The Baltimore Sun from Baltimore, Maryland • 68

PAGING Pari 2, Section 2 THE SUN, HAITI MOKE, SUNDA MORNING, JUNE IS, 1020 antels And Bric-ABrac Return TIIEV AI.I KNKW, Teacher- An epidemic is anything that KprenilM, is an. epidemic?" "Jam nhouteil the class In chorus 2'nfl i'rogremive Vronvr, INMDK INFORMATION, "How about some brains, Mrs, Casey?" "Oi'll take a couple of pounds. Mr, Casey ain't lind any fer a long time," The J'rogrettive (Jrocer, "The shop for Perianal DIHtnctian" Is Your Cellar Attractive? Basement, Usually Viewed As Bad, Can Be Made Into Play-Room, Study, Work Shop Or Sewing Room Housewives And Decorators Are Showing Liking For Pieces Which Were So Popular Back In Eighties 328 Chanes Street, North lr MARY (I, AR A 1IOW1K. BACK in the eighties, when there were "parlors" furnished with red plush chair, when the walls hung with crayon portraits ami when it was IMPORTER Drastic Reductions A Special Collection of Dresses from our own stock in three lots. $45.00 Formerly Selling up to $95.00 7 1 lw Ns.

ft VAk 1 ctttt I I the custom to cover the Moors with carpet whereon were emblazoned large red cabbage roses on a green background, the novelists of that time were accustomed to describe the mantelpieces of those same parlors as "crowded with bibelots." Crowded those mantelpieces certainly were, but whether the articles that Crowded them were bibejots or not de 'TMIK Hlnr in usually vlownd ns liad ilplit, a iiffpxxnry evil rciiiintl to hold up bji ti! ti ce (if tip linuse, wliiub utinviiidnhly collects dirt mid an-ldcasnntly needs ctpntiiiiK ever mo often, snys tlie Di-lhientar. 'l'liis usimlly becomes nn obnoxious duty devolving on some member of the fnmily, or, lis sometimes ii(ijjic ns. it is, pt'i'liups, left to I be doubtful cure of the mini of all work nbimt the place. Why not do nwny with this loss nnd dirty nuisance? A little thought and hi refill planning will give every home a hundred per cent, value for the money invested and obtain a dry. cheerful place for some useful pastime or hobby.

There undoubtedly is a definite need for an extra room or two in every home which is built today, because the cost of building is becoming so high A fetching group of the type which frequently occupied a prominent place on the whatnot. Coats and Costumes y2 off pended very much upon what was meant iweeps America again there will be household specialists who will come for by that term. jk um. jl ''it specified sum each week and whose The Dresden china shepherdesses, little dogs with curly tails likewise of chinn, gilt ormulo clocks, plush picture office It will be to dust the ornaments. Once the deluge of bric-a-brac ar frames and all the other so-called brie rives, however, the woes of the house a-broc or bibelots or what you will of keeper will come to a climax and her au 1X8." parlor have once more returned cup of sorrow will be filled.

that our finances do not permit of a linuse larger than is absolutely necessary. JVEED OF ADDITION i SPAt'IO. A room thus recovered from the cellar can be used as the children's play-room to fashion. IIOI.I.H BEGAN FAIL For Quick Clearance We offer 75 Spring and Early Summer HATS $ryoo Interior decorators and others in a position to know the trend of style in or as a study or workshop for father Three china figures which have gained new value with the vogue for such ornaments. Above, a house furnishing ascribe the recrudes somewuac larger -pan or piece" or.

tlie Victorian era. eence of this fashion for bric-a-brac to What with the soft coal smoke and the lack of servants, who is to keep this maze of ornamentation in the spick nnd span condition that its beauty warrants? There is but one reply to this question, and that was the one given by Walter DeO. Poultney some years ago. Mr. Poultney has a large collection of rare and beautiful bits of bric-a-brac at his home at St.

