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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-15

had started to play something and
then disagreed.
To show how carefully he had
planned his Campaign, he had the
extreme foxiness to refrain from
giving literally to gilt-edge Chart
ties.
It seems that the Outsider who
crowds into the Charmed Circle
and makes q Grand-S Stand Play
with the Bank Roll Is thanked
effusively and listed as a vulgar
Pretender.
In order to get the right Dope
on Dress, Decorum and the. Regu-
lar Order of Business in Drawing
Rooms, he read all the Books.
He wanted to get Tips on the
Line of Talk he would be ex-
pected to pull after his arrival
in the Promised Land.
In the Novels dealing with
High Life. he would follow Sir
Godfrey and the Lady Barbara
into the Formal Garden and try
to get them when they were
devoting a long Chapter to a
discussion Of certain elusive
Moods of the Soul.
1t is doubtful II. any student of
Current Fiction ever read more
Chapters and muffed more Points
than Mn. E. Floozey.
PAST WORRIES HIM.
For twenty years he had worked
overtime at being Refined. He
had Stunned unimportant People,
trained his rude Vocal Cords to
a faint imitation of the Massa-
chusetts Dialect, frequented such
Places Of Amusement as bore the
o. X. Of the Drama League, and
rubbed his Escutcheon with a
Chamois Skin every blessed Morn
ing.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-15
ONE KEY FITS MANY LOCKS

Edison toted the General Electric Company from
Detroit to Schenectady in train butchers basket.
And FOrd's plant was erected in wO0dshed.
Half the futures significant enterprises are taking
root in hall rooms and farmers barns Set up a hot
frame Of own, and begin to cultivate ambition
The fruage of fertile thoughts and seeds alike are
unreasonable.
Where you work today, and what you are at the
mean to be, or hold you from the place you plan to
hnUO.
Anything finite intelligence contemplate is prob
Destiny raises the limit of her games each morning.
Tomorrow is the luckiest date on the calendar.
Coue is copy cat. Progress owns the copyright
that formula. -
Success and failure are mental attitudes. Your
fathers father heard his great uncle regret that he
born after all the worthwhile things in the world
had been done.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-15
~ NE Of the finest men back in
my old home town out West
y is Mr. Griffin, the druggist,

my Olo nome Town out WesL
~ is Mr. Griffin, the druggist,
who runs the drug store on Santa
F'e avenue, near Third street.
He is also one of our most promi-
nent citizens, and is very popular
with one and all, because his drug
store Is a great place to hang out
in and watch the girls go past,
especially on Sunday.
Furthermore, Mr.. Griffin is q
member of the church and sings in
the choir at morning services, his
voice being an extra loud tenor.
He is a tall, thin man, with side
burns, and specks, and as far as
anybody knows, he is a very good
druggist.
Mr.. Griffin comes from some
where back East, and when he
first lights in my old home town
and opens his drug store he does
not do so good for himself, because
our citizens are not much for get
ting sick, and II they do get sick
they generally do not need drugs.
What they do is to have the old
lady slap a mustard plaster on the
place where they feel sick, and
maybe give them some sage tea,
and if this does not work the
chances are they haul off and die.
But along comes prohibition and
closes our saloons, and then bust
ness gets very good with Mr.. Grit
fin, as man can step in back of
his prescription counter and get
shot of liquor in medicine glass
any time he needs 1t, which is quite
often in my old home town.
Well, after awhile there is talk
among our citizens that Mr.. Crit
fins liquor Is not all it should be,
some claiming that as he gets
richer his liquor gets poorer, but
nobody is really able to tell whether
it is good or bad liquor. because
there is not enough difference be-
tween it and the other liquor sold
in my old home town.
Anyway, nobody cares q whoop
what kind of liqdor it is. as long
as 1t is liquor, except maybe a few
very particular people. Further
more, Mr.. Griffin is always telling
how it is the very best stuff that
money can buy in the market, and
he Is so we'll thought of by one and
all that everybody takes his word
for 1t.
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BY GEORGE AIDE

