The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-13

MdklnS IS vienna. feW AIneI1CdlS are acquainted with the esprit, the piquancy the touch and go fancy of the Viennese gown designers, but the truth is that some of the most smartly gowned women in New York wear not creations of Felix or Worth, but masterpieces of the wizards of Vi- enna.
 Let every woman take these facts to her heart In Vienna they make frocks quite as smart as those made in Par is. They can, if you push them, turn you out while you make a weeks stay For about $200 they can fit you with an evening gown which will make your American neighbor's mouth wa ter with envy. That same gown will look not unlike a Paris production that cost more than double the price,
 The achievements of the big estab- lishments in the Bauermarkt and the Pohlmarkt of Vienna ought to be bet ter known to Americans Of course, when they are they will be spoiled, for the Americans will ask things of them that have never been asked be- fore and will pay them any price they demand.
 In Vienna you can buy hat, shoes, lingerie, underwear and all the para phernalia that go to make women picturesque, quite as we'll as you can in Paris and for as little money but not for less than they cost in New York. Dressmaking is cheap in Vi- enna, but not ready-to-wear arti- cles.
 If you are not going to Vienna, the next choice is Berlin. The German capital has the finest shops in Europe not excepting Paris. The big d1S goods and department stores are rival ed only by those in this country. Ser lin has one or two that excel almost all in America. Any woman who has travelled on the continent and has not { seen the Leipziger Strasse of Berlin has not seen all of her own special part of Europe.
 In the department of waists ready to wear Vienna again stands in the front rank, with Berlin at her side. But here enters another city with a strong bid for recognition, and that is Hamburg. Its shops are admirable in most respects and the tourist who Is returning to America from that port will make a serious mistake if she does not arrive there three or four days before sailing. In gowns and waists Hamburg has great attractions Sy nffa sctc hox cheap in Berlin or Vienna, Hamburg is more moderate in prices,
 In passing it may be noted that Hamburg has one other interesting feature. It makes a speciality of all | sorts of souvenirs, There is practi- cally nothing in the entire German catalog of small articles for remem- brance that cannot be bought at low price in Hamburg. Persons touring | in Germany and coming home that way need not burden theselves with presents for this side till they reach their sailing port.
 To return to Paris, every woman hungers for the glove shops of the French capital One stay in the city will serve to prove that you can buy | the same gloves in New York for the same prices and not have the trouble | of bringing them across the sea with you. There is one price for the
 Frenchman and another for the American. Your SS.75 glove will cost you $3.75 just the same in Paris. i If you wish to get the finest French gloves at such prices as the Europe ans pay for them, buy them in Ger many They will cost you less in l Berlin, but the best place at present is Munich, for the excellent inhabitants of that captivating city have not yet | begun to lift prices for Americans. But do not try to buy underwear in Munich, No American woman could live in the presence of those "haus-
 frau" garments.
 Men can buy collars and cuffs and | shirts and neckties in Munich. They | are excellent, So they are in Berlin. but in the latter place they are ridicu- lously expensive. In Vienna, to, they are not cheap but they are good. But the truth is that a man should not elude himself with the idea that he
 can get his outfit better or cheaper in Europe than he can at home. He ] can't
 l Women naturally look to Venice as
 the one place in Europe to buy laces
 but there are others. Fine laces may
 be picked up in all the cities of cen tral Italy, but only by those who are
 experts in such articles. The native
 maker and vendor is a most persua. | sive person, and will sell you all sorts
 of worthless junk at extraordinary
 prices if you are not judge of lace.
 Of course, nothing of this kind vii happen to you in the famous lact ! houses of Venice. Prices there arc l fixed and the goods are sold honestly
 But you ought to know that all lace 1 sold in Venice is not Venetian, and il
 Is wise to do business only with the ! old o.o |.