The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-01-23
Shop Hopping
with JANON


The Key West sun is shining
and all the winter visitors are
pouring into town again. My
friends up in Yankee Land write
that all is snow and ice. so |
just can't see why the whole
darned North doesn't just empty
INTO the sunny southland. The
birds don't have such a bad idea
At that.
Style and beauty just natural
~ set the Key Note in this
so on with it kids!
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After you get through with
your picture shopping at Sears
Roebuck some morning. why
don't you walk on down ST.
monitor St. just two doors and
look into one of Key Vests
most charming Beauty Salons?
The big place with the white
front and the lovely tiled foyer
is "Stells." and a cooler. more
cheerful place 20 have all those
wonderful things done TO your
face and hair couldn't be i'm
aJined.
Stell's is Key VESTS oldest
shop. but now boasts of eff
cient modern equipment. COM
Portable chairs. a lovely in
terror, and six nice operators.
each tops in her line of beauty
culture. You may take your
choice between Peggy. Mabie.
conchita. Iris. Faye. or Stell
herself. Personally. I'd have TO
count eenY meenY TO choose.
because they are all so very
good. For that next important
social event, Stells is ready to
attend 10 all of your beauty
needs. Good grooming is SO
important!
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Every so often at midnight,
over a late snack conveniently
stacked on the night table be-
side me. | like to read a book by
an epicurean. Warning: don't do
it unless the snack is beside you,
because else you'll just have to
get up anyhow. The other night,
while reading came upon some-
thing by the great epicurean
Brillat- Savarin that thought
worth while to pass on. He said,
1.-THE discovery of a new dish
does more for human happiness
than the discovery OF a new
star
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II seems read somewhere
that in some of the South Sea
Islands, shells are used for
money. OF course they have al
ways been used as iewelrY and
decoration. Well. no matter
how they are used. money or
jewelrY. it's bound 10 please
the ladies. even if diamonds
are a girls best friend!
II took q long time. but we
finally got around to saying
that at the South Seas Gift
Shop are necklaces and brace
lets of shell jewelrY-fetchins
as can be. and for very little
money.
Of course If there's no Ia
hitian in your blood. and you
don't like shells, South Seas
Gift Shop has a full line of the
new spring jewelrY too.
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In the old novels and Meller-
mothers and wives al;
ways burned a light in the win
dow for errant husbands and
children. Corny as it was, it had
a poignant note too. Now we
find, the March of Dimes peo-
Pile asking for porch light
burning to guide their volunteers
TO your house for your personal
contribution, and we think it is
a beautiful thought too. After
all, won't the light be burning
for your children -. and mine?
You will find the reminder in
your next ad paid for by the
City Electric System. and we
hope that they will be repaid for
their generosity by thousands OF
extra kilowatt hours burned by
you, and you, and you. on your
front porches. Note TO my cam
We don't have porch
light, but if you will stop by my
house, we'd like to donate. We
owe the March of Dimes People
more than we can ever repay.
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II we could. we'd sure en-
grave the following: because
it's a special extra invitation to
some special extra people. OF
course. all of Key West is in
vited and SO happily welcome.
but Mary X. Winters feels that
those folks over at Casa Ma
rina are so close 10 her lovely
Studio. and so unaware that 1t
exists. that she has asked me to
extend q special extra invita-
ton 10 them to visit her Studio