Bruises. he had consorted with
an unwashed Kid named Orlando.
Fain would Mr.. E'loozey have
chiseled the name OF Orlando
from the tablets Of Memory, but
he could not get the right kind
Of Chisel.
However, he felt Q halfway
Sense Of Security so Ear as
Orlando was concerned, believing
that his Boyhood Friend probably
was serving > Long Term in
some Penal Institution.
Conceive the Dismay which
chilled the Heart Of General
Manager FIoozey when Orlando
blew into the office one day and
greeted his former Playmate with
blatant Enthusiasm.
Within five minutes Orlando
had the Premises festooned with
grinning skeletons Of the ignoble
Past.
It seemed that he had side
stepped all the Prisons and
damned his way into the Railway
Supply Business and was getting
away with it.
He had his own Office. the
same as Mr.. F'loozey, and was
forcing himself upon Directors
and Purchasing Agents. who never
suspected that he was the only
son OF q Horse Doctor.
Mr.. F'loozey had to be diplo-
matte In order to escape Orlando
and his boisterous Hospitality.
He figured that the Strategy and
F'inesse OF his deep-laid Plans for
acquiring Social Recognition would
certainly get balled UP and sky
fugled If he became identified
with a cheap and noisy Element.
COULDN'T PASS HIM UP.
Even while the remaining Sec
ton of his Conscience rebuked
him for turning down one with
whom he had slept Spoon
Fashion, the higher Necessity
prompted him to give Orlando
the CODY.
But 1t was no easy matter to
eliminate Orlando. The latter had
a way of being Among those
Present when there was aught
Stirring.
Theoretically, Orlando was due
to come an awful Cropper If he
ever pulled any of that fresh
Cuff on the hard-faced Aristo-
Gratis.
Mr.. F7oozey could hardly be-
lieve his Eyes when he looked
across the Room one day and
caught Orlando taking Luncheon
with three eminent Railway Off
Gals whom Mr.. Floozey had wor-
shipped from afar for fifteen
years. e
Instead of effacing himself and
sitting back subdued and rever-
entail, as because one Of inferior
Rank, the audacious Orlando had
taken charge Of the Conversation.
His Manner was one Of jaunty
Superiority.
He was joahing the Heavy
weights.
No doubt about it. He was
bawling out the Graybeards-kld-
ding the Millionaires.
Instead Of calling the Head
Waiter and having him removed.
the Colossi were laughing their
heads off.
THEORIES GO BLOOEY.
Mr.. Floozey felt the Theories Of
a Lifetime topping about him and
settling into Ruin.
He made terrified Inquiries
and learned that Orlando had
been taken up by the Best Peo-
pie because he was Breezy and
never had learned to be awe
stricken.
The Great Men would go home
and tell the Women Folks what
Orlando had said at q Luncheon
given to the President OF the
Trunk Line, and the Women
would insist on having Orlando
brought up to the House some
time, because they knew he must
be a Killing.
Then Orlando would coil them
up on the Phone and string them
scandalous and tell them to leave
him alone because he was an un'
protected Bachelor with . spotless
Reputation. So e was generally
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Well, as his liquor business gets
bigger and bigger, Mr.. Griffin
seems to also be doing more bust
ness in drugs. because people in
my old home town are getting sick
er than somewhat, and calling in
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-15
Rest and Change
By s. e. KIsER.

LIE grieved because he could not rest,
"A His job became toilsome grind;
Hope flickered feebly in his breast,
Brave thoughts were seldom in his mir
He often wished, when wild winds blew
That he might linger late in bed
His work was hard, his joys were few,
He saw no chance to get ahead.
ONE morning when the clouds were gray
He did not rise, to eat and run,
And at the end Of that long day
He wondered how his tasks were DONE
The nurse who came was young and sweet,
Her touch was soft, her step was light;
He should have thought it was treat
To have her near him day and night.
RUT what cared he for loneliness?
Her beauty charmed him not at all;
He did not have to rise and dress
And rush away at duty's call;
The rest that he had been denied
Was claimed in full but he, alas,
Was far from being satisfied;
He thought the doctor was an ass.
A T last he rose, with sunken cheeks
4 And ragged whiskers on his face,
To find that through the cherries weeks
Another man had filled his place;
The world had whirled along without
A serious breakdown anywhere;
No dreadful change had come about
While he was in the nurses care.
HE hurried back to work once more,
Glad that there still was work to do;
The tasks that had been hard before
Seemed easy for a week or two,
And then, with envy in his breast,
He thought Of those who went away
In search Of pleasure and Of rest
While he ground on, day after day.
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FIFTY YEARS AHEAD.