Paul and Mulberry streets. When he was asked how In these days of few servants he managed to keep his collection in such fine shape he replied "I dust it myself." For if there Is one thing that demands old-fashioned stay-at-home housekeeping it is a collection of hrlo. of bronze and of fruit comports with the handles upheld by fat cuplds. More jars and other trifles now flanks the path, or if she, the flapper, cannot enter the drawing room of tomorrow without watching her step it may affect her mental outlook. In the early years of the republic there was small demand for these Tkis Sale for Monday and Tuesday only the telephone doll and its vivacious companion, the kewpie doll.

Both have been great favorites with all women, and more particularly the younger set. It is believed that their desirability as ornaments has proved to be the opening wedge for a deluge of those small ornamental articles so popular forty years ago. The manager of a large Baltimore interior decorating establishment, in speaking of the return of bric-a-brae to fashion, said "There is no doubt that the telephone than all is this time remembered for its Rogers' groups, so-called. These Rogers groups were made of some kind of a dark gray or brown plastic material. Usually they illustrated some well-known painting or some historic event.

Landseer's "Stag at Bay" and "The Pilgrim Fathers Landing at Plymouth French trivialities as they were termed in Georgian Kngland. Every Purchase is Final In Maryland, the homes of the realthy about Annapolis were modeled fter the English of this iieriod. Be a-brae. yond a few French clock sets upon the mantels a severe classic simplicity in furnishings was followed. Rook" and "David Conperfield and Mr.

doll and the kewpie have done a great FROM FOREIGN MAKERS. In the late fifties and early sixties 'ax flowerB and fruit, usually under a Thresher Bros. Inc or for a radio-room or even a sewing-room. Every family with its individual life lias obviously at some time or other felt the need of just such additional ppace. However, there is one thing that must lie considered from a practical standpoint before any of this is possible; that is, how to obtain a dry and niry cellar.

Without the assurance that our cellar floors and walls will be dry at all seasons of the year it would be dangerous to one's health to try to utilize the space for any purpose whatsoever. But, whatever the condition of drainage soil may be, it can be taken care of and guarded against in several different ways. MAKING ROOM ATTRACTIVE. There are many inexpensive ways of making a room in the cellar attractive. Floor beams under the first floor may be left exposed and decorated at very little cost, giving the effect of a beamed ceiling.

This decoration can be done with cold-water paint, which would take very well on the rough wood surfaces The space between the beams can be done in a neutral blue and the beams picked out in deep The side walls might also he treated in a similar manner, and two heavy coats of water paint in straw or buff color would give the effect of light and sunshine. The fireplace may be treated very simply, built of common brick, perhaps, and subdued with a coat of plain linseed oil, which would have the tendency to soften and bring out the deeper colors of the brick. A great deal of interest can be added to the room by the lighting fixtures; these can be of some simple wrought-iron design treated as caudles on the wall. glass globe, became fashionable and this of a few specimens of oriental art, the product of European factories. Many of these factories, especially in France and Belgium, were directly in the war zone.

Many were destroyed. In all of them a large percentage of the workmen died during the World War. The younger generation of workmen who have reached manhood since the armistice have had no apprenticeship in this work. Many years must, therefore, elapse before delicate trifles are once more placed upon the market in any quantity. In some instances owing to the destruction of the factories and the loss of a large percentage of the artisans, the manufacture may never be resumed.

For this reason shrewd collectors are beginning to buy it in. In a few years much of it, especially in the finer kind, will be very rare. The woman who is really up-to-date when it comes to furnishing her home will regard this dictum of fashion concerning the returning popularity of bric-a-brac with mixed feelings. Servants are scarce and hard to find. So who is going to dust all these ornaments in the present plague of soft coal smoke? Servants no longer come to the housekeeper and cook, wash and iron for the modest sum of $5 per week.

