Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1916 — NEW ACCESSORY TO BOUDOIR [ARTICLE]

NEW ACCESSORY TO BOUDOIR

Pretty Table Boxes Are Much In Demand by the Fashionable Woman of Today. The cult of the box is growing apace, perhaps becausk the modern woman has more fal-lals to keep In order than her grandmother had, or perhaps merely because box adornment Is an Interesting art. Incidentally it calls for a fair amount of Ingenuity, and it entails no little time and trouble in searching out suitable trimmings, most of which belong to bygone periods, and can only be found In old curiosity shops or among heirloom bundles of quaint embroideries, old laces and rich old-world brocades. Either plain or quaintly shaped boxes, by the air of rich fabrics and scissors and paste, are skillfully converted into things of beauty—and often of value, for, bbey are covered not only with rare brocades, but with everything old and interesting. For instance, a miniature chest of drawers, covered with pieces of heirloom silks that belonged to bridal gowns of a long, list of ancestors, jwlth imitation knobs and handles

made from buttons and gold lace cut from old uniforms, is to be seen deeorating the room of one woman, who not only uses her latest handiwork as an ornament, but uses it as a receptacle for all letters written to her by Important people.—Chicago Record Herald. — —r