From the columns or the
Times-Herald Of 1879
Inspector Headley asserts that
more parking space il needed
downtown.
Henry Duffy and Arthur Leslie
Smith close annual engagement OF
Abie's Irish Rose"
Several civic organizations think
something ought to be done 1or
Rent commissions work COM
Five-cent fare demanded Tor DIS
trict.
TT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED.
"a modern but imaginative little
story.)
Once upon a time q taxi driver
had to make q turn.
Instead Of backing into a crowd
ed street, where he would hold up
traffic, he ran around the block.
Chorus of indignant critics:
"whaddye mean it might have
happened? It couldn'tr0
.
What grief Is there that can COM
pare
What makes man more dis
gusted,
Than tipping half an hour. then
To find the ''e'' is busted?
In such q cas- as that, you hay
To b a RoscicruciHn
Or Is a yogi, II you'd find
A plaslns substitution.
AMT 1T THE TRUTH
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Copyright, 1879. by the Bell eyndicAt'
Inc.l
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-15

would have rushed you to the stake for even suggest
ing that the air might be taught to sing. Coming
wears in turn will call exceedingly primitive and
Ewes and lenses never grow so shrewd but what
there's more for another look to find Science has
scales TO weigh the football of gnat-tOmOrrOW Will
count its heartbeats.
When the atom was disclosed cOcksure wiseacres
exnltingy wrote "fns" to that chapter Of ply 5ics
Now we deal In fragments of matter, compared with
which atoms are mammOths.
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the doctors, and one thing and an.
other.
Mr.. Griffin never drinks anything
himself. being church member.
and singer in the choir. but once
in a while when business is extra
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THE MODERN FABLE OF WHAT OUR SET IsNT DOING

ance with at least eight Touch
me-Nots whose undergarments
were supposed to be Royal Purple.
He had rehearsed until he was
Letter Perfect, but the date for
his Debut among the Dinner
Givers still gIimmered in the
/. uncertain Future.
Every few days his Past would
rise up and swat him.
He knew too many People with
Good Memories.
That's the Curse Of having Hoi
Polloi Antecedents and a Record
involving Coffee and Sinkers.
Someone said, somewhere, once,
in . gush of Originality, that the
World il Small. To an eager
Aspirant for Vanity Fair who
went barefooted every summer
until he was fourteen. the dear
old Bromide goes Double.
The threads Of Memory con-
Meeting Elmer FIoozey with his
humble Origin and impossible
Kin.Folk were about the size Of
Log Chains.
what was the good of acquir-
ing County, Graces and looking
like a registered Van Something.
IL a Boob from the Home Town
could walk in at any moment and
spring a forgotten Nickname?
ORLANDO BUTTS IN.
Sometimes It seemed to him
that all of the corn-fed Canaille
Of the obscure Birthplace had
moved up to the City and were
in a conspiracy to joggle him
every time he tried to stand on
Pedestal.
One Chap In particular nettled
him to the very subcuticle.
Away back in the hateful days
Of the Pin Hooks and the Stone
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-15

OTHING is ever as simple as it
seems. Mites are as complex as
mountains. If scalpels could be
devised to dissect micrOcOsms,
germs would be found possessed
of digestive tracts, nerve systems
and thought centers. We are
still at the threshold of real
knowledge.
The witch burners of Salem
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-20
the preference.

