New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-12-15
S. P. U. 6. SOCIETY
is ORGANIZED HERE
MERCHANTS OF CITY READY TO
MEET DEMANDS EoF, XMAS
TRADE
GIFTS GALORE FOR YOUNG AND
OLD HEAP HIGH THEIR
COUNTERS

COUNTERS
New Ulm merchants altho they may
not know it, belong to the nation wide
5. T. U. G. S. What, don't you know
what that is? We are not just excatly
sure ourselves but it means something
like Society for the Promotion of Use
full Giving but you can call it Society
for the Prevention of Ugly Gifts, and it
is in that sense that we say the New Ulm
merchants belong. For certainly no one
could feel after visit to the shops that
ugly gifts have any place among the
Christmas stores which have been spread
out for the past week to lure the shopper
into "early shopping. Buying has not
been brisk this season so far, the late
season evidently failing to arouse the
Christmas spirit. The snow of Sunday
quickened activity little and from now
on every one who has gift to buy will
find himself or herself in the midst of
crowd of others who have also delayed
until almost the last moment.
| A trip up one side of Minnesota street
and down the other reveals scores of
gifts and suggestions for the puzzled
givers. A Review Reporter visited the
various stores which use the Review as a
medium for telling the public of their
wares and found SO many fascinating
things at prices so reasonable that it
seems worth while to tell our readers
about few of them and study of the
ads in this weeks issue will tell you
where to find the articles mentioned.
The first store visited was jewelry
shop and. while it would be impossible
to mention all Of the things that appeal
to the eye and also to the pocket book,
a few of them may be called to mind.
New things in bud vases at $1.OO to
$1.9O, flower baskets in cut glass, cry
santhemum pattern, at 1925, the Du
Barry patterns in toilet sets, running up
to SIP for the tray and four pieces. BY
the way, these ivory toilet sets have been
elaborated this year greatly and instead
of the plain round shapes they come in
odd cornered shapes with beveled edges
and some of them even have carved
backs. By far the prettiest nut set we
have seen was bowl of mahogany with
the nut picks arranged about the edge.
Such set costs $500. Wooden ware
is becoming more and more popular and
the old time brass and china clock is
giving way to the clock set in frame of
mahogany. Smoking sets at this store
are also shown in wood, silver mounted,
with individual ash trays that may be
removed from the center piece for greater
convenience of the smoker. Some of
the sets have six crystal ash trays. The
smokers sets run from $500 to 500.
In the line of jewelry, the small, fine
designs are considered best this year, and
one may secure some very pretty pins
running from $1.0O up. AS usual,
cavaliers are still favorite and they
may be had ranging from $2.2 to $22.
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Visiting the furniture stores we were
shown so many different things, all of
which would fill long felt wants in nearly
every home that we almost despaired of
naming the most suitable At one of the
local stores they are showing the new
Kaiser Gray bedroom suites, the latest
fad in coloring. Old ivory is also one
OF the new shades in wood furnishings,
In this same store is to be seen the cedar
wardrobe. This cabinet is useful for
the storing of long, heavy garments that
the moths would like to get at but will
not touch SO long as they are kept within
the doors of cedar. If you have fine
set of furs, the cabinet would be Just
the place to put them away.
At the other furniture store was to be
seen first of all, that most useful article,
a sewing machine motor. It is so small
and so easily handled that it is shame
for the busy housewife not to have one
and the price, $500, is small, while the
power it takes to run it is even less than
that for an ordinary electric light. Other
articles of furniture that take the eve
are rugs, rockers, music cabinets, clothes
hampers and waste baskets, pictures and
Of course, all the staple lines Of furniture.
such as dining room and other sets. You
can get most suitable presents il these
stores from 50 cents up to = many