The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-03-09
Art NOuvean Handles Are
of Light Natural Wood.

The art nouyeau handles are OF natural
wood. very light In color. with handsome
wooden knobs upon the end. The handle is
rather long. anG If YOU please you can bny'
one that VIII make you feel exactly like a
Bo-Peep. \ band Of ribbon and a r"sette
thin the end.
Yet when you feel really Bo-Peepish. is
when you select enc Of the Vatican para
so!s. These have beautiful floral figures
upou them and handles that are as long
rs crooks. You can carry them over your
arm, when the parasol is at fatigue rest.
o. you can hold the crook right out in
your hand as though YOU intended to count
your sheep with il
You may not feel infantiIe. but you GER
family VIII grow young again when you find
yourself unfurling a parasol with a lace
overdress exactly like one which you have
fastened over the carriage of Baby Mine,
not two minutes before. Your own is the
same, with a difference. The lace cover is
not really a cover, but is sewed on and
sewed in.
To get such a cover exactly right. the
lace should be cut out. when the silk
cores are made. and the whole should
be sewed into cores together, and the
parasol covered with the two. at once.
The silk is the foundation and the lace
IS the real thing. Lace patterns that have
been woven expressly for parasol use there
are: and these have patterns in lace fig
ures that come at exactly the right place
\ In each section. just in the middle
y Those clever ones who manage always
TO do a little fancy work for themselves are
making these covers by cutting out the
lace and sowing it in parasol fashion and
slipping the whole over the silk sunshade.
The word sunshade is being revived. 1t
Is a good word, better surely than the
other. and is being used in polite circles. 1t
will probably take the place Of parasol en-
tirely some day, just as the gown has
taken the place of dress. The English say
frock. and frock is not so bad.
Plain Silk Umbrella VIII
Suffice at First.
The perfectly plain colored silk umbrella
will be al the parasol one needs at first.
it comes in colors, and any shade can be
had. It is awfully smart to match ones
gown. and, IL you can afford il, you will
find 1t not an eNtrava gance to purchase
three of these little silk umbrellas. all with
natural wood handles. and all matching
your hats and your gowns. They will have
plenty of wear, for st. Swithen's day is
coming and there will be forty days Of
rain. These must be well bought or they
will not stand water and your hat
will have a leaky look as though the heav-
ems had fallen upon it.
Your second step in the development Of
the spring sunshade will be the one of
figured silk, or the one OF silk covered
With lace; or of the one of silk a%ppliQued
with lace figures, all cunningly sewed in.
And then will come the summer shade.
And what a thing IL will be. 1t is almost
too early to talk about it yet, almost too
soon to describe its glories. But it will
be a shade of wonderful hue. and it will
be trimmed with rows of lace and at each
section there will be a rose.
YOU will wonder how you are ever going
b close your sunshade. and you will prob
ably decide that it is best not to do so.
for closing it is fatal to its beauty, that is
certain: and though it may bob up serenely
many times. each closing and each bob
Ding UP brings ii nearer and nearer its
end, for roses Will not stand everything.
Blu as one swallow does not make a
summer so one parasoI does not make an
Easter costume. There must be the gown
~ftself-and the hat.