Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-12-18

WASHINGTON Now that millions
Of women the country over are looking
forward with mingled eagerness and
dread to the whirl Of Christmas shop
ping it might be well for them to re-
solve to reform their methods I'm that
direction along lines laid down by the
presidents wife. Mrs. Roosevelt has
no Christmas shopping to do She has
done 1t. She began buying the presents
intended for her relatives, friends and
acquaintance this Yuletide almost a
twelvemontE ago. Mrs. Roosevelt
shops, oh, yes-shops more extensively
doubtless than the average woman with
the same means. But she spreads her
shopping over the year and the result
is that the great feast day finds her, IN
stead of tired woman half glad II
almost over, rested and ready for the
mirth Of the merry season. She does
more or less shopping on from 200 to
500 days i'm the course of the year, and
many of the gifts now on their way
to all parts Of the world were bought
last winter. As the chatelaine of the
White House gives a round thousand
presents each Christmas, ii stands to
reason that If she didn't go about the
buying of them Systematically she
would be in a condition of continuous
confusion for weeks before the holiday.
Mrs. Roosevelt comes in here almost
every morning when she is in town
and looks over our new goods" said a
salesman in Pennsylvania avenue
jewelry shop the other day. 1T is
rarely that she fails to select some
thing"
She Buys with Method
The slender woman in a black cloth
gown with a tiny toque and a long,
white dotted chiffon veil selected sew
eral things and, wholly unattended,
sauntered out, turning toward the
White House. Shoppers are born, not
made, and Mrs. Roosevelt is a born
shopper, She got not only her moneys
worth in actual value, but invariably
something novel, pretty and approprb
ate. When other woman are running
distractedly from counter to counter
IN crowded stores, Mrs. Roosevelt calm
ly is making her selection of Christmas
gifts in her own boudoir. She has a
regular system, evolved after careful
survey of conditions.
Few women read the papers as as
siduously as the mistress of the White
House. She reads not only the news
but the clever advertisements which
tell of new things in the modish world.
Having learned what is novel, the next
thing is to inspect Mrs. Roosevelt has
a list of shops wherein she does all her
buying. She looks in her Washington
shops, and if she doesn't find what she
wants here she journeys to Baltimore
or to New York. Her plan is to pur-
chase pretty trifles when they are in
PRODUCED, and then, as Christmas APP
proaches, to decide who is to become
tho owner of each. She has wealth of
small gold brooches, good luck affairs,
with birth stones or charms, and these
are embedded in dainty boxes tied with
red, white and blue ribbons. This year
each of the small gifts of Mrs. Roose-
Welt is intrusted to a satin paper box
on which is a graceful little sketch of
the White House, surrounded by holly.
The box win be highly priced souve-
mir even without the contents.
On Lookout for Novelties
No novelty is introduced by the sill
versmith which the presidents wife
does not inspect Every variety of
small fork, spoon or ladle has found a
purchaser when she goes to shop for
Christmas gifts. All the new things in
china and porcelain for table and toilet
are known to Mrs. Roosevelt long be-