Most of them, like those in every other branch of industry, are specialists in their line. It is said that in the homes of the old Russian nobility men were employed whose sole duty it was to clean and fill the many lamps about the palace. Probably if the bric-a-brac craze was followed by antimacassars on the chairs and French bisque figurines and Bohemian glass ornaments on the Fourth Floor Take Elevator Opposite Century Theatre "The Specialty Silk Store" Established Ove- 24 Years 17 W. Lexington St. mantels.

The Wedgewood china and the white glass hens which are now so sought tter oy collectors are really English cottage ornaments and were never con Our Annual June Clearance Sale of Micawber" were three favorites among rliese groups. Large, from one to three feet in ai-ameter and sitting upon a pedestal or stand in lonesome state, these Rogers groups dominated the scene. How many conversations on Landseer's art, or the early history of the Pilgrim Fathers, or Dickens' novels, were started by the sight of one of these groups will never be known. Whether these Rogers groups will reappear in fashionable society once more along with the smaller, finer bits of ornamental china and glass and metal, remains to be seen. SCAHCITY IS FACTOR.

There is believed to be another reason for the return of bric-a-brac to fashion and that is because these ornaments whether of glass, china or metal have become scarce. All of these articles were imported. America never made but a small amount. These were of tlie cheapest kind, according to collectors. These trifles, whether of china, bisque, glass or brass, were, with the exception sidered elegant enough to adorn an American "parlor." ollowed the "black walnut neriorl" deal toward the reintroduction of the small purely ornamental article to fashion.

"Flappers found them particularly chic, and so they paved the way for other small ornaments. In addition, we are now receiving calls for small tables and stands upon which to place these articles. The mantels have become overcrowded with them. "I also anticipate the revival of the old-fashioned what-not. Indeed for some years the Welsh dresser has had a great vogue.

This attractive piece of furniture is nothing but an adaptation of the old American what-not. CROWDING DRAWING ROOMS. "If this fashion for tables and stands loaded with ornaments increases, drawing rooms soon will be as crowded as those of the eighties. "What the housewives and the decorators banished twenty years ago it would seem that the younger set are determined to reinstate in favor." A multitude of tabourets and tables and fitands loaded with French china powder and snuff boxes, cloisonne vases, bronze horses, china dogs, Japanese rose SILKS of the seventies, when 'it waB de rigeur that the visitor's feet should Bink inches deep into the carpets and when it was necessary to wind through a labyrinth of tables covered with bric-a-brac to find a seat in the darkened parlors. NOW IN PROGRESS AND CONTINUES THROUGH THE MONTH OF JUNE We Mention Below a Few of Our Special Items ROGERS' CRBIPS POPULAR.

This was the period of cloisonne and Bohemian glass, of French bisque figures nnd busts, of huge ornaments 40 INCH WASHABLE CREPE DE -A- WHAT SHE WANTED. CustomerHave you any collanders? Clerk Yes. we have them in enamel. What size did you want? Customer I mean one with the months on it, like I had last year!" Good Hardware, ale I Silk Umbrellas 15 to 35 Off Prices that Were Lowest at the Start CHINE. A Crepe that will assuredly launder; every yard stamped "Washable." In a wonderful line of street and evening shades.

June Clearance Sale Price 1.65 yard 40-INCH GEORGETTE CREPES, in splendid assortment of light and dark shades, including white and black. June Clearance Sale Price 1.10 yard 40- INCH RADIUM SILK. Medium weight, bright lustre, in a large line of colors; plenty of white and pink. June Clearance Sale Price yard 32 INCH PLAIN AND STRIPED BROADCLOTH. Heavy weight, medium lustre, in a large line of plain and multicolor stripes.

Washable. Suitable tor dresses and men's shirts. June Clearance Sale 1.55 yard 33-INCH GENUINE IMPORTED NAT-URAL PONGEE, no rice powder. Excellent qualities for blouses, men's shirts and draperies; unmatchable June Clearance Sale Price. 88c, 95c yard 40-INCH PRINTED CREPE DE CHINE AND GEORGETTE.

