Brooklyn Life from Brooklyn, New York • Page 30

Fad acts a an asmcms. gown and all superbly colored may be had for a quarter of a dollar, And truly this girl in a frame for twenty-five cents is. sweeter than the tiresome creatures in the majority of the magazine illustrations. In Hurm's, it was, that the writer noticed the German tea-set with its inscriptions. 1 A.

A -J 1 1.1- fAaiU A nnJi'MHAM s1i0fSC nave yei io wear ciuwca scuuig wiw uui 1510, uwoi-tions and accomplishments, though many of the Christmas bracelets are circled bv zreetines done in diamonds. They are the most modern phase of that fad for horrible pins, worn under the chin, with the names, "Jessie," "Lily" and set forth in a large silver' scroll. And though "Lily" might have a face like a pocket-book (made of alligator-skin) she always wore her silver pin. Si-: HOW "mere man" must be puzzled-unless he be one of the superior, high-chested creatures who are salesmen in big establishments when he learns that his wife's. new cloak of fur is lined with chiffon.

But true it is that a superb fur-cloak for evening often has this irau ailing, duuw uiuc ia a uiuuuc, mc uijj, vugui flowers, usually, red roses, showing through the layers of chiffon. Of course, the fur lined with chiffon, is just SUCH jolly little teapots, cream-jugs and bowls there are for Christmas gifts this season 1 On many of the quaintest in white china, there are proverbs and verses in German. One reads, on one teapot, for example, iJeden das Seine," while in the bowl of the set is inscribed "Allen Menschen recht' getan, 1st eine Kunst die Niemand Kan," the latter proverb being equivalent, in a way, to the schoolboy's axiom, "If they don't like, let 'em lump it." Again one reads in a bowl, "Vorsicht ist die Mutter der on a pitcher, "Gut gekaut ist halb verdant" As gekaut means "chewed," doubtless bread is intended as an accompaniment of the tea and milk. In this way, with the cup that cheers, one is led into a philosophical mood. The Germans certainly have some sense of the fitness of things, for how great a contrast are these homely truths to the gay, reckless bits of verse one reads on the wine-glasses that come from the "Vaderland," but perhaps from naughty Vienna.

The writer well remembers such a set of wine-glasses, from which many toasts were drunk to, and by, famous artists, musicians and writers. On each in gold letters was a verse apropos of the dullard who could not cast off all care, and appreciate, according to the old adage, "Wein, Weib und Gesang." Of those special wineglasses the writer, for personal reasons, cannot write in But one of the gayest of the wits who drank from them was the late Bernard Gilliam, the cartoonist. Then the Gilliams, each member of the family being accomplished, had the old-fashioned frame-house with its large garden, at the corner of Fulton and Nostrand avenues. In its place now stands a solid corner of prosaic stores and flats. Mr.

Robert Thallon was another Brooklynite who often drank from the glasses (and it was about the time "he composed his popular "Florence His anecdotes were always apropos of student-life in Munich. He would shake his curly head, and how he would laugh! AND then there was a real German baron (with a monocle) who drank from the glasses. One of his stories was about the wheelbarrow he had such "difficulty in balancing when first he came to this country, for ill-luck had brought him to this rough work. He could always tell about the wheel- barrow in a new way. He was not a little "measly" sort of baron the kind they pet in society, nowadays, but big, with a head like Moreover he was a true Dichter, and rnult cit ilftwn and write hfaiiti'fnl tvipmc in anvhSflv'c as warm; but the majority of women, unless as old as Mrs.

Richard Wilson, senior, who is obliged to take off her heavy long cloak of chinchilla before she is able to mount the stairs to her opera-box, never think of warmth when buying furs, with, the exception of 'the coats for motoring. Fur boleros are made regardless of the sciatic nerve, and the little mandarin coats of fur jut out, all around, away from the figure. Some of them have backs that suggest a large box-pleat that makes the clumsy material stand away from the form. YJT7HO doesn't wish for a dear little girl when one sees the quaint bonnets this If your little girl has grown beyond the age for bonnets and you have never had a little girl you long to adopt one, and put some saucy face inside these stiff felt hoods. But first you must catch your little girl, she is a necessary part of the, "recipe," but almost any sort of a child will be nice enough for some one model among the bonnets.

If she be snub-nosed, or rather peaked as to features, even what cruel men call pie-faced, you can find a bonnet to suit her. Even the homelv tot can look quaint We have been so well educated by even the illustrations on 'calendars, that now mere.pink-andrwhite prettiness is out of style. 'We have learned to love the plain, every-, day sort of a girlie. Anyone who has a Sarah F. Stillwell-calendar sees the healthy, sturdy young creature, with her almost homely features, busy at present during November eating a large bunch of grapes.

