Evening Star Newspaper, April 13, 1930, Page 112

THE SUNDAY Men's robes. Just a loving little wife, who decided all of a sudden she couldn’t bear the sight of Howard in that old mouse- colored house robe any longer, being urged to consider one of thosc magenta shot with gold thread garments. The pale wraith betweer the salesboy and our heroine is none other than the little wife’s mental picture of Howard in the old gray robe. "ASHINGTON, D.. C—GRAVURE SECTION—APRIL 13, Shopping for the Man By W. E. Hill (Copyright. 1930, by the Chicago Tribune Syndicate.) The fur coat sale. didn’t do so well get reduced, and ny; looking 'em over. (Thi Now come the melancholy days—ior furriers—when the furs that any a fond mother and her collegiate offspring arc s handsome youth from the sophomore class is liable to go into a 1930. LRraps 49 SHADESRE b i i3 i For the husband’s relations. Here we have 2 wife and helpmeet wandering around a chain store bargain basement in search of a present for husband dear to send his Aunt Caroline on her birthday anniversary. It takes brains to do this, for said present must have the look of 2 swell gift shop where everything sells for not less than $10 per article. terrible fit of temper if his ma won't let him have a brown sealskin!) Undies. “Aren't these cute, Sarah! [ do wish Loth- rop wouldn't go on wearing long drawers all the year round.” Mrs. Wiltsie has no business looking over thesc <horts, because the sale of men's wool and cotton union uits at 89 cents is what she’s been sent to investigate. Neckwear. Mothers-in-law love dearly to pick out neckties. They know just the color combinations @ man should wear, even i he doesn't, and they will spend whole mornings digging around in the 50-cent section for something that will look $2.50 a throw. W!«l’k"’w 5 R i 2L DTN For the engaged man. Kathryn is just tull of sentiment. She is engaged to a man who only i ’ last week joined the Elks, and Kathryn is just as proud of him as she can be. So where another girl might give her adored a_half dozen handkies or a smoking set, Kathryn is out to find a giit that has sentiment behind it. She's lookmmg for an elk for Fred's study, and, oh dear, but they are hard to find! Kathryn is wondering if a pair of horns couldn’t be fitted to this toy teddy bear. e SRS Toilet water. “Men are just wild about this ‘Fleur de Chou toilet water. We can't keep ¢nough in stock. And they love this ‘Eau de Poisson'—they all rave about it!” Most wives seldom give a thought to making their husbands perfume conscious until they find their “Chypre” or “Nuit de Chine” toilet water has been pur- loined for after-shaving. Then, after locking up their perfume bottles, they rush to the nearest department store and buy what- ever the toilet goods saleslady says the men are wearing this year. For the smoker. Somcthing in the lin: of tobacco accessories is always a nice present for a man. (This lovely lady is maltreating one of those smoking stands that just won't tip over, no matter what you do to it. Maybe she'll send it to her nephew.) Shopping by proxy. Sallie, the beautiful secretary, being sent out by her trusting em- ployer to purchase some sweil lingerie for the wife's birth- day aniversary. 7 ) i) Ge——es N A\