Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1921, Page 80

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.—ROTOGRAVURE SECTION—DECEMBER 11, 1921. US MORTALS|& Early Christmas Shopping copyrixht, 1931, By W. E. HILL Clever salesman in the men's : L Mrs. Lilly does think of the furnishing department ehowing : i o 4 7 best Christmas gifts! She's a doubter that, really, the scarf | 3 - found such a cute little isn’t a bit too loud. . y x : P .i| basket at the 17-cent gift w Yo . 3 G counter. With a paper ]zalce { . 3 ] / .| lining -y\d some jelly beans Right—Five perfectly en- ) A A SR e, to fill it, what a splendid tranced lady shoppers gazing at : ¥ ¥ s R l’4d present it’s going to be for the modei early Italian room of { ! 3 3 - 7 | the telephone girl in Mrs. the interior decorating depart- | BN : &' . ? § Lilly’s apartment house. ment exhibit. And to-morrow : o < 4 z five suburban parlors are going to show signs of department store early Italian influence. Mrs. Blivin isn’t getting along very well with her Christmas list, but she has seen a lot of things she wants for herself. H ghe )u: just tt;rlted on t:u mcelslt la_t}: i L i : ki rown dress—but it was too small. Li Very tired errand girl with a load - P \ 3 s, D it 130 Ore dissppoiit: e : k : ment after another. She is planning to have the little brown dress copied at “For goodness’ sake, if you don’t like it on me, say so now—don’t wait till I get it home and then say you don’t like it"’ Papa is helping the little woman pick out her own Christmas present. Papa is being very noncommittal. What else can & man be with the appealing glance of 2 beautiful blond saleslady leveled at him? ~Miss Bernstein, will you | % = < - - ¥ | oF Very surprised lady = s £ ) . 3 : from the suburbs try- f{l#?e gimmefbackfmygpen 2 £ . 5 X ing to go down an up- R : i Ty 3 3 - escalator. “Oh, yes, indeed, Modom will posi-tive-ly have it finished in time for the afternoon de- livery. And just to make sure, I'll mark it ‘special.” Not at al. Good day.” Miss Walsh, the head of the fitting room, perjuring her other- wise spotless soul with the blackest of lies. Miss W. is one of ;ge nine hundred und :;re‘;“;zitbd lfll:g?llfle."‘vho e H 3 : 3 Very apologetic man with something to be exchanged. And here is a beautiful lady with something she wants to exchange. You - : S Does a'great deal of explaining, all about how he got didn’t catch her doing any apologizing or explaining-—not a bit of it. In- it for a friend and the friend didr’t like it. So sorry stead she has an injured air, and all but demands an explanation from the he’s causing so much trouble, etc. store for selling her something she didn’t like when she got it home. (Much more successful than the man.)