Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-01

same purpose in bringing the manu-
facturers to their senses as the over
all crusade did in this country.
The Tempo, published in Rome. has
opened lists of those in high places
who have declared their willingness
style of those who frequented the
Forum, and some mighty names are
noted, beginning with those of the
democratic monarch. Victor Emman-
uel III. and his son, the Prince OF
Naples. Shops offer the finished ar
ticle or the soft wool goods to make
them with patterns and suggestions
in abundance.
To mark the feeling of respect
which the word toga inspires within
legislators of Italy will have special
sort of wool with the highly deco
rated margins in colored silks after
the mural paintings which survive of
experiment are awaited in every
country with eager anticipation. The
bare hint of overalls sufficed to drag
down prices on this side of the water
just as the threat from women not to
buy anything new at prevailing rates
brought ready-made gowns within
the reach of almost everybody. 1tal-
ian women. have banded together to
eschew hats-that is, the modish
element-for the femininity of the
people never wear them, not even in
church
1t has been one of the astonishing
aspects Of Italian travel that where
as a foreigner would be Indignantly
turned back at the door of a church
if she attempted to enter bareheaded,
throngs of Italians passed through
without a protest. The bootleg king
dom is, in a word, going through the
same commissions which marked this
country in the opening spring, and
all kinds of societies are being or
ganized. always with the queen and
the queen mother Margharita, at
the prices of everything which peo-
pie must have-food, raiment. shelter.
A clever cartoon in a Milan paper re-
Gently received here shows something
which is called THE Unattainable,"
and it is nothing but giant key,
over which is written, This opens an
empty house"
Those who take their summer jour
ney from a cane-Seated library chair
first gentleman and the first lady of
the land have been frequently of
this class and are of it this present
vacation time, may enjoy fascinat
ing excursion in reading the adver-
tiSementS in the London papers. The
river trips are infinitely described and
the lover of Dickens may look upon
the blackened, crime-stained ware
houses of Limehouse section and be
reminded as he steps on the boat at
London bridge of the dark Shiny rem
devious of Nancy Sykes and her
kindhearted benefactress.
There are special trips for the
Dickens club this summer with a fine
guide who reads beloved passages
from the sketches of Boz and from
the novels which are so frequently
set against a London background.
Then tour of the shops is possible
through the subtly worded hints for
the shoppers. and the American ma
tron who delights in fine old furni-
ture may feel like sailing straight
over to get some of those spindle
back genuine antique chairs and lad
derback chairs at 35 shiilings each
and to be purchased not twenty yards
from Selfridge's.
And one may get a seventeenth CEN
fury oval gate-t table. of fine dark ma
hogany carved and polished. once the
property of the Duke of Portland, for
25 pounds sterling, not cheap of
course, but. then 200 years old and
an heirloom of a duke! And the
splendid china for sale all with
pedigree long as the Derby winners