are the
most attractive of scarfs, and draperes
in embroidered gauzes, linens which are
sheer. damasks which are mrrory in eff
fleets and drapery Of every description in
white. embroidered in the same shades.
with every conventionalized flower, until
the resultant piece seems the colorless
impression left by a flower garuen's scat
tered wealth
| OF course, in china. glass and silver
the limit never is reached, and every pos
sible novelty seems TO have been got to-
gether for this year. Everything used
by man or woman, boy or girl, is obtain
able in precious metal. as well as a host
of things which only are ornamental. In
china the small cups the extra plates
!
dainty than ever. The cut glass of the
season, the aristocracy of Christmas
gifts. IS in some new shapes, articles be-
ing of all possible uses.
The ladies viii have many new things
to attract them in the embroidery pat
terms and the new lace pieces. Cushions
are being made in bizarre effects Of color
with spangled dancing. girls and operate
heroes in graceful poses. On one of the
most attractive curtains the arms of Ha-
wall are picked out in gold upon a fled
of blue. On another glorious bunch OF
chrysanthemums sheds petals down the
length of the cover. and a third shows on
4 blue field flight of bright cOlore
birds. many combinations of coIors
make a garden of the displays relieved
as they are by ornamental sashes and
bright colored draperies.
There seems no end to the array of
silver and ebony toilet things, for human
ingenuity has been taxed to discover new
forms which will be available for brush
rs and combs. for manicure sets and pins
and brooches of all varieties. The cases
are as resplendent in silver and gold or
namentation as ever some OF the most
perfect of the boxes being covered and
lined with hand painted silks, fitting re
ceptacle for the most used articles
my lady dressing table. In the same
category must be placed the newest
for the incidentals of the toilet. Some OF
the newest things are complete sets done
in one color of the most transparent
shade with Dresden ornamentation.
The little ones will find no lack of the
best possible toys and games to while
away coming hours. There are more
elaborate things for boys and girls than
ever before. The fire engines with .4orses
and houses. the steamers with double
tunnels and screws. where a fire may be
put into the vessel and the screw runs
by clock work Kites. string enough to
lift a boy. so strong that they must be
covered with cloth and not with paper.
tops which spinning carry paper disks 10
be coloreG just desired are some of the
things which should appeal 10 every boy
ish heart And if they do not. then there
IL something wrong for sure.
Nor are these more than a fraction of
the good things which are being offered.
The cows and horses of this year are
given voices. BY a simple twist of the
head the lowing of the OK or the neigh
ing of the horse finds imitation from
within. The midget housewife of the fu-
ture when inviting her little friends to
tea will insure their having fresh milk
for now comes the COW in papier mache
which it pailed as Is the gentle bossy of
the pasture the milk being put into a
receptacle within and drawn from the
udder in an imitation of natures own
way
As to games parlor tennis comes with
the heralding of an English success. the
play there being called 'sing-sOng The
game consists of a heavy felt field mark
ed like a tennis court. The game IS
seemingly devised for the purpose of ut
lizing any skill acquired at the old game
of carbohydrates. for small disks are
made 10 spring from the felt by pressure
of a wooden bar. and the spot where II
lands in connection with the court on the
opposite side of a net stretched across
the center. determines the count.
Another new game il the application
Of a board similar to the one marked on
the deck Of the steamer. with its circles
of different value. and its debit as well a.
its credit column. 10 table use The
board is g smooth oil cloth. the markings
OF white ana the counters. wooden disks
are forced along 10y light billiard cue
None Of the old friends are missing
The. calendars are numerous. but T."
new, ideas ar, to bee found. the only nov
.Ity being in the decorations There are
several purely Hawaiian groups, with
pictures in colo~S a well as OF black and
white Tn. flower calendars are almost
tn,- same as Of old. fans and all other
ordinary shapes being duplicated TINS
season.
When Il comes 10 Christmas books the
list seems iutermiaable. Not only have
the standards been put out in editions de