The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-01-02

NEW YORK CITY, Jan. Parrots,
animate and inanimate, are having a
tremendous vogue this year. You en-
counter them everywhere-in the fash
ionable drawing.room and library, on
the stage and in the films, in the de-
partment stores and china shops. in
all the latest photographs of actresses,
and even in the subways and trolley
cars.
The other night man whose nerves
were in a ragged state after plowlng
through the Christmas crowds to at
tend TO some of his wifes neglected
shopping, managed through great
physical prowess and presence OF
mind to capture seat on a Brooklyn
train. simultaneously, someone OF
great bulk and force of gravity came
down upon his already aching big toe
The man jumped and then sWore
quietly behind his barricade of pack
ages. Much to his surprise, deep,
raucous voice, apparently coming from
the floor of the train, Immediately IN
CURED:
What are you about? What are
you about? What are you about?
The man peered hastily over his
packages, but no one was paying any
attention to him. Instead, they were
gazing intently at a large packaged
! damned against his knees.
ITS a parrot" explained an amused
| feminine voice above him in answer
| to his alarmed glances. "A Christ
mas present for my husband. I've al
ways wanted a parrot. They're such
good company. The man who sold me
| this one said it could say How do
you do?' and What are you about"
l for hours at a time"
Persian kittens and Pekinese are
! no longer the chief treasure OF the pet
stores. Nor are canarieS selling as
extensively as they did before the war
| These were the favorites oil yeSter-
year; today the parrot dominates the
domestic scene. His brilliant plum
age supplies a warm, tropical note 10
the modern interior. while his anus
| ing faculty for repeating phrases OFTEN
| livens up an otherwise dreary after
! noon tea. The latest window displays
Iuse a stuffed parrot as the high color
note. 4 fashionable charity ball re-
Gently taking place in New York was
called a parrot ball. In Los Angeles,
a movie actress creates a sensation by
| appearing on the street Win parrot
| that matches her gown.
I Parrots as Ornaments.
The popular craze for parrots Is eX-
I planned in various ways by various
persons. An interior decorator in the
exclusive Madison Avenue interior
decorator neighborhood here places
all of the responsibility upon the new
: interiors, with their lacquer furniture,
brilliant chintZes, and cretonnes.
such interiors demand parrot
he declared ct is as if one were
made for the other A bird, you see
: is a moving color note in a room and
should dominate the whole scheme OF
decoration or be left out altogether
And really a parrot or cockatoo Is
: the only thing that could possibly pre-
tend to dominate most of the lacquer
: and the chintz.
when you do not own live par
rot, it is possible to use the image o.
one That is why you now see Sc
: many brilliantly colored china parrots
d in the bric-a-brac displays of smar
t gift shops. Thty come in pairs ant
5 make most attractive ornaments fol
dining room bullets or as a substitute
: for the polychrome candlestlcks OF
k the Italian chest in the living room
d yes, perhaps, but in Sucf
< good taste. After all, where coult
?. you find any bric-a-brac so effective
e for s150?"
Another investigator of the parro
2 vogue. psychologist by profession