If you have had the calender for a whole year, you have learned to admire what was once considered a homely child. In art mere prettiness is under the ban. And so it is in illustration work. For this reason, we have come to adopt the vigorous, almost ugly, child as an American type. She is lovable, this new little girl of the twentieth century, simply because she is healthy and wholesome.

For this reason, quaint styles for homely chil- dren have been created, and the) plainest of the "littlest" ffirls is nicturesoue. For an adorable tombov. there are nlain graph "'album, "rail "to your blue eyes" and expressive of undy- nig devotion "even thoifgh" you ha'ppened to be but nine years old. Later, in spite of the wheelbarrow, he had a great success in literature. Another joking, laughter-loving man with curly light hair that stood in a high pompadour, and who often drank from those gold-inscribed glasses, was Mr.

Paul Goepel, the handsomest of the four or five brothers who were considered the finest-looking among Germans of good birth in this country, one of them being Mr. Adolph Goepel, Mr. Percy Goepel's father, and the other Mr. Carl Goepel, Mr. Rudolph Goepel's father.

The writer remembers her skinny and altogether homely: schoolboy brother saying olr the big Goepel men "Say, I guess they're jest the German Viking's what used to be." And whenever she reads of Mr Percy Goepel or Miss Muriel Goepel in the society columns," thought of the "Vikings" returns. But there was also a very tall straight-backed and aristocratic sister of the ''Vikings." She never drank from the gold glasses, however, but always came to talk about her charities, and wore, with the grandest sort of a manner, a long "camel's-hair shawl" that fell over her skirt in a deep point in back. Those days we didn't have six-footed Cynthia Roches and the writer, always adding amazingly to her own inches between her sash and her feet, would gaze on the tall lady most sadly, and wonder if after she grew and grew, she too, would always have, to wear a camel's hair shawl, though her mother would sometimes remark that this kind of a shawl was just like the sort Queen Victoria owned. IT seems to be the popular desire now to have china, frames I of photographs and everything possible (though some things' considered possible are "most unsuitable) decorated with proverbs and excerpts from the works of poet-preachers. Even Walt Whitman is still a favorite, though unkind people are dissecting his character and making us lose faith in his nobility and the force of his philosophy.

Certainly some of very wide-brimmed round hats of felt with long loops and ends. This would be, in negative colors," just: the hat for some skinny, long-legged "Miss" of the active sort she who goes off to school on a skip and a jump and always chattering. The streamers will dangle around and float out behind her, but just the same she will be picturesque enough for a calendar. Also for the tall little girl, but one with a prettier face and with a more prim manner, is a round white hat of stiff felt, trimmed with scarlet velvet ribbon which circles the crown and stands tip straight in stiff, perky loops. FOR all sorts of babies and "littlest" girls, one sees bonnets and hats at McCreerys.

For a picture-baby of the pretty sort (which young mothers always expect their little pucker-faced strawberries to develop into) there is a Parisian-like coat of pale blue chiffon and velvet, with bonnet and muff to match. It seems as though designed for a 1 fair-. haired angel, like the youngest daughters of the Czar. It has medallions of "Baby Irish" set on the velvet, and there are pale pink moss rose-buds in a cluster on the bonnet and aiso iuckcu cuquciusiny iuio iuc iiiuii. kjxvz mg scuop uonnci rvf stiff white felt has white velvet cranes as a trimminor A the verses frames to be hung on the wall seem more like the "comic" valentine in the offensiveness of the sentiment, unless purchased for one's own room.

So many of them express sentiments apropos of the weak spots: in character. If the Christmas shoppers should buy these framed verses and paragraphs recklessly simply because the frames are pretty, they will be a provocative of anything but peac on earth. In the book-shops and china-shops on West Twenty-second street, near Sixth avenue, Manhattan, one sees things galore decorated with verses and proverbs. In Hurm's gift-shop, the china and little things are quaint and charming. A medallion with a very narrow gold frame showing a girl in an old-time soft pink hood is circled by a frill of pale pink feathers.

At the left side the cheek, there is a big rosette of pink satin ribbon, and at the right the more frail liberty silk made into a crinkly rosette. Of course every bonnet has wide strings to be tied under the chin. One little hood that seems just the shape of a hood over a Continental beach chair has only a little ruche of white chiffon around the edge, and the only trimming consists of foops of chiffon on top and the string. But just be inveigled into going to this baby bonnet-show at McCreerys and you'll surely want to proceed with the recipe catch the little girl first; then buy the bonnet E. S..