given the preference.
Many of our best teachers have
not been through normal but have
successfully passed the examination
required and have the highest and
only certificate required by the state
and are doing superior work.
Every principal in the city has had
more than two years professional
training and have had several years
successful experience in other
schools of this and other states as
principals and have successfully
passed the examinations for super
visors and holding the highest certi-
ficate issued by the state board.
A college education will no more
make a successful principal than IT
will make a successful business man.
ask any business man of this city.
The superintendent should have
the final a in the appointment OF
all teachers and he could give good
reasons in every case. He Is held ac-
countable for results and has bull
up an excellent system which he car
never maintain IL every brother who
has a sister to apply tries to go over
his head.
Hoping you will give this letter
the same publicity you did the
report,
sign myself,
A LAWYER.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-20
PUBLIC OPINION
THE sHCooL TEACHERS
EDITOR EVENING NEWS:

EDITOR EVENING NEWS:
In Tuesdays report of the meeting
of the Board of Education one of the
men. bers said, to his knowledge
some of the principals of the city
had not been through college. AS a
member of the board we would
think he would know hat there is
no law in this state that requires
that a teacher principal of grammar,
| high, or elementary school Or SUI
+! perintendent should have been to or
through college or normal school
either.
A normal school diploma serves as
a certificate to teach in some cases.
A college diploma never does. Our
present high school principal had to
go to Trenton and take the regular
teacher or supervisors examina-
ton, although he is a college gradu-
ate,
One of our former principals went
from here to the superintendent OF
a nearby city has been elected
to be superintendent of n of this
largest and best townships including
a large high school at a salary saic
to be 100000 Now he was never
to college a day in his life and there
] are many college graduates who ap
piled for this position and he was
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-20
RADIO PROGRAMS
Today's radio programs:
WOR

Today's radio programs:
WOR
(Bamberger's-Newark)
2:30 P. M.-Solos by William
Dawson, tenor.
2:45 P. M.-First aid hints by
Or, HARRIET Van Buren, Peckham.
3:15 P. M.-Reading from Little
Journeys to the homes of the great
by Ebert Hubbard.
$3.50 p. M.-William Dawson, So
los.
3:45 p. M.-Violin solos by Sam
uel Marantz.
6:15 p. M.-Music.
$3.50 p. M.-"Man in the moor
stories for the children" copy
right of the Newark Sunday Call.
700 p. M.-Piano solos by Ma
belle Cowan.
1928 p. M.-Baseball scores.
(RadIo Corporation--New York;
800 P. M.-Fashions.
400 p. M.-Baseball scores every
fifteen minues after this time.
5:45 p. M.-Daily report of the
N. Y. State Dept. of Farms and Mar
kets.
$3.50 P. M.-Farm and Home re-
ports.
5:55 p. NJ. The Magazine of Wall
Street.
500 P. M.-"Children's Songs and
Stories,' by Agnes Leonard.
7:45 p. M. Loseleaf Current Top
les.
500 p. NJ. Stadium Concert.
1000 p. M.-Harper Brothers Lit
erary Talk.
1915 p. M.-Recital by Nine. Mil
tonella Beardsley, pianiste.
1885 P. NJ. Time signals and wea-
Their forecast.
WY
Radio Corporation-New York;
E15 P. M.Concert by the Hotel
Plaza Tea Room Orchestra.
8:15 P. M."Sports," by William j.
Slocum.
KDKA
observation-disclosures
2:15 P. M.-Scores..
500 P. M.-Baseball scores.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-20
AERADIO
B B~ROADCASTINC

Sis P. M.-Dinner Concert by
the Grand Symphony Orchestra.
500 p. M.-Baseball scores.
Dinner Concert continued.
$3.50 p. M.-Farmer's Evening.
Special Farm Program prepared
by the National Stockman and Far
mer.
7:45 P. M.-'eThe Visit to the Lit
tie Folks by the Dreamtime Lady.
1900 p. M.-Baseball scores.
Farm Program continued.
1920 P. M.-Coneert by e. Pauline
Keys, pianist and accompanist; Char
les Wylliss Hall, tenor; Leo Kruzcek,
violin.
8:45 p. M.-Baseball ore Ma
tional Stockman and Farmer Mar
ket Reports.
1855 p. Warrington Time Sig
mails.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-20
NEW incorporation

