The Washington herald., 1920-11-15
SHOP WINDOW
is TRADESIRE
Lure of the Bazaar Reaches
Out and Forth Come
Your Purses.
HERALDS OF CHRISTMAS
Toylands, Fur Shops, Marts
OF Glittering Gems, Spread
Their Wiles.
HERALDS OF CHRISTMAS

The lure of the bazaar has been
well-substantiated thing for good
many centuries, and the song of the
mart has been sung in a score oil
tongues.
Reporters never were supposed TO
yield to lures unless it was in the
old days when the hollow-stemmed
glass still eraced the convention
banquet board, and as for singing,
il annoys the city editor.
a peripatetic scribe may be al
lowed, however, to indite a few i'm
pressions of a stroll past the show
windows, together with several IN
terror touches of Washington stores.
Christmas Is Coming.
Before the brief November after
noon is done, the shopping centers
blossom forth with a warm radl-
ance, emanating from the windows
in which the store decorator mas
eannily displayed the establish
mcnt's wares
Passing the home of big sta
tionery firm On F street, the OBJ
server is first jolted into remem-
brance that Christmas comes next
month and that the "DO-Your-Shop-
ping Early umpire is alreay count
ing out the delinquent purchaser OF
the calendar by a showing of Hule-
tide cards, ranging from neat prints
at 10 cents a throw to engraved
affairs the cost of which We blush
10 disclose
Thoughts of Havana.
Just next door stuffed fiamingo
stands erect beneath a card adver-
Using Voyages to the Tropics. As
the mordant night wind whips be-
tween the buildings, there come
visions of blue lagoOns, white
sands. Panama hats and Havana
buffets. But enough. Here we are,
marooned in the north temperate
zone for the winter, and wishing
does no good.
Succeeds to the shipping agency
a furrier's shop, which seems much
more appropriate to the weather.
Then a display of ball gowns, twice
beautiful and thrice briet, winch
doesn't Farther down the same
block, after a glimpse Of spider-weO
stockings, wool hose, Girl Scouts and
flowers behind frost-etched glass, Is
a window full of rich sables, TO
which are affixed. dangerously love-
IL corsage bouquets of artificial or
chids. quite heterogeneous analr'
this side of the street.
The jewellers we have always with
us. particularly on F street. Van
ity-vanity; all is vanity" murmurs
the observer. attending the layout
al q.
cigarettes and makeup resting on
rich velvet in a large and popular
shop. Let the suffrage idea ever
drive out feminine love of finery-
satins. jewels and precious metals!
Riddles I'm ToyIand Now.
Steering his way safely past the
deIectable scent of fresh cooked
candy in a corner coniisserie. the
reporter notes that the F street win
dow usually devoted to a depress-
ingIy frank exposition Of corsets
has yielded the greater part OF It's
space to charmingly-garbed Christ
mas dolls. This gives the idea that
the toy departments ought TO be
ready with their Yuletide lavish
ness of kiddies' toys and games and
forthwith the reporter directs his
which Santa Claus holds personal
sway.
This year. the store has secured
the services of Santa himself; his
lowing locks, wintry beard and
ruddy complexion are his own and
he receives each day hundreds of
requests, written and oral, for
everything from a drum to doll
that walks and talks. And Santa
and the parents accompanying the
tots wonder il it can't really be fixed
up. between them.
Germany woASing Again.
ToyIand this yeaJ is an interna-
tional affair Germany Is helping
nav off her mountainous debts and
secure gold by flooding the market
with every sort of contraption to
upIift the soul of youth with posses
sion or scar it with envy.
From the far hills about Thurin-
gen come again the Christmas tree
| baubles of glass-globes, pendants
and spears which the former en-
| pire of William Hohenzollern ceased
to manufacture during the war
| The ineradicabIe love of the mill
| tsry actuates the German toymaker
still to cast his lead soldiers. but
these no longer wear the uniforms
Of Potsdam reviews. They are the
warriors of Greece and the Roman
Dictionaries and the Turkish Jant-
y sarrics. These and many other
piecrs the big stores buyer Sc
cured on a trip abroad last sum-
mer. paying good American gold.
Scotland's furry little cattle are
present and SHETLAND ponies, neal
life size. these being imported from
Edinburgh.
France Supreme Dollmaker.
France is, as ever. supreme in the
dell-making art. Here are babe:
that walk and talk, CARRIED in cloth.
ing from lingerie to furs that show
the finest materials and hand
| Stitching. In addition, complete
| dolls outfits of any sort desired car
| be purchased in the dolls furnish
| ing section"
Another French oddly. reminis-
| cent Of the Arabian Nights tales
Is a stuffed bird In a gilded cage