The Washington times., 1906-05-24
THE HOME ITS PROBLEMS <4NL ITS INTERESTS
|CHINTZ LINED TRUNKS
N FAD WITH WOMEN
Society Women and Spring Brides Now Have
Gorgeously Lined Packing Cases.

Chintz and print lined trunks ara quite
the fad among smart society women.
and all the trunk and English boxes
now being made up for the spring brides
are as gorgeous as an old-fashioned
flower garden when, opened. Brilliantly
colored fabrics such as were used to
cover the bandboxes Of our grandmoth-
ers are being utilized for this purpose.
and designs are gayly tinted, the pat
terms showing big bouquets OF flowers
or some unique and ornate conventional
arrangement.
Materials OF English. French. and Irish
make are used. but those from ''Ould
Ireland" are liked best. One design from
the latter country has been selected by
Mrs. John Jacob Astor for the lining Of
trunk. 1t is called Shigai Castle and
shows quaint punches of roses and blue
corn flowers on a white ground. with
sprays of fine feathery ferns intermixed.
Men. Of course, don't favor anything so
feminine as the chintZ, but their hat
boxes, cane and dress trunks are being
lined with crash and linen barred on
with blue or red and many other simple
but novel fabrics.
Odd-Shaped Trunks the Rule.
Women are getting more and more
away from the conventional shaped
trunk. AT least those who can AFFORD TO
have their trunks made TO order. and as
result the baggage rooms of the rail-
way stations this summer Will present
vastly different appearance in couse-
quence. For there are besides the or
binary skirt length and the regulation
wardrobe trunks. oblong boxes for para
soils, holding anywhere from three TO 4
dozen sunshades; hat boxes with very
practical methods of fastening the hats
within, so that they viii not slip; auto
mobile trunks 70 attach 20 the machine
back of the tonneau. shirt waist trunks
and an innumerable collection Of black
patent leather English boxes so sener-
ally affected by Anglo-Amerieans at
present
OF course the arrangement OF each OF
these styles varies according TO the arti-
cles of dress they are 10 hold; for IN
stance, the shirt waist trunks have the
first tray divided equally into two com
| while the lower portion IS without divIs-
| ions and will hold dress skirts laid out
full length.
Parasol Trunks Are New.
ParasoI trunks are arranged to hold
three, six, nine, or twelve sunshades,
and the trays have places for each three
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| a New York manufacturer goes TO a
society woman on the avenue and has
divisions for twelve parasols. The trunk
is made OF Eastwood. the material used
in all the best trunks, is covered with
patent leather and bound with notified
brass trimmings. with hand wrought
brass corners to save them from the
| destructiveness OF the baggage snasher.
Inside the lining IS OF a fine quality
Of white satin. banded in diamond pat
/ tern by narrow white satin ribbon. This
trunk cost $75-
| One of the unusual features Of the
| newest hat boxes for women Is the
| method Of fastening the hat in -Four
| velvet covered pads. like small pin
| cushions, are attached 70 the four sides
/ OF the box by long narrow slides, which
are screwed tightly into place by means
Of thumbscreySs. so that the position OF
I the cushions, and consequently the hat,
| can be changed according TO the ar
/ rangement. so that & this way there is
/ no danger OF one hat mussing another.
| Most unique are the automobile
/ trunks. which are rather oddly shaped,
consisting Of two different trunks OF
/ small dimensions buckled together The
lower one Is about thirty inches long
/ and fifteen inches high, while the other
| Is the same size only set on its side on
! top Of the first. This forms an L shaped
/ affair, but IS the most practical arrange
ment. ds II allows the lower trunk 10
| slide in under the tonneau, while the
[ upper one is fastened securely back OF
the hood.
English Boxes Popular.
| The GainsborOugh is a particularly
convenient English box, sort OF a cross
|