NEW BRUNSWICK, July 20 -
Articles of Incorporation have been
field by the Szabady Soap Manu-
featuring Company with offices at
S61 New Brunswick avenue, Perth
Amboy. Eugene S. Szabady Is the
statutory agent of the company
which will manufacture and deal IN
all kinds of compounds having the
qualities of soap. The company is
capitalized at 100000 consisting OF
1000 shares of stock at 500 each.
The incorporators are: Eugene s.
szabady, of 1913 High street, 400
shares; Louis Csipo, of AIT State
street, and Helen Szabady, Of 19S
High street, 200 shares, all of Perth
Amboy.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-20
MY MOTHER DOES HER OWN
OWN LAUNDRY now
KOREKTO DID IT

For 8 years my mother has been
very sick, being in bed most OF the
time. she was very weak, troubled
with Indigestion and heartburn. We
tried everything imaginable until we
bought a bottle of KoREKTo. Ny
mother felt better at once and now
after the third bottle of Korekto
she is able to do her WI washing
We certainly recommend Korekto
as the pest remedy for indigestion,
heartburn, etc. (Signed)
Mr.. ANDERSON,
467 Laurie Street,
Perth Amboy, N. J..
Korekto is sold and guaranteed
by the National Pharmacy Stores,
Inc, corner Madison Avenue and
Smith Street, Perth Amboy, N. j.
Adv.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-20
DIRT N DUST
What Is Going On At Perth
Amboy's Recreation Centers.
Young June Bug, or Old Bird OF
Paradise?

Young June Bug, or Old Bird OF
Paradise?
Mark Twain once said, I'D rather
be a young June bug than an old
Bird of Paradise" He might have
put it less picturesquely, I'D rath-
Their be q healthy youngster ingtead
of an old fellow with worldly medals
pinned all over his chest" To speak
in the v-ernacuiee, Mark Twain said
a mouthful when he made that re-
mark.
A June bug is cheerful, bothers
none and finds a great deal of pleas
ure burrowing in the summer flow
ers. He is healthy. A Bird OF Para
disc is beautiful. 1t proudly fans its
gorgeous feathers in the sunlight,
but feeling assured that 1t may de-
pend on its beauty alone forgetting
all else. A Bird of Paradise has no
head, and often the soft plummage
bluffs the world into forgetting this.
Nor does it take a zestful flight of
the imagination to picture the dismal
existence of the old Bird of Para
disc.
We don't wonder Mark Twain
would rather have been a June bug;
a June bug which stands for light,
health. happiness and good cheer.
That's what our playgrounders are:
June bugs striving for happiness
and pleasure on the Fairgrounds.
And they find what they are after.
No, sir. No Birds of Paradise for
them. True enuf. there are no flow
ers to fit in, but there are the play
grounds, and at that, the dirt n dust
is better than the traffic bound
streets, or the haunts of the Bird of
Paradise"
Are your children June bugs, or
are they Birds of Paradise?
"CAE"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-20

Looking for a chance TO ; Y money !
rhaye are lots of them among tho Asr.
ehsndIse aas Ia the CLASSIFIED Section.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-20

The game of the year, nip and
tuck all the way thru, was played
Wednesday between the Bayviews of
Hayes Park and the PAGERS of School
No. 6. The Bayviews took the first
game and the PAGERS the second And
then came the scrap. Those boys
played hard and clean. Twas a
game well worth watching, and a
dandy spirit manifested itself thru
out the three sessions. The PAGERS
are to be congratulated on their
victory, and exhibition of real volley
ball playing. Without any degree OF
the bravado we say that we're ready
to take on any team in the state.
Bring 'em on!
Today the girls are over on the
island across the sound cooking their
hot dogs. Wouldn't wonder at all
IL there appeared to be a shortage OF
weenies in the city after those girls
get thru buying theirs.
Our predictions were right; those
boys had one great time at the
Woodbrook Farms yesterday. Our
thanks to the management of the
Farms. This is not an advertise
ment, but we'll say that milk was
good.
Evening star., 1923-11-04
Debutantes Interested
In Continental Ball

