The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1911-12-19

bon is finished with rosettes of knot
ted loops. 1t is intended for a little
girl and is made of light pink satin
ribbon shirred over narrow elastic
tape.
Two neck pieces are shown with
small pendant ribbon flowers. These
are made in all colors. One consists
of cluster of loops of baby velvet
ribbon, having ends finished with pen
dent flowers. The other is a small
bow of wider velvet with three pen
dant flowers.
Roses made of satin ribbon are
spangled with rhinestone dewdrops
and mounted with millinery foliage.
They are intended for the hair or cor
sage and are often used in other ways,
instead of the natural rose. They are
scented with rose perfume.
strongest resolution. sturdiest effort.
on trial in the maelstrom of after
luncheon Christmas shopping. The
mad mob that at this time surges
through aisles, jostles and tramples
in elevators, bangs heavy doors on
weak ones struggling in the rear, this
mad mob might prove a successful
serpent in that paradise of serenity
enveloping you.
If you are calm and smiling in
making your purchases, of course 1t
may startle the girls behind the
counters, cause no little agitation, but
they'll recover and you'll have them
fairly hypnotized, can get out of them
almost anything you will We tried
it yesterday ourselves with marked
success, got through a list of much
length in miraculously short order.
The shopping proved quite social
success, exchange of courtesies rath-
er than mere exchange and barter;
and, fooling aside, really not the dead
ly, deadening, nerve-racking, loath-
some, unholy, un-Christian fight
this many a day. And, fooling aside,
we really found quite a lot Of fairly
good things to be had at moderate
outlay, believe the things came to
view partly because we were not fus-
sing and Tuning about the matter,
By the way, does not Bernard Shaw
declare that about the only folk that
have manners nowadays are the folk
that serve behind counters? To some
the manners may spell mere servil-
ity, bespeak inferiority on the part of
the iwell-mannered; but there are
still left few people in this age of
falling-down Of every good old stand
ard that cling secretly to liking for
courtesy and graciousness, are able
to recognize it as the real thing
though apparently presenting itself as
something offered for sale, to be had
for money. And there is no finer
thing in this season of strike and IL
will than the infinite patience and
heroic calm of the girl behind the
counter
After you have hopefully and smil-
ingly made those hopeful purchases
and the purchases have arrived at
your domicile, without delay, set to
work at doing them up; we beg of you
for the success of the experiment
don't wait till the eleventh hour for
the sticking of the Christmas stickers,
the tying OF the everlasting Christ
mas ribbon, the endless addressing
and weighing and stamping. There
is nothing so calculated to make you
hate this maddest, merriest season Of
Dickens fancy as having to hunt
around at the last moment for wrap
ping paper and string and appropriate
boxes and tissue paper and cards and
all the rest of the lumber essential to
getting things off," In gift-packing
at glad Christmas time numberless
brittle tempers are broken. number
less resisting tempers cracked.