Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-10-25

tiring invitation to you to come and
drink the excellent wine within
Nearer the heart of things and swept
by the currents of the busiest center
of Paris, the Halles, or public markets
is another sign you can find easily
though 1t. too, is fiat against the tran.
som space above the door. 1t would
seem at first glance to have been a
church piece, but it is only a manifes-
tation OF the religious feeling of the
first proprietor, who placed on the
iron grating holy infant with shep-
herds crook and sheep or two DULY
gilded to this day.
1t Is the BARRIERS who use the golden
balls as sign here, golden balls with
a magnificent switch of horsehair
hanging down below and swinging
merrily to the breeze. The reason
for the horsehair is obvious, but you
will likely puzzle long over the gold
en- ball until you notice that some bar
bers do not use the ball but instead a
queerly shaped, almost fiat piece OF
brass, which in time you decide must
be the BARRIERS bowl. The ball was
more decorative than the bowl.
The jewellers of Paris hang out
clocks as in America, but not one in
hundred of them runs. In Paris, too.
the jewelers. little brother, the op-
tician, hangs out pair of spectacles
as In America. But here this sign is
quite conventionalized, the rim of the
glasses, the bridgepiece and all being
made OF brass tubing an inch thick and
the two eyepieces are of red and blue
glass.
In Front of the Hat Store.
The old fashioned hatters of Paris
cling faithfully to a sidewalk sign in
the form of the glowing curves of the
high hat of century ago. This ar,
ticle of gents furnishings, painted
bright red, with yellow band and a
yellow cockade, is to be found every.
where in Paris, the only variation be.
ing the red palmer's hat of the clergy
supply houses and attempts of mod.
ern establishments to replace It with
models of ugly up to date derbies of
colossal size
Another modernization Is seen now
and then in the way of bootmakers'
signs. The conventional old style
sign is a carved and gilded wooden
boot of classic lines. The modern tray.
esty is an up to the minute American
shoe of the brogan type, also of
carved wood or papier mache perhaps,
gilded till 1t shines again.
Glove stores and haberdashers and
notion shops generally announce their
business by means of giant gloves sus.
pended over their doors. These signs
like all the rest, are either attached
to the signs directly over the doors or
are suspended from iron supports ex.
tending from the second story wall
Umbrella stores hang out tin umbrel.
las. usually opened and painted red
Immense gold scissors announce cut.
lery stores. and giant pincers, over.
grown planes and the druggists' NOR.
tar and pestle advertise their obvious
trades.
Paint stores hang out palettes with
brushes stuck through the thumb holes
or merely squares Of sheet iron paint.
ed diagonally with bars Of brilliant
colors Florists hang out dilapidat.
ed gilded wreath and the thousands Of
locksmiths are known by immense
golden keys. Usually the keys are of
the typical French sort, which feel
quite as bulky as the signs look to be.
but the modern touch is found here
too. for some hang out keys of the
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