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

You will be taken to the schools and permitted to see 15O girls learning how to make lace. You will wonder whether they make all that is sold in the big shops, which have salon after salon, and are somewhat like Ameri- can department stores. But when you arrive in Bohemia you will learn a thing or two. Bohemia is the real home of all workers in handicrafts and vast quantities of lace are made there.
 Bohemia employs thousands of lace makers where Venice employs hun dreds, and she turns out all the vari- cities of Venetian lace. More than that she exports great quantities to Venice, for the island city cannot fill her orders.
 The best place in Bohemia to buy lace is Carlsbad. This is curious be- cause Carlsbad is a spa and is patron ized by people of wealth and leisure. Nevertheless it is a beehive of lace and garnet ware shops, Laces are won- derfully cheap here, and the tourist who reasons that they will certainly be cheaper in less frequented places will be sadly disappointed. If she waits til she reaches Prague, for eX- ample. she will have. great difficulty in finding any lace at all.
 The same holds good of Bohemia garnets. Prague is surely the center of the manufacture of the garnet jewelry, but it is very difficult to buy it there. It is much easier to get it in Vienna or Carlsbad. The people of Bohemia are very poor. They cannot afford to buy these laces and garnets. Hence you find them at Carlsbad, where the foreign visitors are most numerous.
 And that recalls the Vienna confec- tionery When she reaches Vienna people will tell her that nearly all of this candy is made in Budapest. Are you going to Budapest, my dear? We'll wait till you get there. Why, Buda- pest sells this candy to Vienna"
 When you reach Budapest you will find confectionery far inferior to that of Vienna and more expensive. In Budapest you pay five crowns ($105) pound for very poor candy, In Vi- enna you get the best for four crowns (S4 cents). In New York the latter candy costs $1.40 a pound,
 In picking up souvenirs to bring home no traveller in Italy will neglect the corals. They are wonderfully cheap and extremely beautiful. Of course Italy has her own coral beds and hence the cheapness. But if you are not going to Italy you can buy corals almost as cheap in Switzerland, especially at Interlakeu, where they are offered in profusion. At Inter- laken, too. you can buy carved ivory goods at prices amazingly small to those accustomed to New York fig ures.
 Switzerland charges no duty on these goods; that is the explanation It is like buying ostrich feathers in London, where they are absurdly cheap, simply because they come from an English colony and are not taxed For similar reason cigars are no extravaganza in Holland A man can smoke like prince there for about three cents a smoke. In Germany, too, cigars are ridiculously cheap, even those imported from Havana. You pay about six cents each for Ha- vana cigars that would sell at 20 cents here.
 Beautiful and low-priced tortoise shell goods are to be had in and around Naples. The lorgnet frames, combs, brushes, paper cutters and such articles will delight the eye of every traveller and vii not overtax the pocketbook. In Rome one buys Roman pearls; but it is well to re- member that those which are good are not cheap. The poorer qualities of Roman pearls are so poor that they are not worth importing.
 Bear one thing ever in mind In al- most every shop in Europe you are expected to beat down the price It is true that in very many you can not do this; but never fail to try it. This is especially necessary in all 1 places where they sell souvenirs as in the Piazza San Marco, Venice, the ar- cade in Berlin, or the Rue de Rivoli, Paris By patience and calmness you can often get articles at half the price first asked. Do not let your consci- ence trouble you, for the dealer al- ways comes out of it with a profit. He never makes you any present, and ! when VnII nav him 10 marks far something quoted at 20, he is proba- bly, making 30 per cent. on the sale at | that-New York Sun.