Good weight; suitable for dresses, frocks and scarfs. 40-INCH PRINTED CREPE DE CHINE. Superior qualities; all new spring combinations and colors; this season's most popular effects. June Clearance Sale Price 1.35 yard 33-INCH COLORED SHANTUNG. Domestic quality, in over thirty colors for selections.

Its uses are many and wearing qualities unsurpassed. June Clear-, ance Sale Price 1.15 yard 40-INCH PRINTED GEORGETTE. A beautiful weave, in many color combinations; suitable for dinner, dance or party frock. June Clearance Sale Price, 1.65 and 2.25 yard 32-INCH WHITE WASHABLE BROAD-CLOTH. Heavy weight; suitable for waists, dresses, men's shirts and pajamas.

June Clearance Sale .1.60 yard 40-INCH WASHABLE CREPE DE CHINE. All colors may be washed together in the same water without fear of running or fading in the slightest degree. Sixty colors for your selection. June Clearance Sale Price 2.65 yard 32-INCH STRIPED CREPE DE CHINE. Good heavy weight; Roman effects; suitable for dresses and sport wear.

-June Clearance Sale Price 1.95 yard XITE'RE continuing this Sale it has convinced a lot of people that East Baltimore Prices minus the 15 to 35 special for this sale plus Grand Rapids Furniture is an irresistible combination. FOR INSTANCE: Bedroom Suite to $800 Dining Room Suites, $125 to $1000 Living Room Suites, $85 to $700 A REFRIGERATOR 1 THAT SAVES ICE High Back Rocker High back I maple rocker, I I rs with double ik 1 1 cane seat and I i ilwfS 1 hack: metal Atifevy 1 ural finish. SI I I Height from June Clearance Sale Price 1.75 yard Real bargains! Marvelous values! Many of these umbrellas formerly sold from $5 up to $10. There are a number of 10 and 16-rib bordered silk umbrellas included in this sale. In fact, there are umbrellas in all styles, all colors, and all sizes.

Some plain colors, others with plain or fancy borders in bright or subdued shades. We havn't every color in every style and size for they are broken lots that have been taken from stock to straighten it up. Neverless, there is a most varied assortment so thai you will find just what you want here. A few of these umbrella have slight irregularities that will not affect the wearing qualities in the least; most of them are in -perfect condition. There are only 200 umbrellas in this sale so come early tomorrow morning and get the "pick" of the lot.

Spool Silk "THRESHER BROS." SPOOL SILK Guaranteed 1 00 yards full weight. June Clearance Sale Price, Spool, 13c "THRESHER BROS." LARGE SPOOL SEWING SILK In black and white. June Clearance Sale Price, Spool 95 SPECIAL 40-INCH PLAIN AND NOVELTY SILKS, In a broken assortment of Printed Chiffon Voiles, Satin Cantons, Failles, Satin Crepes, Printed Crepes; suitable for dresses, linings, etc. All at one price, 2.95 a yard. 40-INCH BLACK FLAT CREPE.

A practical and beautiful fabric, suitable for street or informal wear. June Clearance Sale Price, 1.95 yard 36-INCH NAVY CHIFFON TAFFETA. American made silk of soft lustrous finish and dependable quality. June Clearance Sale Price, 1.65 and 2.10 yard 50 lbs. ice capacity, wire shelf.

White enamel interior well insulated Golden oak finish. il ftvlofC ur 'a rtr Department is ready to gt prompt and efficient XtxU vlUClO personal attention to the requirement! of our out-of-town patrons, Open Late Monday and I "Larger I Assort-J mcnfi" I Lower Price' The greater TOVELIBAUER FURNITURE STORES Saturday ID 1601 E. Baltimore cor. Bond Summer Business Hours, 9 A. M.

to 5 P. June 15 to September 14, Inclusive. Open All Day Saturday, July 3. Closed Monday, July 5. Closed All Day Saturdays During July and August, Beginning July 10.

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