The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-16
THE MODERN WOMAN.

S@Sa VI ASSN
in a startling manner. A young woman
took a friend with her through the Fourth
avenue antique shops to help her TO select
an old mahogany chair. After going
the rounds the selection finally rested
between two chairs, n OF Chippendaie
design and the other a more ornate anair
in Colonial style. The purchaser favored
the latter until her friend remarked.
-Oh, I should take the other by all means.
IL is palmer and goes 80 much better with
your furniture"
IL wasn't 80 much the force Of the
ment as the allusion to the plain furniture
that decided the purchaser to select the
Chippendale.
Did I get your fare7' the suspicious
Broadway conductor asked a member OF
the Car Passengers Rights Association
81 guess YOU did, but I didn't see you
ring IL up," was the woman's tart response
and the conductor entirely subsidized.
Two old friends, one a New England
woman, met recently in a subway car and
their conversation turned on the gossip
Of the village home OF the visitor to the
city.
And how about old lady Woods; ia she
dead YETI inquired the city woman.
DCadg WI bAO 80
as the train came TO a full stop, not while
undertakers' fees are as high a. they are
now
Everybody within hearing distance
laughed. The visitor looked mortified at
first. then joined with a sort OF grim humor
in the laugh.
Monograms adorn nearly every article
OF feminine apparel nowadays, although
some women deem h fad Of proclaiming
ones identity TO the public in this fashion
as exceedingly poor taste. They are dis
PLAYED on lingerie, draped wells, collars,
fans, stockings, shirt waists and gloves.
On purse, card case and bag, the initials
and monographs are Of gold. gun metal or
back so that they may be attached to any
article desired.
A Christmas gift this year will be sets
OF initials in three sizes, two OF each, to be
applied to desk pad, engagement book.
travelling case or any other article OF femi-
nine wear.
Ordinarily there should be nothing
strange in the fact that a woman wanted to
purchase a rabbits foot But q woman's
inquiry for n in a Fifth avenue silver
smiths recently aroused interest, curiosity
and amusement.
The woman first asked for one at a we'll
known jewellers on the avenue. There was
none in stock at that time. She then crossed
the street and walked into a new establish
ment.
She noticed at once that unusual interest
was evinced the IN she asked for a
rabbits foot and by the time she had COM
pleted her purchase she was the centre OF
a bunch of grinning clerks. TIL situation
became unbearable and she rather spiritedly
inquired the cause of their Ievity..
I Thau uaru WiIlinnlu aWnIain0d the Ritla-
ton. 1t seems that the new store had only
that day been opened for trade and that
her purchase was the first one to be made
and the clerks, looking on the rabbits loot az
an omen OF good luck, could not restrain
their interest.
New York Is a shine town, all right, !"
was the Disguised remark of one husband
when his wife came home the other even
ing loaded down with antiques purchased
from the most curious little old shop"
down on the East Side which the wife
triumphantly announced, Il discov cred
myself"
-AntiQues!" soofed the mere man. They
are not nearly 90 old al the money YOU
plunked down for them. Those fakert
certainly know how to do you women al
right. All they have to do is TO open
dusty old shop underground and turn on
a lew OlO DTAbS CduuIoStlCkb WIFI NOtulBth
rubbed over them and you'll a anything
they'll pass you.
but that's New York. II any one hal
a fake game to play this IL the place to in
troduce it. All that is necessary is TO b
a cheerful liar and have the brass and thu
rest is dead easy.
Now you go and buy this furniture jus
because they swear It's the real thing
when down in your heart you know IL ism
and can't be, and china-wel, II all the oil
blueware aid to have come over in tn,
Mayiower were gathered together !
would take the whole OF Central Park Il
make room for IL.
And as for these candlesticks, samovar
and things, you can rec them being cast b,
the ton any day down near the East River
However, old P. T. Barnum was right, an
l guess you like it that way, so &C ahead