Many of the debutantes of this and
last season are interested in the an
nual continental ball, to be given by
the Abigail Hartman Rice Chapter,
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton, at Rauschers Monday evening,
November 10. Miss Virginia w. Price.
who is chairman of the young ladies'
committee, has assisting her Miss
Louise Ford as vice chairman.
The following are among those
serving on the committee: Miss Emily
Dial. Miss Dorothy Mondell Miss
Gladys Sinclair, Miss Louise Carman,
Miss Betty Larrimore, Miss Ruth Bis
sell, Miss Mary Rawlings. Miss Dor
othy BARLEY, Miss Josephine Huber,
Miss Dorothea King, Miss Anne Linn.
Miss Margaret Linn. Miss Julia Cook.
Miss Beatrice Whittier, Miss Eleanor
Richards, Miss Priscilla Slaughter.
Miss Ora Ward Miss winifred De Voc,
Miss Peggy Fred. Miss Rebecca Fred.
Miss Margaret Coll, Miss Gertrude
Coumbe, Miss Mary Schultz, Miss Jes-
sica Randolph Smith, Miss Halle
Lawton Morgan, Miss Grace Maud
Morgan. Miss Sarah Douglish. Miss
Marguerite Barnes. Miss Miriam
Johnson, Miss Lois Maupin. Miss Gret-
ma Boswell. Miss Helen Widenhamer,
Miss Helen Hunt, Miss Gladys Hunt,
Miss Isabella Brown, Miss Mary
Brown, Miss Mary Rogers, Miss Alice
Sergeant, Miss Mary Ellery, Miss
Frances Ellery. Miss Anne Waring,
Evening star., 1923-11-04
Mrs. Wiley Tenders Tea
To MORGAN School


& The Parent-Teacher Association of
the Thomas p. Morgan School was
rendered a Halloween tea by Mrs.
Harvey w. Wiley at her residence
2345 Ashmead place, Tuesday after
noon.
Miss Fanny Dial presided at the
punch bowl. Miss Elsie Rupprecht
poured tea. Miss Jessie La Sale,
supervisor of the second division,
made an interesting talk on Re
classification of Children in the
Schools 49,.
Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter president of
the congress. Of mothers, spoke brief
ly upon the urgent need of a suitable
meeting place for activities of the
congress
The eighth grade girls sold candy,
the proceeds Of the sale, together
with the silver Offering by the par
ents, to be used for playground activ-
tiles 49,
Evening star., 1923-11-04

Louise Foster. Miss Georgianna War.
rem, Miss Edith Pearson, Miss De-
leslyn Taylor, Miss Marie. Mcclure.
Miss Blanche Cooksey. Miss Olive
Prescott, Miss Mary Junkin, Miss
Beatrice. .Clephane, Miss Elizabeth
Bourn, Miss Paulette Greece, Mrs. M.
= Webster, Mrs Amos Pagter, Mrs.
Harold B. Whitney, Mrs. Herbert p.
LeeInan. Mrs. Bunting Horne and Mrs
Mallette r. Spengler.
Evening star., 1923-11-04
Velvet POrtieres

Extra quality Velvet Portieres, so
ms. wide and 271a yds. long; open edge
on fronts; duplex colors; any color
combination. $3.50 pair.
Evening star., 1923-11-04
Lace Curtains

Quaker" Lace Curtains in all the
latest fringe styles. Tuscan, the heavy
artistic net, filet weave in the regular
designs; Filet Grandee, an imitation of
heavy handmade lace, and the artistic
Oxford laces, fringed at bottom with
cotton or silk bullion fringe. $500 to
$4,000 pair.
Evening star., 1923-11-04

Couch Covers

Armure, Tapestry and Velour Couch
Covers, 60 ins. wide and full length;
stripes, plain center, and all-over fig
ured designs. Priced at $500 for a re-
versible cover up to an imported silky
velour at $3.50.