Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 180, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1910 — JAPANESE BAMBOO BOXES [ARTICLE]

JAPANESE BAMBOO BOXES

They Come in Nests and Are Useful for Holding Many Articles of Young Girl’s Wardrobe. Japanese bamboo boxes, which come In nests, are useful for holding the many trifles of a young girl's wardrobe. It is only recently that these offerings from the orient could be obtained here, but now all the leading shops dealing in eastern goods keep them. The original set comprises six rectangular receptacles' about two or two and a half inches in depth. By using the larger of each group of two for the cover one may have three separate and convenient places in which to keep ribbons, gloves, collars and the various trinkets which so easily lose themselves in a dresser drawer. The rich reddish brown of the bamboo cannot fail to please the eye of any gtpj. The wood is spilt into strips about half an inch wide and wgven. together in an open basket pattern. The edges are strongly bound with strips of the bamboo, laced together. Other baskets are to be found in this same material, and the fern holders are unusually charming when filled with fresh green moss and delicate green sprays. These baskets are lined with dull brass boxes, which slip into the bamooo part, so that they do not show from the outside. For country houses they are particularly well adapted, and so are the large handled baskets for holding the garden flowers a 3 they are freshly culled. Japanese straw sandals are another useful article which can be picked up in these oriental shops. They have woven soles of grass or fiber, with cross straps of flowered silk to match one’s kimono. Or If they do not match in coloring the original straps can be covered with a silk that does. Other sandals haye embroidered coverings for the toes and are heelless like the strapped ones.