Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-02

notice for everything from teaspoons
10 triVetS When yesterdays mail
brought the third request this month
for n clock to be bestowed on a pros
pective bride, Polly simply ran into
BUTTONS 20 make her choice from
among the dependable timepieces she
knew were there. All of them were
guaranteed for lifetime, with the
assurance that skilled clockmakcr
would make it his business to see that
the delicate mechanisms were kept in
good order AS soon she heard the
chimes strike the quarter hours on q;
Westminster clock made of mahogany
in fine. simple lines. she knew that the
/ bride to-be would fall in love with the
mellow sound-it created such an at
mosphcre of age and dignity that no
| bride could possibly have resisted its
charms. Polly almost changed her
mind on the way out. however, when
she passed beautiful chest of fiat sill
yer that bore the name of The Cor
ham Silvcrsmiths, but as she reflected
that other weddings and other gifts
would no doubt be in order before long,
she resolved to tuck the chest away in
her mind for next time.
81 LEARNED something to day" said
Polly, coming in with her checks
rosy from the cold. IT learned that
sables arc brown--bet you thought as
I did, that they were black as mid
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/ her that she. as an efficiency expert in
shopping. should have known better.
but Polly acquitted herself of the
charge by retorting that real sablcs
were SO rare and costly that mere
folks scarcely ever saw them except in
pictures of Mrs. Astorbilt. Polly said
she owed her good fortune to trip
to CHARLES HAASE G. SONS, whcrc
Mr.. Haase himself brought from the
great old safe where he kept them
locked up, a treasure trovc of the most
beautiful skins she had ever seen.
There were the little sablcs. in color the
rich, glossy brown of ripe chestnuts.
and also Il collection of rare silver fox
skins, deep soft pelts with sheen like
frost. Polly thinks that the possession
of furs of such unusual distinction,
coupled with the comfortable feeling
that they come from the oldest fur house
south of Philadelphia Established in
1870, would be enough to give any
body what She calls the dclirious de-
lights. She found. too. that this shop
was Offering at a discount all of their
eNquisitely finished fur garments and
Scarfs, including a dolman wrap of
sealskin that completely eclipsed any
coat of her acquaintance. Polly added
that 1T was particularly reassuring to
know that when summer comes, ones
furs may be slowed away in Charles
Haase's cold storage rooms, where moth
and dust do not corrupt.
NUR1NG all her eventful life in Rich
- mond. Polly has been busy discover
ing the Old Dominion. both because she
believes that traditions are their own
excuse for being, and also for the
very "Pollyish' reason that traditions
in Virginia invariably prove to be in
terestinE discoveries. Now Polly says
that Billy Sundays advance man may
have been guided in his choice of
haven of refuge for the evangelist by
the fact that the RICHMOND HOTEL.
commands view of Patrick Henry's
monument. but she believes that Dr.
Walker made up his mind that the
Richmond Hotel was the place to tarry
when he partook with true clerical
avidity of the Virginia chicken dinner
"a day and night feature at the Rich
mond. Polly says that traditions. i'll
the form Of fried chicken with the
cream sauce of that 10 war flavor
accompanied by candied vans, corn
pones. corn fritters and all the other
accessories Virginia prescribes, is we'll
worth cherishing. Some day she is GO
ing to take peep straight into the kit
chen to verify suspicion of he's that
the chefs assistant Is black nanny.
who stepped out OF a story book or
grandfather's memory.
'Everytime l see Billys latest gym
nastics." Polly concluded, l think of the
wonderful chicken dinner awaiting his
quick cned appetite"