The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-21
Umbrella Handles

Models for the coming seson are
larger and heavier than usual. No
doubt the influence of GaIIie taste has
been aecentuated by American selee-
ton, for the French woman likes a
large, solid umbrella Handles are
thicker, and permit of a different style
Of ornamentation from the smaller and
thinner stick. Brown black and in
visible green have ceased to be the
only colors considered suitable to ward
off rain. Doubtless Improvement in the
process of dyeing has something to do
with this. Green silk. of a rather bright
tint, is very much used, as well as blue,
chestnut brown, Indian red and shades
of purple. The Partisan is carrying an
expensive umbrella with a cover of
shot silk, through which a pattern is
wrought. As silk must be of good
| quality to make tinting at all feasible
/ for exposure to climate, its price natur-
ally mounts pretty high. The handle
| of Italy and in Switzerland, usually in
the form of ball, repeating the lead
| ing color of the silken ground. Set
in claws of gold or silver, these stones
| are most beautiful.
| AT the fashionable resorts on the
| Continent all sorts of articles made of
| these stones are on sale. They decor
| ate the daintiest of little shops, and the
| vendors gather up their goods when the
season closes IN one district and follow
the gay world on to the next resting
place A favorite finish to an umbrella
is gaily-tinted butterfly ON a leaf
| made of the same stone as the ball
that composes the handle. 1t is fire.
quently perchea just where the frame
opens. The carved birds that were in
I favor in summer for parasols have as
sumed duller plumage, and are perch
! ed on some of the new season 5 UNI
! brellas. Such pretty thing as carv-
! ed apple or an orange is very fanciful.
! Curious are the heads of negroes carved
/ grotesquely out of ivory, brown and
! cream The heads of dogs are done in
similar style, and indeed, many ladies
specially order a carved design in ivory
or in.wood.
The plain crook handle usually has
most attraction for the woman who
walks a great deal. On shopping ex-
petitions it may be hung over the arm
and forgotten until it is wanted again.
Most popular, too, are the umbrella
bracelets made of knotted silk. or some
times consisting of a silver ring wide
enough to slip over the arm. The crook,
when preferred, is tipped with silver,
or even gold Such finish as a crook
or ring of the Chinese jade, which is so
popular just now with a touch of gold
on it, is one of the most elegant ideas
of the moment. The woman who plays
golf fancies a miniature set of clubs in
silver, and the horsev one likes leatb |
er loop to slip over her arm, or stir |
rup neatly initiated in silver or plati- |
mum. AS to the ardent bridge player, |
she probably selects one of the many |
devices that conceal a silver or gold /
mounted pencil case. At touch the !
case springs out of the handle, and is ,
useful for many purposes. watch is !
sometimes liked, and such a contrivance !
as neatly-adiusted purse has been !
shown.
Municipalities are very popular, prob
ablY because so many umbrellas are +
lost or removed from stands by mis-
take. In increasing numbers shops are
making special arrangements by means
of which umbrellas are left in proper
care while their owners are engaged in
shopping. Women s clubs are peculiar
ly liable to a form of error that has be-
come proverbial The number Of mem
bers and of visitors who are deprived
of expensive and much-prized property
through carelessness on the part of their
fellows Is extraordinary. Even posi-
bilities of loss or of theft, however,
cannot persuade the .Englishwoman to
relinquish the satisfaction she feels in
a really tasteful and serviceable um-
brella.