The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-26
Fair Week Al Reads Ire Store In It's Customary Fine Dress for the Spring
 Opening

Again Fair Week at Reads. The feminine population of this city and vicinity have been counting on it for several weeks, for is there not mag
 nificent display of fashionable wear wh oh of course interests women, but there is music in the afternoon and 8 number of interesting exhibits A guide will take the visitor through the establishment and point out the at- tractive features. It will take some time to do it thoroughly, but the time is we'll spent.
 Fair Week is unique to Bridgeport like the circus. There is only one circus-"The Great and Only of the late P. T. Barnum There is only one
 Fair week-that of the D. M Read Go. And now we come to think of it there is a relationship between the house of Read and the house of Bar mum. Why shouldn't affairs be unique. The store is decorated in a festive and springlike style with plenty of palms and Towering plants. the color scheme being pale pink and pale blue with white-quite Frenchy. Large gilded baskets are on the wall and these are overflowing with flow CTS of every variety. The afternoon concerts take place in the large car erected for the musicians. Here program of popular music is present ed by Bentleys orchestra and The Bridgeport Ladies' Quartette.
 The visitor is taken to the top floor and shown through the spacious fur niture rooms. one after another, all perfectly classified in styles. A suite of rooms made up to represent home setting displays a bedroom done in colonial style with a ma assive four post bed of solid mahogany with dresser. chiffonier, dressing table and cheval to match. A Sheraton dining room Is in the suit the table set bril- liantly with cut glass and fine china. A den, also in the suite, is enough to tempt the visitor to finger. for here is what appears to be a glowing coal fire. deep and luxurious arm chairs and couches and a table with just the right lamp for reading Some of Hong Kong chairs and tables which are of woven sea grass. and better lounging chairs it would be hard to find. Admirable furniture for bungalows and yachts because water does not affect it and 1t is extremely light.
 One of the exhibits which attracts is silk loom from Japan. This is l in the reading room and surrounded 1 by things Japanese taken from the store. Screens. lanterns and Japanese pictures. The loom is operated by MT l I fly with gaily colored shuttles be- wilders the person looking on. The l whole operation of silk weaving is | shown from the winding of silk skeins to the completed fabric. MT l Tamba with "a simple turn of the wrist" will wind four hundred and fifty yards of silk thread in a minute. The bobbin is then locked in slim little shuttle which MT. Tamba caus- es to skim back and forth through the warp. and 1t darts like a live thing like trout in stream. One hard ly sees it fly, yet the fabric grows under ones eyes at the rate of an inch and a half a minute. The ped als. or rather treadles are managed like those of a pipe organ, and Mr. Tamba's feet are as intelligent as his hands.
 He will give volumes of interesting information regarding silks to any and care of silk worms, down to help ing lady select the best value for her money at the silk department.
 In the basement is a potter's wheel operated by MT. Duggan whose skill. ed hands turn out wonderful articles from clay. As one watches a Greek amphora is finished and set to dry. or a little urn. or the more common beanpot. in miniature.
 China decorating presented by The 1 Buffalo Pottery Co. in the shape of | some handsome Deldare ware. is con, ducted by Miss Delaney. She paints | figures and landscape quickly and | there is fine display of the finish ed productions This pottery is eff | fective on plate rails and in dens.
 There is glass engraving by MT. | Eicke from Providence. who skillfully | and rapidly etches designs on tumb- | lers and other glassware At the art | embroidery section on the third floor | Miss Martha Alden is ready to in- | struct all customers in the new punch work and cross stitch on linen and 1 every other quip and prank in ar, | needle work. Some of Miss Alden's | handiwork is on exhibition at the lin- ] en department on the lower floor.
 Tea is served in the afternoon in | the Japanese room to all visitors and | everything has been done to make it | a festive week. The D. M. Read com pany are hosts to the surrounding country and the inha bitants thereof | will not be slow to accept the invita- tion.