Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 256, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1918 — BAGS REGARDED A NECESSITY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BAGS REGARDED A NECESSITY

Beaded Patterns Are Much In Evidence, Many Handsome Designs Being In the Limelight. A trio of bags, so pretty one would need a wishing ring to choose the prettiest, is offered by leading shops. Women consider a bag a necessity these days, and, by the way, a luxury, too. The head of an Egyptian princess is

wrought in the finest of beads on a beaded background -in which green gold and tans predominate. Cleopatra never carried one as beautiful as this. The shops carry a large variety of beaded patterns, some a beaded initial on a bag of solid gdld color. A socks bag of taupe leather With a gathered satin top is the very newest in bags, two-in-one,»the velvet bag is called, that is hinged in the center to form two spacious silk lined pockets. A full line of vachette leather bags fitted with toilet articles in sizes for a week-end trip- will appeal to the fair co-ed who is about to set out