Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1916 — Blackbirds Decorate a Parasol. [ARTICLE]

Blackbirds Decorate a Parasol.

Why the insistence on birds in this summer’s styles no manufacturer has yet paused to explain, but birds are there all right, and in flocks. A pretty parasol now exhibited in a show window is decorated with them. The parasol is of a lovely shade of pink and of the new shape; that is its ribs are much straighter than were those of the old-fashioned parasol, so that it forms less of a mushroom and the underside is more clearly exhibited to the public. It is this underside which i» decorated with skimming blackbirds, their wings outstretched in most artletic fashion. \