The Topeka state journal., 1919-04-12
PARASOLS-JUST PARASOLS
Some Turn Rain-Some Sun-Afi
Turn Heads of sSofter'' Sex.
BY MARGARET RoHE

BY MAhGAREI ROfdE
Twas at the beach, she was a peach,
We mad a mild filtration;
She raised her parasol, her eyes,
NV hopes, all with relation.
But soon she closed her parasol,
1 sighed, with CONSERVATION.
Twas quite a blow, for then, also,
She closed the conversation.
New York, April 12.-It hasn't quite
come to rings in the TIP of our noses,
but at least we will wear 'em in the
tips of our ferrules this summer. All
of the smartest, newest parasols which
we will raise against the suns rays
have these handy rings. SO that they
will slip over the wrist when the para
sol isn't in action and dangle along
with the omnipresent bag.
OF course last season the parasols
also sported these rings, but then they
were attached to the handles. This
season, just by way of variety, they
have done a f1ip-fop to the other ex-
treme and, fastened to the tip, they
upset all precedent and all parasols
by causing them to hang upside down
when in repose,
To raise a parasol this summer will
be the next best thing to raising
riot-that is, of course, a riot of color
for never have they seemed so gay
and festive. Gorgeous plaids and fig
ured silks vie with plain colors of
most hectic hues. The fiat Chinese
| shapes are most in favor. Some are
| just one tiny ruffie after another and
some are borderei deeply with silken
| fringe. One bright green affair has
embroidered designs of bright hued
| wool with yarn fringe of all the as
sorted shades. On the airy chiffon
models, fringe of the popular ostrich
feather hus palpitate pulchrituden-
| ously.
A revival of hand painted parasols
/
| has been added by introducing the
popular metallic touch. A stunning
flat black parasol shows a sprawling
| vine design done in gold paint and a
| midnight blue is silver 1eaved. Gay
plumaged birds and iridescent butter
| les fly their painted beauty across the
ivory ribbed sectors of shimmering
silk, and painted blossoms bloom
there unwithered by the scorching
| sun.
| i. Broad black and white stripes radi-
ate smartly from many an ivory ringed
| ferrule tip and yet on others stripes
! run madly round and round in dizzy
I circles.
| Quaint parasols of calico and English
print are made especially, matching up
| adorable old-time dresses of the same
| materials. There are gay cretonne and
| figured linen parasols that belong to
| this non-silkY set and a parasoI made
|
spreads that you find N every well
| regulated Bohemian studio and every
| American peddler's pack raises the
newest and most striking note in para
seldom up to date.
Those old-time allover Spanish and
| C utilly lace parasols are coming
| back too. You know the kind that
Grandma carried when she was just
a young and flighty creature Mounted
over shimmering saith, they are just
the things to wear with our floatiI.
! silken scarves and book muslin frocks
| and tiny bonnets.
OF course the stout, stocky, SUBJ
stantial and always smart little hybrid
dual element defiers, the bright taffeta
umbrella parasols that turn equally
| fast and fmpervious colors to the sun
and rain. are still found in the best
hands and umbrella stands. 1t is the
| fluffy feminine and extravagant1y i'm
practical charms of the cobwebby lace
| ones, the "ruffledy'' silk ones and the
hand painted chiffon ones, however
| that the majority of fair feminines are
hosting this summer to keep off the
Heavenly golden sun and lure on some
golden eart.-'y SOL.