Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-11-29
Newest Novelties y y u
y Il - Seen IN the Shops.

Tiny fringed table scarfs and napkins
accompany many of the toy tea sets
which are copying the embossed gold and
silvcr-plated colonial services, intended
for real housekeepers.
\ pretty glove Box is of braided leather
in light tan shade, cut into one-half inch
wide thongs and woven in basket pattern
and daintily lined with perfumed wad-
ding under pale blue satin.
Brazilian bugs are in favor again for
neck brooches and belt pins, set very
course, the real beetles, though they have
the appearance of carved stone,
Nearly all the animals that came out
of the ark, or rather, their descendants
have been made to do duty, lately, as
pincushionS and the newest recruit is the
elephant, an exceedingly docile specimen,
who permits pins to be stuck all over his
back and shoulders. He is quite a nice
looking creature, too, III his coat of dark
gray velvet.
Even among the cheaper cushion COW
ers. there is constantly changing vari-
ETY., and the latest offering is a pretty
fencing girl seated at rest. Another is a
group OF lOuT HItIe Jap HdluenS. PIC
turesquely grouped with outspread fans
behind their heads. 1t is claimed for
these cretonRe coverings that they will
retain their colors if carefully Numbered.
Tho electrolier, which blooms in an inn
ported jardiniere in one of the leading de-
partment stores. might well be taken for
some wonderful new plant, so perfect arc
the leaves, the lily caps and the cattails,
al, I,r.lt
from which a soft light shimmers
through with most charming effect. 1t
can be utilized either as a centerpieee for
banquet table or for hall or library use.
One can easily have place for every
thing and everything in its place. if the
owner of one of those new little circular
work baskets, fitted up with pockets that
draw up like n purse and hold securely
| the pins, buttons, spOols, darning balls,
! or whatever else may be intrusted TO
them. The baskets themselves consist of
sections of cardboard, covered with
! bright colored chintz and Joined together.
| The newest imported bodice clasps are
| things of beauty indeed, being composed
| of rhinestone set closely together with
out any visible metal between the stones,
| so that they flash like great solid gem.
/ L
! beautiful effect, being butterflies with
outspread wings, bowknots and elongated
diamonds. One circle is arranged in such
a way that narrow velvet or satin ribbon
can be laced through the openings, and it
! is shown with pale electric blue at a
! Twenty-thrd street store, where it is
one of the most admired novelties.
Book covers for even the most COM
monplace of books are pretty and artistic
this season. One intended for a grocery
order book merely shows n pretty little
Swedish peasant maiden trotting along to
market, with a big basket n her hand.
\ book which contains ready gummed
lahels for all sorts of storeroom use is
decorated with the pictures of two mis-
chicvous urchins, engaged in testing
grandma's jams and iellies. which they
evidently find to their liking. The laun.
dry list has for cover smiling auntip.
proudly exhibiting an immaculate shirt
to her mistress, while she proudly asks:
How you like dat. honeyf" All these
are in embroidered linen. as well as the
books, intended for jottings of various
kinds, such rs Books | Have Read. "
places | Have Visited" Some of the
Things | Want to Remember" ctc.--N,ry
York Mail and Express.